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/
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
Charm @charm.land We make the command line glamorous.
https://charm.land/
マリウス @xn--gckvb8fzb.com Surfing the great wave off Kanagawa
https://マリウス.com
Jared Rhizor @jrhizor.dev jrhizor.dev - building software ($1.7k MRR)
poach.vc - founder leads for early stage investors
keywordgems.com - ai keyword research
otamatunes.com - sheet music for the otamatone
Jack Franklin @jackf.io Googler focusing on web performance and performance tools.
Find me online at https://jackf.io
Brian Casel @briancasel.com Building: http://buildermethods.com
Co-hosting http://panelpodcast.com
Mikkel Malmberg @mikker.dev solo founder https://10er.com and more ✹ building https://nitrokit.dev ✹ maximum overbusiness as https://brainbow.studio ✹ @mikker most places ✹ I have three kids ✹ 📍 Denmark
kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
Obsidian @obsidian.md The free and flexible app for your private thoughts. For help and deeper discussions, join our community: http://obsidian.md/community
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.
Dave Copeland @davetron5000.com Author of BrutRB, our last best hope for Rubykind (https://brutrb.com) - former Mood Health, Stitch Fix, LivingSocial, Opower. I play bass and love to scuba dive.
Christian Genco @gen.co Cofounder of rootabl.com. Founder of fileinbox.com. More at christian.gen.co
Paul Millerd @pmillerd.com work thoughts and friends
Good Work: pmillerd.com/goodwork
Pathless Path: Pathlesspath.com
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Consulting Training: strategyu.co
@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
Marc Köhlbrugge @marckohlbrugge.com 🚧 Building blueskycounter.com wip.co betalist.com roomai.com startup.jobs m-u-l-t-i-v-e-r-s-e.com handle.horse submit.co and more.
Jesse Vincent @s.ly Doing AI stuff at Prime Radiant. Past lives include: keyboard.io, VaccinateCA, K-9 Mail, Request Tracker & Perl.
I can usually be found in #Berkeley
jesse@fsck.com
jesse@primeradiant.com
@jesse@metasocial.com
was @obra on Twitter
Hotwire Weekly @hotwireweekly.com Stay in the loop of what's happening in the world of Hotwire.
Delivered Weekly.
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Adam McCrea @adamlogic.com I spend my days building @judoscale.com to help developers optimize their web hosting.
Follow me to hear about...
💎 Ruby on Rails
🚀 Heroku & PaaS
💸 Independent SaaS
Also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlogic/
OKURA Masafumi @okuramasafumi.com A Rubyist.
Michael Koper @michaelkoper.com Dad of two - Founder of https://nusii.com - Bootstrapper - Ruby on Rails
Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com Keyword, buzzword, half-truth, adjective, hey look at me! (founder of two unicorns: http://WPEngine.com, http://SmartBear.com).
Writing for 18 years at: https://longform.asmartbear.com
Cristian Planas @cplanas.bsky.social Engineer & Rubyist.
Speaker of tech stuff with a dubious sense of humour (https://www.rubyvideo.dev/speakers/cristian-planas).
Author of Rails Scales! (https://t.co/g6sFeDDgp4).
I lived around: BCN, HEL, CPH, SF, NYC. Currently @zendesk.
Tropical on Rails @tropicalonrails.bsky.social www.tropicalonrails.com
Evil Martians @evilmartians.com Design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. Lago, Tines, Teleport, Wallarm, and Whop grow with Evil Martians.
thoughtbot @thoughtbot.com Helping teams build reliable software and reduce risk
https://thoughtbot.com/
Keisuke Inaba @kei178.bsky.social Ruby/Rails Software Engineer. Creator of Affitch (Shopify Public App), IDWIW (https://get.idwiw.app), and others. Digital Nomad Since 2018. https://lnk.bio/kei178
Zack Gilbert @zackgilbert.com Building EventuallyTicketing.com with my wife.
Occasionally helping domain experts bring their dream software to life.
Rob Walling @robwalling.com Helping SaaS bootstrappers at @tinyseed.com and MicroConf. Wrote the playbook for SaaS, saasplaybook.com.
MicroConf @microconf.com The largest community for independent SaaS founders, co-founded by @robwalling.com.
Join our online community: microconf.com/connect
Or meet up in person at our world-renowned events: microconf.com/upcoming-events
Alex Hillman @alexhillman.com ➡️ Rebel scum. Disinvoltura.
🎯 Business + community.
📙 Author https://tiny.mba.
💰 Teacher https://stackingthebricks.com
🤝 indyhall.org fearless leader since 2006.
🏴☠️ Pirate captain http://10k.city.
❤️ he/him. Partner. 
The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com Technical excellence from a trusted friend and author royalties up to 50%. We are Pragmatic, and we are developers, for developers.
https://pragprog.com
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com Sincere poster. No cynicism. Dad to two sets of twins! Co-founder of tryhardstudios.com
- https://MasteringPostgres.com
- https://HighPerformanceSQLite.com
- https://screencasting.com
- https://mostlytechnical.com
- https://aaronfrancis.com
Mike Perham :sidekiq: @getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy Rubyist, guy behind @sidekiq and Faktory.
For support, please open a new discussion at https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/discussions.
Personal: @getalifemike
[bridged from https://ruby.social/@getajobmike on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Sandi Metz @sandimetz.bsky.social Cyclist, Rubyist, author (http://99bottlesofoop.com and http://poodr.com), obsessive programmer, recalcitrant blogger and the antidote for ambition.
k0kubun @k0kubun.com Optimizing Ruby JIT. ZJIT team at Shopify.
Jason Fried @jasonfried.bsky.social Founder & (sometimes) CEO at 37signals (makers of Basecamp and HEY). Non-serial entrepreneur, serial author. Email me at jason@hey.com.
Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca Internet stuntman 🤸♂️ justinjackson.ca
⚡ Bootstrapping, SaaS, podcasting, calm companies
🎙️ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting).
@yongfook.bsky.social @yongfook.bsky.social 
Stephen Margheim @fractaledmind.bsky.social 
Jon Buda @jonbuda.com ⚡ Software, Ruby, SaaS, Running, Bread
🎙️ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting).
Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com F'uncle of six. CEO @PlanetArgon.com. Host @maintainable.fm. Creator of @ohmyz.sh. Guitarist @mightymissoula.com. Host of On Rails podcast.
https://robbyonrails.com/links/
Josh Pigford @joshpigford.com ✨ dabbler 🏒 collector 💰 @maybe.co 💱 synthfinance.com *️⃣ revise.dev 🧰 toolstash.com — @shpigford everywhere else
Amanda Perino @amandabrooke.bsky.social 
@jasonswett.bsky.social @jasonswett.bsky.social 
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
co-founder @honeybadger.io
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
Yukihiro Matz @matz.bsky.social Ruby's Father 
Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social Principal Eng at Microsoft / GitHub, Ruby Central board member, Neurodivergence Advocate. Autistic / ADHD / Depression, He / Him. I'm the Lemur guy. Living and working somewhere about SF, writing on baweaver.com
Chris Oliver @excid3.com Rails Luminary building GoRails.com, JumpstartRails.com, Hatchbox.io, RailsBytes.com, Remote Ruby Podcast and lots of open source projects.
Do things that scare you.
https://excid3.com
Noel Rappin @noelrappin.com Staff Engineer at Chime. Co-author of Programming Ruby. Author of Modern Front End Development for Rails. Also, http://noelrappin.com/about to find me. (He/Him)
Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social Extinguished Engineer🧯| CTO at ClickFunnels 🧙♂️ | Building selective.ci ✨
Andrew Mason @andrewm.codes Rails @ Podia 🦄 | Remote Ruby 🎧 | #AZ 🌵
Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails and other backend shenanigans.
Eating croissants in the SF Bay Area. 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com Product Engineer, Ruby on Rails Developer
‣ Curator of newsletter.shortruby.com
‣ Helping #Ruby developers design better test cases at https://goodenoughtesting.com
Andy Croll @andycroll.bsky.social 
Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social Everlasting student · Rails Core · Zeitwerk · Freelance · Life lover
Drew Bragg @drbragg.dev Senior Developer @ Podia
Host of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev)
Not from Oklahoma
Konnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com dude on the internet
Rose W @rosew.bsky.social Principal Software Engineer. 25+ Years Coding, Mother of Teens, Ruby, Book Lover, ADHD, Cats, Nature, Crochet, Boise, She/her.
hsbt @hsbt.org A member of Ruby core team and Rubygems team. Administrator of ruby-lang.org. mastodon account is @hsbt@ruby.social
Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev Ruby and Rails hacker working at Shopify, living in Seattle
Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev Senior Software Engineer • 🏳️🌈 she/her
Abby Hudson @abbyhudson.bsky.social Ruby & Typescript developer
Guillermo Iguaran @guilleiguaran.bsky.social Rails Core Team member
Marco Roth @marcoroth.dev Full-Stack Web Developer • OSS Contributor • Electronic Music Addict • Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/Stimulus, Crystal • Hotwire Contributors Team • StimulusReflex Core.
Website: marcoroth.dev
Building: rubyevents.org | rubyconferences.org | gem.sh | hotwire.io
Kasper Timm Hansen @kaspth.com @spinel.coop • https://rv.dev • https://gem.coop core team • https://kaspth.com • former Rails core
Rosa @rosa.codes 🇪🇺 European ❤️ cities, maths, theoretical computer science, learning languages, puzzles & bicycles 🐶 Human to Mochi 👩🏻💻 Principal programmer @ 37signals - she/her - Antwerp 🇧🇪 / Madrid 🇪🇸
Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social CEO @evilmartians.com
Co-founder of @anycable.io
Organizing @sfruby.com
Cody Norman @codynorman.com Ruby on Rails consultant, mentor and weird dude
Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com Christian, husband, dad, co-founder of Honeybadger.io, fan of Ruby, creator of the faker gem, EV nut (1, 2, and 4-wheel), LSU football fan, and cycling enthusiast in the PNW.
Justin Bowen @tonsoffun.bsky.social Rubyist with a decade of AI and computer vision experience. Building @activeagents.ai
Nate Vick @natevick.bsky.social Technologist | Lover of the outdoors | VP of Platform Engineering https://clickfunnels.com | Building https://selective.ci
Marty Haught @mghaught.bsky.social Director of Open Source @ Ruby Central. Engineering leader in Colorado. Community builder. Foodie, amateur baker, cook. 
Honeybadger.io @honeybadger.io Application monitoring that helps developers move fast and fix things. We're everything you need to keep production happy — and nothing you don't.
👉 https://honeybadger.io
endorsed by jerry july 11, 2025
Josh from Honeybadger @joshuawood.honeybadger.io @honeybadger.io co-founder 🧡
@joshuawood.net worksonified🕴️
Blog: https://joshuawood.net ✍️
Podcast: @founder.quest 🎙️
Developer-first monitoring and observability. 📈
Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social Genuinely desire success in those around you and do what you can to make it happen.
Founder of Flagrant a software design & development consultancy.
https://www.beflagrant.com
He/him
Richard Felix @richardfelix.com I help online businesses to get more customers and keep the ones they have. Angel Investor. Executive Producer. Ruby. Rails. RDR. Fried Chicken. Waffles. Burgers. Oceansize.
https://richardfelix.com
Jason Pearl @jsonperl.florp.org Product / Development @transistor.fm ❤️ Indie Podcasters.
Kiddo 👧 Coffee ☕️ Cycling 🚴♂️Coding ⌨️
jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com Previously, @ideasasylum on Twitter but not active there any more.
Also found on Mastodon: https://ruby.social/@jamie.
Blog: https://jamie.ideasasylum.com
Links: https://www.jamielawrence.me
CTO @ Podia. Swimmer. Ruby developer.
John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com Tweets about Ruby/Rails. Building @boxoutsports.com, @fireside.fm and @flippercloud.io. Huge fan of 🏀 and ⏱️ (southbendwatch.co).
Alan Ridlehoover @alan.codegardener.com Empathetic leader. Passionate Rubyist. Fallible human. Storyteller. Speaker. Environmentalist. Feminist. Ally. Swell photographer. Rusty drummer. Loving husband & twins dad.
Owner of too many hats, given I only have the one head.
the.codegardener.com
schwad @schwad.org Preeventualist. Rubyist at ZAR dot app
Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.co Product-focused Rails dev • Studio: http://hybrd.co • Co-host: @indierails.com • Organizer: @blueridgeruby.com
Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev Engineering Manager at Shopify. Mom, Rubyist, CEO of @wnb-rb.dev. she/her 🏳️🌈
Stefanni Brasil @stefannibrasil.me stefannibrasil.me | Talk with me about active transportation, third places, vegan/plant-based, personal finances, and books! Co-organizer of kindfork.ca, a vegan social club based in Calgary.
Short Ruby Newsletter @shortruby.com It is a Monday morning summary of the articles, discussions, and news from the Ruby community.
Subscribe at newsletter.shortruby.com
JP Camara @jpcamara.com Principal software engineer @Wealthbox.
Husband/Father. Health, travel, tech and Ruby enthusiast.
Tech blog at https://jpcamara.com
Jokes at https://logicalconclusionscomic.com
Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social GitHub user #118, programming, LLMs, 3D printing, and piano https://peterc.org/
Ufuk Kayserilioglu @ufuk.dev Physicist turned software developer turned engineering manager. Current: Leading Ruby Infrastructure team at Shopify & Board Member at @rubycentral.org
🌐 https://ufuk.dev
👨💻 https://github.com/paracycle
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
Dave Kimura @davekimura.bsky.social Christian, Husband, Father and Rubyist, Screencaster of https://www.driftingruby.com, Creator of ActionAuth https://github.com/kobaltz/action_auth, Makes and loves 🍣
Adrian Marin @adrianthedev.com Building the best dev-tools for Rails developers 🙌
Father, developer, aspiring entrepreneur
#conferencehost 👉 @friendlyrb.com
#indiedev 👉 @avohq.io
#podcast 👉 http://friendly.show
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social Rails core, Ruby committer, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom.
edmz @edmz.org Backend dev; mainly Ruby sprinkled with Elixir, Python. Interested also in emacs, Linux, ops. Writes in English, sometimes in Spanish 🇲🇽.
Some writings at https://edmz.org/
corey @iamcoreyg.com Family guy • Software engineer / music producer • Mostly building speakflow.com • Prev. software @ Apple — Los Angeles.
Posting about SaaS, coding (javascript/ruby on rails) and music
Justin Weiss @justinweiss.com Engineering at Aha.io. Writes (occasionally) at https://www.justinweiss.com.
Also on Mastodon at: https://mastodon.justinweiss.com/@justin
🎱 Josh Branchaud ✨ @jbranchaud.bsky.social Free-Range Software Dev and Consultant ✨ PostgreSQL • Ruby on Rails • TypeScript • React ✨ 🏃🐈🍹🎱 (he/him) | Chicago | Work with me: visualmode.dev