Maura Teal

Posting memes and reading the internets over on 🦋 Bluesky now:

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

Am I the only one regularly using the melting person emoji 🫠 as an emotive reference to the "this is fine" meme?

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

@tejones Yes! And having files spread across multiple floppies.

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

I've come to realize that one of the "Back in my day..."s of my generation is

Back in my day, we used to have to remember to save our Word docs every 5 minutes in case our computer crashed.

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

@marktimemedia And then versioning them too 🙈
mockup-v1.psd
mockup-v2.psd
mockup-v2a.psd
...
I may or may not still have some of those oldies sitting on a hard drive somewhere 😆

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

I appreciate Mastodon and all of the federated stuff being built, but having already lost one Mastodon acct to the server shutting down (presumably due to cost of running it), I am not sure where things will go from here. I do know Threads feels like yet another Meta product 🤷‍♀️

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

Haven't visited Twitter in a few days. This X thing is actually happening? 🫠

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

@liamdempsey Thank you!

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

Finally did some cable management for my desk. It may not be perfect but it was so satisfying.

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

Someone tell Microsoft that its 2023, not 2003.

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

@ozskier @betsela @raquel__karina <3

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

All the feels at the #wpaz #wp20 party 🥲 2023 marks 10 years since I first attended a WordCamp and wow... feeling really lucky thinking about the sights I’ve seen and the wonderful people I’ve met along the way ❤️

[Jessica Crosby @Jhyp3]

When your test payload ends up in production

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

Winners will only receive Internet cookies, because I imagine the answers are pretty obvious.

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

Let’s play a little Where’s Waldo-type game:

I’m at an IT Professional event. Guess how many women are in the audience (this pic is only showing 2/3 of the room).

How many women do you think they have scheduled to present?

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

@0aveRyan @cklosowski @raquel__karina @tom_weights @carolstambaugh @jeremyescott @tanyamoushi 🤗🤗🤗

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

PSA: There is still no valid reason for calling software/application design sexy. Just don't.

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

@michelleames Yes!

[Val Vesa @ValSocial]

What’s the best Wi-Fi name you’ve seen?

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

Probably the best thing you'll see today.

In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.

The results 🧵

1/22

[Maura Teal @mlteal]

@strebel Buy a 30-year old car that "needs work".