Chris Messina @chrismessina.me 😬 Man of the internet; generalist.
🆕 App updates and snark.
🫡 Twitter sober since April '23.
#️⃣ Invented the hashtag.
🚬 Non-smoker.
Peldi @peldi.bsky.social Balsamiq Founder & CEO
Chris Patton @cgpat.bsky.social Founder and head honcho at punchpass.com Exploring all the mtb and ski lines in northern VT. Get outside. You'll feel better.
Steve McLeod @steveofmcleod.com Buy my book! "Kill the HiPPO: How bootstrapped software companies decide what feature to build next."
Find it at killthehippo.com or on Amazon.
My personal site: steveofmcleod.com
Mac Martine @saasmakermac.bsky.social Co-founder @ DemandBird - the content production pipeline for agencies & founders publishing across every platform. 2 SaaS exits.
Lianna Patch @punchlinecopy.com saas website and email copy that doesn’t suck. ranked #1 for "funny copywriter" (i killed all the others)
www.punchlinecopy.com
Brian Clark @brianclark.social Writer, traveler, entrepreneur. Currently in Copenhagen.
Former projects acquired: Copyblogger, Rainmaker, StudioPress.
further.net
Cory Zue @coryzue.com Went from CTO to solopreneur, and now building an empire one business at a time. Currently growing https://saaspegasus.com
Andrew Askins @andrewaskins.com Working on @metamonster.ai and Shipletter
Work -> SEO, marketing, product
Free time -> Hiking, learning Spanish, travel, food
📝 http://andrewaskins.com
🎙️ https://smalleffortspod.com
🦐 https://discoshrimp.lol
💌 https://shipletter.ai/
Ryan Hefner @ryanhefner.com Having fun, doing stuff.
🌐 ryanhefner.com
🎙️ allplay.fm
Jamming on:
💬 webmentions.com
🥇 opengraphs.com
⛱️ commune.software
🎒 starterpacks.net
#buildinpublic #webdev #indieweb
Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com Building https://openfreemap.org and http://maphub.net
Writing on http://blog.hyperknot.com
Loves paragliding
Nate Bosscher @natebosscher.com Father, outdoors, snowboarding, full stack dev 🇨🇦
Active: Status List (statuslist.app), Consulting (http://blue-giraffe.ca)
Podcast: https://searchingforsaas.com
About Me: https://natebosscher.com
Daniel Nguyen @danielnguyen.me Founder BoltAI.com. Sharing my solopreneurship journey.
Benedikt Deicke @benediktdeicke.com 💻 Co-founder / Engineering at @userlist.com
🎙️ Co-host at slowandsteadypodcast.com
🛠️ Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, PostgreSQL
❤️ Loves music, food, and cooking
🥁 Plays the drums
benediktdeicke.com
Joe Walnes @waln.es Building new stuff at Stripe.
Previously: Apple, Google, Thoughtworks, trading, founder.
Open source: websocketd, xstream, hamcrest, and others…
github.com/joewalnes
linkedin.com/in/joewalnes
x.com/joewalnes
Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com I work at https://panic.com
Find me at https://cabel.com
📍Portland, OR
Wilbert Liu @wilbertliu.com Building rinhelp.com to help founders and engineers fix technical support fast. Previously sold 3 startups.
Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com Founder of @savvycal.com
Kevin Galang @kevingalang.com Building independence and playing the great online game.
Writing about:
- Life as an indie founder
- Startups and growth ideas
- Biz templates and frameworks
- Lessons from history
Current:
- ateamoverseas.com
Previous:
- mercury.com
- definite.app
Iheanyi Ekechukwu @iheanyi.com 🇳🇬, computer dude, hip-hop lover. software eng at Stripe. previously at PlanetScale, GitHub, DigitalOcean, and IBM Watson.
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
Eric Turner ⛩️ @etdev.bsky.social US-born indie maker in Japan
🇯🇵 http://japan-dev.com
In Tokyo? Hit me up ☕ 😁
Dan Shipper @danshipper.bsky.social Co-founder at Every
Rob Walling @robwalling.com Helping SaaS bootstrappers at @tinyseed.com and MicroConf. Wrote the playbook for SaaS, saasplaybook.com.
Nate Hopkins @hopsoft.bsky.social Software writer, maker. Creator of several Ruby and JavaScript libraries.
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at https://bio.link/julianrubisch
@ioquatix.bsky.social @ioquatix.bsky.social 
Justin Searls @searls.bsky.social I make things that nobody's asking for.
I used to post things that nobody was asking for, but then I stopped. Learn about me at https://justin.searls.co or reach out to justin@searls.co
Will Cosgrove @willcosgrove.dev Software developer, mostly with Ruby
Alejandro AR @kinduff.com Web Dev. Color writer. Fire Starter. Rational Pessimist. I'm crazy slap-happy and I'm scrappy when I'm nappy. Poeta tramposo.
Home @ kinduff.com
Ryan Strickler @ryanstrickler.com Always building something, usually with Ruby. Into calm business and slow travel. Let's be friends 👋
Job board: https://railshotwirejobs.com
Michael Foley @m1foley.bsky.social I love Ruby, Elixir, mahjong, baroque cello, history, martial arts (Bay Jiu Jitsu white belt, muay Thai, Krav), Stoicism/REBT. Author of Fit Commit git linter & mahjongwind.com. Director of Yak Shaving at Trailhead. San Francisco 🌉
JMD 🇨🇦 @jmd.fm Computational Daemonologist. Trying to make dope shit. Loves programming, designing, music, movies, photography, remote living, and cats.
🎯 Building https://owl.so
Nadia Odunayo @nodunayo.bsky.social Founder & CEO of @thestorygraph.com | Maintaining http://speakerline.io | Dancing: https://instagram.com/nodunayo | Generally keen
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
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.
Olly Headey @olly.world 8-bit hippy. post-modern victorian. pagecord foundling.
tweets auto delete. get ‘em while they’re hot 🔥
olly.world
pagecord.com
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/
keyboard masher @zaczac.bsky.social Chicago based Ruby Dev
Juliana Dias 👩🏻💻☕ @juuh42dias.bsky.social #Ruby Software Craftswoman | Admin at https://t.me/rubybrasil | https://juliana.dev | she/ela | Made in Goiás | I use MacOS, btw.
| @juuh42dias:matrix.org | xmpp:juuh42dias@isacloud.im
Adrien Poly @adrienpoly.com CTO @plume-app Rails/JS aficionado. Creator of StimulusUse and rubyevents.org
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
Jesper Christiansen @jesper.dev Full-stack web developer. Independent Contractor - Loves Ruby/Rails. JS/React/Vue. Works on side projects formbackend.com, many.link
David Hill @davidhill.dev Ruby on Rails Developer
Host of the Ode to RailsConf podcast
https://davidhill.dev
John Hawthorn @jhawthorn.com Writing code for @Shopify, Rails, and Ruby. Previously @GitHub.
he/him | Victoria, BC | jhawthorn.com
Scott Watermasysk @scottw.com Husband, Father, & purveyor of fine Ruby on Rails apps. Always building something.
jd @jd.codes Programmer by day, father all day, programmer later on at night, & gamer even later at night.
❤️ Ruby, Python, and Elisp (and a little bit of Go maybe)
https://jd.codes
Appwerks. @appwerks.com 
Manu @manu-j.com Creator: https://zestui.com - UI Kit for Ruby on Rails using Tailwind & Phlex
Engineering Lead @ Lodgistics
Ayush @ayushn21.bsky.social Pink Floyd and Steven Wilson addict. Test cricket enthusiast.
Author of The Rails and Hotwire Codex. @bridgetownrb.com core. I write Ruby for money.
✍️ https://binarysolo.blog
📝 https://railsandhotwirecodex.com
📸 https://fslash42.com
Ismael Celis @ismaelcelis.com 
Faraaz Ahmad @faraazahmad.bsky.social Software Engineer interested in Ruby, Elixir, distributed systems and programming language internals.
Stanislav (Stas) Katkov @skatkov.com Linux on desktop is happening. I'm permanently building something.
http://devtui.com and http://poshtui.com
Ruby Central @rubycentral.org Ruby Central is the organizing force behind RubyConf, RailsConf & the proud maintainers of RubyGems, Bundler. We've been advancing the Ruby ecosystem & community since 2001.
Get involved: https://rubycentral.org
RailsConf 2025: https://railsconf.org
Kevin Murphy @kevinjm.bsky.social Software Developer kevinjmurphy.com He/Him
Adam Daniels @adamdaniels.ca Longtime developer. Run software agency of 1. Polyglot. Lately into small-bets. Trying to make every community I join better.
suspenders.app ( #crystal )
dnslint.com ( Async #ruby )
nodns.fyi ( #elixirlang #phoenix )
gemdocs.org ( #ruby )
Kyle Conarro @conarro.com Dad, Rails dev at @adreform.com
ATLien living in Portugal 🇵🇹
Occasionally post at conarro.com
Matouš Borák @bora.ma Keeping our never-finished #RubyOnRails code running. 1-day-a-week therapist, dad of 2, loves hiking with them and riding his kickbike. he/him. Mostly dev-related stuff here. 🌍 Prague, Czechia.
John Carney @johncarney.dev An Australian Rubyist living in USA. Agile enthusiast, TTRPG fan. ADD/ADHD. He/they.
Check my pinned thread for more details.
Julián @julianpinzon.com Staff Engineer @ Buildkite working on Package Registries and helping guide the way back to Hotwire!
Landon @thedayisntgray.bsky.social Director of AI @DealMaker ~ Empowering teams with AI systems & workflows
✍🏾 at landonnotes.com
Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug) @batsov.net Hacker. Emacs Zealot. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Bulgarian. Not necessarily in that order.
The artist formerly known as @bbatsov.
Personal blog: https://batsov.com
FOSS projects blog: https://metaredux.com
Emacs blog: https://emacsredux.com
Mario Alberto Chávez @mariochavez.io I live in Colima, México, where I work on personal photography projects about territory, popular culture, and memory. Also, I'm a software engineer who enjoys Ruby on Rails.
https://mariochavez.io
https://foto.mariochavez.io/
Franck Delache @franck.isalazy.dev Staff dev @ Shopify
Seldomly blogs at Franck.IsALazy.dev
Gardener when the weather is nice
Dancer at night
Javier Cervantes @jvrc.ca I'm an entrepreneur/software engineer working as a consultant to help builders and founders use the power of technology to grow their businesses.
- jvrc.ca
- rubyforum.org
Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol I cry when computers do precisely what I asked them to instead of what I wanted
Jared Norman @jardo.dev serving at the altar of digital commerce https://jardo.dev
Andrzej Krzywda @andrzejkrzywda.bsky.social Arkency | RailsEventStore | wroc_love.rb
Rails programmer since 2004
Chess player aspiring to become IM
coffee amateur
sf books lover
DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
Bilal @bilal.dev Rubyist. Solopreneur crafting products.
https://supadesk.ai - AI Agents for managing business front-desk.
Svyatoslav Kryukov @skryukov.dev Backend Engineer @evilmartians.com
André Arko @indirect.io thought misleader at cuberule.com
tired of saying https://actually.men
community gem server at https://gem.coop
ruby tools and consulting at https://spinel.coop
Evan Phoenix @evanphx.dev Startup CEO at @miren.dev
Organic bio-electric pattern matching grid.
Cameron Dutro @camertron.bsky.social Software engineer at GitHub working on the Primer design system. Avid Rubyist and aspiring Rustacean.
Mike Dalton @kcdragon.bsky.social Developer. Building https://calendarvision.app/
Socials: https://mikedalton.co/socials/
@jasonswett.bsky.social @jasonswett.bsky.social 
Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me I’m a Ruby/TypeScript/CSS engineer at @plane.com and based in the UK. https://joel.drapper.me
I’m building a Ruby/SQLite serverlesslessness framework. I also maintain Phlex, Literal, Morphlex, MaskIcons and Ruby Schema.
Signal: joeldrapper.01
Allie_p @alliep.bsky.social Engineering leader. Former VPE QuotaPath. Former DEV & GitHub. Mom. Dev. Speaker. Ruby Central board member.
Ben Sheldon @bensheldon.bsky.social I help small teams do big things and help big teams have big impact. And I build GoodJob, Day of the Shirt, Panlexicon, and Brompt too.
Oğulcan Girginç @ogirginc.bsky.social Ruby & Rails ❤️
Ikraam Ghoor @ikraamghoor.com Ruby and JavaScript Software Dev. Husband. Father. Slowmad.
I like to type my thoughts with my eyes closed.
Andreas Finger 🇪🇺 @mediafinger.com Living the #VanLife 🚐 all over Europe 🇪🇺
formerly strongly involved in the #Ruby and #Rails communities of #Barcelona 🇪🇸 and #Hamburg 🇩🇪
you might know me as 'Señor Developer' from conferences - #Freelancer at day - side-project #Developer at night
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com professional good at computers guy
amateur musician, hockey player, cyclist
pretty good at rocket league for a guy my age
Steven @baptie.bsky.social Trying to break 40 mins in the 10k & 3:20 in the marathon //
Building a business using Ruby on Rails //
Listening to WhoMadeWho & Pearl Jam //
Threatening production of Dub Techno //
Takes pictures of trees
Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social Learn Hotwire Native & Launch your Rails app on mobile ➡️ https://superails.com/playlists/turbo-native
Anton Tkachov @antontkachov.bsky.social Talent-as-a-Service Founder | Ukrainian 🇺🇦 living in Chicago 🇺🇸 | Helping Tech Leaders engage incredible coding and design professionals via flexible | Ruby / Python / Node.js / React.js / Vue.js / UX / UI
Freedom Dumlao @apiguy.dev Boston | CTO | Builder
Colleen Schnettler @leenyburger.bsky.social Rails developer, startup founder. Accidentally started 3 businesses.
https://www.bitmappeddesigns.com
https://www.simplefileupload.com
Kyrylo Silin @kyrylo.org Building the best self-hosted error tracker in the world @telebugs.com
homepage https://kyrylo.org
david celis @davidcel.is 🚒 principal engineer at firehydrant (prev: stripe, hashicorp, github, etc.)
🍕 amateur pizzaiolo
🩺 oauthologist
🌲 portland, ore.
🌐 https://davidcel.is
Philip Zastrow @zastrow.co Designer and developer and as much in between.
💼 @boxoutsports.com
🌐 zastrow.co
Nickolas Means @nmeans.dev Storyteller, student of disasters, coffee obsessive.
📝: https://nmeans.dev
🎙️: https://managingup.show
👨💻: https://medscout.io
🌮: Austin, TX
🏳️🌈 Y'all Means All! 💚 Verde Hasta la Muerte!
Mike Perham @mike.contribsys.com CEO/Engineer, creator of Sidekiq
https://mikeperham.com
https://contribsys.com
https://sidekiq.org
Portland, OR
Lance Carlson @lancecarlson.bsky.social Programmer, cofounder. Vote blue.
I'm also here (for now):
threads.net/@thelancecarlson
Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com I build stuff people want with Ruby—like BeautifulRuby.com, Terminalwire.com, TinyZap.com, Thingybase.com, LegibleNews.com, Sitepress.cc, and more.
🧑🏻💻 bradgessler.com 🏗️ rocketship.io 🌉 SF Bay Area
Fito von Zastrow @fito.codegardener.com SF Bay Area transplant from Asunción, Paraguay 🇵🇾. I enjoy hiking 🥾watching soccer ⚽️ video games 🎮 drinking mate 🧉and pair-programming 👨🏽💻 
Sam Ruby @intertwingly.net Author: Agile Web Development with Rails 8; Retired ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ruby
It’s me, Rob @robrace.bsky.social 📖 Writing https://realtimerails.dev, https://simplerailsauth.com and https://buildasaasappinrails.com 💻 Making stuff during the daytime at PagerDuty, too