Iroh @iroh.computer IP addresses break, dial keys instead.
I'm iroh.computer from the folks at n0.computer, a modular networking stack in Rust 🦀
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
Antithesis @antithesis.com Bug nerds 🐛 🐞 🐜
You hate testing. You'll love us.
https://antithesis.com/
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Zed @zed.dev A next-generation code editor that enables high-performance collaboration with AI and your team.
zed.dev
daniel holmgren 🫠 @dholms.at head of protocol @ bsky 🌅
pvh @pvh.ca just this guy, you know? (director of research @ ink & switch, coined "local-first", contributor to automerge, former postgres guy, heroku staff, ex-game developer, arctic oceanographer.)
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Rust Language @rust-lang.org A programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Website: https://rust-lang.org/
Blog: https://blog.rust-lang.org/
Mastodon: https://social.rust-lang.org/@rust
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
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
@ me with your DB paper questions or “what do I read for ___” topic requests
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
@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
Sinjo @sinjo.dev Perilously online computer toucher. Enjoyer of hiking, photography, and gaming.
Blog: https://blog.sinjakli.co.uk/
Elsewhere: https://sinjo.dev/
he/him ✌🏻💖
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.
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
Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh Open Source Practitioner, bullish on kindness.
https://erlend.sh – about me
@roomy.space – make space
Yaron Minsky @yminsky.bsky.social Occasional OCaml programmer. Host of Signals and Threads http://signalsandthreads.com
Ben Schofield @benjscho.bsky.social Software dev at AWS, working on DSQL
Learning more about distributed systems, formal methods, living well. Trying to write software that doesn’t get me paged
Open Local First @localfirst.bsky.social The home for the communities of open source developers, engineers, researchers and designers who love and do Local First software.
Organizing the Local First devroom at FOSDEM'26 in Brussels. 1st Feb 2026.
https://openlocalfirst.org
Peter W🤓 @wang.social Anaconda Founder&Head of AI; created the PyData movement, PyScript, Bokeh, Datashader; Fellow @ Python Software Foundation; Center for Humane Tech
Game~B; Physics, Cybernetics, Memetics. A student of the human condition.
Memento mori- W Wes Chow @wesc.bsky.social ccc.mit.edu
Alex @alexanderlhicks.com Working on formal verification & AI at Ethereum.
verified-zkevm.org
Alex Good @patternist.xyz I work on local-first software, currently building Automerge at Ink and Switch. Find me at patternist.xyz
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database. 
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.
Bartosz Sypytkowski @horusiath.bsky.social Yrs/Yjs core dev team. Interested in distributed systems, databases and CRDTs. Blogging: https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com
Evan Broder @ebroder.net Stereotypical nerd. Into distributed systems, cooking, cocktails, board games, escape rooms. Taking a break, previously at Stripe. https://ebroder.net
Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social Distributed systems,Database systems, Lightweight formal methods, TLA+
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
Florian Jacob @florianjacob.dsn.kastel.kit.edu Ph.D. student researching Security, CRDT.tech and Matrix.org. Part of the Decentralized Systems and Networked Services research group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. https://dsn.kastel.kit.edu/staff_jacob.php
Emery Berger @emeryberger.bsky.social Professor, Computer Science, UMass; Amazon Scholar. I work on programming languages & systems, among other things. http://PLASMA-UMass.org, http://github.com/plasma-umass, http://CSrankings.org, http://github.com/emeryberger. ACM Fellow. 
Mae Milano @mpmilano.bsky.social Computer Science professor at Princeton. Loves all things programming languages and distributed systems. Including YOU! https://languagesforsyste.ms
Arjun Narayan @arjunnarayan.com distributed systems, storage, compute, and databases.
Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org Professor of Planetary Computing at the University of Cambridge @cst.cam.ac.uk, where I co-lead the @eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk and work on computing for global biodiversity and climate change with @conservation.cam.ac.uk.
Homepage at https://anil.recoil.org
Martin Fink @mfink.dev PhD student in Computer Science @ TUM. Interested in Compilers, Security, etc.
From South Tyrol 🇪🇺, now in Munich 🥨
https://finkmartin.com
Kaichao @kaichao.keyring.so Google Docs for Markdown https://markdownsync.com.
AI powered Kanban to manage workspace https://movedone.ai.
Building a decentralized world https://keyring.so.
Forever developer.
Prof Rachael Garrett @rachgarr.bsky.social Prof of Conservation & Development @Cambridge_uni; feminist & anti-racist. food systems; supply chains; conservation; tropics; sociobioeconomies; GLP SSC co-chair @glp-earth.bsky.social
지산 @zee.town eng @oxide.computer | @paperswelove.org co-founder | @scsatcmu.bsky.social PLT PhD, prev @ fission, comcast, basho, arc90, nypl_labs | online @ https://zee.town | pastes @ https://scpaste.zee.town | livin @ songdo, s. korea.
🎵 NP: "YAKEBUSI" by 切腹ピストルズ
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Jepsen @jepsen.mastodon.jepsen.io.ap.brid.gy Breaking distributed systems, one fault at a time.
[bridged from https://mastodon.jepsen.io/@jepsen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Daniel Steigerwald @steida.bsky.social Local-first (user-owned) software is inevitable. I'm building https://evolu.dev
Gritzko @gritzko.bsky.social A veteran of decentralized systems research.
warpfork @warpfork.bsky.social still working with computers. to my frustration.
User choice and consent-based system design matters.
Local-first software is always superior.
Updates should never be forced.
Reproducible, deterministic systems are the only ones that should be trusted.
HYTRADBOI @hytradboi.bsky.social Have you tried rubbing a database on it?
https://www.hytradboi.com/2025
Adi Polak @adipolak.bsky.social Code | Test | Deploy | Get paged
Data streaming, Machine Learning and AI app intensive Systems
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social Researcher, advisor, writer, formal verification eng @ Confluent.
Everything data (dist sys, databases, messaging, data eng/analytics).
https://jack-vanlightly.com, https://www.hotds.dev
Credit: ESO/B. Tafresh
Dominic Orchard @dorchard.bsky.social Computer science academic, co-directing the Institute of Computing for Climate Science at the University of Cambridge and a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Kent. Programming languages >< climate modelling
https://dorchard.github.io
Andrey Satarin @asatarin.bsky.social Staff SRE at Google. Distributed systems / databases / reliability / correctness. Views my own. Repost / like is not an endorsement.
http://asatarin.github.io
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.
Cambridge Computer Science @cst.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University Computer Science & Technology Department (aka the Computer Lab). We built the UK's 1st usable programmable computer, offered the UK's 1st Computer Science degree, created the 1st ever webcam - and continue to advance the field today.
Markus Kuhn @mgk25.bsky.social Computer Science, Cambridge, UK
Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social Principal Applied Scientist in Microsoft CoreAI. Working on AI for coding. Co-organizer of SF Systems Meetup. CS PhD from Berkeley Sky Lab where I worked on https://hydro.run/ .
Natacha Crooks @nacrooks.bsky.social CS prof at UC Berkeley. Distributed Systems and Databases. Baking, handball and football enthusiast. Avid cheese eater. 
Robert McQueen @ramcq.net Cambridge-based husband, father, free software & green energy geek, digital rights & equity advocate, open source technologist, CEO of Endless Access, Vice President of GNOME
Mistral Contrastin @madgen0.bsky.social Programming language, formal methods, and cliff enthusiast.
Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll.org Principal Engineer at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.
Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge, academic lead of ai@cam, Accelerate Science, author of The Atomic Human, proceedings editor for PMLR.
Sadiq Jaffer @sadiq.toao.com Researcher @ Cambridge CL, OCaml hacker, fmr CEO at Opsian
Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social Java Language Architect at Oracle. Author, Java Concurrency in Practice (http://amzn.to/2nzZnkl). Also, cats.
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
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
James Cowling @jamescowling.dev @convex.dev co-founder/CTO. Dropbox storage designer. Distributed systems researcher at MIT. Bad motorcycle mechanic. Database shill.
Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) @aria-research.bsky.social Empowering scientists to reach for the edge of the possible
www.aria.org.uk
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 · 🚴
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
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app