📚 Backlog Readathon @backlogreadathon.com A readathon from Dec 26–31, 2025. The goal is simply to read a little bit more than you might usually, so that you can make a small dent in your book backlog!
🔗 https://backlogreadathon.com
👩🏻🦰 Hosted by @melanierichards.bsky.social
Brad Frost @bradfrost.com I make things and help people. Web designer & developer, teacher, consultant, speaker, writer, musician, & artist. Host of Wake Up Excited! Author of Atomic Design. Enthusiasm enthusiast.
Melanie Made 👩🎨✨ @melaniemade.bsky.social 🧶🧵🎨 @melanierichards.bsky.social’s space for knitting • sewing • weaving • drawing
🪡 https://making.melanie-richards.com
stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social not the one.
i am a journalist and i work for Bloomberg News. Obligatory disclaimers about opinions.
No DMs for reporting tips. Signal at @s_m_i.99
don’t expect posts to stick around.
garrett miller @garrett.bsky.social boy from maryland, making art, games, apps and creative ephemera, big-time dad, in carrboro nc
starfriends is out now!
https://starfriends.online/
make art with moss
https://moss.town
co-founder, @brainfruit.bsky.social
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Libro.fm @libro.fm 🎧 The audiobook company that shares profits with independent bookshops
💗 Certified B Corp
🔗 Shop, sign up, find bookshops, & more: www.libro.fm
Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
science writer/author
Newsletter shesabeast.co
couchtobarbell.com
Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social Software and content person. Writer only when there's a deadline. Video game and ttrpg nerd. Design history obsessed.
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Lyzi Diamond @lyzi.bsky.social I like maps and words and stuff
josh @cyberb.space writer
& reader
&c.
(he/him)
kara @ainulindale.bsky.social Bike commuter, orogenesis enthusiast, cartographer turned security engineer, former Mapbox Workers Union organizer. they/them 🇵🇸
Angelina Calderon @alinapaz.bsky.social Mostly water. Some cats.
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Charlie Loyd 🕳️🐋💨 @vruba.bsky.social A pixel/geography/other person in Oakland. With @rahawahaile.bsky.social. Marginally more active at @vruba@everything.happens.horse on mastodon. He/him.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Robin Rendle @robinrendle.bsky.social robinrendle.com
Karen McGrane @karenmcgrane.bsky.social On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I just make it suck less. 
Rach Smith @rachsmith.com Writing the React, fighting with the application state, designing the GraphQL APIs, cursing the TypeScript errors, learning Golang, migrating the databases, and admiring the amazing content at https://codepen.io.
https://rachsmith.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
Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to Melee DPS.
I’m https://wil.to
I wrote https://piccalil.li/javascript-for-everyone
I wrote https://web.dev/learn/javascript and https://web.dev/learn/images too, way back when.
I make https://multipa.ge, y'know, when I get a chance.
duretti (🗣️ dret-tea) hirpa @duretti.bsky.social the snack that smiles back 
Kristy Tillman @kristy.bsky.social Bored Technologist. Aspiring Writer. This is a lifestyle account.
https://www.thestraddlers.com/
1887 forever 🧡💚🐍
Titus 🇵🇸 @wooorm.com unifiedjs · he/him · @igalia.com · https://wooorm.com
Tom MacWright @macwright.com bikes, runs, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music, sewing and other stuff.
twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social Cofounder, @AdaptiveCLabs, “the NTSB of Tech” bringing Resilience Engineering to industry. he/him. Won’t speak on all-male panels, and #blacklivesmatter.
Paul Irish @paul.irish web performance and DevTools, mostly.
In '97 I wrote a paper for English class on HTML Image Maps. I haven't changed much since.
Sam @samkapila.com Three hungry puppies in a trench coat and author of Inclusive Design Communities. Leading UX at @netlify.com. Food motivated. She/her.
https://samk.app
Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger. 
Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com 🔗 https://zachleat.com
🎈 Creator/Maintainer of @11ty.dev
🧰 @fontawesome.com
🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software
🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks
👋🏻 He/him/they
🐘 https://zachleat.com/@zachleat
✅ Front of the Front-end Web Developer
Mina Markham @minamarkh.am am: Web Experience Lead @slack.dev. International Speaker. Design Systems Advocate. Chaotic Good.
was: HFA (1st dev hired). IBM Design.
always: 🖖🏾. Whovian. Beyoncé.
♿️ AuDHD. CPTSD. INFP. ABCDEFG.
👉🏾 https://mina.codes
Jessica Hische @jessicahische.bsky.social Lettering Artist, Professional Logo Zhuzher, & NYT Best-selling Author. Co-founder of Studioworks—shaping the future of creative business!
studioworks.app
linktr.ee/jessicahische
Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com 🇱🇧 Frontend web / UI engineer, speaker, author, and educator specializing in web accessibility • Creator of the Practical Accessibility course https://practical-accessibility.today
🕸️ https://sarasoueidan.com
📤 https://www.sarasoueidan.com/newsletter
Una Kravets @una.im Making the web more stylish ✨🎨 DevRel Lead for CSS & Web UI @ Google Chrome. Cohost of the CSS Podcast & host of Designing in the Browser. 🌎 una.im 
Hidde @hidde.blog Into front-end, accessibility, ethics.
I work on standards for NL gov. Co-editor of WCAG 3, contributor of Web Sustainability Guidelines. On W3C's Advisory Board.
Blogger: hidde.blog, reader/concert goer: log.hidde.blog, speaker: talks.hiddedevries.nl.
Lynn Fisher @lynnandtonic.com Designer for the web. Living each day like it’s Pizza Day. she/her
Melanie Richards @melanierichards.bsky.social Group Product Manager, Design @Webflow. My personal mission is to help people make inspiring, impactful, and inclusive things on the web. She/her
👩🦰 https://melanie-richards.com
🐘 https://front-end.social/@melanie
jenn schiffer 🙂↔️ @jennschiffer.com middle-aged dirtbag
jennschiffer.com / livelaugh.blog / bugsrock.online
🚫EMAILING MY WIFE
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net The main thing = @codepen.io
Personal site = https://chriscoyier.net
Podcast = https://shoptalkshow.com
Bend, Oregon
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own.
https://sarah.dev
Sr Director of Engineering @ Google: Core Web, Android, iOS Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core •
Frontend Masters teacher •
O'Reilly Author •
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
Jason Morris @jasonmorris.com front-end dev, digital accessibility, bikes, tinkering