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
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
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com words and sounds and the sounds of words
🚫 https://neverpo.st 🐉 https://funcity.ventures 🪦 https://ripcorp.biz
BK NYC // rugnetta.com // posts delete regularly
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
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
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io (gender)queer transsexual / they/them / eng @oxide.computer / atheist and scientific humanist / 🦀 #rustlang / #jj-vcs #1 fan / https://nexte.st / https://sunshowers.io
also on mastodon: @rain@hachyderm.io / https://hachyderm.io/@rain
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business
James Milner @jameslmilner.com Staff Engineer, open source fan, hacking on geospatial in my spare time. Lives in London
html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social a movement, a feeling, a podcast, a world wide day
<i>energy creates energy</i>
https://html.energy
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 / her 🏳️⚧️
mayven @maya.computer 🇬🇧🇵🇭 ~ dx engineer, community @vercel.com
crafting in svelte ✌️ mayven.computer
⛸️🏋🏻♀️🥊💃
feeling of computing london @feelingof.london • https://feelingof.london
• https://luma.com/foclondon
• https://buymeacoffee.com/feelingofldn
Emma Goto @emmago.to Software engineer living in Tokyo 🗼 tinkering on my blog @ emgoto.com and hiking Japan's mountains one peak at a time ⛰️
Currently taking a break from full-time work, but on the side I'm also helping build @hardcover.app 📚
Benjamin Brittain @bwb.dev Building better systems. ceo ersc.io
You might need to put up with an occasional NYC tweet.
actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social real, actual, unedited heathcliff comics. not affiliated with heathcliff in any way, just a fan.
Nicole He @nicole.pizza game developer 🍭 director of The Crush House 🍫 BAFTA Breakthrough '24 🍿 she/her
https://nicole.pizza
Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
Chimney Sweepers Local 420 @bobbby.online Windowsill pie thief. I also do strange/absurd social art with software. Weird finance stuff for work, mostly. #ElixirLang is preferable
Live music + tech + weird markets chatter
dev tool: deciduous.dev
📍NYC
wife guy to @eastcoastemo.bsky.social
W. David Marx @wdavidmarx.bsky.social Author of Blank Space, Ametora, and Status and Culture. Newsletter at http://culture.ghost.io. Tokyo, Japan.
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
James Holden @jamesholden.bsky.social Musician, co-runs border community records, etc. Tour dates, releases: www.jamesholden.org
Vale @vale.rocks Front-end developer, designer, writer, and avid user of the superpowered information superhighway.
✧ https://vale.rocks
✧ https://fedi.vale.rocks/vale
Aru @aru.io A hoopy frood, believer in the open web. Bit meddling @ Oso.
(he/him)
📍 The 51st State (Washington, DC)
🐘 @aru@hachyderm.io
🐦 @IAmAru
🌐 arusahni.net
ANC: @aru5f02.bsky.social
#dc #rustlang #python #beer
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
Mike Minotti @tolkoto.com Co-owner of Giant Bomb. I podcast! Game Mess Decides, Last of the Nintendogs, 90s Disney. I like Arby's and Mega Man. giantbomb.com/join profile pic by @mleelunsford.com
J Dub @johnwalters.org Pepper grower, wannabe taxidermy hobbyist, friend. Knows only one pose
Dan Ryckert @danryckert.com Owner and Chief Content Officer of Giant Bomb. Co-Founder of the Fire Escape Cast. Formerly WWE and Game Informer. Got married at a Taco Bell.
Support the fully independent Giant Bomb: https://www.giantbomb.com/join
Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com video games is two words
Videos: http://guard.bike
Podcast: https://lnk.to/JeffGerstmann
Patreon: https://jeff.zone/
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.
kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
Alex McLean @slab.org Researcher + musician based in Sheffield UK https://slab.org/
Co founder of algorave, toplap, algomech, pattern club, strudel, tidalcycles
Part of Then Try This https://thentrythis.org/
Exploring algorithmic patterns https://algorithmicpattern.org/
10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social Scott Benson. Artist/ Animator/ Writer/ Videogame Person. Light Night Work Club/ Night In The Woods. Same handle on Twitter and Instagram. You can always find me at Bombsfall.com.
intellijel @intellijel.com We design and manufacture electronic musical instruments including an extensive line of eurorack modules and desktop devices. www.intellijel.com
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social critic & essayist / my dog's name is Boswell
i have a newsletter: https://notebook.substack.com/
header image: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/237761
Radiohead @radiohead.wastehq.social https://radiohead.com
https://waste.lnk.to/radiohead.linksBS
Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social Defense analyst. Tech policy. Have a double life in CogSci/Philosophy of Mind and will post about it. (It's confusing. Just go with it.)
https://philpeople.org/profiles/vincent-carchidi
All opinions entirely my own.
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
John’s Internet House @johnwhiles.com.web.brid.gy John Whiles is a person from England. This website contains their blog, music, and other things. Hopefully it will one day be the sort of website that people will look at and say, “They used to make good websites back in the day. What happened?”
Cedric Chin @cedricchin.bsky.social Publishes http://commoncog.com. Tweets about books & the art of business, from the perspective of an operator. Also: https://warpcast.com/cedric
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
Chase McCoy @chsmc.me Internet explorer • Design Engineer at era.app • Formerly design systems at Stripe • chsmc.org • museo.app
Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social Award-winning Los Angeles-based writer of video games, science articles, weird pop songs and books (in no particular order).
See also @blippo.plus & @teamyacht.com!
Website: https://clairelevans.com
Newsletter: https://clairelevans.substack.com/
Why @why.bsky.world Wandering Wizard Utopian
General Partner @mana.inc
🌳
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Chia @chia.bsky.social amiso.la, everythingi.love, developh.org
.... internet artist, designer, aspiring field recordist; better reached on email — chia@amiso.la
Laurel @laurel.bsky.social even a sheet of paper is lighter when lifted together
st. louis 📍🍃
Internet Hedgehog 🦔
@ezhik.jp A hedgehog in Tokyo.
🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔
End-user programming believer.
日本語OK
https://ezhik.jp
https://mastodon.social/@Ezhik
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
jenn schiffer 🙂↔️ @jennschiffer.com middle-aged dirtbag
jennschiffer.com / livelaugh.blog / bugsrock.online
🚫EMAILING MY WIFE
Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy!
Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
https://andymatuschak.org
Twitter: andy_matuschak
Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Harper 🤯 @harper.lol post-normal person
harper.lol / harper.blog
Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social You get what you paid for.
Steve Hogarty @misterbrilliant.bsky.social a writer for cool magazines about stuff
Rubén Grilo @theslatersociety.net bits & bricks
https://rubengrilo.net
Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger. 
Carter McKendry @ca.rter.io カーター・マッケンドリ (he/him) I enjoy that media you hate. Computer nerd. Japan dork. Horror geek. Comic book guy. Sci fi fanboy. Not necessarily in that order. Enthusiast, not connoisseur.
https://ca.rter.io/
nolen @itseieio.bsky.social the internet can still be fun!
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com • http://eieio.games • https://everyuuid.com • https://onemillionchessboards.com
Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social Disquiet.com since 1996: ambient/electronic music, field recordings, sound studies. I moderate the Disquiet Junto community of weekly music projects. I've written for The Wire, Pitchfork and Nature. I publish ThisWeekInSound.disquiet.com. Offline weekends.
lmsacasas.bsky.social @lmsacasas.bsky.social Author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Anselm Eickhoff @anselm.io Thinking about code & design. Play is the only humane form of work. Founder of @garden.co - creator of Citybound & @jazz.tools
Practical Betterments @practicallybetter.bsky.social A collection of one-off actions that improve your life continuously — however marginally.
practicalbetterments.com
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
Greg Technology ❪⎷❫ @greg.technology my new portfolio: https://tandy.link/s/greg.technology
spencer chang @spencer.place software you can touch
artist, engineer, toymaker
🌐 spencer.place (home)
🧭 wewere.online (a game across the internet)
🛝 playhtml.fun (turn any website into a public space)
📱 shrine.computer (interactive sculpture protocol)
🥠 internetsculptures.com (shop)
ᴀʟᴇx ʀᴜssᴇʟʟ @infrequently.org Trying to make a web that works for everyone.
Also at https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff
For more: https://infrequently.org/about-me/
https://infrequently.org/
Naresh @ghostwriternr.me Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? 🌻
dan @danabra.mov dancing for your pleasure
Nico Albanese @nicoalbanese.com working on the AI SDK @ Vercel
below average sense of humor
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
@dlants.bsky.social @dlants.bsky.social Software Engineer at Benchling, previously principal Engineer at Amplify, previously Desmos. Opinions are my own. he/him. I helped build teacher.desmos.com. blog: https://dlants.me masto: https://hachyderm.io/@dlants
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
Haematinon @haematinon.bsky.social Creator of Fragments of the Past and Ergo Cosmos. Deep dive into my Worldbuilding books and artworks: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Haematinon
Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social I'm an artist, love graphic, fairy tales and northern forest.
https://www.patreon.com/KononenkoElena ✨
Gregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social Director @eteogames.bsky.social • Creative Director of Sable
eteogames.com
Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team COO of Bluesky 🦋 - hiring https://bsky.social/about/join!
mary🐇 @mary.my.id 🏳️⚧️🇮🇩 she/it · 23
web dev @buttondown.com @bookwalker.com
bad at this social media thing
Pirijan @pketh.org Making https://kinopio.club to help with your thorniest thoughts. Formerly co-creator of Glitch
[UNOFFICIAL] Now Playing on Criterion 24/7 @upnextcriterion.bsky.social An unofficial bot which posts the currently playing film from the Criterion Channel 24/7 stream within at least 5 minutes of starting. Maintained by @triales. This bot uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb. 
OThingstodo @othingstodo0.bsky.social Collecting memories, one place at time.
merritt @merrittk.com Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com, podcasting @ifyouredriving.bsky.social, merritt+ patreon.com/merrittk
Yaxel @yaxel.bsky.social 
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Vincent Woo @vwoo.bsky.social Sorry these were the only pics I had on my phone
Tom Critchlow @tomcritchlow.com Indie consultant & blogger
tomcritchlow.com
SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social "If one does not expect it, one will not find out the unexpected;
It is not to be tracked down and no path leads us to it."
slimemoldtimemold.com
patreon.com/slimemoldtimemold
roon @tszzl.bsky.social 
hyper(bolic) disco(unting) girl @hyperdiscogirl.bsky.social