@TheKevinWorkman

Google by day, Millersville University by night, https://xitter.cf/t.co/H4YsrEUjP1 by later night. Come say hello world: https://xitter.cf/t.co/EzEXMoXa68

 Mountain View, CA
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Joined February 2012
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I'm quitting Twitter. My leaving isn't going to make or break the site, but I will no longer contribute my time, energy, and clicks to feed a billionaire's ego. The internet and social media can be so much more than what they turned it into. Details for keeping in touch below.
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So, logistically: I'm done. I won't post, retweet, or like anything on Twitter. I'm waffling on deleting my account, and I leave room for coming back if something very dramatic changes. But this is me officially leaving. I encourage you to do the same.
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The best way to keep in touch is to join the Happy Coding forum: forum.happycoding.io/ Or subscribe via RSS here: happycoding.io/tutorials/how… See y'all somewhere else.
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One of these is not like the others... 🤔 (I'm looking for folks to follow on Mastodon by searching for people with Mastodon links in their names, and apparently Elon Musk is inserted in the results. Even more weirdly, he disappears after about a minute or so.)
Twitter search results page. I searched for "mastodon" and Elon Musk is in the results, surrounded by people I follow who have Mastodon URLs in their names.

ALT Twitter search results page. I searched for "mastodon" and Elon Musk is in the results, surrounded by people I follow who have Mastodon URLs in their names.

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New blog post: Coding (and Coping) with ChatGPT The power, limitations, and ethics of machine learning algorithms. happycoding.io/blog/coding-a…

Coding and Coping with ChatGPT

Exploring the power, limitations, and ethics of ChatGPT and machine learning.

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I've been getting so much NFT spam lately that I'm not even bothering to block it anymore. I'm just ignoring notifications entirely. On the bright side, this is making it much easier to leave.
Mario Zechner
@badlogicgames3 Dec 2022
Wow, my notifications are full of this shit now. Thanks, Space Karen, you make leaving this place easier and easier. I'm mot going to do your work for you and mark all this crap as spam. We are now Twitters anti-spam department.
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I've been thinking about redesigning Happy Coding. I don't have a UX team to whiteboard with, so I wrote this to help me brainstorm. happycoding.io/blog/redesign… I still find myself asking the same questions I was asking when I started writing it, so I'm definitely open to input!

Redesigning Happy Coding

Brainstorming about a potential redesign.

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After a month of moving stuff around, breaking everything, obsessing over CSS, and thinking about this way too much, I'm calling the Happy Coding redesign done: happycoding.io/blog/redesign… Click around and let me know what you think!

Redesigning Happy Coding Part 2

Announcing a redesign of Happy Coding!

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I'm teaching Intro to Creative Web Development this semester! It's officially through Millersville University, but I'm also posting all of the course content for free online. If you want to learn (or teach!) creative web development, follow along in this thread 🧵
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In week 13, we tied everything together by learning about JavaScript libraries: happycoding.io/teaching/intr… This is an ah-ha moment that I've been building up to for the entire class, so it's cool to finally get here.
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Now we're working on final projects! happycoding.io/teaching/intr… One of my favorite things about this class is how unique everybody's projects are, so I'm excited to see these!
This is my new favorite example of "leadership" focusing on shallow engagement metrics instead of understanding what's really happening. Screenshotting this to use in my next presentation. (The "Twitter usage" is everybody plugging their other pages in case Twitter goes down.)
Elon Musk
@elonmusk18 Nov 2022
And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol
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Twitter feels very surreal right now. I was driving all day and not looking at it. Now I'm home and I can tell that *something* happened, but I don't know what it was. Everyone is ominously saying goodbye to each other, but I don't know why. I'm afraid to ask what I missed?
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has anyone done this joke yet
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of hot takes in this country. Twitter was the social network to post on. Then Facebook renamed themselves to Meta. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the quote retweet. That's two tweets and more engagement. Who cares if it's from hate-sharing. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to the Metaverse. Now we're standing around staring at our own hexagon profile pictures, selling quote retweets and dunking on the Milkshake Duck of the day. Hot takes or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to two checkmarks.

ALT Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of hot takes in this country. Twitter was the social network to post on. Then Facebook renamed themselves to Meta. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the quote retweet. That's two tweets and more engagement. Who cares if it's from hate-sharing. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to the Metaverse. Now we're standing around staring at our own hexagon profile pictures, selling quote retweets and dunking on the Milkshake Duck of the day. Hot takes or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to two checkmarks.

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ben grosser@bengrosser6 Nov 2022
embrace alternative platforms. try them out for what they are, not what they aren’t. value them for their distance from the status quo. big social media hasn’t exactly been good for the world, so use this moment to see what else is out there.
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