Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com 📹 I make tech videos
👩💻 Software engineer for 15 years
Developer Educator @ ngrok
Comic book writer & artist: https://redstonecomic.com/
Founder of Webcomic Studio: https://webcomic.studio/
J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy DevOps consultant. Computer curmudgeon. Burqueño. Desert rat. Queer. Author of Computers Are Bad.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@jbcrawford, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com GP&CTO @blueyard.com
Author, musician, speaker, developer
AT-proto based encrypted group chat protocol: @freeq.at
Regenerative Software with the Phoenix Architecture: https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/
https://chadfowler.com/
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.
What if we made things a little bit better?
grjte @grjte.sh - https://grjte.sh
- Researcher at @baincapitalcrypto.com exploring programmable cryptography and local-first software
- Experimenting with atproto + local-first software at https://groundmist.xyz
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth!
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
Applied behavioral science in complex technical systems
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Gordon @gordon.bsky.social Everything around me was someone’s lifework.
David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! When my real job is to speculate entertainingly... not necessarily to be right!
http://www.davidbrin.com
Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social Libertarianism scales up perversely.
Every political phenomenon is a network effect. See page 2 of https://melconway.com/resume.pdf
pdf of pinned thread:
https://melconway.com/Home/pdf/EngineeringMind.pdf
Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net Associate prof @mff.unikarlova.cuni.cz. Interested in new ways of thinking about programming and history & philosophy of computing. Previously at University of Kent & @cst.cam.ac.uk.
Check out my book "Cultures of Programming"! https://tomasp.net/cultures
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Dennis E. Taylor @dennisetaylor.bsky.social Author of the Bobiverse series.
I am a retired computer programmer, mountain biker, snowboarder, occasional napper, and lover of pizza and coffee (mostly coffee).
Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social Brown Computer Science / Brown University || BootstrapWorld || Pyret || Racket
I'm unreasonably fascinated by, delighted by, and excited about #compsci #education #cycling #cricket and the general human experience.
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Eric Berger @sciguyspace.bsky.social Senior Space Editor, Ars Technica. Likes rockets.
John Chang @jrcpl.us 🇪🇺🇸🇪🇺🇸🇹🇼 in Stockholm, Sweden.
💜💚⿻ Co-President of @VoltSverige.org in Stockholm.
Joel @jmpoz.bsky.social I don't know what I am on here yet
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
SIGPLAN @sigplan.bsky.social The ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages.
Garden Computing @garden.co Software is too hard. garden.co
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social SW Designer/consultant/mentor, author, inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design & xDD meme, heuristica (design heuristics!), patterns enthusiast, science/engineering nerd, jogger, gardener, amateur baker
wirfs-brock.com/rebecca
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Kent Beck @kentbeck.com Independent I guess these days you'd say content producer, artist, programmer, musician, pokerist. More about me at https://KentBeck.com.
Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @realsexycyborg.bsky.social China's #1 Tech & DIY YouTuber
Open Source, 3D Printing & Digital Fabrication, Automation, Infosec
1/18th synthetic
'It's all about merit until merit has tits'
Shenzhen, China
youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg
Ken Shirriff @righto.com Computer history. Reverse-engineering old chips. Restored Apollo Guidance Computer, Alto. Ex-Google, Sun, Msft. So-called boffin.
Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social Former Engineering lead working on Gemini and Google Cloud AI
I want you to win :) For more on what I'm up to, I'm at addyosmani.com
Stewart Brand @stewartbrand.bsky.social Sampling here. Mostly on Twitter still as @stewartbrand.
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Grady Booch @booch.com scientist, storyteller, philosopher
computingthehumanexperience.com
P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Hillel @hillelwayne.com Developer educator at @antithesis.com. Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social Live Coding Artist. Creator of Sonic Pi & Tau5, programmer, educator, musician, PhD, Sam 'transcends the present' - Rolling Stone. he/him bookings@sonic-pi.net
Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
🐘@jack@jackrusher.com
🐦@jackrusher
Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda.bsky.social Dissident computer scientist
Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social In(ter)dependant researcher and toolmaker. Currently inventing programmable ink @inkandswitch.com
Living in Paris
https://www.marcelgoethals.com/
Ben Reinhardt @benjaminreinhardt.com Dare mighty things! Journeyman wondersmith at Speculative Technologies. 🏴☠️🪐🐉
https://Benjaminreinhardt.com + https://spec.tech
Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy!
Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
https://andymatuschak.org
Twitter: andy_matuschak
Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com Malleable software @inkandswitch.com
prev PhD @csail.mit.edu
geoffreylitt.com
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yan @yan.bsky.social security at brave software / @bcrypt on twitter
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Tentpole @tentpole.bsky.social computer collective
https://tentpole.computer
Scott Jenson @jenson.org UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, & Apple HI guidelines. UX Director Symbian, managed Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design SF. Head of Product for two startups. Google Physical Web + Android UX research. Semi-retired
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Szymon Kaliski @szymonkaliski.com independent consultant, designing and developing computational interfaces; currently prototyping at Google Research and Google Creative Lab
https://szymonkaliski.com
Yehuda Katz (he/him) @wycats.bsky.social Open Sourcerer. Co-author of the Extensible Web Manifesto. Creator of Bundler, Cargo and Ember.js. Father of wykittens and wifelette's husband. he/him
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org wingolog.org / haute-savoie / iterating to a fixed-point
Maciej Stachowiak @othermaciej.bsky.social Responsible for WebKit and networking frameworks at Apple. Interested in cats, games, the web, guitar, software, privacy, immersive experiences, science fiction, 日本語. 🇵🇱/🇺🇸. Pro-🇺🇦.
Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social extremely dubious of "everything is public" social network
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social Associate Professor, IU Computer Science ·
Core Developer, @racketlang.bsky.social ·
Member, TC39 ·
Handler, Gravymaker ·
Bike Advocate, Bloomington IN
Tim Bray @tbray.org Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Phil Windley @windley.com I build things; I write code; I void warranties. Just wrote an O'Reilly book on digital identity. Windley.com
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social 🍉Fun Stack Vibing at @xogot.bsky.social
Started Xamarin, Mono, Gnome. Prev: Microsoft/.NET/Xamarin/Mono/VSMac/MAIA http://mastodon.social/@migueldeicaza
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
Dave Winer @scripting.com OG blogger, podcaster, outliners, CMSes, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.