Derek Sivers @sive.rs Author of “Useful Not True”, “How to Live”, “Hell Yeah or No”. Former musician, circus performer, entrepreneur, and speaker. Everything is at https://sive.rs
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com I sometimes like AI and computers. I do research @dfdxlabs.com. I always like dogs. Ex OpenAI and @github.com
Website: matthiasplappert.com
Ricky @ricky.fm React core team • Forbes 30 worst over 30
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
Tanya Reilly @whereistanya.bsky.social https://noidea.dog
https://hachyderm.io/@whereistanya/
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB- D Dan Luu @danluu.com Active on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@danluu. Also trying https://threads.net/@danluu.danluu
Jeff Kaufman @jefftk.com Contra dance musician, parent, effective altruist, biosurveillant, software engineer, blogger.
www.jefftk.com
Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org Co-founder at Asana and Good Ventures (a funding partner of Coefficient Giving). Strange looper. You can just build the things you want to see in the world.
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re Senior Staff Research Engineer in the MongoDB Distributed Systems Research Group. Photographer, Gunks climber, Zen Buddhist. Blog: https://emptysqua.re
Tikhon Jelvis @jelv.is I like programming languages. A lot. Especially Haskell.
Tools, types and functions.
Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social Distributed systems,Database systems, Lightweight formal methods, TLA+
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
Alexis King @lexi-lambda.bsky.social computers can be understood • she/her, ⚢ • Chicago
pfung @pfung.dev robotics | advisor @Cline | ex-founder (medical, 55m exit) | eng #15 @Meta
pfung.dev
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
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.
Paul Sonnentag @paulsonnentag.bsky.social No more killer apps, kill the app!
nostalgia of the finite @ztellman.ideolalia.com "Software," I said. "In every sense."
ElectricSQL @electric.ax The agent platform built on sync.
https://electric.ax - see also @pglite.dev
Philip Z @philz.dev 
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
DBA @pgdba.bsky.social DB Specialist @Veeam, Ex-@Wise
drunkdba.medium.com
https://github.com/secp256k1-sha256/tenxdev
Nikhil Benesch @benesch.bsky.social Systems engineer @turbopuffer.bsky.social. Former CTO @materialize.com.
Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu Rust live-coder and OSS tinkerer who loves teaching. I try to maintain a high SNR. Wrote Rust for Rustaceans. At Helsing.ai. Formerly AWS. Co-founded ReadySet. @jonhoo elsewhere. he/him/they
Joy Gao @joygao.bsky.social software engineer at ClickHouse; prev: Figma, WePay
long-form ✍️: https://expertofobsolescence.substack.com
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Sam Willis @samwillis.uk Local First, TanStack DB, @pglite.dev and Sync Engines at @electric-sql.com.
More at https://samwillis.uk
Tom Ballinger @ballingt.com Duboce Triangle in SF
ballingt.com
Sujay Jayakar @sujayakar.bsky.social cofounder @ convex.dev. easily nerd sniped and okay with it.
Hillel is on Social Media Break @hillelwayne.com Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open and happy to meet up in Chicago. Currently writing *Logic for Programmers* (out July-ish)
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/