Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social I write for food and shelter.
Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social Now at The i Paper. Some settling of the content may occur during transit.
https://authory.com/NickMiller
https://inews.co.uk/author/nickmiller
Charles Miller @carl.fish I code. I write. I may be a goldfish.
I am also @carlfish@carl.fish on ActivityPub/Mastodon.
Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social Mayor of SIZZLETOWN sizzletownpodcast.com | Half of ARSELESS CHAPS arselesschaps.bandcamp.com | FROM THE HIDEOUT linktr.ee/fromthehideout | AUDIOBOOKS etc https://mrtonymartin.bandcamp.com/
Brian Casel @briancasel.com Building: http://buildermethods.com
Co-hosting http://panelpodcast.com
Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca Internet stuntman 🤸♂️ justinjackson.ca
⚡ Bootstrapping, SaaS, podcasting, calm companies
🎙️ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting).
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Tyler King @tylerking.app Professional hater. Co-founder / CEO of Less Annoying CRM. I talk about bootstrapping, tech, entrepreneurship, and business practices that annoy me.
Podcast: startuptolast.com
📍St. Louis, MO, USA
Ian Landsman @ianlandsman.com Bootstrapper, software developer, poker player.
Founded 2005: HelpSpot
Founded 2014: LaraJobs (@larajobs.com)
Founded 2025: Outro (@outro.fm)
CoHost: Mostly Technical Podcast (@mostlytechnical.com)
Artsy photos: https://www.instagram.com/ianlandsman/
Joe Casabona @casabona.org I help solo business owners save 25 hours per month without overreliance on AI or hiring a team. NY Yankees / NY Giants fan. I also enjoy cigars and play the drums.
Kyle Conarro @conarro.com Dad, Rails dev at @adreform.com
ATLien living in Portugal 🇵🇹
Occasionally post at conarro.com
Adam Wathan @adamwathan.com I don’t post here, follow me on X: x.com/adamwathan
Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com I run a small software dev shop called Thunk.dev with some of my closest friends.
I live in Philly, grew up in Japan, and was raised by hiphop and the internet.
❤️ Laravel
John Rudolph Drexler @johnrudolphdrexler.com Laravel and Product Management: Thunk.dev
I also make games: Catacombian.com
NYC (by way of St. Louis, Chattanooga, Jakarta, & Oakland)
Andrew Mason @andrewm.codes Rails @ Podia 🦄 | Remote Ruby 🎧 | #AZ 🌵
Will King @wking.dev Design Engineer — Making software that feels personal
Ideas / Demos: https://www.wking.dev
Podcast: https://strongopinions.transistor.fm/
Jay Clouse @jay.blog Founder of Creator Science — Growth as a creator, down to a science. Helping thousands of creators build resilient businesses through observation, experimentation, and iteration
Website: creatorscience.com
YouTube: youtube.com/@jay
David Hill @davidhill.dev Ruby on Rails Developer
Host of the Ode to RailsConf podcast
https://davidhill.dev
Drew Bragg @drbragg.dev Senior Developer @ Podia
Host of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev)
Not from Oklahoma
Travis Northcutt @travisnorthcutt.com Software, gifs, caring, silliness, curiosity.
Essays etc.: https://travisnorthcutt.com
Podcast: https://everythingisinterestingpod.com/
Keep showing up.
I’m in northern Colorado. If you are too or are passing through, drop me a line!
Ben Holmen @benholmen.com Big tall anti-entropy machine
Software engineer + general maker
Always curious about everything
Eau Claire, WI, USA | benholmen.com
...let's go exploring!
@jordangal.bsky.social @jordangal.bsky.social 
Justin @just-be.dev Open-source enthusiast; maker. Previously at Val.town, Membrane.io, oxide.computer, artsy.net. Co-host of devtools.fm. Recurse center alum.
Twitter: @zephraph
Mast: just_be@pkm.social
James Q Quick @jamesqquick.bsky.social JavaScript Developer | Keynote Speaker | content Creator | Teacher
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.
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. 📈
Kristine S @schachin.bsky.social Update needed but keeping the Twitter bio for now. Digital Strategist & SEO Consultant, Speaker @SMX @Pubcon @Ungagged @SXSWi || Writer @SEngineLand @SEJournal. ABD on PhD. Reports fake accounts/bots. Find me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/kschachinger-seo
Alan Pope @popey.me Developer Relations at Tessl
Podcaster on @linuxmatters.sh
Previously at Anchore, Orcro, Axiom, Canonical.
Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy | Slow AI
When to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.
https://theslowai.substack.com/
Mark Simon (he/him) @marksimon.bsky.social Editorial at Sports Info Solutions
Host: The Journalism Salute pod.link/journalismsalute
Formerly, ESPN, Baseball Tonight.
Mets notes writer. Wrote "The Yankees Index" book.
Play-by-Play: Muhlenberg/DeSales
Creator- A Lasting Legacy documentary
Pelayo Arbués @pelayoarbues.com Head of Data Science and AI at idealista.com | Film photographer | Ph.D. in Economics | Sharing my digital garden at pelayoarbues.com | Working full remote from the North of Spain
andnewman.bsky.social @andnewman.bsky.social Principal Data Specialist at the ODI. Formerly at DefraGovUK. Treasurer at 20th Sheffield Scouts. Geography geek. Husband & dad. Slightly epileptic.
Paul Maltby @maltbyps.bsky.social I run the public service teams at Faculty AI. Previously Chief Digital Officer in UK gov. Public service reformer 
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Carsten Jung @carsjung.bsky.social Associate director for economic policy & AI @IPPR. Former Bank of England economist and IMF fellow.
Also check out: https://substack.com/@carsjung
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com #rstats Data Science ⚒️ @ThePCCTC
#RLadies Leadership Team http://rladies.org 💜
former prof at Cal Poly SLO & Emory
blogger & workshop instructor
Rami Krispin @ramikrispin.bsky.social Senior Manager Data Science and Engineering at | Docker Captain 🐳| Time-series analysis & forecasting
My newsletters:
Weekly updates: https://ramikrispin.substack.com
AIOps: https://theaiops.substack.com
Forecasting: https://theforecaster.substack.com
Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski Principal data engineer at PayIt in KCMO. Data engineering, platform engineering, devops, bicycles, Lego, DIY, KC. Husband. Pop to 2. He/him. Opinions mine. Don't park in bike lanes.
https://linktr.ee/menzenski
Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social CTO, Nomic. former history professor/digital humanist.
https://benschmidt.org
Jess Butler @jessbutler.bsky.social Lead Data Scientist, NHS Grampian + Senior Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
Trying to do useful things with big, messy, high-security data. Huge nerd for open science and public health
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/people/profiles/jessicabutler
Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
Adrián Mato 🐙 @adrianmato.com 🐙 Design & developer tools at XBOX
🙋♂️ adrianmato.com
💼 Startup investor & advisor
✨ 3D wallpapers on adrianmato.art
emily freeman @emilyfreeman.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Freeman & Forrest.
Bestselling author of DevOps for Dummies and international keynote speaker. I’ve led Community, DevRel and Product Marketing at AWS, MSFT, and startups.
I was editingemily on Twitter.
Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social Research & code: Research director @inria
►Data, Health, & Computer science
►Python coder, (co)founder of scikit-learn, joblib, & @probabl.bsky.social
►Sometimes does art photography
►Physics PhD
Will Larson @lethain.com Write at lethain.com. Author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and An Engineering Executive’s Primer. Worked some places.
Kelly Vaughn @kvlly.com Engineering leader. modernleader.is
Dogan Ural @doganuraldesign.bsky.social Designer / 100K+ on X: x.com/doganuraldesign
Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com staff data scientist, autism dad, husband, former data science manager
pronouns: he/him
website: https://mpopov.com
disclaimer: views and posts are my own
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
Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social 💥 Founder & CEO @explosion.ai
👩💻 Developing spacy.io + prodi.gy + beta.ellf.ai
🐍 Python Software Foundation Fellow
⚡ Hacking @feministai.party
🧠 AI, Machine Learning & NLP
💼 linkedin.com/in/inesmontani
🐘 sigmoid.social/@ines
💥 explosion.ai
🌎 ines.io
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Director, Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines http://chm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de | Former prof. @MIT | Creator of http://moralmachine.net | Art: http://instagram.com/iyad.rahwan Web: rahwan.me
Coty @coty.bsky.social Talk about technology, AI/ML, ethics, politics, language, etc. He/him.
DJ Pardis @djpardis.com 
Erin LeDell @ledell.bsky.social Chief Scientist @ Distributional.com @dbnlAI.bsky.social #MLSky #StatSky
Founder @ datascientific.com
Founder wimlds.org & co-founder rladies.org
PhD @ UC Berkeley
🏡 🌈 Oakland, California.
Hilary Parker @hspter.bsky.social Data Science advising / consulting. Formerly startup CTO, Data Science Biden 2020, Stitch Fix, Etsy. PhD JHU Biostar. Co-host Not So Standard Deviations podcast. 🥳😴🧘🐈⬛
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
Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com 
Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com data/ml/ai @ runway in 🗽
formerly spent time in startups, biggish tech, and physics labs
www.ethanrosenthal.com
JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com CTO at a specialty insurance company. Perpetual cocktail party host, open source fan, econometrician, agricultural economist, and OReilly Author.
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own. https://sarah.dev
Distinguished Engineer @ Google, Chrome
Formerly Google Core Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core •
Frontend Masters teacher •
O'Reilly Author •
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
Taylor Poindexter @engineeringbae.bsky.social Engineering Manager @ Spotify💚
Black Code Collective co-founder ✊🏾
Scuba Diver 🧜🏽♀️🤿
Whiskey expert — IG: womanwithwhiskey
Adventurer 🗺️
Mahdi Yusuf @mahdiyusuf.com Sr. Engineering Manager @ Apple. Distributed Systems and Data. Previously @ 1Password.
Homelabs, databases, and basketball.
✍🏾 @architecturenotes.co
Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social Artist. Previously DevRel & teaching faculty (Environmental Data Science) at UC Santa Barbara. PhD, Env Science. Data science | R | data viz | education | art | allisonhorststudio.com (landscapes) | www.allisonhorst.com (data science)
Nicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social WebKit Engineering Manager at Apple. Ex-Google Chrome, ex-NPM. OOCSS, CSSLint. CSSConf founder, speaker. Climber 🧗, knitter, disabled zebra. Probably riding the hobby carousel 🎠. 🏳️🌈 she/her @stubbornella on Twitter
Kristen M Thayer @kristenmthayer.bsky.social Software Engineer, Manager, Teacher. Seattleite. Old enough that I can hear the sound of dial-up internet when I close my eyes, young enough to care about up-to-date emoji usage. Kindness and joy are important. (Opinions my own). She/her. 
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. Symbolic Systems Program director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad. http://langcog.stanford.edu
Keith Townsend @CTOAdvisor @handle.invalid Principal The CTO Advisor LLC
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent. 
Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social Personal account. Surveillance tech & AI reporting in Portland, OR at RedtailMedia.org. Creator of AITrustControl.com podcast. 25 yrs as a journo reporting on data use, AI, etc. Music nerd, forest walker, raptor watcher NY Mets fan. KEEPIN THAT PMA.
Walter Scheirer @wjscheirer.bsky.social Prof. @notredame.bsky.social. IEEE Computer Society PAMI TC Chair Emeritus. Computer Vision Foundation CTO. Artificial Intelligence + Digital Humanities + History of Technology. wjscheirer.com
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
https://alex-hanna.com
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social Philosopher, apparently. Working on issues in neuroscience, consciousness, sensory engineering, psychedelics, and pain.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
EllIs Hughes @ellishughes.bsky.social Co-Host of @tidy_explained. developer of {camcorder} and {tidytuesdayR}. #rstats developer. Seattle UseR and Cascadia R Conf organizer. Associate Director Data Science @gsk. Opinions are my own
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social AGI research @DeepMind.
Ex cofounder & CTO Vicarious AI (acqd by Alphabet),
Cofounder Numenta
Triply EE (BTech IIT-Mumbai, MS&PhD Stanford). #AGIComics
blog.dileeplearning.com
Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social statistician • associate prof • team lead health data science and head methods research program at julius center • director ai methods lab, umc utrecht, netherlands • views and opinions my own
Nico Ritschel @nicoritschel.com sidequery.dev @sidequery.dev
Data/Product/Engineering atm.com
nicoritschel.com
Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social I share my experience teaching computational skills and building welcoming communities of practice for programming scientists | rOpenSci Community Manager |
R-Ladies Project Lead | 30 Years in Education | 24 Years as Researcher | Spanglish | #RStats
Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net I like tokens! Leading the Olmo data team at @ai2.bsky.social with @kylelo.bsky.social // all opinions sampled from my own stochastic parrot
more at https://soldaini.net
Patrick Stotz @patrickstotz.bsky.social 💼 Co-lead data & visualizations @spiegel.de
🗺️ Blogging about maps at letsmakeamap.com
#dataviz #ddj #maps #rstats
David Thiel @grumplicio.us Infosec person focused on harm reduction in technology; fmr tech, data science and T&S research at https://io.stanford.edu & https://tsjournal.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0947-5921
Also music things + open data.
Kester @handle.invalid Writer, and Associate Director at the Institute for the Future of Work. Views my own. Latest book, God-like: a 500-Year History of AI, is out now. All my books: http://www.kesterbrewin.com
Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social Author of SQL for Data Scientists (Wiley), Senior Director of Data Science at HelioCampus, creator of Becoming a Data Scientist podcast
She/her
https://sqlfordatascientists.com
Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social 🌲🌲 Applied ML/AI, data science, MLOps | Wife of 1, mom of 2 | Co-Founder and CTO of http://storytellers.ai
python 🐍 AI 🤖 cloud ☁️ data 📊
I also talk about Jesus here: @itskirstenlum.bsky.social
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Pablo Rodríguez Valero @ochobits.bsky.social Technical Art Director. Pixel Artist ocasional. Cocinillas.
Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social Engineering professor, computational scientist, jazz buff, techie, academic writer & font geek. Faculty director of the GW Open Source Program Office.
https://lorenabarba.com
www.linkedin.com/in/lorenabarba
Esteban Ortiz-Ospina @eortizospina.bsky.social Executive co-director @ourworldindata.org
Eugene Yan @eugeneyan.com RecSys, AI, Engineering; Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon. Led ML @ Alibaba, Lazada, Healthtech Series A. Writing @ eugeneyan.com, aiteratelabs.com.
Adam Marcus @marcua.net Hummus, people, and data. Co-Founder & CTO of B12. Previously Locu, MIT CSAIL. He/him.
https://marcua.net/
Queens is the future.
Katie Bauer @imightbemary.bsky.social bar chart enjoyer wrongbutuseful.substack.com
Landon Noss @landon.wtf Innovation and Engineering leadership @ SIEA/PlayStation (HERE UNOFFICIALLY, NOT MY EMPLOYERS POSTS), former Obama.org Eng director, 24 years in the industry and counting. Rooting for you. Make magic, make art. AMA.
Valerie Phoenix @digitalblkhippy.bsky.social Fractional CTO for startups @ Phoenixing
→ Idea → production in months
I build compliant, human-centered systems in AI, healthcare, fintech, and fast-growth apps. From architecture to first customer.
🎨 Artist | 🧠 Psychology | 🌴 Your Local Cali Hippie
Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co technologist, philosopher, and outdoors enthusiast
CTO@COGINITI
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io Erstwhile SRE, database person, human.
https://matt.blwt.io
@davidreyblanco.bsky.social @davidreyblanco.bsky.social 
Adam Stone @foundinblank.io 👩💻 Director, Analytics Engineering @ Brooklyn Data
🐕 Future dog owner 🐶 (hoping to drop the "future" qualifier in early 2025?)
🤟 Deaf
🧠 PhD in educational neuroscience