pvh @pvh.ca just this guy, you know? (director of research @ ink & switch, coined "local-first", contributor to automerge, former postgres guy, heroku staff, ex-game developer, arctic oceanographer.)
Alex Good @patternist.xyz I work on local-first software, currently building Automerge at Ink and Switch. Find me at patternist.xyz
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingertips
and turn my flittery feelings into multimedia.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto
@inkandswitch.com Δ research
feelingof.com Δ podcast
ivy.boo Δ myself
she / hrt 🏳️⚧️
ab 🇨🇦
Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com Malleable software @inkandswitch.com
prev PhD @csail.mit.edu
geoffreylitt.com
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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
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com Programmer & researcher, co-creator of https://ohmjs.org. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
Co-author of https://wasmgroundup.com — learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript.
Prev: CDG/HARC, Google, BumpTop
Szymon Kaliski @szymonkaliski.com independent consultant, designing and developing computational interfaces; currently prototyping at Google Research and Google Creative Lab
https://szymonkaliski.com
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com I explore the interfaces with which we think & the future of personal computing: alexanderobenauer.com
I also make books: buddybindery.com
seaofclouds @seaofclouds.com
Paul Sonnentag @paulsonnentag.bsky.social No more killer apps, kill the app!
Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf 🇨🇦 "Vancouver"
🏳️🌈 Sappho's Roommate 🌸
🏢 @inkandswitch.com
🔰 Always learning
💡 Woke AF
🤝 United we stand, divided we fall
✊ BLM/Land Back/Antifa/Trans Rights/ACAB
❄️ NixOS
🔥 Niri
📝 notes.brooklynzelenka.com
🧶 tangled.org/expede.wtf
🐘 types.pl/@expede
el @elliot.website and visual and creativity and computers and math and
elliot.website
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.
What if we made things a little bit better?
Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com joshuahhh.com
t-shirt size: medium
Alex Warth @alexwarth.bsky.social Principal Investigator at @inkandswitch.com
Formerly at Alan Kay's research groups (YCR/HARC, CDG, VPRI), and Google
Creator of OMeta, co-creator of @ohmjs.org
Automerge @automerge.org Automerge is a library of data structures for building collaborative applications
📚 https://automerge.org/
💬 https://discord.gg/vvnytpgSnr
📆 https://lu.ma/automerge
Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development. 12th Nov2025 in SF.
https://syncconf.dev/ | View talks: https://tinyurl.com/mr3yzxea
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.
@veribaz.bsky.social @veribaz.bsky.social - N @netology.bsky.social @netology.bsky.social
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.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
Alex Xu @bytebytego.bsky.social Follow me for system design & book-writing tips. | Author of the bestselling book series: ‘System Design Interview’ | Join 350,000+ Readers: blog.bytebytego.com
Kent Beck @kentbeck.com Independent I guess these days you'd say content producer, artist, programmer, musician, pokerist. More about me at https://KentBeck.com.
Russ Cox @swtch.com
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
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.