Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
socrates1024 @socrates1024.bsky.social junior product @ teleport.best
adjunct associate prof @ uiuc
Nick Sullivan @nicksullivan.org Asymmetries in action
Raphael Robert @raphaelrobert.bsky.social Founder and director of @phoenixrd.bsky.social. Working on @air.ms. #MessagingLayerSecurity co-author. 🦀. He/him.
Soatok @soatok.bsky.social 30-something gay furry with an interest in cryptography and software security.
Mastodon: https://furry.engineer/@soatok
Blog: https://soatok.blog
🎨 https://mrjimmydafloof.bsky.social
Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net founder @ https://tonk.xyz
🐞 @ https://termite.works
personal @ https://gavinowens.net
small software, cooperative computing, tools for thought, tech governance and free media
dietrich @burrito.space peeking into the post-browser web
~ https://metafluff.com
~ https://webtransitions.org
~ https://userandagents.org
~ @intenttoship.dev
past lives: Mozilla, Protocol Labs, Sub Pop Records
Giacomo Fenzi @giacomofenzi.bsky.social PhD student @EPFL, previously @ETH
Interested in cryptography at large, post quantum and interactive proofs in particular.
Interista alla Prisco.- P Pratyush Mishra @pratyush.zip Current: Asst Professor at Penn CIS
Past:
Cryptographer at Aleo
Crypto and computer security PhD, UC Berkeley
he/him
Website: pratyush.zip
Photoblog: photos.pratyush.zip
Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk Senior Correspondent @theverge.com ║ Sign up to Notepad, my weekly newsletter on Microsoft's big bets at http://theverge.com/notepad ║ Tips? msg me on Signal: tomwarren.01
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Richard Barnes @ipv.sx Trying to do right by the world, in part by using computers and cryptography.
(🦋 DMs disabled, please use Germ 🦠)
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.
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
Michele Orrù @tumbolia.bsky.social A curious child. https://michele.orru.net
Malware Unicorn @malwareunicorn.bsky.social @Straiker. Ex-Microsoft. Ex-Meta RedTeam, Ex-Endgame, Ex Fireeye. malwareunicorn.org
Diego F. Aranha @dfaranha.bsky.social Associate Professor of Cryptographic Engineering at Aarhus University. https://dfaranha.github.io/
Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social I like to be called Jeff.
https://www.somethingsimilar.com
San Francisco, CA
Ricky Mondello @rmondello.com 💚 Friend
🏳️⚧ Trans, nonbinary, they/them
😷 Caring, careful
🔑 Passkeys & passwords
🧛🏻♀️ It’s not a phase
🦔 Speedrunner
Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
Juraj Somorovsky @jurajsomorovsky.bsky.social Professor at Paderborn University, co-founder of Hackmanit. Used to break XML, now playing with TLS and crypto. Co-author of DROWN, EFAIL, and TLS-Attacker.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Frederic Jacobs @fredericjacobs.com www.fredericjacobs.com
https://ger.mx/A-RGsldmQt0iXfnzPgXNzLzA5_jvDbWHabqz1yJrt2ma#did:plc:oxwmqopgbm3driwzues7odpz
Calle Svensson @zetatwo.bsky.social Security Engineer @ XTX. MSc in eng. physics & CompSci, dev & gamer. ❤️ music & long distance running. Wanna do a PhD sometime. Same U/N on all other sites
Low Level @lowleveltv.bsky.social computer whisperer 🧙♂️ internet person 📸 https://lowlevel.tv
Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social debugging, v: the process of inserting printf statements into code until one's errors reveal themselves
apenwarr @apenwarr.ca wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, atlogin.net, and now Top Chicken @Tailscale.com doing WireGuard mesh. First search result for "epic treatise."
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org Full of passionate intensity.
Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social www.cs.brown.edu/~anna
CS Prof @ Brown. Cryptography, especially privacy-preserving protocols, such as anonymous credentials. she/her
American, originally from Ukraine.
Samuel Groß @saelo.bsky.social Working on Project Zero, Big Sleep, and V8 Security. Personal account.
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
Manish @manishearth.bsky.social unmappable territory
please leave a message after the beep
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
jordan @jdan.me Author of the critically-acclaimed "Harry Potter" series of children's fantasy novels
tef @tef.bsky.social previously: failed mathematician, youtube one hit wonder, blogger, crow photographer, former programmer
currently: unemployed and very tired. tef all lowercase, they/them thank you
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
Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy Leading cryptography (ISE Crypto) at Google.
Opinions my own.
Content usually badly explained mathematics
[bridged from https://infosec.exchange/@sophieschmieg on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
ePrint Updates @eprint.ing.bot Unofficial bot tracking the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive (eprint.iacr.org). Maintained by @str4d.xyz.
Currently only posts about new papers. Author names are linkified to Bluesky accounts (cryptography.social); contact maintainer for inclusion/removal.
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
Christian Knabenhans @cknabs.bsky.social PhD student @EPFL; ex-@ETH
Taking privacy-enhancing crypto (mainly zkSNARKs & FHE) from theory to practice, and back.
🇨🇭🇫🇷 🏳️🌈
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
Matt M @mattm.bsky.social
ændra. @aendra.com Creator of 📰 News feeds, @xblock.aendra.dev, @moji.blue, founder of @shoots.green, @atproto.london.
Opinions my own. Not a journalist or an engineer, but a secret third thing (trying).
she/her/ze/hir 🏳️⚧️
🌐 aendra.com
🗞️ ft.com/æ
JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com I write about tech + humans + philosophy
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/
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.
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/
ATProto London • Bluesky social events in London, UK @atproto.london Building the next generation of social apps together in London, UK. #atproto.local
Bimonthly meetup for Bluesky users and devs.
Organised by @aendra.com, @davenash.com and @alice.mosphere.at at Newspeak House in Bethnal Green E1.
https://atproto.london
Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social Cryptographer
Philipp Muens @muens.io Cryptography R&D @ primefactor.io • Nerd-snipe me with Lattices, Isogenies, Magmas, etc. • Instant Coffee Connoisseur • Webmaster @ muens.io
Nico @nmohnblatt.me picious until proven otherwise.
Cryptography research and auditing at zkSecurity. Recurring co-host on the ZKPodcast.
nmohnblatt.me
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social
thomas🌦️ @zemn.me https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/zemn.me teaching computers to kiss @openai
stephanie @isosteph.bsky.social slag heap of the mind
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
antirez @antirez.bsky.social Reproducible bugs are candies 🍭🍬
I like programming too much for not liking automatic programming.
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
Felipe O. Carvalho @felipe.rs SWE @ dbt Labs. Past: SDF, VoDa, Spotify. Apache Arrow/Databases/Compilers/DistSys. Rust/C++/OCaml/TLA+. 🇧🇷 → 🇸🇪 → 🌎 http://bento.me/felipe / https://felipe.rs
kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social wrote a book called "in this economy?" | chair of the federal reserve | writing and youtube @ http://kyla.substack.com
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own. https://sarah.dev
Distinguished Engineer @ Google, Chrome
Formerly Google Core Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core •
Frontend Masters teacher •
O'Reilly Author •
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social Podcast editor (as long as quality and urgency aren’t important)
🌎👩🚀🔫🧑🚀
guille @lmao.bsky.social I sometimes do math and stuff
chief scientist @baincapitalcrypto.com
Kobi Gurkan @kobi.bsky.social applied crypto, security, experimental things | zkSecurity
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Tib3rius @tib3rius.bsky.social Web App (mostly) Hacker | Cybersecurity Educator | Content Creator | Ex-Brit | Links: http://linktr.ee/tib3rius (he/him) 🇺🇸 A mostly unserious person. @therealc3rul34n.bsky.social is bae 🥰
Patrick Gray @patrick.risky.biz https://risky.biz/
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com Technical Fellow, @honeycomb.io
American by birth, Chinese by heritage, Australian by choice
living on occupied and unceded Gadigal and Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh land
she/it
alice @alice.mosphere.at aspiring handheld | 📍 london
⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz aspiring neurocryptographer, security nerd
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
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.
Cryspen @cryspen.com High Assurance Software
Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social Journalist - cyber/natn'l security. Speaker. Georgetown adjunct prof. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Signal: KimZ.42
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com
Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com Renersatz Man — bitbanter.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/
Steven Murdoch @steven.murdoch.is Professor of Security Engineering; Head of UCL Information Security Research Group @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk; Director Open Rights Group. 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@sjmurdoch 🐦 @sjmurdoch 🌍 https://murdoch.is/
Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social Bit flipper
Nils Fleischhacker @cryptomaeher.bsky.social Cryptographer working on both applied and theoretical cryptography. Currently Assistant Professor for Cryptography at Ruhr University Bochum. Opinions probably someone else's. he/him
henry @hdevalence.bsky.social navigating the library of babel
Sean Bowe @seanbowe.com Cryptography researcher, developer of Zcash
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.
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Adriana Porter Felt @apf.bsky.social I like writing silly skeets, but that doesn't pay so I also make Google Chrome. mamá, Eng Director, volunteer at Second Harvest. 🇺🇲🇨🇷
Twitter: @__apf__
Jules Terpak @julesterpak.bsky.social julesterpak.net
ϻг_ϻε @steven.srcincite.io Hermetic Initiate. Exploring conscience and the nature of reality. I also hack things.
JP Aumasson @aumasson.jp https://aumasson.jp
cofounder & CSO @ taurushq.com
cryptographer (BLAKE2, BLAKE3, SipHash)
author of Serious Cryptography https://nostarch.com/serious-cryptography-2nd-edition and other books
Signal: jpa.01
Willow Wormwood @willowwormwood.bsky.social 🌿🌙 they/them ~ Bloodborne & Elder Scrolls enjoyer ~ Commissions are closed ~ Check out my website at https://willowwormwood.com/ 💫🌿
Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer Applied cryptographer. Mainly working in the cryptography auditing industry, but sometimes venturing back into academia. https://nadim.computer
Russ Cox @swtch.com
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert @geomys.org founder / RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com I do computers. Married to @radkat.fitzpat.com. Three kids. Xoogler.
Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy.
Seattle, WA // Bainbridge
eliza🌻 @elizas.website e-girl (engineering girl) • interested in the kind of software nobody writes anymore • making computers at @oxide.computer • love too cheap to meter • nulla crux, nulla corona