Fire with Fire @firewithfire-blog.bsky.social Profile for firewithfire.blog/about/. Tweets about things cool (labor organizing) and not (capitalism) from a rank-and-file unionist. Enthusiast of syndicalist practice and Marxist theory.
chee rabbits @chee.party manic pixie dream rabbit from ink & switch as you live and breathe
ugly girl ⟁ your biggest fan ◬ https://chee.party ◉ not part of tentpole ❣︎ https://feelingof.london
andrew blinn @disconcision.com https://andrewblinn.com
abstractJuiceFactory
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
Nic Barker @handle.invalid Open source developer & programming educator.
github.com/nicbarker for my projects.
https://www.youtube.com/@nicbarkeragain for programming videos.
ex engineering @canva & game dev @cerebralfix
Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me Working on Playbit https://playb.it/ . Designer of Figma, Inter, Spotify. Software painter. https://rsms.me/
Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io computational semanticist. into modular synths and rum. https://aaronstevenwhite.io
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
Orual @nonbinary.computer Person who does electrical, computer, and music things.
Mother of machines.
they/she/it
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
Fred Hebert @ferd.ca Principal SRE @ honeycomb.io, Tech Book Author, Resilience in Software Foundation board member, Erlang Ecosystem Foundation co-founder, Resilience Engineering fan. SRE-not-sorry.
blog: https://ferd.ca
notes: https://ferd.ca/notes/
Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social a frightful hobgoblin
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Jujutsu VCS @jj-vcs.dev Jujutsu—a version control system #jj-vcs
Documentation: https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/
worm-blossom @worm-blossom.org the development diary of the worm-blossom collective. We make https://willowprotocol.org and https://worm-blossom.github.io/bab/
hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social haskell/rust/art/shitposting/assyrian
she/her (like a ship, not like a person)
blog: recursion.wtf
Rue @rue-lang.dev The Rue programming language. #ruelang if you wanna hashtag it. Run by @steveklabnik.com
Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh Open Source Practitioner, bullish on kindness.
https://erlend.sh – about me
@roomy.space – make space
East River Source Control @ersc.io doin' source control stuff at ersc.io
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Bruce "86 47" Dawson @randomascii.bsky.social Retired tech-nerd. Unicyclist, kiteboarder, juggler, hiker, plays tennis and pickleball, advocates for pedestrian/cyclist safety. Windows ETW expert. LGBTQ supporter. Vancouver, BC
he/him
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/
Kyle Alexander Thompson @wiegraf.bsky.social Researcher in transformations, futures, and games. Tabletop game designer. Board member of Enneagram Canada. Formerly co-host of General Intellect Unit. Secretly an owl 🦉
Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6413-5949
Games: https://wiegraf.itch.io/
Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
Tangled @tangled.org https://tangled.org is the next-generation social coding platform.
→ Docs: https://docs.tangled.org
→ Discord: chat.tangled.org
→ IRC: #tangled @ libera.chat
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
move fast & break chains
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Leaflet @leaflet.pub The easiest way to make a blog, newsletter, or website on the open social web!
📝 powerful publishing tools 🛠️
🌱 for new writers & pros 🌿
🗣️ to connect & grow 👯
📖 + ✍️ @ leaflet.pub
Lab Notes: lab.leaflet.pub
Code: tangled.org/leaflet.pub/leaflet
Cosmik Network @cosmik.network Transforming social networks into sensemaking networks https://cosmik.network/ | Building @semble.so a social knowledge network for research | Co-organizing @atproto.science @cairos.network
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 🦀
Alex Good @patternist.xyz I work on local-first software, currently building Automerge at Ink and Switch. Find me at patternist.xyz
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingers and
turn my weathered feelings into wriggly music.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto
@inkandswitch.com Δ research
feelingof.com Δ podcast
ivy.boo Δ myself
she / hrt 🏳️⚧️
Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com Malleable software @inkandswitch.com
prev PhD @csail.mit.edu
geoffreylitt.com
🇯🇵🇺🇸
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
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com Programmer & researcher, co-creator of https://ohmjs.org. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
Co-author of https://wasmgroundup.com — learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript.
Prev: CDG/HARC, Google, BumpTop
Szymon Kaliski @szymonkaliski.com independent consultant, designing and developing computational interfaces; currently prototyping at Google Research and Google Creative Lab
https://szymonkaliski.com
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com I explore the interfaces with which we think & the future of personal computing. I also make books.
alexanderobenauer.com
seaofclouds @seaofclouds.com 
Paul Sonnentag @paulsonnentag.bsky.social No more killer apps, kill the app!
Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf 🇨🇦 "Vancouver"
🏢 @inkandswitch.com
💍 @katiewilde.com
🏳️🌈 Sapphic
♾️ Poly
🔰 Always learning
💡 Woke AF
🤝 United we stand, divided we fall
✊ BLM/Land Back/Antifa/Trans Rights/ACAB
❄️ NixOS
📝 notes.brooklynzelenka.com
🧶 tangled.org/expede.wtf
🐘 types.pl/@expede
el @elliot.website and visual and creativity and computers and math and
elliot.website
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.
What if we made things a little bit better?
Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com joshuahhh.com
t-shirt size: medium
Alex Warth @alexwarth.bsky.social Principal Investigator at @inkandswitch.com
Formerly at Alan Kay's research groups (YCR/HARC, CDG, VPRI), and Google
Creator of OMeta, co-creator of ohmjs.org
Automerge @automerge.org Automerge is a library of data structures for building collaborative applications
📚 https://automerge.org/
💬 https://discord.gg/vvnytpgSnr
📆 https://lu.ma/automerge
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.)
Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social Studio manager/producer @suspicious.dev. Co-founder @jank.cool. Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Crate & Crowbar, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
Stargirl @thea.codes Aka Thea Flowers
Creative technologist, open source advocate
Weirdest engineer @opulo.io
Board @oshwa.org
PSF fellow
Weasel enthusiast
Also:
@theacodes
@stargirl@hachyderm.io
@theavalkyrie
ATLien
Daniel Steigerwald @steida.bsky.social Local-first (user-owned) software is inevitable. I'm building https://evolu.dev
Eryk Sawicki Grafik Dezajner 🔜 Gamescom @peregrinecoast.press https://eryk.zone
head bookseller at peregrine coast press • director of the uk tabletop industry network • pierogi-core grafik dezajner & book doula • iwgb game workers • kras mazov stan
leeds
Roxy Light @zombiezen.com she/her or they/them. Posts are entirely my own, not my employer's.
Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com Connect with a rapidly-growing Local-First community. Join us for our third edition 12-14th of July 2026 in Berlin. www.localfirstconf.com
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social Game dev who loves making randomly generated critters and does so as often as possible. Developing Cookie Gardening and Biolune. Owner of Meep Engine: https://www.meepengine.com/
Biolune: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3070190/Biolune/
Coincidence @coincidence.games Coincidence is a cooperative game studio created by ex-Zachtronics developers. Zach Barth is no longer teaching high school and is making games again.
mcc @dryad.technology glitch girl — I do not trust this place and would prefer you follow me on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mcc — A mixtape for you: https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/feed/listening-to — Avatar by @urnash.com — 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 — she/her
@strayphrases.bsky.social @strayphrases.bsky.social 
@papersky.app @papersky.app Indexing academic papers on bluesky.
Check out the feeds!
🦋📑🔍
Made by @jhark.net
Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com Senior Software Engineeer snowflake.com
Co-Founder @graze.social, @cocore.dev
Co-Host of @devtools.fm
Creator of @kich.io, @kikbak.tv, @atstore.fyi, @standard-reader.app
hipstersmoothie.com
Lexicon Community @lexicon.community A working group to create community ATProtocol Lexicons.
https://lexicon.community/
charlotte 🐇 @char.lt charlotte or cinnamon. 25 ^-^
technician & artist
en/fr/한/es OK, 🔎 char.lt/bio
The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social We're building the next generation of decentralized network tech!
https://spritely.institute
alice @alice.mosphere.at 📍 london | building @bluepy.social
Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings.
https://dustycloud.org
mary🐇 @mary.my.id 🏳️⚧️🇮🇩 she/it · 23
web dev @buttondown.com @bookwalker.com
bad at this social media thing
Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social Programmer. Worked on Unity game engine 2006-2021. Now working on Blender. Primarily over at mastodon.gamedev.place/@aras
United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech United Tech & Allied Workers, organising across UK & NI | The first union for tech workers, by tech workers | A branch of CWU | 📧 contact@utaw.tech
Erin Catto @erincatto.bsky.social I created Box2D. I enjoy all kinds of programming, but specialize in physics and animation. Working on The Legend of California.
Ben Nicholson @benic.bsky.social Games developer. I run Cape Guy, work at Two Point Studios and previously worked at Sony, Frontier, Microsoft Research and Rocksteady Studios.
I’ve worked with Unity, Unreal and custom game engines. Currently messing about with MonoGame when I get chance.
Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; @lexicon.garden @lexicon.community @ohcraphey.app
teal.fm @teal.fm your music, beautifully tracked. soon. https://teal.fm. say hi at https://discord.gg/DMSZ3xFUpk or irc.libera.chat#teal.fm
from @mmatt.net & @natalie.sh
Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Read The Extended Universe!
https://bookshop.org/a/5522/9798888903667
Referred to as "our own cunty Gramsci" and "Disney's worst fan"
shitposting through the years of lead paint
noopkat @noopkat.fragile.systems Soft person. Likes infosec, open source, electronics, reading, education, and privacy. 
innes mck @innes.bsky.social queer craftworker in the Highlands • made a really big video game once but is doing something else now • tha Gàidhlig agam • cannot be killed • cannot be destroyed
innesmck.com
he/they • e/iad 🏳️⚧️
Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social Makes games at Hollow Ponds. FLOCK / I am Dead / the Wilmot games / Loot Rascals / Hohokum / Frobisher / Super Exploding Zoo / Tenya Wanya Teens / Wiiild Rumpus! Reluctant grasper of nettles. He/him
Icon by Richard Hogg, header image from Flock
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
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' Project Nimbus contract w/ Israel & tech militarism at large.
📩 notech4apartheid@protonmail.com
💬 Google or Amazon worker? Join us ➡️ solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
🌐 notechforapartheid.com
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 ally, BLM, gamedev (Thief, Promesst), original Indie Game Jam cofounder, popularized C header-file-only libs w/stb. he/him
Larry, I'm on DuckTales.
https://nothings.org- E . @emidoots.com Bluesky is banning users for criticizing their CEO. https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1nyygvy/bsky_now_suspending_accounts_without_warning_for/
Andre Weissflog @flohofwoe.bsky.social Sokol, Chips, Oryol, Nebula Device, Drakensang (1+2+Online), Project Nomads, Urban Assault, and more (https://www.mobygames.com/person/117426/andre-wei%C3%9Fflog/credits/)
https://github.com/floooh/
@floooh@mastodon.gamedev.place
Xe @xeiaso.net Some nerd that uses computers | Blogger with 500-ish articles at https://xeiaso.net | @theprincessxena on the bird website | CEO @techaro.lol | Minors DNI
bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode) @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol engineer @bsky.app (on 2026 summer sabbatical). formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 currently working on https://vixen.rs and ML/ASR stuff, occasionally making videos about my latest code crimes 🦀 rust shill until something better comes up
📚 https://fasterthanli.me
📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
Omar @ocornut.bsky.social programmer of things and stuff. dear imgui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui / the dragon’s trap / dreams / tearaway / pixeljunk shooter / soul bubbles / meka. Paris, France https://www.miracleworld.net
Tailscale @tailscale.com Your private programmable network.
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Oskar Stålberg @oskarstalberg.bsky.social Game dev. Made Bad North and Townscaper. 
Gargaj @gargaj.umlaut.hu Polyurethane audio breeder / semi-organic code regurgitation trooper
Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social Podcast editor (as long as quality and urgency aren’t important)
🌎👩🚀🔫🧑🚀
Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social extremely dubious of "everything is public" social network
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Mothership RPG @mothership.bsky.social Award winning sci-fi horror ttrpg.