Kevin Workman

Google by day, Millersville University by night, by later night.

Come say hello world:

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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.

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

The best way to keep in touch is to join the Happy Coding forum: https://t.co/chqa7pcYWb

Or subscribe via RSS here: https://t.co/6JPkpq7hpu

See y'all somewhere else.

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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.

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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.

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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.)

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

@Sosowski can you put this on mastodon so I can like it over there

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

New blog post: Coding (and Coping) with ChatGPT

The power, limitations, and ethics of machine learning algorithms.

https://t.co/NUWRKVObui

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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 @badlogicgames]

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.

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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:

https://t.co/zsrIWFpdXk

Click around and let me know what you think!

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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.

https://t.co/MKIjBFOIIa

I still find myself asking the same questions I was asking when I started writing it, so I'm definitely open to input!

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

Now we're working on final projects!

https://t.co/gvhBofbyN9

One of my favorite things about this class is how unique everybody's projects are, so I'm excited to see these!

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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 🧵

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

In week 13, we tied everything together by learning about JavaScript libraries: https://t.co/Z3l65vWGKE

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.

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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 @elonmusk]

And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

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?

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

@BerriosVRE omg I love the descriptions so much, it's like having little windows into who they are as humans

[Kevin Workman @TheKevinWorkman]

has anyone done this joke yet

[ben grosser @bengrosser]

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.