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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.
Casey Muratori @cmuratori.bsky.social Programming: computerenhance.com
Comics: meowtheinfinite.com
Luis Crespo @crespo.at Staff SW Engineer at Werfen
Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.
James @43081j.com Lead: @e18e.dev - tinylibs - chai
Maintainer: parse5 - @unjs.io - @bomb.sh - chokidar - @npmx.dev - @vueuse.org - prettier
Sponsor me at github.com/sponsors/43081j
github.com/43081j / Focusing on ecosystem perf & tooling 🥳
John McBride @johncodes.com 🌊 Co-Founder & CTO @papercompute.com 🥡 Prev: Zuplo, Linux Foundation, OpenSauced, AWS, VMware, Pivotal 🕺 https://johncodes.com 🏔️ Denver → CT
Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev 👩💻 Sr Dir of DevRel at @GitHub.
🔥 Grandmother of the first-ever hellthread.
🖨️ Will probably convince you to buy a 3D printer.
boltless @boltless.me I do #rust #swiftui #reactnative #golang #lua #janet or anything I need to make my life better.
I use #neovim btw.
Developer at @tangled.org
GitHub: https://github.com/boltlessengineer
Tangled: https://tangled.org/boltless.me
Blog: https://boltless.me
Andrey Okonetchnikov @okonet.dev UI Engineer specializing in design systems @ https://www.component-driven.dev. Author of 🚫💩 lint-staged. Also Monolisa.dev, colorsnapper.com and more.
Kai 🌟 @kaidav.is Space cowboy. Crafter of artisanal free-range websites and small businesses.
Everything changes. Don’t be afraid.
✨ DoubleYourEcommerce.com
✨ KeywordMagic.ai
✨ TheMagicEmail.com
Eric Ries @ericries.bsky.social Trying to change how startups are built
formerly @ericries on the bird app
New Book coming May 2026: INCORRUPTIBLE: Why Good Companies go bad... And How Great companies Stay Great
Pre-order now and receive exclusive bonuses at: http://incorruptible.co
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.
johanna 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇲🇽🏳️🌈 @jola.dev Software engineer, speaker, tinkerer. I write at https://jola.dev and I work on https://larm.dev.
she/her
Elixir is pretty cool
If you like my work, consider supporting me at https://github.com/sponsors/joladev or https://ko-fi.com/joladev
Arseny Khakhalin @khakhalin.bsky.social Data Scientist in Berlin
Head of Automation in incycling.ai
Former Bard College prof
For my after-work alter-ego, see @elstersen.bsky.social
Support Ukraine! 🇺🇦
sai @texoport.in
dan @danabra.mov dancing for your pleasure
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
FoodPrint @foodprintorg.bsky.social FoodPrint aims to help you understand the full impact of the food that you eat on animals, planet and people 🐄🌎🧑🌾
Learn how to make more sustainable choices: https://foodprint.org/
Ethan Arrowood @arrowood.dev Optimizing Systems, Organizing Communities, Overcoming Summits
Head of Open Source Engineering @ Harper
Collaborator of Node.js, OpenJS Foundation, and Ecma WinterTC
Simon H @dummdidumm.bsky.social Working on Svelte at Vercel / Skateboarding for fun.
Українська Трибуна @ukrainiantribune.bsky.social The Ukrainian Tribune - the view from inside
https://uatribune.com/
http://patreon.com/uatribune | http://buymeacoffee.com/uatribune
Tasting History with Max Miller @tastinghistory.bsky.social
Steve Smith @stevesmithtech.bsky.social Technology leadership | Books leanpub.com/u/stevesmith | Blog stevesmith.tech | Work equalexperts.com | Conf agileonthebeach.com
Suzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social I'm a #nutritionist #herbalist #selfdefenceteacher #adventurer #vegan friend of animals & trees 🐺
Into #nature #books #tea #training #yoga #martialarts #ritual #peace #hiking the path less travelled, and being as far from the madding crowd as possible ☮
The Vegan Search Engine @veevasearch.com https://veevasearch.com
Same search, but with a curated index of the animal friendly web. NY based startup connecting compassionate communities with like-minded causes.
Posts are not general endorsements of the source or indications of relationship.
Astra ⭐ @astrra.space ☆ not a person · psycho sis sandwitch · living in tokyo · i don't struggle with cyberpsychosis i'm pretty good at it actually ☆
operator for:
⭐ @kira.ws
⭐ @personhood.removal.surgery
she, they for prey, it for predators
astrra.space
Mike McQuaid @mikemcquaid.com I'm CTPO at Administrate, Homebrew Project Leader, ex-GitHub Principal Engineer, author of Git in Practice and an OSS and developer productivity leader.
Posting mostly automated from mikemcquaid.com.
If you want me to read your reply: email me instead.
Salty Sea Hag @kasiazoe.bsky.social Gender affirming medicine and abortion is essential healthcare
Health Mafia Professional
Socialist
Gardener Vegan cook
EV driver
Solar panel whare
Autoimmune
Masked always
Green Party
Queer wife
Toitu Te Tiriti
Pro vaccine
Sports averse & thriving
Rosa @rosa.codes 🇪🇺 European ❤️ cities, maths, theoretical computer science, learning languages, puzzles & bicycles 🐶 Human to Mochi 👩🏻💻 Principal programmer @ 37signals - she/her - Antwerp 🇧🇪 / Madrid 🇪🇸
Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
🐘@jack@jackrusher.com
🐦@jackrusher
Ryan Dahl @tinyclouds.org cofounder of deno and creator of node
https://tinyclouds.org/
https://github.com/ry
https://x.com/rough__sea
Onur Ozer @onurozer.me Marketer turned bootstrapper. Learning Ruby and building internet businesses.
cogrid.com - competitor tracking for SaaS
meetlars.com - your AI marketing strategist
apacagencies.com - discover top agencies in asia
I also play drums and bake pizza.
dax @thdxr.com building opencode.ai
Matt Kane @mk.gg 🚀 Astro core team 🧡 Frameworks and dev tools at Cloudflare
Building EmDash, Unpic, Cirrus. @ascorbic in most other places
Tony Millionaire @tonymillionaire.bsky.social Cartoonist, illustrator
www.maakies.com
gabby @fullmoon.id Author of haskellforall.com, dhall-lang.org and @trygrace.dev, professional doggirl and endurance hunter
I'm a midwife to the hidden beauty in everything
she/her 🏳️⚧️ coworkers DNI
https://linktr.ee/gabriella439
💖 @ember.pet
antirez @antirez.bsky.social Reproducible bugs are candies 🍭🍬
I like programming too much for not liking automatic programming.
Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social Cofounder of SparkToro, Alertmouse, & Snackbar Studio. Geraldine's husband.
Oliver Medhurst @honk.foo compiling javascript: https://porffor.dev + browser security
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Fédor Q. @fedorq.bsky.social Cocinero, rescato recetas con raíces en pueblos, doy clases/talleres e investigo sobre alimentos y su papel e importancia en textos sagrados y civilizaciones antiguas. #LaCocinaUne.
Cantabria. Zurdo.
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
Thinky Games @thinkygames.com Discover games you'll love to solve. 🧩 🔎 🗺️
We share new puzzly, problem-solving games.
https://thinkygames.com/
https://thinkygames.com/dailies/
Diana @dianaaceves.com Melómana.
Feministísima.
Pucelana viviendo el sueño asturiano.
Software developer.
Digo muchos tacos aunque me gustaría decir menos.
She/Her
Hugo Tobío @hugotobio.bsky.social Hago que las cosas sucedan - Creativo, Branding, Web, motion - www.hugotobio.com
Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Kipclip 🐔 @kipclip.com Kipclip.com is a simple, open bookmarks app for the AT Protocol. Made by @tijs.org, press: https://kipclip.com/press, support: https://atprotofans.com/support/did:plc:3zzkrrjtsmo7nnwnvhex3auj status: https://kipclip.status.larm.dev/
mrmrs @mrmrs.bsky.social Computational and generative designer https://mrmrs.cc
Hacking on https://oak.space
Pooya Parsa @pi0.io Building opensource stuff ◦ @unjs.io ◦ @nitro.build ◦ @nuxt.com
🌱 github.com/pi0 ❌ x.com/_pi0_
gingerBill @gingerbill.org I'm a Ginger thus I have no soul.
Creator of the Odin Programming Language https://odin-lang.org
Working with JangaFX on EmberGen/GeoGen/LiquiGen
Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social Tech and pictures of nature. Suffolk, UK
nate moore @natemoo.re 💣 building @bomb.sh
🚀 co-creator of @astro.build
🔥 design engineer at @sentry.io
✨ they/them
Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com Indie software developer • math witch • ML builder • 48 • 🏳️⚧️ she/her
Here to make friends and have fun (not argue).
Currently working on friendship software for caring about others.
Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev Principal engineer @ Cloudflare. I talk about tech sometimes
Location: Squamish, BC 🇨🇦
Website: https://jeremymorrell.dev/
Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com Previously, @ideasasylum on Twitter but not active there any more.
Also found on Mastodon: https://ruby.social/@jamie.
Blog: https://jamie.ideasasylum.com
Links: https://www.jamielawrence.me
CTO @ Podia. Swimmer. Ruby developer.
Jon Millican @jonmillican.bsky.social Applied privacy engineer in the UK. Currently at OpenAI. Previously helped to lead end-to-end encryption for Messenger at Meta. he/him
Puzzmo @puzzmo.com puzzles that love you back
a zach gage and orta therox joint
www.puzzmo.com
Zach Gage @stfj.net artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
@folkcomputer.bsky.social @folkcomputer.bsky.social
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
Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social Climate scientist at DMI, Greenland, Antarctica, polar regions in general.
Now migrated to eurosky.social on here.
Mostly on mastodon though @ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
Blogging at sternaparadisaea.net
Nate Butler @nate.rip Making things, writing software • nate.rip • build native & open, share your ideas with the world • future exploration @githubnext.com, ex @zed.dev / fb
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Peter Steinberger @steipete.me vibe coding is the way. I bootstrapped a remote company before it was cool. Founder @PSPDFKit (exit to Insight). 🏳️🌈
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Luke Kanies @luke.kanies.com Founder of Puppet. I helped create DevOps. Writing at https://lukekanies.com/.
Xan López @xanlopez.net • political economy, climate change, open protocols.
• web: xanlopez.net
• work: @institutomeridiano.org, @igalia.com
• words: @corrientecalida.com, amalgama.ghost.io
• voice: @margendemaniobra.net
• signal: xanlpz.02
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation.
App: mu.social
Accounts: move.eurosky.tech
Discover: portal.eurosky.tech
Web: eurosky.tech
Help: eurosky.tech/help
Fund: fund.eurosky.tech
WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social A people-powered community, campaigning for a more equal, sustainable and democratic Europe 🌍✊🌈🌱🗳️
npmx @npmx.dev npmx.dev is a fast, modern browser for the npm registry
get involved at repo.npmx.dev and join us at chat.npmx.dev
Air @air.ms A new private messenger based on Messaging Layer Security (MLS), built by Phoenix R&D. Invite-only for now.
https://air.ms
Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com Father, author, developer, maker. Sometimes called "an inflammatory enigma". #stl #ansible #k8s #raspberrypi #mac #crohns www.jeffgeerling.com
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
support my work: citationneeded.news/signup
links: mollywhite.net/linktree
💗💜💙
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
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Emily Bache @emilybache.com Software Developer, Technical Coach, YouTuber. She/her.
emilybache.com
LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social researcher @google; serial complexity unpacker
ex @ msft & aerospace
Pablo Castro @castrinho18.eurosky.social Staff Software Engineer at Auth0.
YC Alumni (S21), co-Founder of Arengu and internet freedom activist at GPUL & Trackula.
@castrinho8@mastodon.social
@castrinho18 in Twitter
Dragan Stepanović @dstepanovic.bsky.social Trying hard not to think about small batches, bottlenecks, and systems. In the meantime: XP, ToC, Lean, Systems Thinking.
rich harris @rich-harris.dev my life is derp and i do derp shit
Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com Web developer, guitarist, cocreator of Django web framework, tinkerer with digital sheet music encoding and rendering. Currently making Soundslice.
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
patak @patak.cat Open Source Adventurer
Project Steward @npmx.dev
Core @vite.dev @vitest.dev https://elk.zone
Director @stewardshiplab.org
Advisor @e18e.dev
Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com 👩🏾💻: building things @warp.dev, prev: @microsoft.com.
✨: dream big and follow through even bigger.
🏗️: always building something
Wookash Podcast @gameengineering.bsky.social https://youtube.com/@WookashPodcast
Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com Tech lead for workers.cloudflare.com
Also made: capnproto.org, lanparty.house, sandstorm.io
@KentonVarda on Twitter.
Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social Building a game/engine based on signed distance fields
~ Past: rendering lead @figma.com, indie VR dev, founder @ Workflowy, search backend @ Google, Quake modder
miketuritzin.com
Anton Zhiyanov @antonz.org Maintainer at https://github.com/nalgeon. Author at https://antonz.org
selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social An independent ATProto PDS open to the public, no invite code required. Follow for official communications and updates.
This is our slice of the atmosphere.
selfhosted.social
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
Professional open source maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
Standard.site @standard.site Open standards for long-form & site lexicons. We build reusable schemas so the ecosystem can grow together.
To start, view definitions → https://standard.site
Docs → https://standard.site/docs
Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks Galician. Continuous learner. Sometimes grumpy. Expert level in procrastination. I've been turning ideas into software for 20+ years.
Engineering Manager @ Viaplay Group
My opinions are my own and don't express the views or opinions of my employer.
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."
Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at You may know me from the Austrian parliament or national library, "hacktivist", computers this and that.
https://cards-for-ukraine.at
https://www.wired.com/story/heisse-preise-food-prices/
@badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place
https://mariozechner.at
Aleen Rotor @aleenrotor.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 procedural art project by @elenatorro.bsky.social
🌸 studio patternbloom.com
🛠️ building fooorma.com
Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com trying to be christian. feminist. mormon. type theory, PLT
Mobile dev @KhanAcademy
building kipos https://github.com/kipos-lang/kipos
@jaredforsyth on the dead bird site
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.