𝕮 @chrisshank.com seeding discontent in present-day computing and radical patience in how we reimagining it
libcomp.org • @folkjs.org
foraging the web: https://semble.so/profile/chrisshank.com
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.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.
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com Dad, husband, brother, son. Working on Dart at Google, ex-game dev at EA, wrote "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". http://stuffwithstuff.com/
Arne Brasseur @plexus.eurosky.social Also at https://toot.cat/@plexus
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
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/
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
ben ✶ @bf.wtf senior dream engineer, miracle farmer, game dev — https://bf.wtf • https://common.tools • https://twopm.studio
⛳ PAR52 s.team/a/4862720
🧙 WizardChess https://s.team/a/1274210
🪔 The Thin Silence https://s.team/a/314630
🔮 Subconscious
🇦🇺 Meanjin (Brisbane)
daniel:// stenberg:// @daniel.haxx.se I write curl. I don't know anything. I am @bagder@mastodon.social
Weekly email at https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/daniel
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social artist working with code kylemcdonald.net
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com Visualisation and graphics @posit.co
Classic Generative Art Weirdo using 🖤 and R: http://thomaslinpedersen.art and http://deca.art/thomasp85
he/him
TigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com The financial transactions database designed to power the next 30 years of online transaction processing.
Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social Prof. of technology & development at IIPP-UCL, SPRU & TalTech. Author 'Technological Revolutions & Financial Capital'. Also in Anthemis UK on role of State
Antithesis @antithesis.com Bug nerds 🐛 🐞 🐜
You hate testing. You'll love us.
https://antithesis.com/
Frank McSherry @frankmcsherry.bsky.social http://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog
Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com Connect with a rapidly-growing Local-First community. Join us for our third edition 12-14th of July 2026 in Berlin. www.localfirstconf.com
Semble @semble.so Social knowledge network for your research trails by @cosmik.network
🌐 https://semble.so/
@arapaho.bsky.social @arapaho.bsky.social
Case @case.bsky.social Cyborg anthropologist studying humans and technology! Founder of Calm Tech Institute: first Certification for how much attention tech takes. 📍Colorado
Former MIT Media Lab / Harvard Berkman / Mozilla Fellow.
Calm Tech Institute // calmtech.institute
lispyclouds @lispyclouds.bsky.social Ⓐ λ 🏳️🌈 🫖 #anarchy #clojure #babashka #golang #sre #neovim
https://github.com/lispyclouds
https://mastodon.online/@lispyclouds
Brandon Bloom @brandonbloom.name
Kjetil Golid @kgolid.bsky.social Artist and Software Developer
Ben @benjdd.com databases @planetscale.com
Some stuff I've written:
- https://pscale.link/io
- https://pscale.link/btrees
- https://pscale.link/sharding
Find me at benjdd.com
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
santafe.edu
linktr.ee/sfiscience
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at Creator of Flask • earendil.com ♥︎ writing and giving talks • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” • More AI content on https://x.com/mitsuhiko
More stuff: https://ronacher.eu/
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
Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org
pvh @pvh.ca just this guy, you know? (director of research @ ink & switch, coined "local-first", contributor to automerge, former postgres guy, heroku staff, ex-game developer, arctic oceanographer.)
Aaron Boodman @aaronboodman.com CEO rocicorp.dev. Building replicache.dev and zerosync.dev, raising two great kids, trying to be a better person. Also found at http://aaronboodman.com.
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.
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
dave @daveliepmann.com berlin
tech bro
luddite
cargo bike & bahn dad
prehistory fanboy
Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com I explore the interfaces with which we think & the future of personal computing. I also make books.
alexanderobenauer.com
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer
Tailscale @tailscale.com Your private programmable network.
zach lieberman @zachlieberman.bsky.social I make art with code http://media.mit.edu http://sfpc.io http://openframeworks.cc http://eyewriter.org http://yesyesno.com email: zach at http://sfpc.io
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
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
Paul Irish @paul.irish web performance and DevTools, mostly.
In '97 I wrote a paper for English class on HTML Image Maps. I haven't changed much since.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Vincent Bernat @vincent.bernat.ch Network engineer at AS12322. Debian and free software developer. Like to work on projects with C, Python, or Go. He/him. https://vincent.bernat.ch
Steven Shorrock @stevenshorrock.bsky.social Psychologist & transdisciplinary humanistic, systems & design practitioner | Work, organisations, complexity, risk, justice | Autism, long covid, ME/CFS |
FBPsS CPsychol CErgHF PhD
🐝🇫🇷🏴 humanisticsystems.com
Julia's Reruns Bot @b0rk-reruns.jvns.ca This is a bot that I (@b0rk.jvns.ca) made to post reruns of my comics. Posts ~3x/week.
Almost all of these are part of zines that you can buy at https://wizardzines.com, and you can find all of them at https://wizardzines.com/comics.
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
@swannodette.bsky.social @swannodette.bsky.social
Álvaro Ramírez @xenodium.bsky.social Blogs about #emacs and other stuff at xenodium.com.
Authored plainorg.com and flathabits.com for iOS.
Living in an Emacs buffer somewhere in London.
Also at https://twitter.com/xenodium and https://indieweb.social/@xenodium
iamwil @interjectedfuture.com Tech Zine Issue 1: LLM System Eval https://forestfriends.tech
Local-first/Reactive Programming ⁙ LLM system evals ⁙ Startup lessons ⁙ Game design quips.
Longform: https://interjectedfuture.com
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@techniumpod
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.
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com A bot that posts a "message of the day" taken from @jackrusher.com's curated fortune file.
Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social Data visualizations & information graphics by David McCandless. Plus favourite finds & graphics from around the web. Making sense of the world - well, trying to - since 2009.
https://linktr.ee/infobeautiful
Amy Shira Teitel @amyshirateitel.bsky.social Author, historian, streamer, YouTuber, writer.
Benoît Fleury @benfle.com "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."
https://benfle.com
Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com Hi! I'm Amit Patel. I explain algorithms and math with interactive web pages (incl. pathfinding, hexagons, procgen maps, voronoi). Wrote Solar Realms Elite; helped w/Barren Realms Elite and Realm of the Mad God. https://www.redblobgames.com/
Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social He/him
I teach C++ & computer graphics and make videogames
Working on a medieval village building game: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGI94QoFYJwGaieAkqw5_qfoupdppxHN&cbrd=1
Check out my cozy road building traffic sim: https://t.ly/FfOwR
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com Astrophysicist
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
Etienne Jacob @bleuje.com creative coding, posting loops on other platforms
bleuje.com
Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social Compiler engineer and co-host of the feeling of computing podcast
https://jimmyhmiller.com
https://feelingof.com/episodes/
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingers and
turn my weathered feelings into wriggly music.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto
@inkandswitch.com Δ research
feelingof.com Δ podcast
ivy.boo Δ myself
she / hrt 🏳️⚧️
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Zed @zed.dev A next-generation code editor that enables high-performance collaboration with AI and your team.
zed.dev
Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social Emergence, Networks & Complexity | Collective Behavior(s) from Cells to Societies 🧬🦠🧠🌇
Prof. @UniPadova, Galileo's University | Lab: @comunelab.bsky.social | Web: https://linktr.ee/manlius
Thoughts at manlius.substack.com
Hillel is on Social Media Break @hillelwayne.com Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Fred Hebert @ferd.ca Principal SRE @ honeycomb.io, Tech Book Author, Resilience in Software Foundation board member, Erlang Ecosystem Foundation co-founder, Resilience Engineering fan. SRE-not-sorry.
blog: https://ferd.ca
notes: https://ferd.ca/notes/
gosha @gosha.net Clojure, parenting, and K-Pop Demon Hunters
Building https://parts.ifs.tools
Homepage: https://gosha.net
Studio: https://a.possible.space
Felipe @felipecortez.net guitars · drums · code
Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed @winterbloed.be Generative geometrist, medical radiation physicist, pronouns: he/him
Sometimes at night, I find myself behind the computer. When I finally blink, a mess of code is drawing random structures on the screen. I spend the rest of the night staring.
Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug) @batsov.net Hacker. Emacs Zealot. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Bulgarian. Not necessarily in that order.
The artist formerly known as @bbatsov.
Personal blog: https://batsov.com
FOSS projects blog: https://metaredux.com
Emacs blog: https://emacsredux.com
Ben Fry @benfry.com Running https://fathom.info since 2010 / spent 22 years building https://processing.org and supporting its community / sometimes seen teaching at https://mit.edu
Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com CEO feenk.com
We modernize legacy systems.
Through Moldable Development.
Gordon @gordon.bsky.social Everything around me was someone’s lifework.
Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com Math videos
Bill Piel @bpiel.bsky.social A person trying to navigate this confusing world while also raising kids, engineering software and such. Lives near Philadelphia, PA
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Jepsen @jepsen.mastodon.jepsen.io.ap.brid.gy Breaking distributed systems, one fault at a time.
[bridged from https://mastodon.jepsen.io/@jepsen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Bret Victor @worrydream.com worrydream.com
dynamicland.org
Matt Huebert @matt.is Life is an experiment, please be kind.
Berlin/Saskatoon
nostalgia of the finite @ztellman.ideolalia.com "Software," I said. "In every sense."
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
@wdullaer.bsky.social @wdullaer.bsky.social - J Jeremy VDW @jeremyvdw.bsky.social
𝔹𝕣𝕦𝕟𝕠 𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑖� @bruno.renie.fr CTO @exoscale.com
remy(n) 🍜 @remyrd.bsky.social Ravioli, ravioli. Give me the formuoli
Max Penet @s-exp.com 🇨🇭🇧🇷 • Functional programming polyglot • clojure • emacs • climbing - breeding bugs at @exoscale.com • https://s-exp.com
Simon Wardley. @swardley.bsky.social Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Erik Svedäng @eriksvedang.com Independent game designer, artist & programmer from Sweden.
Some of my released games are Blueberry Garden, Kometen, Clairvoyance & Else Heart.Break(). I also made the programming language Carp.
www.eriksvedang.com
Jan Willem Tulp @tulpinteractive.com Visual Systems Designer & Creator of Frameshift Design | Transforming extreme complexity into genuine understanding
https://tulpinteractive.com https://timebender.io
Alvaro Videla @oldsound.bsky.social Author of words and code. Sometimes I read books.
Bruce Hauman @bhaum.bsky.social he/him Clojurist, figwheeler, canoe tripper, play actor, hand tooler, church remodeler.
Web: rigsomelight.com
Mastodon: @bhauman.functional.cafe
GitHub: github.com/bhauman
thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com Like mountains, cycling and math(s)
Doing a mix of Dev and Ops since before we concatenated the strings
Annoyingly pre-post-economic
Jeaye Wilkerson @jeaye.com Creator of jank, the native Clojure dialect on LLVM with seamless C++ interop.
Stuart Halloway @stuarthalloway.bsky.social Nubank, Datomic, and Clojure by day. Duke Blue.
Baptiste Dupuch @handle.invalid #clojure enthusiast | #clojuredart maintainer | Principal Consultant at t10s.com