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#chiLFT Lake Front Trail Status Bot @lakefronttrail.bsky.social I'm a bot. I repost trail condition posts. You can help: use #chiLFT to report current trail conditions.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
DLS @forensicgarlic.bsky.social Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Radically pro-transgender.
Brian DeMaio @briguyd.shuff.zone he/him
Paul Czarkowski @paulczar.bsky.social Just another devop
stef rose @stefinitely.cool she/her | loves 90s alternative, black hair dye, tattoos, & live music, | wife of @matty.wtf | bi 🩷💜💙| hates raw tomatoes, patriarchy, and fascism | keeper of a tuxie cat, chickens, & Aussies | raising teenagers | Fuck ICE | stefinitely.cool
Chicago Critical Mass @chicritmass.bsky.social A Free bicycle ride the last Friday of every month 6PM leaving from Daley plaza. Come out & ride.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social Husband, Father, Entrepreneur at 1871 tech, Founder @thinkbigusa.bsky.social, Governor.
Fighting for a stronger, fairer, and safer Illinois.
Wick-it the Instigator @djwickit.bsky.social 
Jamie Stormbreaker @reset.dev Video Game Founder, Designer, Programmer, and COO @ One More Game. Building our latest free range, organic, very vaccinated title https://playswapmeat.com
Jeremy, the patronizing Saint of DevOps 🇺🇦 @jerdog.dev #DevRel, #DevEx, #Community, #Opensource things. Ex CircleCI, Auth0, etc. #DevOpsDays KC Organizer. @jerdog@hachyderm.io on 🐘.
FDT. Fuck ICE.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AbortionIsHealthcare
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Website: jmeiss.me
Jeff Smith @allthingsdork.com VP of Cloud Operations at Basis Technologies. Author of Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions. Husband and father of 2. Lover of Star Trek, D&D and video games. Chicago. Go Cubs!
Balatro @playbalatro.com Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deckbuilder.
Mobile: http://playbalatro.com/mobile
Steam, PS, Switch & Xbox:
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localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
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Blog: localthunk.com
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@mattyice4life.bsky.social @mattyice4life.bsky.social 
Jennifer Davis @sigje.bsky.social Sparkly DevOps Engineering Manager 
Coté @cote.io https://newsletter.cote.io
Texas Forever!
@botchagalupe.bsky.social @botchagalupe.bsky.social 
Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike We tell the stories of the wide variety of Chicagoans who bike around the city, in photos and video. Read all our past interviews at chiwho.bike!
Ian Massingham @ianm.ai Devrel, Community, Startups. Devrel, Product Marketing & more at Griptape.ai. Formerly AWS & MongoDB. 🖤. Skier. Kettlebell aficionado. Spaceships. (he/him). My ideas & views.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/imassingham/
Mary Thengvall (she/her) @mary-grace.bsky.social Author, dog-mom, and mountain-dweller with wanderlust. Passionate about people, building supportive communities, and life with my partner. 
Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理 @littleidea.bsky.social I stole the fire of devops from mount Olympus, all I got was a bunch of great t-shirts and the friends we made along the way.
I think therefore, here we go again.
Jessica West @jessica.dev Fitness and wine enthusiast, my dog is the love of my life. London is my current home.
I talk to humans through computers about how to talk to other humans about talking to computers.
🐦 @jessicaewest
🌐 jessica.dev
@jpaulreed @jpaulreed.com Incident response & management+human factors in software development & operations.
“How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?"
(Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
Michael Goetz @michaelpgoetz.bsky.social Dad, woodworker, DevOps pontificator, sometimes helpful @ GitHub
Home Assistant @home-assistant.io Open source home automation that puts local control & privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers & DIY enthusiasts.
Genghis @genghis.bsky.social Professional Ultimate coach (MN Strike), tech dork, he/him
Rob Campbell @robsays.bsky.social Hobby Cook, I like things with 2 wheels
GitHub Next @githubnext.com We are a team of researchers and engineers at GitHub who prototype the future of software development.
Projects: https://githubnext.com
Discord: https://gh.io/next-discord
Ryan McGeehan @mag00.bsky.social Security person. Formerly @ Federal Reserve, FB, Coinbase.
See Starting Up Security @ http://scrty.io
TGS @lilybeansdad.bsky.social after unimaginable loss looking to help create safe streets
amelia burger 👻 @ameliaburger.bsky.social they call me the greatest ‘cause i’m not very good and they’re being sarcastic.
Paul Pater @paulpaterrn.bsky.social union nurse person. he/him
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
Brendan Kevenides @bkevenides.bsky.social Bicycle advocate and attorney representing bike crash victims at Freeman Kevenides Law Firm. www.fklawillinois.com Advocacy Committee Chair and Board of Directors for Ride Illinois, Board of Advisors for Active Transportation Alliance.
René @orobas.bsky.social 42, also go by Orobas or Drid! Trying to enjoy too many games with not enough time for all of them.
Daniel @streicher.io bike sock / one person edtech shop
🚲📸 Jack Cottle
NWS Chicago Unofficial (inactive) @nwschicago.bsky.social Unofficial account mirroring tweets from @NWSChicago. Maintained by @llkats.com. Notifications are not monitored. Checks for updates every 20 min.
If NWS Chicago would like to use this handle, please reach out to nwschicagobluesky@llkats.com.
Kevin Geisler @luthyr.bsky.social Programmer/Producer at Young Horses, creators of Bugsnax & Octodad.
Hobbyist Photographer. Perpetually on FFXIV.
Marty D @mdiam.bsky.social 
Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social Report bike lane obstructions with our mobile app from anywhere in the USA & Canada.
BikeLaneUprising.com
Bridget Kromhout @bridgetkromhout.bsky.social Cloud native open source at Azure. She/her. Likes snow, bicycles, and @joelaha.bsky.social.
Laura Santamaria @nimbinatus.bsky.social Developer Advocate, cloud aficionado (the real kind), recovering earth sci educator, photography and car nerd
https://linktr.ee/nimbinatus
Quintessence @quintessence.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director of the Nivenly Foundation @nivenly.bsky.social
Head Moderator of Hachyderm.io : community stewardship and trust & safety
Nóva 🕯️💍
Pete Cheslock @petecheslock.com 🥩 He/Him 🍖 "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."
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.
Señor Pinky 🇵🇷 - RETIRED ㋛ @mikerostx.bsky.social #DevRel 🥑 Community Manager 🫱🏾🫲🏽
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Gomex @gomex.me Platform Engineer na @DNSFilter(ele/he/him)
Autor dos livro:
📘 Deploy em produção para devs
📖 Docker para devs
Criador de cursos de IaC na Linuxtips
Fundador da Mentoria de IaC
Links: https://links.gomex.me/
Barbell Roegadyn @kamenridercasey.bsky.social 38 | He/Him | Gay | Tokusatsu Enthusiast | Powerlifter | Muscle Bear
GitHub @github.com The AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software.
DevOpsDays Chicago @chicago.devopsdays.org Official Bluesky account of #DevOpsDays Chicago. In-Person Event March 18, 2025. https://devopsdays.org/chicago
zf @zfasel.bsky.social Head Janitor at @UrbaneSec. #ScotchAndBubbles Mixologist. Travels too much, sleeps too little.
- P Peter Bennett @provokingastorm.bsky.social Game Dev
Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️🌈
Jon White @justspeakeasy.bsky.social 
Harper 🤯 @harper.lol post-normal person
harper.lol / harper.blog
Philip Tibitoski @ptibz.younghorses.com Co-founder + President @younghorses.com, creators of Bugsnax and Octodad. (he/him) https://younghorses.com/
The Midwest, USA
Zack Gilbert @zackgilbert.com Building EventuallyTicketing.com with my wife.
Occasionally helping domain experts bring their dream software to life.
Jaime Black @jaimeblack.bsky.social Media producer of 25+ years, incl. two decades of podcasting | Studying cybersecurity | Also produce digital for hospitality brands
Young Horses @younghorses.com Creators of Bugsnax & Octodad! Out NOW PS5, PS4, EGS, Xbox Series X|S, Windows 10, Steam, and Nintendo Switch eShop! Join our Discord at http://discord.gg/younghorses . Links to our games and places to buy them -> bugsnax.com | octodad.com
Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me CEO of System Initiative, Co-Founder of Chef. Open source. Heavy metal and music. Comics. @adamhjk on Twitter, @adamhjk@hachyderm.io on Masotodon. 
Dave Arel @davearel.com Technologist, founder, figuring it out like the rest of us. 
Riot Fest @riotfest.bsky.social Celebrating 20 years of not booking the bands you wanted, in the order you wanted, for free.
Shay Howe @shayhowe.bsky.social 
Doc Norton @docondev.bsky.social Founder: https://www.docondev.com
Author: https://www.docondev.com/escape-velocity
Grandfather, Fitness Enthusiast, Software Product Excellence Enabler
Victoria Rosenthal @pixelatedvicka.bsky.social Video Game Cookbook Author (including FFXIV, Fallout, Sonic & many others) | she/her
pixelatedprovisions.com
business: pixelatedprovisions@gmail.com
brendan kelly: mc sex Ed @badsandwich.bsky.social the Lawrence Arms the Falcon liquid death Hard Times The Onion dong model, some arbys booking: https://www.atomicmusicgroup.com/artists/?view=artpro&aid=OTc=
Jerry Cattell @jerrycattell.bsky.social SRE @TempusAI (formerly lifesquare, pulseenergy, @orbitz, i-drive, @fedex).
he/him
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
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.
Armon Dadgar @armon.bsky.social Co-founder of HashiCorp. Passionate about technology and startups. I love to build things.
Jez Humble @jezhumble.net Works on my machine! Author of some books on software, MTS @ Anthropic, portfolio @ continuousdelivery.com. Previously lecturer @ UC Berkeley, 18F, ThoughtWorks, Google. All tweets fictional. He / him. Ⓥ
Trey Springer @umtrey.bsky.social devil's in the details.
Nathen Harvey @nathenharvey.bsky.social DORA, DevOps, Community, Gen AI, Google Cloud
mfoxspeed19 @mfoxspeed19.bsky.social 
Mandi Walls @lnxchk.bsky.social DevOps, plants, and nonsense 
Fletcher Nichol @fnichol.com I am the human that helps you build better, faster, and more humane product through software.
Systems, infrastructure, programming, home automation, smiling, open source, cycling
Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦
Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social I don't even fucking know anymore. I guess I do tech when I'm employed, I'm Jewish and my body hates me.
Irving Popovetsky @irvingpop.bsky.social Husband, dad, dog dad, cat dad, chicken dad, dad who didn’t want a dog dad, etc. Sysadmin. Still loves DevOps. Director of Customer Engineering at Honeycomb.io. Mostly posts about tech and sci-fi. He/him.- T @trevorghess.bsky.social @trevorghess.bsky.social
JJ Asghar @jjasghar.bsky.social 🧔 Father
🤓 Husband
🦅 Eagle Scout
🥃 sometimes whisky
📀 computer nerd
👨💻 Job: OSPO for @IBM
Nic @nicole2.bsky.social Xavier University EMBA Candidate 2025, quality improvement/risk adjustment SME, a Brown University alum, gardner, traveller, board game enthusiast, mom, and wife.
Dayton, OH
cheese @cheeseplus.biz staff build engineer @Respawn (Apex Legends)
taco officer @polycount
cloud, oss, CI/CD, perf junkie - powerlifting - rucking - scion of the Sixth House - bi/poly
past: UT ITS, SOE, Vigil, Basho, Chef, Epic
Naomi Reeves @animumrege.bsky.social Pretty damn curious about everything, paid to care about the reliability of operating systems.
A MN transplant in SF.
Erin @secbarbie.bsky.social Partner at @UrbaneSec, DJ, Lover of Fine Dining, Certified Sommelier, Digital Airstream Nomad.#RTR🐘 #streamingeagle | She/Her | 💖 💜 💙
Michael Stahnke @stahnma.us Software Engineering Leadership. DevOps stuff. Hockey stuff.
Jason Walker @jasonwalker.bsky.social Lover of all things Atlanta Hawks. Formerly Managing Editor of @RealGM's Hawks Front Office, @PeachtreeHoops and The Human Highlight Blog.
Oh, that fox. 🔜 ABGT700 @martinisoft.bsky.social Pan/Demi/Furry/Artistic/Cider Nerd with Red Hair in the PNW. Founder of @slightlyfurry.bsky.social. ❤️ Aevin & Akamai. I talk about code, food, drinks, and equality in tech. My thoughts are my own and do not represent Slightly Furry.
DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org Official Bluesky account for #DevOpsDays Kansas City. Find out more at https://devopsdayskc.org- R Robb Kidd @robbkidd.bsky.social 🐘 https://hachyderm.io/@robbkidd
Dev, Ops, & Sec, but mostly random brain droppings. Develops wares that are soft at Honeycomb.
Formerly: Chef (🫡), Lookingglass, and the military/industrial complex.
EMT (retired)
Philosophy, religious studies nerd.
nicole forsgren @nicolefv.bsky.social valkyrie. love tacos, flowers, and Diet Coke. 
Super Nicktendo @snicktendo.bsky.social I talk about video game prices and other things on my YouTube channel.
https://bit.ly/m/snicktendo
Jason Yee @gitbisect.bsky.social Datadog DevRel, DevOpsDays core team, advocate of nuance and cooler takes. Still mostly avoiding social media. Hit me up at jason.yee@datadoghq.com- N Nat Friedman @natfriedman.bsky.social
Jennifer Wright @jenashleywright.bsky.social Author of seven pop history books. Married to @kibblesmith.com. Mom to a toddler. ‘Glitz Glam & A Damn Good Time’ Biography of Mamie Fish On Sale Now from Hachette.