Kellan @kellanem.com 30 years of social media breaking my heart.
Brian Fitzpatrick @therealfitz.com Chasing Wonder, Engineer, Author, ORD Camp Instigator, Feminist. Previously: Founder & CTO of Tock, Xoogler, Ex-Apple. He/Him.
Optimizing for kindness
wonder.voyage
debuggingteams.com
renee french @reneefrench.bsky.social painter, animator, writer/illustrator of books http://reneefrench.tv
Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
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Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
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jess m. 🌤️ @jametc.bsky.social animator/illustrator in Vancouver
worked on some cartoons.
NO🚫AI
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Jim Calabro ♟️ @calabro.io Engineer @ Bluesky
I love computers!
Why @why.bsky.world Wandering Wizard Utopian
General Partner @mana.inc
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social Writer for WIRED. Author of SANDWORM. Latest book, TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out now. agreenberg@wired.com. Andy.01 on Signal.
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Doll @dollspace.gay It/Its
Senior Agent Engineer at fieldleveltech.org
Chainlink, the issue tracker for agents: https://github.com/dollspace-gay/chainlink
Its name is doll. The system is an adult.
Creating ethical and safe AI systems.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
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
Geoffrey Huntley @ghuntley.com It's an uncertain time for our profession, but one thing is certain—things will change.
Luke Kanies @luke.kanies.com Founder of Puppet. I helped create DevOps. Writing at https://lukekanies.com/.
Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com Heir to the Heinz Ketchup fortune.
https://somewhattolerable.com
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
emily 🩷 @bbghost.bsky.social 🤠🧋👻 i make fashion + tech + illustration cute. always wearing pastels. she/her.
emily@daybrighten.com for commissions 💕
leah 🛸 @spacegirl.ing software developer, atprotoist ~ she/her
https://uncenter.dev
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com Developer of sorts at @webdevs.firefox.com, but this is my personal account. No thought goes unpublished. He/him.
Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Amazon Web Services (AWS) @awscloud.bsky.social The official account of #AWS.
Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social Amy Tobey💙parent🦁😾partner🥰obligate polymath🎶musician👩💻 software engineer🔎leader🧙♀️chaotic good🌈buckaroo🏳️⚧️backyard yogi🧘♀️魔法 少女🤦🏻♀
Fred Hebert @ferd.ca Staff 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
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Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me sugarbaby cosplaying as a tech consultant • mean eastern european with unrealistically high expectations and unreasonable quality standards
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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Adriana Porter Felt @apf.bsky.social I like writing silly skeets, but that doesn't pay so I also make Google Chrome. mamá, Eng Director, volunteer at Second Harvest. 🇺🇲🇨🇷
Twitter: @__apf__
Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
Jake Gold @jacob.gold Building AI infra @clor.com in SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Vibecode and Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, and founder.
Addicted to history, computers, and open systems.
Unconditional love for all conscious life.
https://jacob.gold
jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social Writer and game designer, former outdoor educator, multidisciplinary artist, mushroom forager in the wintertime. Winner of Diana Jones Emerging Designer Award and co-winner of Indiecade Best Live Game.
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Coda @codahale.com Standing athwart history, yelling Yes Daddy
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.
Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com Father, author, developer, maker. Sometimes called "an inflammatory enigma". #stl #ansible #k8s #raspberrypi #mac #crohns www.jeffgeerling.com
apenwarr @apenwarr.ca wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, atlogin.net, and now Top Chicken @Tailscale.com doing WireGuard mesh. First search result for "epic treatise."
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Warcop @warcop.com Technologist - EFF, Free Software, Big Ethernet
— Mostly Geek/Pretend Analyst
I might say things about Cryptography, Video Codecs, and Vogon Poetry
User #38,062 on Bluesky
Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own.
Check out my blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/
Werner @wernervogels.bsky.social CTO @ Amazon
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
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
Eric Wastl @was.tl Created http://adventofcode.com, http://compute-cost.com, http://anoik.is, http://was.tl/projects/; Principal Architect at https://acvauctions.com
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Phil Spencer - P3 on Xbox @xboxp3.bsky.social Microsoft Gaming
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
Ryan Dahl @tinyclouds.org cofounder of deno and creator of node
https://tinyclouds.org/
https://github.com/ry
https://x.com/rough__sea
Deno @deno.land A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
https://deno.com
daniel holmgren 🫠 (@ ietf 126) @dholms.at just trying to build a little network we can all hang out in
head of protocol @ bsky 🌅
A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social Writer | BEST AMERICAN SFF 2026 | BRAVE NEW WEIRD vol 4 | Stories in Lightspeed / Nightmare / Fantasy | Upcoming in Reactor | More info algoldfuss.com | Newsletter https://buttondown.com/algoldfuss | xe/xir/xem
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
Yuan Tang @terrytangyuan.xyz Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat AI | Open Source Leader at KServe, Argo, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, CNCF | Maintainer of XGBoost, TensorFlow | Keynote Speaker | Author | Technical Advisor
More info: http://terrytangyuan.xyz
We are hiring!
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 @lizrice.com Open Source | Isovalent @ Cisco | eBPF | Cilium | author of O’Reilly books on Container Security and Learning eBPF | AWS Container Hero | music @insidernine.bsky.social
Greg Bray @a-z.dev Customer Engineer at Google Cloud
Formerly: SRE at Reddit, Walmart Labs, and Stack Overflow
http://a-z.dev/story - He/Him - SLC, Utah
Also at https://hachyderm.io/@GBrayUT
ahmet alp balkan @ahmet.dev working on compute infra at LinkedIn.
ex-twitter/googlecloud/azure
dist sys enthusiast
github.com/ahmetb
Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦 @aaronw.dev Open Source Engineering + Developer Relations at Microsoft + Azure ☁️ | Go (@golang.org), Cloud Native, Linux 🐧 🐍 🦀 ☕ 🍷📷 🎹 | Toronto 🇨🇦🌎שלום | 💨😷💉 | https://aaronw.dev/hello/
Matteo Dartez @dartezmatteo.bsky.social Engineering/DevOps @ reverb.com. Lover of dogs, cooking, and travel. Mezzo italiano veneto, amante del rugby, andiamo treviso! Part-time CalTech/JPL professor
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Justin Duke @jmduke.com The Buttondown guy
Greg Wilson @handle.invalid Leader of AWS Documentation, AWS SDKs & CLIs. Formerly Google, Adobe, startup. Opinions are my own.
Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com I do computers. Married to @radkat.fitzpat.com. Three kids. Xoogler.
Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy.
Seattle, WA // Bainbridge
Bridget Kromhout @bridgetkromhout.bsky.social Cloud native open source at Azure. She/her. Likes snow, bicycles, and @joelaha.bsky.social.
Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll.org Principal Engineer at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.
Mark Chmarny @chmarny.com Cloud GPUs at Nvidia. ex Google Cloud, Apple ACS, Azure OCTO. Rabid @Arsenal fan.
Fatih Arslan @arslan.io Software Engineer at PlanetScale. Creator of vim-go. Design addict. Photographer. Previously at GitHub, DigitalOcean.
For longform thoughts follow my blog: arslan.io
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
steve o’grady @sogrady.org helped found redmonk. if you see someone at a tech conference wearing a Red Sox hat, that's probably me. otherwise found in the great state of Maine. wrote the new kingmakers and the software paradox. married to @girltuesday.org. eph.
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev Knuck if you buck practitioner
Carmen H. Andoh @carmatrocity.bsky.social Sociotechnical Systems Debugger.
Cuelang, Xoogler, OSS, DevEx. Go Team + Travis CI Alum. Now at Cisco/Splunk. At the intersection of programming languages, infrastructure, developer experience, tooling, and most important of all: People.
Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com Cofounded @authzed.com. Exited Red Hat, CoreOS.
I build distributed systems, databases, authorization systems, containers, and businesses. NYC transplant in SF.
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
Jordan Lewis @largedatabank.com Sr Director of engineering @ Cockroach Labs.
Brooklyn
Check me out: https://largedatabank.com
The old site: https://twitter.com/largedatabank
authzed @authzed.com Authorization that scales
👷♂️ Creators of https://spicedb.io
💫 Inspired by Google's https://zanzibar.tech
🧡 YC W21
Read about how OpenAI securely connects enterprise knowledge with ChatGPT by using AuthZed: https://authzed.com/customers/openai
Barak Michener @barakmich.bsky.social 
Prometheus Monitoring @prometheus.io The leading open-source monitoring solution - prometheus.io
CockroachDB @cockroachdb.bsky.social A distributed SQL database designed for speed, scale, & survival.
🪳 Meet CockroachDB: https://cockroa.ch/db
🎓 Learn for free: https://cockroa.ch/u
🎧 Listen: https://cockroa.ch/cast
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
Heidi Howard @heidihoward.bsky.social 
Electrified Filth @ak47.io tylerneely.com
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
Richard Bishop @richardb.bsky.social Distributed systems, databases, and the foundational primitives for better (more robust, efficient, accessible) computing.
Currently at Snowflake building managed Postgres. Formerly Crunchy Data and AWS.
Mark Brown @markjbrown.com I work on the Azure Cosmos DB team.
❤️ Distributed systems and databases.
Helping developers design for infinite scale.
Brent Ozar @brento.bsky.social I make databases go faster. I love teaching, travel, laughing, and collecting vintage sports cars. Las Vegas. He/him, pan.
@dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems.
Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com Author of High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, Staff Engineer, Consultant, Speaker
andyatkinson.com/pgrailsbook
PlanetScale @planetscale.com The database platform built for scale. Postgres and Vitess/MySQL.
https://planetscale.com
Discord: http://discord.gg/pDUGAAFEJx
Status: http://planetscalestatus.com