Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 100 years of poetry, essays, fiction, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland.
Class-conscious science fiction. Unionize the world.
Christian "Schepp" Schaefer @schepp.dev Nick: Schepp | Into Front-End & WebPerf | Co-Host https://workingdraft.de | Co-Organizer https://fronteersconf.org, https://www.meetup.com/webworker-nrw & https://css.cafe | Co-Author https://wir-zaehlen.com
beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere. Next event: Düsseldorf, April 27–28
Marc Thiele @marcthiele.com Founder/organiser of beyond tellerrand (@beyondtellerrand.com). Co-Founder of Smashing Conference.
Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud Web aficionado, Cloud inhabitant, CSS devotee, Svelte superfan
Rachael Bolton @tokenisedhuman.com Exploring what it means to be human in a world increasingly measured in tokens. Writing about AI, work, and the future of our digital souls.
Check out my Substack 👉 tokenisedhuman.com/subscribe
Abolish ICE @lizzz.bsky.social Writing and worrying | MATRIARCHY NOW
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Aubrey Clark @aubreyclark.me ✍️ Writer | 📝 Blogger | 💻 Web Developer | 👩👧👦 Mom of 2 | 🐈 Cat Lover | I write stories, build websites, drink 2 cups of coffee a day ☕☕, and pet cats whenever I'm too lazy to do anything.
poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social poorly drawing cats since 2016
✉️ hey@poorlycatdraw.com
https://poorlycatdraw.carrd.co/
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Indie Voices · Authors & Books @metareelz.com Notes from the margins of the book world.
Indie stories, wandering writers, soft recommendations, quiet conversations.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1281628-indie-voices-authors-books
Tumblr:
https://www.tumblr.com/communities/indie-books
Sharon Burton @sharonburton.bsky.social Inland SoCal woman, having a great time. My current project is editing a series of books about regular people who created the technology of our lives. See XMLPress.net for details or buy the latest book at a.co/d/0gDZKOhN.
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction
https://freeflashfiction.com/
Michelle Barker @michellebark.bsky.social Senior #editor at DarlingAxe.com. Award-winning #author, Ironman #triathlete. michellebarker.ca
Dave Letorey @letorey.co.uk Organiser: https://londonwebstandards.org
Dancer: Gigs/Clubs/Festivals
Owner: https://code-red.uk
Wearer: Red Hats
Andy Davies @andydavies.me PM for Web Observability by day
Vegetable grower… Eurorack synth dabbler… Bristol Bears Women’s fan by night
https://andydavies.me
Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com Google Developer Expert | Front-end Developer at iO | blog owner https://utilitybend.com | guest writer at Smashing Magazine | father | geek | photography enthousiast | oklchroma.utilitybend.com
Cory Dransfeldt @coryd.dev Husband, dad, developer, music nerd.
Engineering, music, automation, general nerdery, #tattoos and rescue dogs.
Pronouns: he/him/his
🌐 coryd.dev
🎧 coryd.dev/music
📚 coryd.dev/reading
📖 coryd.dev/feeds
Chris Adams @mrchrisadams.net Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my posts. A member of climateAction.tech, and I work at the Green Web Foundation.
@mrchrisadams on most of the social networks
Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social Volunteer @djangoproject.com, core team @wagtail.org, engineering @torchbox.com. Accessibility, AI, climate action
Alja Isakovic @iAlja @ialja.bsky.social Improving tech & education with imagination, innovation, and inclusivity. Rethinking the stories we tell in tech and elsewhere. 🏳️🌈 (She/they)
ℹ️ https://ialja.com
💬 https://blog.ialja.com/
🌳 ✨ 💻
Graham Lally @scribe6.bsky.social Longer-term tech: Software systems health and sustainability. Games and society. Rituals and mysteries.
ex @6loss on x.
https://groundlake.org
https://exmosis.net
Philip Silva @silva.ph Freelance Software Engineer based in Berlin
Working with Web, Go, Linux (also interested in OpenBSD, Plan 9)
silva.ph
Chris Pointon @chrispointon.bsky.social Internet entrepreneur and technologist | FRSA
Laura James @laurajames.eurosky.social Adaptable, empathetic engineering leader
👩🏻💻 VP Research at F-Secure
☕️ director at CoFarm.co & nowplaythis.net & Green Web Foundation
Past: doteveryone.org.uk, makespace.org, okfn.org + more ➡️ lbj.org.uk
X:LaurieJ
More on @Laura@social.coop or LBJ.org.uk
Andy @andy.sitegeistwebservices.com Work in digital sustainability
Rest with a good book
Play in the forests, mountains, lakes and my kitchen
Maggie Hunt @maggierphunt.bsky.social Neurodivergent sad beige dev. Trying to read more.
I also like to talk about sustainable tech, global injustice, and vodka. #techfornewbies and #legacysystems blogs https://maggierphunt.medium.com
Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca Open Standards & Practices lead at @CivicActions.com | #Drupal #Accessibility | Digital Services Coalition Board | @w3c Invited Expert #SustainableWeb #ARRM | http://ox.ca | #SolarPunk #Quaker #Feminist #Canadian #WebAlmanac #IAAPCPWA
#UNOpenSourceWeek
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Adam Kuhn @cobrawinfrey.dev creative developer @ Mangomint // animation, CSS & whimsical web enthusiast // Asheville, NC
sometimes making useless things at codepen.io/cobra_winfrey
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
No DMs
Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co Helping people fall in love with CSS
📺 https://YouTube.com/@kevinpowell
✉️ https://kevinpowell.co/newsletter
Jhey ʕ·ᴥ· ʔ @jhey.dev designing interfaces. engineering experiences.
many can build it. few can explain it.
@shopify brand design studio
👰♀️ @seaotta.dev
Piccalilli @piccalil.li Level up your front-end skills. Stay for the approachable, friendly content and go away with transferable skills you can use day to day.
https://piccalil.li
Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com I build tools for devs and designers: @Polypane.app, FixA11y, Superposition | Electron governance member | He/him
Mayank @mayank.co front-of-the-front end developer.
usually writing CSS or listening to prog (or both).
they/them
Ryan Mulligan @ryanmulligan.dev Passenger through space and time, front-end web builder & bittersweet songs enthusiast. CSS is always on my mind. he/him
🫣 https://ryanmulligan.dev
CSS Weekly @cssweekly.com Helping you stay up to date with CSS.
🎥 YouTube: https://cssw.io/youtube
⚜️ Mastering Linting: https://cssw.io/lint
🏷️ CSS Stickers https://cssw.io/stickers
Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com 👨🏻💻 Front end dev at Red Hat on Ansible Automation Platform. Author of CSS in Depth. he/him
🌐 https://keithjgrant.com https://notes.keithjgrant.com
📖 https://www.manning.com/books/css-in-depth-second-edition
🐘 https://front-end.social/@keithjgrant
Geoff Graham @geoffgraham.me Shower thoughts and sweet nothings. Also @css-tricks.com
Jules Miocene @miocene.io Product Designer. UX Engineer. Pure CSS Animator. Speaking about CSS and designing in the browser. Web Google Developer Expert.
https://miocene.io
https://youtube.com/@julia_miocene
📍Amsterdam
Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social Same me, another platform. Authentic Transylvanian vampire. I sometimes code stuff. May involve some Maths. I enjoy music mandatory religion classes warned me about. And other things that may kill me.
Interaction mostly restricted.
anatudor.codeberg.page
OddBird @oddbird.dev Web designers & developers - working on client web applications, open source tools, the CSS specifications, and front-end training:
- OddBird.dev
- css.OddBird.net
- youtube.com/@WingingItOddBird
Ben Evans @ivorjetski.bsky.social CSS Weirdo
CSS Artist
CSS Crimes
C̶̞͎̯̦̜͙ͫ̓͘S͔̟̀̓S̵͈̠͒̓ͣ̈̌ͧ͂ͮ̕_̤_̷̢̡̱̭͓̮͉̻̳̞̞͙ͫ͊̾ͧͮͬ͛ͮͧͧ̿͘̚͝͞ A̡̧͕̤̭̠͎̳͖̮̹̋̌̃ͦ͗ͥͦͪͦ͐̉̅̅̏͟͜͢_͓͕͕͓̋R̡̖̠ͪͯ̑̆ͩ̀̒̎͢T̚
Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com Designer & developer. Creator of Kirby CMS
Simon Pollard @smp303.bsky.social Music loving, guitar playing grumpy web developer
Nicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social WebKit Engineering Manager at Apple. Ex-Google Chrome, ex-NPM. OOCSS, CSSLint. CSSConf founder, speaker. Climber 🧗, knitter, disabled zebra. Probably riding the hobby carousel 🎠. 🏳️🌈 she/her @stubbornella on Twitter
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
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. 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.
Taylor Poindexter @engineeringbae.bsky.social Engineering Manager @ Spotify💚
Black Code Collective co-founder ✊🏾
Scuba Diver 🧜🏽♀️🤿
Whiskey expert — IG: womanwithwhiskey
Adventurer 🗺️
sophie alpert @sophiebits.com you have the ability to understand things
principal engineer, react person, super gay, still masking
Kathleen McMahon @resource11.bsky.social Engineer • Designer • Speaker
a11y • design tokens • JS things
cat herder • costume wrangler
she/her
https://kathleenmcmahon.dev
val head @vlh.bsky.social Author of Designing Interface Animation 📕 Always likes dogs. Sometimes likes running. Principal Designer at Adobe. (Opinions mine.)
Heather Buchel @heather-buchel.com Sr. Front-end Engineer, Accessibility. Aggressive keyboard navigation tester. Fighter of bright ideas. Hater of delight. MMO gamer. Brooklyn. she/her. Opinions are my own.
Masto: https://hachyderm.io/@hbuchel
Web: https://heather-buchel.com
Katie Langerman @katielangerman.com Design Systems at OpenAI. Previously GitHub and Atlassian.
www.katielangerman.com
Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com I'm a programmer and writer who loves to learn about the world. Engineering Manager @ Mangomint. I enjoy talking about code, writing, photography, and life. Falo portugués. Married to @rmwardell.bsky.social
https://lindsaykwardell.com
Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social She/her
Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter.
amyhupe.co.uk
wearefrankly.co
#DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
Carie Fisher @cariefisher.bsky.social 😻 Accessibility @ GitHub
🎮 XR + AI
💻 Recovering frontend dev
✨ Star Wars fan (obviously)
💁♀️ she/her
Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & Webkit. #PwME
Charis @charismagic.studio 🗺️ NL born, after 10 years in HK, summering in The Netherlands and wintering in Bangkok.
💕 Doing all things SmashingConf.
🌃 Dumpling eater and skyscraper admirer.
👩💻 Still building websites and loving it.
🧍♀️ Also love food, travel, games and Ferdi 🐈⬛
Geri Reid @gerireid.com Everyone’s fave goth Mom.
Lead Accessibility Specialist at Just Eat. Design systems and nerdery. Be kind ❤️
gerireid.com
Elly Loel @elly.lol ellyloel.com
queering the web.
trying to make things less shit.
#WebDesigner / #DesignEngineer ( #Accessibility #DesignSystems )
#WebPlatform & #WebStandards ( #HTML #CSS )
#Queer, #Disabled & #Neurodivergent ( #AuDHD #POTS )
see pinned post for more.
Mia @mialoira.bsky.social Maker, gardener, Airstreamer • Designdept.co
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. 
Angie Jones @angiejones.tech Tech's Favorite Auntie
VP Eng, AI Tools & Enablement @ Block
#techgirl1908
Kristen M Thayer @kristenmthayer.bsky.social Software Engineer, Manager, Teacher. Seattleite. Old enough that I can hear the sound of dial-up internet when I close my eyes, young enough to care about up-to-date emoji usage. Kindness and joy are important. (Opinions my own). She/her. 
Juli Sombat @jsombat.bsky.social Leading Design systems (product design) at Spotify, lives in Brooklyn, loves books and @motoveli.bsky.social
Katerina Skroumpelou 🐈 @psyber.city Software engineer @supabase.com - cats and feminist - psyber.city
Lene @lenesaile.com Independent web designer and front-end developer living in Madrid.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Karlijn Löwik @karlijnlowik.bsky.social CEO & Co-founder @RUMvision | Simplifying web performance | Women in tech advocate | Toddler mom | International speaker | Lover of memes | Co-chair RUM W3C | Board member Mage-OS NL
Feels like this bio is getting really long😅
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
💗💜💙
Cassidy @cassidoo.co Making memes, dreams, & software!
Sr. Director of Dev Advocacy at GitHub. Married to a dweeb and mom to a nerdy toddler + baby combo. She/Her ✝️ CHI 🏠
Subscribe to my newsletter!
cassidoo.co/newsletter
Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com I make websites and maybe games?
Blogging at http://joshwcomeau.com.
He/Him 🌈
Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net The main thing = @codepen.io
Personal site = https://chriscoyier.net
Podcast = https://shoptalkshow.com
Bend, Oregon
Wes Bos @wesbos.com Fullstack Dev ❯ JS⚛ CSS Node ❯ JavaScript30.com ❯ wesbos.com/courses ❯ 🔥 Tips ❯ Podcast @syntax.fm
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
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me I make things for making things.
@leaverou@front-end.social on Mastodon, @leaverou elsewhere
https://lea.verou.me
Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com Developer of sorts at @webdevs.firefox.com, but this is my personal account. No thought goes unpublished. He/him.
Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev Shopify design-engineer
🎙️ co-host on @whiskey.fm 🥃
prior Google Chrome, Google Cloud, CSSWG, CSS Podcast, Bad @ CSS
Creator of VisBug, open-props.style, prop-for-that, gradient.style, transition.style & more
UI, UX, CSS, HTML, JS
https://nerdy.dev
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
Andy Bell @bell.bz Founder at: @set.studio and @piccalil.li
Complete CSS Course: https://complete-css.com
Studio: https://set.studio
CSS Book: https://every-layout.dev
Newsletter: https://piccalil.li/the-index/
🔗 https://bell.bz/links/
🌐 https://bell.bz
🌍 Cheltenham, UK
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk Content lead for Chrome Web Developer Relations. Opinions (and cats) my own.
Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website #accessibility / #a11y advocate, post enjoyer.
🌐 https://ericwbailey.website/
✉️ https://ericwbailey.website/newsletter/
David Darnes @darn.es Senior Engineer working on Polaris at Shopify
Previously: @zeroheight.com, Nord Design System, @ghost.org.
Clients: Google, @buffer.com and @netlify.com.
[he/him]
https://darn.es
https://designsystems.wtf
#DesignSystems, #WebComponents & #Frontend
Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol Fronty-front end developer. Extremely online since 1998!
I'm a cis het elder millennial mum of 2, she/her. I like bikes, buses, trains and inclusivity.
♿✊🏿🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🚲
(see also @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy - bridged Mastodon account)
Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com 💾 Web Developer
🔗 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
💨 https://speedlify.dev/ for WebPerf
Aaron Parecki @aaronpk.com #OAuth #IndieWeb
Stephanie Eckles @5t3ph.bsky.social (she/her) ✨ a11y • CSS • HTML • 11ty • Design Systems
Max Böck @mxb.dev 🛠️ builds stuff for the web
✨ co-founder codista.com
✏️ writes at mxb.dev
🎉 curates whimsical.club
Alex Russell @infrequently.org Trying to make a web that works for everyone.
Also at https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff
For more: https://infrequently.org/about-me/
https://infrequently.org/
Scott Jehl @scottjehl.com Web Designer/Dev. Accessibility & Performance Fan. Mediocre surfer.
Engineer: Squarespace Performance & Accessibility
My Web components course: $25 if you use the code TWENTYFIVE https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/
scottjehl.com
Jeremy Keith @adactio.com Mediocre middle-aged white man from Ireland living in Brighton, England working with Clearleft.
I play traditional Irish music on mandolin and I play slide bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.
https://adactio.com
Sia Karamalegos @sia.codes Freelance web developer & performance engineer. Speaker, writer, teacher, tech community organizer. Google Dev Expert in web technologies, ex-Shopify. she/her. Durham, NC, USA.
Tech: sia.codes
Non-tech: offline.sia.codes
Art/photos alt: @sia.studio