Kyle Platt @kyleplatt.bsky.social Serial Entrepreneur and Engineer. Trying to maximize life while building cool things. 🇨🇦 Building:
🚀 https://local-leads.ai
🐉 https://getbluepilot.com
🧲 https://tactycs.io
The Panel Podcast @thepanel.bsky.social When it comes to bootstrapping and building software, there's rarely one right answer.
The Panel is a new podcast with a purpose: explore the nuance. We want to move past the easy answers, "drive-by advice," and Twitter gurus.
https://panelpodcast.com/
Teun van Veggel @nuez.io Dad of 2, Freelance fullstack Drupal + Symfony dev. Founder of MapSemble.
Laura Roeder @lauraroeder.bsky.social Honk If You ♥️ SaaS
🥾 I'm the bootstrapped founder of Paperbell (>1m ARR)
🚪 Exited MeetEdgar
✍️ Blogging at https://lauraroeder.com/
🇬🇧 Based in Brighton, UK
Victor @vpon.me Helping devs, founders and designers fix their UI.
100 UI/UX tips (free) 👉 https://vpon.me/hundred
Geri Reid @gerireid.com Everyone’s fave goth Mom.
Lead Accessibility Specialist at Just Eat. Design systems and nerdery. Be kind ❤️
gerireid.com
Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com An online magazine for designers and web developers. Questions? The Smashing Team has your back! Curated by Iris, Vitaly, and the Support team.
Rob Walling @robwalling.com Helping SaaS bootstrappers at @tinyseed.com and MicroConf. Wrote the playbook for SaaS, saasplaybook.com.
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky
Matt Thompson @mthomps4.bsky.social Software architect, mentor, woodworker
#ElixirLang #Rails whatever works…
mthomps4.com
Sean Fioritto @planningforaliens.com Director of Product Engineering at https://sofwarellc.com/. Former bootstrapper. Author of https://sketchingwithcss.com. I write at https://planningforaliens.com
Adam Silver @adamsilverhq.bsky.social Designer with engineering background. I talk about designing products that are intuitive, accessible and delightful to use.
Design newsletter:
https://adamsilver.io/newsletter
Good Design Crash Course (free):
https://adamsilver.io/gdcc
Ted Goas @tedgoas.bsky.social Product designer, design manager @ Dialpad. Washed up email developer.
🔗 tedgoas.com/newsletter
📍 New Jersey on purpose
labelsonhumans @labelsonhumans.bsky.social Digital photography is at one end and pure digital abstraction is at the other.
All are available from my website as hand signed, in small limited edition, museum quality Giclee prints.
www.labelsonhumans.com
('I' not 'ai'.)
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
Jim @bondcliff.bsky.social Outraged, but I don't use Bluesky for that. I'm just here to make my little jokes. One time I made Cow Tools. ⭕️⭕️⭕️ Masshole. (He/Him) More than happy to be your Internet Dad if you need one.
https://www.jimmerullo.com
Tom Bodett @tombodett.bsky.social Biology: 67% lumber 33% nonsense
Biography: Woodworker, Professional Talker.
Confluence Woodcraft LLC @confluencewood.bsky.social Salvaging urban trees and transforming them into custom furniture. As a driver of a circular economy, I use all my scraps to make charcuterie boards, coasters, and earrings.
Online at: Confluencewoodcraft.com
8bitsofnostalgia @8bitsofnostalgia.bsky.social UK based woodworker and artist 🇬🇧🪵🎨
Mostly Pokémon but some Zelda, mario and Digimon too
Commissions open, DM if interested
https://linktr.ee/8bitofnostalgia
𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social Photog, foodie, nature nut, bit of a draw-er, woodworking, Tolkien, things and stuff and whatever. 🇨🇦 Canadian
"Slow down, huh?"
"That's what I recommend. You know how it is. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Time creeps in its petty pace."
LaRoseWoodCraft @larosewoodcraft.bsky.social Second generation woodworker, machinist, TTRPG enjoyer and game master.
Custom handcrafted woodworks
⚒️ https://larosewoodcraft.etsy.com ⚒️
Mick Storm @mickstorm.bsky.social 3d sculpting
VFX
3d software developer
Woodworking.
I do lots of Zbrush and Houdini, and lots of different traditional art as well! Also into Star Trek.
https://linktr.ee/mickstorm
Spoontaneous @spoontaneous.bsky.social "Liberating the spoon from a mere hand-to-mouth existence."
Exploring the creative process within the constraints of the wooden spoon... and sometimes, outside of those constraints.
Alternate profile... @idattu.bsky.social
Becky Barnes - The Wood Wyrm @thewoodwyrm.bsky.social Former Paleontologist, currently woodworking & woodcarving for sanity, cats, lizards, dragons - prone to random projects. Links: https://linktr.ee/TheWoodWyrm
Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Woodworker. www.annleblanc.com
Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Apparition Lit.
Andrew Trevillian @tresvillain.bsky.social Making cool things for beautiful people like you at Robot Circus (A Keywords Studio). Woodworker. Cat Dad. He/him. andytrevillian@gmail.com
“Southern pine inspector” t shirt @yarlesp.bsky.social hrm
Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com Neutral Witch (they/them)
shop: www.galdrecraft.com
about: www.cengaldre.com
paypal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/cmgaldre
kofi: https://www.ko-fi.com/cmgaldre
email: galdre@galdrecraft.com
Jared Gonia @jaredgonia.bsky.social I make stuff. he/him
Pigminted @pigminted.com I do woodworking and have done collaborations with Blizzard, Activision, Intel, Sledgehammer games and more. I am available for work.
Contact me at : pigminted@gmail.com
Work for sale ->https://pigminted.shop/
Mikey P @mikeyp.net Confusing future archeologists since the 1980s.
head of vulture hospitality jaunte @jaunte.bsky.social Artist, graphic designer, wood sculptor, watercolorist. Army and Air Force dad. Between Houston and Austin, a blue spot in the red country.
Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social Organic Salad Farmer near Columbus, OH
#Bowl Carver, #Furniture Maker, Militant Vegetablist, and Dad.
I have made all the gardening mistakes, so you don't have to.
Dm me if you are interested in my work or have a question about gardening.
#Gardening
Moon Creek Woodworking @mooncreek.bsky.social Builder of custom fishing nets, kids toys, and furniture using as much reclaimed wood as I can.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada🍁🇨🇦
socks magocs @socksmagocs.bsky.social | arcade games, woodwork, cosplay, and other bullshit | dept head for
@MAGIndieArcade
| he/him | farts |
Steven Rich @datab.ae just your average deaf narcoleptic man
data for @nytimes.com
wood for databae woodshop
stan for philadelphia
email: steven.rich@nytimes.com
signal: @databae.01
Grant Henninger @granthenninger.com Founding Principal, Mobius Planning || Dad
Working to build verdant cities that provide community, happiness, and prosperity for all residents.
Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social I’m actually very easygoing and chill so shut up
Los Angeles, he/him, bald
Lazergician @lazergician.bsky.social Esports commentator, programmer, pretty good baker, pretty bad woodworker, way too obsessed with my dog
mark burge @markburge.ca 🧰:Red Seal Cabinetmaker
🎭: Long suffering Theatre Technician
🚴:bike commuter
⚜️:Scouter
🎲:TTRPG accessory maker
🎨: charity crafter
https://ko-fi.com/mebmakes
Open to Commissions: but shoot me a message to talk about it.
Vancouver
Lisa Brawn @woodcuts.bsky.social www.lisabrawn.com #creative #woodworker #woodcarving #woodcut #wood #art #artist #PopArt #artgallery #graphicdesign #graphics #maximalism #poodles #dogs #design #bird #wildbirds #birds #birder #birdwatcher #NewHere #follow 
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Alastair Somerville @acuity.design Clarity and kindness as foundations for work. Information perception in physical & digital places. Facilitation and workshop design for codesign and civic assemblies. Public prototyping on BlueSky. He/him
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social Systems. Design.
she/her
Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
dorian @doriantaylor.com make things. make sense.
• methodandstructure.com
• doriantaylor.com
• senseatlas.net
• intertwingler.net
• the.natureof.software
• mastodon.social/@doriantaylor
• youtube.com/@methodandstructure
• buttondown.email/dorian
温哥华🇨🇦多伦多
Nia Campbell @niacampbell.bsky.social Work: NHS Wales App. Member: @transform.wales
Eternal optimist. Goofball. Cymraes. She/her.
Check your boobs. Views mine.
https://medium.com/@niacampbell
Adrián Ortega 🗺️🧭 @adrianortega.bsky.social Existential holistic detective 🇪🇸
User-centred Design @ Digital Public Services Wales (DPSW) 🏴
Views my own, and all that.
www.adrianortega.co.uk
Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social community ecosystem development | knowledge graphs | ontology design | information architecture | practice cultivation
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions ‘26). Prolific knitter. She/her
Emma Chittenden @emmachittenden.com Taxonomist | Ontologist | Systems thinker | Polymath | Nerd | Mother of dog and cat | Feminist | www.murmuration.uk
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
Dr AbsP @absp.bsky.social Former academic, current UX research lead focused on how people communicate online, forever a sociolinguist. Small and loud. She/her
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them
Tim McKenna @timmckenna.design At Work: Senior Director of Product Design. Professional stuff here: https://timmckenna.design/
At Home: TTRPG Games, Drums, Art. Talks about too many interests.
Personal Account / My Views
Noah Fang @kingofark.bsky.social noahfang.ca
ambigram.ca
Design practitioner, author and occasional speaker, working on design, strategy, and organizational transformation. Was creative director, UX/product manager, visual designer, editor, translator, programmer and more.
James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie Art with machines; design at Publicis; enthusiastic cat herder.
www.pilcrow.ie
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
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. 
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Laura Klein @lauraklein.bsky.social Designer, researcher, author.
Treat motivated. 
Guy Segal @guysegal.com Design director working on design systems and people systems.
Can fake a decent guitar riff. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. He/him. Views are my own.
🩷💜💙
I talk to cool design folks on my podcast http://designdowntime.com/
Toronto, ON, Canada
Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co 🇩🇪🇨🇦 Product Experience Leader · Advisor & Speaker · Former VP VW Group · Ex Nokia, SAP · Fortune 500s & Startups
📧 Collaborate? 👉 collabs@bremer.co
👉 bremer.co · linkedin.com/in/wolfgangbremer
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
(headshot by @elaina.bsky.social)
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.
Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com Freelance Tool Design Director, Workflow Consultant @ https://rystorm.com/
Previously Hytale, Apple, Guerrilla, IO-Interactive, and more. Organizes the Tool Design & OpenUSD Roundtables at GDC.
I get really excited about workflows!
Jason Tocci @jst.bsky.social UX nerd and game designer with some stuff at https://jasontocci.itch.io and https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/17901/pretendo-games. Views are my own and not my employer’s. (he/him)
James Callan @scarequotes.com Moviegoer, movie lover. PNW denizen. Word nerd. Ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch. Handy on a trivia team. he/him, cis
Writing about movies to write about me: The Kinogänger newsletter. https://buttondown.com/thekinoganger
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/xrv
Cheryl Platz @funnygodmother.bsky.social Creative Director, TPCi. #PokemonEmployee. Author, Design Beyond Devices & Game Development Strategy Guide. Adjunct @ Carnegie Mellon. Ex-Riot Games, Scopely, MSFT, AMZN, EA, Disney. EDS 🥄. Owner of @ideaplatz.com. Ideas my own. 🏠 https://Cherylplatz.com
Lazear @lazear.bsky.social Designer of user experiences. Rockies baseball fan. Movie Nerd. Views expressed are my own and not an employers. Reposts are not endorsements, but rather a part of a dark ritual to summon Tiamat to our realm and away from the forgotten realms.
Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social “Lacks self control”
- Mrs Duncan (2nd grade)
Product Design + IA + UX etc
ATL / PHL
Love your neighbor as you want to be loved.
Everyone is your neighbor.
🕸️: andrewhinton.com
📖: contextbook.com
🦣: https://jawns.club/@andrewhinton
#ND #ADHD
Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social Content/UX and contemporary archaeology. Human/dog mom. She/her.
Allergic to unwanted advice.
gretared @gretared.bsky.social Indie designer, author, artist, I love music
Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com Bog hag, platform & systems designer chasing tech that’s actually good for people. Proudly antifascist + neurodivergent 💙
Posts self-destruct.
Website: https://annaecook.com/
Newsletter: https://annaecook.com/newsletter
Andy Welfle 🛰️ @andy.wtf Co-author of “Writing is Designing”. Content design + product UX in San Francisco. Pencil podcaster, zine maker, cat petter and Star Trek watcher. Red hot like pizza supper. Black lives still matter. He/him. http://andy.wtf
Randy Au @randyau.com Hobby consultant, 💎🪚🎮🖥️🎙️🎹🎧👨🍳📷🪛➕
Quant UX Researcher
Writes a data newsletter: https://www.counting-stuff.com/
https://linktr.ee/randy_au
Languages: EN/JP/CN
Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social UX Researcher & Strategist, Inclusive Designer in Enterprise UX. Speaker, Author, Mentor & Teacher.
Chaotic neutral tea & CSS lover.
Complaining = being alive.
She/Her 🌈
https://stephaniewalter.design/
http://neurospicy.agency/
Justin Maxwell @303.bsky.social Obsessed w/Roland acid since 1994.
Founded a startup. Used to be a designer, PM, techno/electro producer & other stuff
elizabeth holmes told me to quit with dignity and i didn't and now she is in jail
code404.com
Posts autodeleted every week or so
Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at 20 years ago I killed Flash with my #JavaScript library script.aculo.us. Now mostly petting cats. Also dabbling in #retrocomputing and #astrophotography.
He/him.
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
matto @matthewoliphant.com Buy my books: matthewoliphant.com
Hire me: uxmatto.com
#author, #kdrama, #pdx, #productDesign, #research, #serviceDesign, and #ux.
atautchikun is craic.
Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social Chaotic good (usually). Curious skeptic. Unfucker of clusters. I say what everyone else is thinking. Design is political. I swear because I care. she/her. designinginward.com
sumbunny @summerlee.xyz lvl 32 👾 they/elle 🏳️⚧️ atlantic 🇨🇦
https://bio.site/summer.lee 💗
Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io ⚙️ Research + writing
📘 Author of Research Practice
✏️ Sharing infrequently at http://gregg.io
↗ A work in progress
🤷🏻 http://shoulditalktoahuman.com
Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social Design, UX or Product Researcher based on whichever gets the most traction with stakeholders
BTN/LDN | 🏳️🌈 | he/they | ex-French-person 
Priyanca a11y 🌈 @priyanca.bsky.social Accessibility, inclusive design research #A11y #UX
Loves swimming in nature, rocks in rivers, mint tea, gelato, trees. Art, music, play!
Grew up in the West Country, left to explore cognition & behaviour, returned ND 🌈 she
Shaun @sconner.net 
Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social She/her, queerness as praxis, research as activism, mmanwu-obsessed communist anchoress in training, idk 🏳️🌈🐢🐦
No DMs please, I’m Brit”ish”.
https://finokoye.com
zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social “King of Web Standards”—Businessweek. Ava’s dad. OG web designer. Automattician. Composer. zeldman.com + alistapart.com. Author “Designing With Web Standards.” Founded Happy Cog. Taught MFA IXD @ SVA NYC. Co-founded A Book Apart & An Event Apart (RIP).
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
Applied behavioral science in complex technical systems
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
Emma Parnell @emmaparnell.bsky.social Taking a relational approach to co-designing the services that impact people's lives.
Service design consultant, writer, mentor, public speaker.
Designing over at Design for Joy: designforjoy.co.uk
she/her
Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social Musings on design, product, psychology, society and business. Often discussing good leadership and (remote) orgs. With a side of randomness.
she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Now: Sr. Director of Product Design, Xero / Trustee at TAA
Ex: VP Product, Jetpack / WordPress / Woo
Asia Hoe @asiahoe.com UX Designer armed with curiosity, tenacity, and a serious case of dev envy. I design products for people and speak about societal and ethical impacts of technology. I'm also an avid gamer, and dabble in art, words, and code. (She/Her)
https://asiahoe.com
Julie but Summer Ready 🌅 @sparklyjulie.bsky.social UX Director @ Escape Velocity Entertainment • Prev Bungie, Riot, Epic • Mom friend + mom • Swears a lot but cares a lot • She/her
Michael @makker.bsky.social Graphic Design • Marketing • Web Design | Being a professional creative is awesome! (Until you see Comic Sans in public) 🫥
Creative Director at Makker: www.makker.marketing
Michele Hansen @mjwhansen.com 👩💻 CEO & Co-Founder @Geocod.io
📚 Author of Deploy Empathy, a practical guide to interviewing customers
Free time: bookworm, gymnast, being outside
she/her | 🇺🇸 in 🇩🇰
“genuinely enthusiastic and slightly chaotic” - Claude