@devonko_

✌️ helping designers learn 3d!! ✨ design/dev + computer graphics 🌐 early @dropbox @codecademy + kidney transplant recipient!

Joined January 2009
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just wanted to remind you: ☀️ you’re valuable even if you’re going through change ☀️ perfection is overrated ☀️ indulge in optimism, it will make life sweeter ☀️ we control nothing except how to respond ☀️ you deserve, overwhelmingly, to be loved and supported
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Hi Twitter. I need your help. A few years ago, I had a freak accident that sent me into catastrophic kidney failure. I've been struggling to find a kidney donor ever since. I'm in dire need of a type O+/- kidney and ask that you please share my story. #kidneyfordevon 🧵👇
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THE KIDNEY TRANSPLANT WAS A SUCCESS!!!!!!!!! 😁💯🌈😭✨😱❤️
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kidney transplant post-op: - FEEL LIKE A MILLION BUCKS!!! 💰 - donor doing fantastic, went home after 1 day ✨ - cherishing her gift & time we spent together! ❤️ - ice chips -> clear liquids -> now back on solid food 🤩 - incisions healing nicely even on immunosuppressants 💫
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Replying to @sailorhg @annaeso
one reason i love @3dfordesigners’s course is that each lesson is just a few min and so it felt very doable to try one lesson a day
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Replying to @handel_eugene
I forgot to add that I think @devonko_ does that the best with @3dfordesigners. I wish more online tutorials were setup like hers.
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productization of apps + “don’t make me think” ux culture obliterated customization, reducing opportunity for playful or incidental coding now usually a premium/dev feature but playgrounds like @codepen @glitch @codecademy emerged to fill the void creativity always finds a way
yg@yg__xyz27 Dec 2021
Replying to @devonko_
wow, really makes me think about the rigidity of social media today. interesting that a lot your responses are listing coding programs, whereas these platforms were places where code/design was encouraged as a means to self expression, rather than an explicit tool to code/design
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many internet gworls of my generation got into coding through livejournal, neopets, myspace, tumblr, and other community spaces that valued creativity + self-expression what apps today offer a direct entry point / inspire curiosity around using technology to be creative?
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worthwhile critique on shallowness of prevailing 10k NFT aesthetic
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i think we should let people enjoy things no matter how cringe / tasteless / devoid of culture but for digital artists + designers, our work often does suffer from lack of imagination or cultural exposure or just, like, significant lived experience outside tech
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designers increasingly get inspiration from each other, rather than enriching ourselves with new + interesting sources we recreate aesthetics from our childhood that give us comfort, avoiding inner challenges that may inspire growth it can be that, but doesn’t have to be
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AHHHH NOW @CODECADEMY HAS BEEN ACQUIRED 👏🏻👏🏻 i was employee #2 + og designer (started same day as @amasad) early team was extremely talented, founding era 2011-2012 was WILD ride. 10 years later, this! huge congrats @zsims @ryanbubinski here's a throwback, this was our LIFE 💀
zach sims
@zsims22 Dec 2021
after 10 years of building @Codecademy, our next chapter will be with @Skillsoft! i'm so grateful to our team, our learners, and our investors for helping us to build something that's helped tens of millions of learners (and it's only the beginning!). wsj.com/articles/skillsoft-s…

Skillsoft Strikes $525 Million Deal to Acquire Ed-Tech Rival Codecademy

Skillsoft has agreed to acquire the U.S.-based educational technology company for $525 million in cash and stock, the latest bet on consolidation in the online learning market.

wsj.com
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these are not mutually exclusive, every exceptional experience you've had with technology came straight out of a designer's soul
Michal Malewicz
@michalmalewicz20 Dec 2021
Every single time you sit down to do some UX design, remember - your work is for the people, not you.
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y'all keep trying to find the scrappiest makers in the same group of lethargic software engineers meanwhile the indies are already deploying their world domination strategy 👀🔥
Virtuoso Neomedia | 'Up Pole!' out on Steam@VirtuosoComms20 Dec 2021
[ INTERVISION ] Behind the scenes fun. 📸@saredd99 🎵 @MelloMakes Full cut on YouTube. youtu.be/RQY5j1mraX8
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New 3d piece, #3dfordesigners
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just say no to metaverse 🙅🏻‍♀️😤👎 there is only HYPERVERSE ✅😁👏🏻 @hyperonline_
Aaron Ng
@localghost18 Dec 2021
Hyper 0.5.3 just dropped with a new photo mode and improved hand tracking. Get @hyperonline_ 0.5.3 here: apps.apple.com/us/app/hyper-…
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金魚AI、エサくれアピール。 #AI #Goldfish #Beg #Feed #Appeal #Unity #3DCG #IndieDev #Aquarium #ScreenshotSaturday
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