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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Framian @framian.fi Software & design consultancy guiding forward-thinking organizations in their journey to build first-class digital products, prototypes & experiences.
Design & Creative
Data & AI
Modern Websites
Tech Partnership
📍Helsinki, Finland
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Alex Good @patternist.xyz I work on local-first software, currently building Automerge at Ink and Switch. Find me at patternist.xyz
Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me Working on Playbit https://playb.it/ . Designer of Figma, Inter, Spotify. Software painter. https://rsms.me/
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Adam Stoddard @aaadaaam.com Leading product & design at https://steady.space. Ex Netlify, Basecamp, YNAB.
Mostly posting about product design, CSS, and building for the web.
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Simon B. Støvring @simonbs.dev Passionate developer and speaker 🧑💻
Bringing festive lights to your dock with festivitas.app 🎄
Smashing your Mac into bits with https://smashsmash.app 🔨💥
Also building runestone.app, scriptable.app, and more.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social That bloke from off of Twitter. Writes books. Likes cats. That sort of thing.
You can give Ko-Fi donations too, if you fancy it:
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sinasamaki @sinasamaki.com creating delightful UI in #JetpackCompose
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Shalen Mathew @shalenmathew.bsky.social Android developer • Learning in public • Open Source
Portfolio:
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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev •Software Engineer
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•Living in Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪
Ian Frost @ian-frost.bsky.social Front-end architect and design systems specialist. Meteorologist out of practice. Enjoy music, sports, and the outdoors. Penn State grad.
Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social Creative director, hibernating artist, designer, coder, writer, speaker, lover of CSS. This list is non-exhaustive.
Bart Veneman @veneman.dev Webmaster of Project Wallace, the best CSS analyzer out there - https://www.projectwallace.com. I can lift node_modules twice my own weight. He/him. veneman.dev
Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com Google Developer Expert | Front-end Developer at iO | blog owner https://utilitybend.com | guest writer at Smashing Magazine | father | geek | photography enthousiast | oklchroma.utilitybend.com
Artem Pendiurin @erblack.me 
CSS Day @cssday.nl The annual CSS conference that brings specifiers, implementors, teachers, and authors together to discuss the current state of CSS, upcoming features, and cool demos.
https://cssday.nl
3rd and 4th of June 2027
Amsterdam
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Tim Nguyen @ntim.me I do stuff for the web
pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social Computernerd FROM HELL
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Amit Sheen @amitsheen.bsky.social Experienced web developer focused on pushing frontend beyond the ordinary, by creating better, more creative web experiences. I love learning new things, and sharing my experience and explorations with the community.
Cyd Stumpel @cydstumpel.nl Teacher, speaker and Award Winning Freelance Creative Developer
Teacher at @fdnd.nl 🎓 and the Minor Web Development at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
I’m an Okay Dev 👩🏽💻 @okaydev.co
Tech speaker
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com Independent designer + web design engineer, teacher, speaker. Interface Prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. UX, prototyping, & design engineering workshops.
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Dennis Frank @freshmango.bsky.social Webdev, Frontend, Craft CMS…
🐘 https://mastodon.social/@freshmango
Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social Software Cyber Shepherd.
Web platform engineer. Participant: WHATWG, CSSWG, ARIAWG, OpenUICG, WebComponents CG
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Michael Fairchild @mfairchild365.bsky.social Creator of a11ysupport.io
Eater of donuts
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Player of games
Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social One hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
Active at toot.cafe/@aardrian.
Robert Smith @robert.thecure.com The Cure : founder & writer & singer & guitarist & : shake me up
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
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Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation.
🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. DMs open.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Iain Bean @inbn.dev curator, component.gallery
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Noam Brown @polynoamial.bsky.social Researching reasoning at OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o-series / 🍓
Lars @webpro.nl Independent developer/architect. JavaScript/TS, DX, automation, tooling, performance & OSS.
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🦋 https://webpro.blue
🧑💻 https://github.com/webpro
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
Weaviate @weaviate.bsky.social 
Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net Resist Rebel Revolt! Anti-Fascist. Author. Philosopher. Dog-Mom. Utilitarian Democrat. Existential Activist.
https://melissanadiaviviana.com/
Organized 3 Abortion Marches
Past President of Women's Non-Profit
Past Secretary of LGBTQIA Org
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social Vice Chair of the European Movement 🇪🇺 Former Green MEP 💚 Grandma 👵
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Ben Davies-Romano @bendaviesromano.bsky.social UX, Product, AI 🪐 Currently a Group AI Content Design Lead in FinTech. Opinions are my own and questionable.
Found in central London, wearing velvet clothing, and spilling coffee everywhere. 🏳️🌈 and 😴
#contentdesign #productmanagement #ux #tech
Max Müller-Eberstein @mxij.me Postdoc AI Researcher (NLP) @ ITU Copenhagen
🧭 https://mxij.me
Kyle Platt @kyleplatt.bsky.social Serial Entrepreneur and Engineer. Trying to maximize life while building cool things. 🇨🇦 Building:
🚀 https://local-leads.ai
🐉 https://getbluepilot.com
🧲 https://tactycs.io
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Sara Hooker @sarahooker.bsky.social I lead Cohere For AI. Formerly Research
Google Brain. ML Efficiency, LLMs,
@trustworthy_ml.
Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk Principal Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical. Former Head of Accessibility at DWP. Writer. Speaker. Coder. Wildlife Photographer. Cat botherer. ADHD. Autistic. He/They. https://www.craigabbott.co.uk
Matt Obee @obee.me Staff Accessibility Designer @GitHub.com. Maintainer of @Eventua11y.com. Postgraduate student of Systems Thinking at the OU. Builder of LEGO. Seb's Dad. Views are my own etc.
mattobee.com
Debbie O’Brien @debbie.codes Platform Engineer, Applied AI @Zephyr Cloud
Nuxt ambassador, Google Dev Expert, Former GitHub ⭐️ and MVP
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Jenn Creighton @jenncreighton.com nodejs platform team @ netflix, equal parts cat/dog enthusiast, can be bribed with 🥐
Priyanca a11y 🌈 @priyanca.bsky.social Accessibility, inclusive design research #A11y #UX
Loves swimming in nature, rocks in rivers, mint tea, gelato, trees. Art, music, play!
Grew up in the West Country, left to explore cognition & behaviour, returned ND 🌈 she
Claudia Snell @claudiasnell.bsky.social 
Kara Erickson @kerickson.bsky.social Staff eng @Airbnb
Based in San Francisco
Tantek Çelik @tantek.com.web.brid.gy Hello
Hi. I work on web standards and the IndieWeb. I like to run trails, practice yoga, go bouldering, code & design my website, and write when I can. My pronouns are he/him. 🏠 📺 🥏
💬 Contact 👏 Tip Founder at IndieWeb Founder at microformats.org Web Stan…
Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com Software engineer @bsky.app exploring the Atmosphere
Topics: accessibility, refactoring, AI & career growth
Podcast: @overcommitted.dev
Newsletter: balancedengineer.com
Website: brittanyellich.com
ATProto Site: opensocial.community
#pdx #atproto
An @phanan.net Vue.js core team. Building https://koel.dev. Trying to be kind always.
Helen Hou-Sandí @helen.blog I am both very cool and very boring. Best described as “a first-round pick for a bar fight or a board of directors.” GitHub CEO (Chief Emoji Officer) and Accessibility EM.
Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me Lead for Chrome Developer Relations at Google. Web Developer. Avid user of AI tooling.
I live in the beautiful town of Rhuthun in North Wales. Learning Welsh and loving Wales.
https://paul.kinlan.me/ and https://aifoc.us/
Mariko Kosaka @kosamari.bsky.social 
Jane Ori 💚 CSS Runner 👩💻 @janeori.propjockey.io Hello World 👽
✍ breakpoint-system, doubledash.css, css-media-vars, augmented-ui, Space Toggles, CSS CPU Hack, css-bin-bits & more
🎮 CSS Sweeper, css-conways-game-of-life, CSS Breakout, etc
👩💻 Senior Software Engineer
📝 http://dev.to/janeori
💍 Art
she/her
WebPerfWG @webperfwg.org The W3C Web Performance Working Group, making the web faster and more reliable since 2010!!
Planning to post on upcoming meetings, their summaries and generally exciting work that happens in the web performance space
Sandrina Pereira @sandrinap.dev she/her. Staff Frontend Engineer turning ideas into accessible experiences.
⚡️ React • Design Systems • Accessibility
@remote.com | prev @farfetch, @okTurtles
https://www.sandrina-p.net/
Ramona Schwering @leichteckig.bsky.social She/Her.👩💻 DevRel Engineer @mittwald 💜 GDE for Web Technologies, WTM and @Cypress_io Ambassador 💚 Private account. 👩🏫 Open to speaking opportunities.
Stephanie @s-giroux.bsky.social UI/UX designer, City of Montreal 🇨🇦 I really like to talk about Design Ops and Design systems
http://sgiroux.net/
Øyvind Bø @oyvindbo.dev Frontend developer in Oslo, Norway—crafting design systems by day, keeping coffee cups full by… well, always. If you see me without a mug, something’s wrong! oyvindbo.com 🇳🇴🏳️🌈
#DesignSystems #CSS #Frontend
Alicia Jarvis 🇨🇦 @a11yalicia.bsky.social Senior Technical Product Manager II at Bell, award-winning Product Inclusion Strategist. Views expressed are mine.
Maggie Makar @maggiemakar.bsky.social Assist Prof of computer science @UMichigan CSE & professional email sender. Previously @MIT
Machine learning. Causality. Robustness. Healthcare.
Steve O'Connor @steveoconnor.bsky.social Senior UX Consultant at Version 1, Director of CamCreatives CIC in Cambridge, UK, currently working with DfE
Neurospicy with neurospicy kids. Yikes.
Big heart, bad memory.
Hannah Clarke @hannahc.bsky.social Design System UI Engineer
Music listening, photo taking, road tripping, app building, void staring.
(she/her)
Accessabilly @accessabilly.bsky.social Does the <body> rule the mind or does the mind rule the <body>?
I'm Martin Mengele, #a11y & web dev professional, IAAP-certified Web Accessibility Specialist.
https://accessabilly.com/
Alt text for profile picture: Sunrise view up the river Rhine.
Pixel Pioneers @pixelpioneers.co Conferences, workshops, and advice for a better web. Organised by @oliverlindberg.com. We'll return to Bristol in June 2027 for our 10-year anniversary!
https://pixelpioneers.co/
Aleksey Kulikov @alekseykulikov.bsky.social #webperf, founder of https://treo.sh/, synth player, live in Maribor, Slovenia
Jeff Posnick @jeff.posnick.org Working on developer experience & tooling at Bloomberg.
https://jeffy.info
Andrew Betts @triblondon.trib.tv Drinking best practices; Ex Fastly, W3C TAG, Financial Times. I will sort your pens in order of length while you're not looking. 🌈🍸🇪🇺🚅🍜
Steve Rydz @handle.invalid 
Glenn Hitchcock @glenn.me ✎ — poolside + http://glenn.me
Hawk Ticehurst @hawkticehurst.com UX Engineer @vscode.dev. He/Him
🕸️ hawkticehurst.com
📍 New York, NY
Shaun @sconner.net 
Ryosuke @whoisryosuke.bsky.social Previously: Sr. Design Technologist @Playstation
UI/UX, React, Rust, Graphics, Game Dev, 420 | he / they 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/whoisryosuke
#b3d #ui
Christophe Coutzoukis @ventrebleu.bsky.social Challenger of habituation on a mission to improve humanity, one idea at a time. Design system lead & consultant. Host of the Design System Social Club and Design System Field Guide. Mentor on ADPList
Tiago @menosketiago.bsky.social I make Design Systems for humans.
Hardcore gamer, melodeath/synthwave fan and anime/sci fi nerd.
https://www.menosketiago.com
Jonathan Clegg @jonathanclegg.bsky.social Design principal uxd
@donnavitan.bsky.social @donnavitan.bsky.social 
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
Stefan Judis @stefanjudis.com Freelance dev sending Frontend news to 6k people over at webweekly.email. Sharing lots of tips'n'tricks on the way.
Google Dev Expert, former Microsoft MVP and Playwright Ambassador
@shoptalkshow.com @shoptalkshow.com