Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne.bsky.social hypercurious :) I write about personal science, systematic curiosity, experimental thinking ꩜⋆✦ • author of Tiny Experiments • researcher at King’s College London & founder of Ness Labs ⇢ https://nesslabs.com
vitatlik parodry accunt @vitalikbuterin.bsky.social 
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Lydia Hallie @lydiahallie.com Claude Code @AnthropicAI
Sean J Taylor @seanjtaylor.com Data Science, Causal Inference, Economics, Statistics and Machine Learning
Two joys in life:
[1] Learning something interesting about the world
[2] Telling people about it
Model Measurement @OpenAI
Paul Stamets @paulstamets.bsky.social Mycologist, Author, Inventor, Teacher, Earthling
Discover my biography here: http://bit.ly/47a6pA9
Fatih Arslan @arslan.io Software Engineer. Creator of vim-go. Design addict. Photographer. Previously at PlanetScale, GitHub, DigitalOcean.
For longform thoughts follow my blog: arslan.io
Tom Critchlow @tomcritchlow.com Indie consultant & blogger
tomcritchlow.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
Brittney Ball @briitoeknee.substack.com Ex-Meta | AI Documentation Strategist | I help AI companies close the gap between their ethics principles and their user-facing docs | Founder, TechniDox
Hamilton Ulmer @hamilton.bsky.social 👁️📈👁️ design & eng @ MotherDuck. UI, statistics, databases. Ex Rill Data, Mozilla
Elijah Manor @elijahmanor.com ✝️ 👨👩👧👦 🐶 👨💻 🎥 🖊 ☕️ 🏊 🛵
Front-End Web Developer, Manager, & Content Creator
Neovim and overall command-line enthusiast
Big fan of Obsidian and PKM
https://youtube.com/@elijahmanor
https://linktr.ee/elijahmanor
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
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/
Malte Ubl @industrialempathy.com CTO at Vercel
@cramforce on Twitter
industrialempathy.com
Kevin Kelly @kevinkelly.bsky.social Senior Maverick, Wired. Author, maker, artist, father. Cool tool maven, true film buff, and fan of Asia. Radical optimist.
John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social Founder/CEO at @Ghost.org - Geographically restless.
Mostly posting about publishing, media, open source, JavaScript, Laravel, bootstrapping, SaaS, activitypub, and design. 
Jacky @jzhao.xyz sunset posting and sometimes independent research, distributed systems, and interaction design
Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com 
amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🔮 "most level-headed AI user" 🫐 working on something dataflow-shaped 🦀 known for teaching rust and not much else
📚 https://fasterthanli.me
📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
Kris Nóva @krisnova.net Dreamer. Engineer. Writer. Aurae. Linux. Security. C. Rust. Go. Queer. OSINT. Mountains. Follow me on Twitch. She/Her. Principal Engineer at GitHub. 
Ben Holmes @bholmes.dev The Whiteboard Guy @warp.dev
swyx @swyx.io i want everyone to aspire to integrity, intensity, and intentionality. see also @latent.space
Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com Building WebSim websim.com
Product thoughts: RobHaisfield.com
My research: ScalingSynthesis.com
noopkat @noopkat.fragile.systems Soft person. Likes infosec, open source, electronics, reading, education, and privacy. 
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/
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
Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com Husband, 6x Dad, Latter-day Saint, Dev, Educator
🏹 http://EpicProduct.engineer
⚡️ http://EpicAI.pro
🌌 http://EpicWeb.dev
🚀 http://EpicReact.dev
🏆 http://TestingJavaScript.com
Colin @yesitscolin.bsky.social The “Tom Hanks of Bluesky,” or so I’ve been told. Wrote a couple true crime books, and a whole bunch of skeets. NY Post once called me a "woke Wikipedia user." Opinions are mine. He/him
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/
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
Wes Bos @wesbos.com Fullstack Dev ❯ JS⚛ CSS Node ❯ JavaScript30.com ❯ wesbos.com/courses ❯ 🔥 Tips ❯ Podcast @syntax.fm
Michael Ashcroft @michaelashcroft.com clear intentions, lightly held ᐧ playful, feral free agent ᐧ I teach Alexander Technique, which helps you get out of your own way, at https://expandingawareness.org | I am also at https://michaelashcroft.com
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
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
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Paul Millerd @pmillerd.com work thoughts and friends
Good Work: pmillerd.com/goodwork
Pathless Path: Pathlesspath.com
Pathless Community: pathlesspath.com/membership
Newsletter: newsletter.pathlesspath.com
Consulting Training: strategyu.co
Obsidian @obsidian.md The free and flexible app for your private thoughts. For help and deeper discussions, join our community: http://obsidian.md/community
@nickmilo.bsky.social @nickmilo.bsky.social 
Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com 3x dad, 6.2x runner, 10x plant killer, principal engineer, violinist.
I build everyoak.com, mailtimer.com, onetimefax.com
chantastic @chantastic.bsky.social https://youtube.com/@chantastic
visa @visakanv.com Author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD and INTROSPECT
Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social I’m a writer who draws. Author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other bestsellers. www.austinkleon.com
Simone Stolzoff @simonestolzoff.bsky.social Author of “The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work,” out now from Penguin Random House
anita @neats.bsky.social https://infodistillery.com/self-love
☁️🍄 mel @melodaysong.bsky.social 
Dan Shipper @danshipper.bsky.social Co-founder at Every
Cécile M @cecile.bsky.social Building a better future • You’re thinking of taking a sabbatical away from work? Check this out ➡️ http://www.cecilemarion.org/on-sabbatical
Sara Campbell @tinyrevver.bsky.social Writer, lover, hater, silly goose
Personal: tinyrevolutions.substack.com
Angel City Zen Center: aczc.substack.com
📍Atlanta currently 
Jonny Miller @jmiller.bsky.social Curious Human, aspiring somanaut & founder of Nervous System Mastery 🧑🚀
@levelsio @levels.io 💾 Pieter.com est. 1994
📸 PhotoAI.com $120K/m
🏡 InteriorAI.com $38K/m
🛰 RemoteOK.com $37K/m
🌍 Nomads.com $35K/m
🎁 levelsio.com $23K/m
Jordi Bruin @jordi.bsky.social Indie dev that wants to help others do the same
Minnow Park @minnowpark.com looking for where our deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. a coach for creatives. portrait photographer. stewarding community at Foster
Max Rohowsky, Ph.D. @maxrohowsky.com Obsessed with SaaS customer acquisition and building leverage • Bootstrapping crosspublish.com • Previously corp. consultant and university lecturer
X Profile: https://x.com/MaxRohowsky
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
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Solomon Kahn @solomonkahn.bsky.social Data Founder | Delivery Layer & Top Data People
Cobus Greyling @cobusgreyling.bsky.social Language Models, AI Agents, Agentic Applications, Development Frameworks & Data-Centric Productivity Tools | Chief Evangelist @ Kore AI
Alex McFarland @aidisruptor.ai Creator of aidisruptor.ai - my community of 4,000+ everyday people learning how to use AI tools through practical guides.
Pau Labarta Bajo @paulabartabajo.com Teaching Real World ML at http://realworldml.net
- ML Freelance engineer
- Maths Olympian
- Father of 1.. sorry 2 kids
Matt Schlicht @mattprd.bsky.social Building & posting about AI and autonomous agents as CEO/engineer at Octane AI. Hacking and tinkering. Alum: Ustream, YC. Married to Helen Situ + dad to 1 😍
Burak @buremba.bsky.social Data Engineer - Cooking https://github.com/buremba/universql 🐥
Andy Grove @andygrove.io Apache Arrow & DataFusion PMC Member. Original creator of Apache DataFusion.
Joy Gao @joygao.bsky.social software engineer at ClickHouse; prev: Figma, WePay
long-form ✍️: https://expertofobsolescence.substack.com
Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net Principal Engineer, Founder, Angel, Advisor, OSS.
LFAI&data: OpenLineage, Marquez, ASF: Parquet, Arrow, Iceberg, 🐖
he/him.
Me: https://julien.ledem.net/
Blog: https://sympathetic.ink
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database. 
shikhar @schmizz.net Making streams serverless @s2.dev
Josh Wills @spite.vc Forward Deployed Angel Investor
https://github.com/jwills
Jakob Homan @jakobhoman.bsky.social Software engineer. Data infra guy. Apache Committer/PMC on various projects. WebAssembly enthusiast. Also cinema, street photography and sarcasm...
No relation to that fascist fuck.
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
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.
Paul Butler @paulbutler.org I build jamsocket.com and write digest.browsertech.com
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
Adi Polak @adipolak.bsky.social Code | Test | Deploy | Get paged
Data streaming, Machine Learning and AI app intensive Systems
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Teej @teej.bsky.social building Downlink (yc w24)
William Morgan @williammorgan.me Chief Email Outputter at Buoyant. Linkerd spokesnerd. Twitter refugee and former engineer
📍Austin, TX
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev Technologist @ Confluent · Ex-lead of Debezium · Spec lead of Bean Validation 2.0 · Creator of Hardwood, kcctl, JfrUnit, MapStruct · Java Champion · morling.dev · 🚴
rmoff 🏃♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net Shitposting & Memes.
Data & Stuff.
#dataBS #trailrunning
✍️ https://rmoff.net 🔗 https://rmoff.info
(DMs closed because of stupid UK age verification requirements).
Chris K Wensel @chris.wensel.net Developer of:
- https://retrofit.sh
- https://chris.wensel.net/project/
Co-Organizer of https://lu.ma/sf-distsys
Ramana @vramana.dev Staff Software Engineer. Interested in #rust, #typescript and #golang. https://blog.vramana.com
Tobias Müller @tobilg.com Serverless enthusiast. DuckDB afficionado. AWS Community Builder.
Building @sql-workbench.com @ownstats.com @learningduckdb.com
Blog: https://tobilg.com
Apurva Mehta @apurvamehta.com Co-Founder and CEO of @responsive.dev. I write about stream processing and company building. Views are my own.
🌐 apurvamehta.com
joschi @joschi.work 🦣 Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@joschi
🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/joschi
Eric Sammer @esammer.bsky.social CEO @ Decodable. Systems, databases, stream processing. O’Reilly author, ex-Cloudera, Splunk, Rocana, and others.
https://www.decodable.co
Ananth Packkildurai @ananthdurai.bsky.social Editor Data Engineering Weekly; subscribe www.dataengineeringweekly.com. In Prgress, LakeByte
Shivansh Vij @shivanshvij.com CEO @loopholelabs.io
Ryanne Dolan @ry.codes BigTech BigData infra @ LinkedIn, Twitter, Cloudera
Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com VP of Data Engineering at Dash0. Previously, founder of Polar Signals (acquired by Dash0).
Adam Boscarino @ajbosco.dev Cat Dad, SciFi/Fantasy Nerd, Cocktail Enthusiast, Sports Fan, Data Engineer
Xuanwo @xuanwo.io ASF Member.
Apache OpenDAL PMC Chair.
VISION: Data Freedom.
Working on #RBIR.
More: https://bento.me/xuanwo
Danica Fine @thedanicafine.bsky.social Opinions my own.
Developer Advocate. 🥑 ❄️
http://linktr.ee/thedanicafine
ram @sriramsub.bsky.social Founder and CEO at Nile (https://www.thenile.dev/). Previously: VP of Engineering at Confluent. Believe to win.
Tino Tereshko @tinot.bsky.social Available for coffee dates
Data infra AI
Ex MotherDuck Firebolt BigQuery. Papa. Husband to
@emilyvajda
Ultra-competitive C class cyclist
Diptanu Choudhury @diptanu.bsky.social CEO @tensorlake.bsky.social Past - AI Infrastructure at Facebook, LinkedIN, Hashicorp, Netflix
Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com Data Streaming Systems | Fractional Consulting, Advising, Training
Website & blog: https://sap1ens.com
Newsletter: https://streamingdata.tech
Teaching at: https://streamacademy.io
Oliver Gould @olix0r.net Production systems.
System productions.
web: https://olix0r.net
Don't believe anything that @ver.ooo says.