Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social Midwest writer who eats several meals a week. Work in Eater, Serious Eats, the BBC, Bon App, etc. Fun at haterade.substack.com
Andrew Cairns @acairns.co.uk Using metaphors and analogies to explain Software Engineering in fun ways: https://youtube.com/@metaphoricallyspeaking
Staff Software Engineer. Passionate about DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing and Distributed Systems.
Kayaking, too.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com handle kind of gives it away. architect + procrastinator. transmitting from beautiful Indianapolis, Indiana. sometimes i complain for fun. i enjoy cool breezes and rainy mornings, separately. my other bike is a bike. is that bad?
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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@dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems.
Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
austin @aparker.io the only thing worse than my code are my jokes
governance @opentelemetry.io
director of ai strategy @honeycomb.io
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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own. https://sarah.dev
Distinguished Engineer @ Google, Chrome
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com Strange but not a stranger. I’m an ordinary guy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social Still being followed by the teenage FBI
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Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im @figma.com
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Karthik Hariharan @hkarthik.bsky.social Engineering Manager working in tech. I post about tech, business, politics, and the occasional shitpost.
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
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The ones who walk away from omelettes @dfeldman.org 
Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social I used to make websites (Blogger, JPG Mag, Fray). I wrote the book “Design for Community.” Now I grow flowers and keep animals at milkbarn.farm in Boring, Oregon.
No dooming in my replies. There's already enough doom in the world.
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social woman in construction working on climate adaptation - magpie - twin mama - Flatbush public school parent - beachlarker - mutual aid welcoming our newest neighbors in Flatbush -
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
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Karen Ingram @krening.bsky.social 🖌️🧫
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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social 
Kellianne @kelliannepavina.bsky.social She/her/them. Trans-parent. Anti fascist. Anti capitalist. Artist. Distance Cyclist. Music Lover. Berkeley based hair ninja + Singing songs with Close Companions + 750Words Community Developer. Dog lover and always a hoooman bean.
Briana Campbell @msmatchgirl.bsky.social Time & Tide Coffee founder | Ad + marketing world strategist | Cat lover
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Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
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Noah Brier @heyitsnoah.bsky.social Run BrXnd.ai // WhyIsThisInteresting.com // Variance.com
Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social I like to be called Jeff.
https://www.somethingsimilar.com
San Francisco, CA
Ali @spangley.bsky.social Only here to claim my name 
George Musser @georgemusser.com contributing editor, Scientific American, Nautilus; contributing writer, Quanta; author, Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, Spooky Action at a Distance, Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory; planetary scientist, local historian, bassist, salsero
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com Back in Chicago as a stay-at-home dad and small business owner. Expect some infosec/privacy/safety, 3D printing, and politics.
infosec.exchange/@jschuh
Defunct: twitter.com/justinschuh
Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org Be realistic; demand the impossible!
Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; 🇵🇷; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
Andy McMillan @andymcmillan.com 💅 Designer, independent event producer, and NA brewery owner
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Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social Artist and weirdo and etc. from Portland, OR. Fractal fixation. Online to a deeply unfortunate degree. Ran MetaFilter for a while. Today in Tabs idiot. Blaseball will never die, RIP Blaseball.
John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social Cofounder, @AdaptiveCLabs, “the NTSB of Tech” bringing Resilience Engineering to industry. he/him. Won’t speak on all-male panels, and #blacklivesmatter.
Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org Leftist Dad. Immigrant nerd. Musician, husband.
Was @ian on Twitter. Is ian@mckellar.social on the fediverse.
rands @rands.bsky.social Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t tweet about my current gig. https://randsinrepose.com
Florian @fangohr.com Design/build @ archive.green / fangohr.com /
@donotreplycards.bsky.social USW/USF
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Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
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Cate @catehstn.bsky.social fractional CTO. coach. quantum particle. in search of adventure; it’s probably fine ✨
Author of The Engineering Leader, published by O'Reilly
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https://whatsmyjob.club
Alexandra Klasinski @alexandrak.bsky.social Product at Microsoft. I love NFL, F1, food, travel, failing at new things, running (sometimes).
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org internet person 👋 🏳️🌈 she/her
currently writing https://notetoself.studio 📓 @notetoself.studio
Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social Journalist, author, recovering lawyer. Find me at Slate, the New Statesman, and Substack. Practitioner of yoga, befriender of cats.
jill.substack.com
NYC/HK
Ceren E @cerephic.bsky.social Ops-type SRE at Grubhub. Vaccinated. bird rescue & pet pigeons. motorcyclist, hula haumāna, Extremely Online. ceren@ercen.com (she / they) 👑🐷⛏️
haruspex @porknchives.bsky.social sigh
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social I’m the unflinchingly optimistic graybeard, wandering in this cyber dystopia. InfoSec, cybersecurity, futurist, strategist, chaotic good. The views expressed are my own. Sometimes humorously. 
Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com I am a generalist, currently employed as a front-leaning, ¾-stack engineer at Fastly. I have a double major in political science and film theory, aka the Oliver Stone. I live in Denver. I can smell the onions and the mustard.
Imbolc @eob.social.coop.ap.brid.gy I work in tech, working on #AI #alignment of #personalized applications to make sure they avoid #privacy and #safety harms
Opinions here are strictly my own — I’m not […]
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CINTRA WILSON @cintra.bsky.social Writer/performer. 
Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social Deputy editor, Defector.com
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how America lost the plot on literacy. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Albert Burneko @albertburneko.bsky.social Defector dot com
Tom Ley @toley.bsky.social Co-owner Defector Media
Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io Site Reliability Eng. Resiliency, Reliability, Go, video game enthusiast, bedroom DJ. 
Lindsay Goldwert @lindsaygoldwert.bsky.social Author, sex writer, editorial director, general enthusiast. My new book THE MIDLIFE PLOT TWIST coming Fall 2026 http://www.lindsaygoldwert.com
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Cassidy @cassidoo.co Making memes, dreams, & software!
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Emily Kager @emilykager.bsky.social android dev, tiktoker, cool ass chick 
Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social visual editor, defector media
currently on medical leave
Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll.org Principal Engineer at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.
Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
Danielle Baskin @danielle.bsky.social interactive performances & pixel art. i also build a virtual tarot platform moonlight.world
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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social I write about music & my latest book is “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape” http://highbiasbook.com/ I host the Music Book Podcast. I am a Nationals & D-backs fanatic. DON'T USE AI.
Colm MacCarthaigh @colmmacc.bsky.social VP / Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services. Also: Open Source and Apache, Cryptography, Irish Music, mediocre Photography.
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/
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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
Jez Humble @jezhumble.net Works on my machine! Author of some books on software, MTS @ Anthropic, portfolio @ continuousdelivery.com. Previously lecturer @ UC Berkeley, 18F, ThoughtWorks, Google. All tweets fictional. He / him. Ⓥ
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__
emily freeman @emilyfreeman.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Freeman & Forrest.
Bestselling author of DevOps for Dummies and international keynote speaker. I’ve led Community, DevRel and Product Marketing at AWS, MSFT, and startups.
I was editingemily on Twitter.
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'
James Turnbull @kartar.net 🇦🇺🇺🇸 Engineer, angel investor, & author. Ex-@Glitch, @Microsoft, @kickstarter, @docker. Likes tattoos, food & wine. He/him/his.
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Dave @scarletink.com Newsletter author at http://scarletink.com Ex. GM and Tech Director at Amazon. Ex. CTO at Bezos Academy. This is me: http://linkedin.com/in/scarletink/
Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social A nuanced melange of viking and capybara.
Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social 
April King @april.social Staff Security Engineer at some random tech company, previously Mozilla, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and (pre-Elon) Twitter. Has read @kateconger.bsky.social’s autobiography.
web @ grayduck.mn // also github.com/april
Will Larson @lethain.com Write at lethain.com. Author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and An Engineering Executive’s Primer. Worked some places.
K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social On an island. Will be your dad if you ask. Making things for you. Shirts pay for skeets: https://www.teepublic.com/user/kthorjensen
Orbitalized @orbitalized.bsky.social