NZ Earthquake Bot @nzquake.bsky.social New Zealand earthquake feed (unofficial). Posts whenever GeoNet reports a decent sized quake (a few times per week). Maintained by @slyall.bsky.social
@lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social 
Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social — Founder of Our World in Data
— Professor at the University of Oxford
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it.
What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
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.
nicole forsgren @nicolefv.bsky.social valkyrie. love tacos, flowers, and Diet Coke. 
Pōneke Matt @ponekematt.bsky.social Matt Reweti. Wellington City Councillor for Te Whanganui-a-Tara Māori ward. Views are my own. Authorised by Matthew Reweti, mattreweti.co.nz #TeĀtiawa #Ruanui #TeArawa. #TeTiriti
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
Kawaiicon @kawaiicon.bsky.social New Zealand's cute infosec con (& book publishers) ✨
October 30-31, 2026 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington, New Zealand)
Andrew Little @andrewlittlenz.bsky.social Mayor of Wellington | Authorised by Andrew Little, info@andrewlittle.nz
Florian Thoma @innoweb.au #silverstripe, #laravel, #seo, #a11y, #webperf
Cycling Action Network @cyclingactionnz.bsky.social More people on bikes more often.
Cycle Wellington @cyclewgtn.bsky.social Cycle Wellington - making biking better in Wellington.
Laurie Foon @lauriefoon.bsky.social Councillor for Paekawakawa Southern Ward Pōneke Wellington!
Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com Software Design Loudmouth. Works for Thoughtworks. Also hikes, watches theater, and plays modern board games. He/him.
host of https://martinfowler.com
Chris Hipkins @chrishipkins.bsky.social MP for Remutaka, Leader of NZ Labour Party. Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Tce, Wellington
Jonny Osborne @jonnybosborne.bsky.social Councillor-elect for Motukairangi/East on the Wellington City Council.
Loves to talk trees, water, buses and bikes. And cricket.
Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz MP for Rongotai. Green Party of Aotearoa NZ.
Mama working for healthier, happier cities and climate justice. 🚲🌏🌱💚🍉
Auth by M Ross, L5, 108 The Terrace, WLG
Andrew Mayfield @andrewmayfield.com Getting the right things done.
Building. Creating. Living.
andrewmayfield.com
#NewZealand
Anthropic @anthropic.com We're an Al safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable Al systems. Talk to our Al assistant Claude at Claude.ai.
Takiwa @takiwa.bsky.social Pilot, musician and game programmer.
Te Whanganui e Tara, Aotearoa.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social Former Mayor. Global Greenie. Political reckons etc etc
Rebecca Matthews @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social Councillor for Wharangi Ward, Te Kaunihera o Pōneke. Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington.
George @stayradiated.bsky.social 
Lissa Carlino @lissacarlino.bsky.social She/her. Workforce development for MH & addiction sector. Drug harm reduction. Author. US & NZ politics.
Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social Journalist, rider of bikes, cooker of food, seeker of joy. Dad-DJ. Cosmopolitan.
Dr Ayesha Verrall @drayeshaverrall.bsky.social Labour MP based in Wellington. Spokesperson for Health, Public Service and Wellington Issues. Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Tce, Wellington
Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social Labour Candidate for Wellington Bays in 2026. CTU Economist, Unionist, and believer in a better Aotearoa.
https://linktr.ee/craigrenney.official
Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington
Love Pōneke @loveponeke.bsky.social For the Love of Wellington.
#loveponeke
#arohawellington
Patrick Morgan @patrickmorgan.bsky.social Person who rides a bike, in New Zealand. Believes we are all better off when more people ride, more often.
Geordie Rogers @geordierogers.co.nz Councillor for the Pukehīnau/Lambton Ward
Auth: M Ross, 5/108 The Terrace, WGN
Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social Deputy Mayor and Wellington City Councillor for the Takapū/Northern Ward.
linktr.ee/ponekeben
Fox Meyer @foxmeyer.bsky.social Wellington-based journo with Newsroom | Otago geology dept | road cone apologist
Stu Donovan @studonovan.bsky.social Economist researching cities, transport, housing, & energy. I focus on New Zealand & Australia, with European dalliances. And some chaff.
Jimmy Jim Jimbo James Kirkus-Lamont Esq. @jimmy.is Recovering digital product owner exploring a melange of light, ink and pixels
🦾 UX Design and Design System wrangling
🖤 Printmaking • Photography • Pen plotting • 3D printing
🇳🇿 Ōtepoti
🌐 https://jimmy.is
S2Hub @s2hub.bsky.social www.s2-hub.com - The European Silverstripe community #silverstripe-cms
www.stripecon.eu - European Silverstripe Conference #stripecon
www.linkedin.com/company/s2-hub/
Mike @mandrewnz.bsky.social Turn problems into projects
@caffeineinc.bsky.social @caffeineinc.bsky.social 
Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com 📹 I make tech videos
👩💻 Software engineer for 15 years
Developer Educator @ ngrok
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@AnnieSexton1
🎨 I also make comic books
Founder of Webcomic Studio: https://webcomic.studio/
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- N Free Speech Union ✊🏻 @nzfreespeech.bsky.social
- T New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union @taxpayersunion.bsky.social
Ed Chipman @undefinedoffset.bsky.social Professional Web Developer specializing in Silverstripe development with a little electron on the side
Svelte @svelte.dev Web development for the rest of us. See also:
- community: @sveltesociety.dev
- starter pack: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/did:plc:nlvjelw3dy3pddq7qoglleko/3l6ucetngs423
- feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paolo.ricciuti.me/feed/svelte-feed
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
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.
morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social good evening 
Jacob Duval @rough.app Building rough.app
I also unironically blog on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7221287561531392002
Charlie @ichaber.bsky.social 
Marama Davidson @maramadavidson.bsky.social She/her/ia
@NZGreens Co-leader based in Manurewa. Indigenous to Aotearoa/NZ. Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington.
Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social Cities, transport and economic and climate transitions. Social Entrepreneur in Residence and Adjunct Lecturer at Massey University, NZ.
Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social Senior Writer at The Spinoff.
Emma Vitz @emmavitz.bsky.social Actuary who dabbles in data journalism. Especially interested in natural perils, climate risk, #rspatial, data science & feminism.
Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social Podcaster and newsletter writer about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa. Free and paid versions here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka?r=akd4&utm_medium=ios
Max Rashbrooke @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social Senior research fellow (adjunct), Victoria University. Words at the Post, Spinoff, Guardian. @TEDTalks '3 Ways to Upgrade Democracy'. Author on tackling economic inequality and creating democratic renewal. Mostly broadcasting here.
Chris Knox @vizowl.bsky.social Head of data journalism at NZ Herald
Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social New Zealand's foremost authority on the Big Fresh Animatronic Fruit & Veggies
📍Te Papa
Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com I make TV and film. I write stuff. I was on #TheTraitorsNZ. Wrote FAKE BELIEVE (http://bit.ly/fakebelieve). Made TICKLED documentary. He/Him. dylanreeve@protonmail.com
Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social Data plumber/word baker
Robbie Nicol @robbienicol.bsky.social Sorry for all the posts. (He/him)
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social Ugly graphs, insights and outbursts. NZ.
Uncle Cheese @unclecheese.bsky.social 
Jonathan Brewer @kiwibrew.bsky.social I design and build infrastructure for broadband,
public safety, utilities, and the Internet of Things.
jon.brewer.nz
shadcn @shadcn.com design + code - shadcn.com
Evan You @evanyou.me Husband / Father of two / Founder voidzero.dev / Creator @vuejs.org & @vite.dev
rich harris @rich-harris.dev my life is derp and i do derp shit
Theo @t3.gg Full time CEO & YouTuber. Also an investor and developer. More info at t3.gg
Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com Founder @ Devographics. I run the State of JS/CSS/etc. surveys. Kyoto, Japan.
Into hiking, climbing, making music, LEGO…
https://sachagreif.com/
https://devographics.com/
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Randall Munroe @xkcd.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/
Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social Beloved banjo player of the people. Co-owner and CTO of an apparel ERP company. In former lives: open source, Perl, O'Reilly Media, new technology. Bereavement is sadder and weirder than you can imagine.
Laura Bell Main @ladynerd.bsky.social CEO at SafeStack | coauthor of Agile Application Security and Security for Everyone | Host of Build Amazing Things (securely) | #appsec nerd | mom
Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz Bikes and tech and stuff. 
John Hart @farmgeek.bsky.social I’m quite fond of trees.
You can DM me the old fashioned way on farmgeek at gmail dot com
Whakaoriori Masterton, Aotearoa
Chris Shiflett @shiflett.org I like making things. Right now, that's Schoolcase, a smart assistant that helps families stay on top of school emails and activities, and Studioworks, an app that helps creatives and freelancers send beautiful invoices and manage their clients.
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own.
https://sarah.dev
Sr Director of Engineering @ Google: Core Web, Android, iOS Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core •
Frontend Masters teacher •
O'Reilly Author •
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
support my work: citationneeded.news/signup
links: mollywhite.net/linktree
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Andy Baio @andy.baio.net The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social Investigative journalist | The Crewe Murders 📖 | Nellie’s Baby 🎧 | I tell stories about people | kirsty.johnston@rnz.co.nz ✉️
https://www.instagram.com/kirstyjohnston_nz?igsh=bWU4a2pqemthYm5q
Werner M. Krauß @wmk.bsky.social Programmierer, Musiker, Pilger. Wohne im Salzkammergut.
Kai Koenig @agentk.bsky.social Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand; work with computers: Android, Kotlin, CFML, Lucee, Java, Flutter, Linux and more.
💑 @blauerpunto.bsky.social, ✈️pilot, 🎮 Nintendo 3852-3319-8305
Usually in a t-shirt & hoodie.
🌈 ❤️ 💜 💙 he/him
James Nisbet @bandit.nz I design experiences, and vote for the climate in every election. Big fan of #bioswales.
Mostly snark. Views don't reflect those I work with.
https://james.nisbet.nz
Shaun Hendy @hendysh.bsky.social Physicist, complex systems, ex-COVID modeller, he/him
Author of "The Covid Response" https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-covid-response
Diana Minnée @excapeartist.bsky.social COO for startups / Co-founder of
Astronort - Operations, Reimagined astronort.com
Sam Minnée @sminn.ee Techie, dad, Wellingtonian. Building with AI, trying to do so thoughtfully. Loves nuanced discussion of complex topics, and toilet humour.
Founded Silverstripe in a past life, now CTO for tellfrankie.com and askastro.ai
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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