Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com Keyword, buzzword, half-truth, adjective, hey look at me! (founder of two unicorns: http://WPEngine.com, http://SmartBear.com).
Writing for 18 years at: https://longform.asmartbear.com
Tekin Süleyman ☕️ @tekin.co.uk He/Him | Ruby & Rails consultant | Git wrangler
Founder of @jointogether.online co-operative
Organiser of @nwrug.org
tekin.co.uk
Manchester, UK
JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com I write about tech + humans + philosophy
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social Rails core, Ruby committer, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom.
Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca Customer research for founders & PMs
https://sharpen.page
Creator
https://readwith.app
Weekly post for software creatives:
https://everyonewantsprogress.com
Carmine Paolino @paolino.me Founder https://chatwithwork.com | Author https://rubyllm.com | Previously https://freshflow.ai & @turinginst | Produces music as Crimson Lake
Genadi Samokovarov @gsamokovarov.bsky.social Father of two, one with LAMA2. Software developer and organizer of @balkanruby, @rubybanitsa, and others.
Steve McLeod @steveofmcleod.com Buy my book! "Kill the HiPPO: How bootstrapped software companies decide what feature to build next."
Find it at killthehippo.com or on Amazon.
My personal site: steveofmcleod.com
Szymon Fiedler @szymonfiedler.bsky.social I build software I’m willing to maintain for years. Payments, insurance, DDD. RailsEventStore maintainer. Arkency. wroclove.rb co-organizer.
@yujiyokoo.bsky.social @yujiyokoo.bsky.social 
Rosa @rosa.codes 🇪🇺 European ❤️ cities, maths, theoretical computer science, learning languages, puzzles & bicycles 🐶 Human to Mochi 👩🏻💻 Principal programmer @ 37signals - she/her - Antwerp 🇧🇪 / Madrid 🇪🇸
Tyler King @tylerking.app Professional hater. Co-founder / CEO of Less Annoying CRM. I talk about bootstrapping, tech, entrepreneurship, and business practices that annoy me.
Podcast: startuptolast.com
📍St. Louis, MO, USA
Balkan Ruby @balkanruby.bsky.social Balkan Ruby is about the long term. April 25-26, 2025, in Sofia, Bulgaria #balkanruby
Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social Everlasting student · Rails Core · Zeitwerk · Freelance · Life lover
Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev Software Engineer.
Born to write Elixir,
Forced to work with Ruby on Rails.
@nateberkopec.bsky.social @nateberkopec.bsky.social 
Christoph Lupprich @christoph.luppri.ch Father of two. Freelance software engineer. Avid runner.
Leave this world a little better than you found it.
#Ruby #RubyOnRails #ElixirLang #Running
Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com Product Engineer. Ruby / Hotwire. Aspiring polymath; designer, developer, writer, maker, creator, gamer and aviator. Occasionally stream on Twitch and YouTube.
Raul Popadineți @raulonrails.bsky.social dad of one 👧🏻
💅 https://buzzketeer.com
🧘♂️ https://calmcompanies.club
✨ https://ogpilot.com
🚀 https://gitdigest.ai
🎯 http://squingo.com
🗃️ https://oneoffinvoice.com OSS
🕴🏻 Gumroad alumni
✍️ https://world.hey.com/raulp
Dennis Paagman @dennis.paagman.dev Freelance full stack stack Ruby on Rails dev — http://paagman.dev
Julian Cheal @juliancheal.dev Quaffer of fine coffee. Aficionado of tweed.
Maker of musics https://soundcloud.com/juliancheal
Crafter of codes
Helping fix the climate with https://www.protect.earth/
Josef Strzibny @strzibny.name Indie hacking tendencies. Author of Deployment from Scratch and Kamal Handbook.
Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me 🏴+🇲🇹 he/him.
🇳🇱 Immigrant.
🐿️ Friend to animals.
⚙️ Software engineer.
🌞 Aspiring to be a good human.
🌎 https://schembri.me
Ronan Limon Duparcmeur @2-45.pm “A delightful blend of existential dread and dad humor, seasoned with tech geekery.”
Matthew Ford @matthewford.bsky.social Co-founder @ Bit Zesty - software design, development, support agency - Ruby on Rails, JS, Python, Elixir/Phoenix and ReactNative.
👨🏽💻 Fractional CTO and technical advisor
🎮 Part-time gamer
🪴 Amateur gardener
🍺 Brewer of kombucha
André Arko @indirect.io thought misleader at cuberule.com
tired of saying https://actually.men
community gem server at https://gem.coop
ruby tools and consulting at https://spinel.coop
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)
Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social Cofounder of SparkToro, Alertmouse, & Snackbar Studio. Geraldine's husband.
Yasar @celep.bsky.social infra, distributed sys, ruby
Kyle Nolan @kylenolan.dev 🧑💻 Bootstrapping https://projectionlab.com
📈 Currently $1M+ ARR
Vehbi Sinan @nevst.bsky.social 
Adrien Poly @adrienpoly.com CTO @plume-app Rails/JS aficionado. Creator of StimulusUse and rubyevents.org
Nico Jeannen @jeannen.com Made 17 apps in 12 months & sold 2 for $265,000
I like making ads
http://TestIt.so, http://MakerAds.guide, http://SalesPopup.io, http://Talknotes.com (sold)
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
erdalsson @erdalsson.bsky.social Sr. digital designer turned tensor whisperer, based in Amsterdam.
Konnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com dude on the internet
Marvin Danig @marvindanig.com lousy guitarist. css engineer. book maker. open formats & web standards.
onto memories now.
I'm building Achiral ☞ https://achiral.ai
TablePlus @tableplus.com Modern, native, and friendly GUI tool for relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite & more
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Joel Gascoigne @joel.is Founder CEO of @buffer.com. Building a long term, independent, profitable business with big ambitions, focused on value for customers and team.
https://joel.is
Christian Genco @gen.co Cofounder of rootabl.com. Founder of fileinbox.com. More at christian.gen.co
RubyEvents.org @rubyevents.org Stay up to date with the latest Ruby events from around the world. RubyEvents is your go-to companion for events, talk recordings, and discovering speakers.
https://www.rubyevents.org
Richard Schneeman @schneems.bsky.social - Possibility space explorer 🚀
- Open source teacher and author https://howtoopensource.dev.
- Ruby 3.2+ core committer
- Creator of https://www.CodeTriage.com.
- (he/him)
Y’all means all
@friendlyrb.com @friendlyrb.com 
Stephen Margheim @fractaledmind.bsky.social 
Olly Headey @olly.world 8-bit hippy. post-modern victorian. pagecord foundling.
tweets auto delete. get ‘em while they’re hot 🔥
olly.world
pagecord.com
Ben Sheldon @bensheldon.bsky.social I help small teams do big things and help big teams have big impact. And I build GoodJob, Day of the Shirt, Panlexicon, and Brompt too.
Fatih Arslan @arslan.io Software Engineer. Creator of vim-go. Design addict. Photographer. Previously at PlanetScale, GitHub, DigitalOcean.
For longform thoughts follow my blog: arslan.io
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
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
Yaroslav Shmarov @yarotheslav.bsky.social Learn Hotwire Native & Launch your Rails app on mobile ➡️ https://superails.com/playlists/turbo-native
Stanislav (Stas) Katkov @skatkov.com Linux on desktop is happening. I'm permanently building something.
http://devtui.com and http://poshtui.com
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Arvid Kahl @arvidkahl.bsky.social Building https://podscan.fm so that people and brands can track their mentions on podcasts.
I write, podcast & make videos in public. Calmly.
Bootstrapping: https://arvid.link/sold
Audience-First: https://arvid.link/embedded
Audience-Building: https:
Pouya Saadeghi @saadeghi.bsky.social Web developer, creator of daisyUI
https://daisyui.com
#CSS #TailwindCSS #JavaScript #Svelte
Jane Portman @uibreakfast.com Co-founder of Userlist 🌀 SaaS email marketing is the game. Keep them short.
lesley.pizza @handle.invalid Building Newsletter Glue, EventKoi (launching soon), and a bunch of other stuff.
Earnest, friendly, slightly snarky. Mostly harmless. (she/her)
Frabr @frabr.lasercats.fr Ruby stalker, lasercats developer
Marie Martens @mariemartens.me Bootstrapping @tally.so, the simplest way to create forms since 2020. Sharing our journey with you every step of the way.
More thoughts on → blog.tally.so
Dave Copeland @davetron5000.com Author of BrutRB, our last best hope for Rubykind (https://brutrb.com) - former Mood Health, Stitch Fix, LivingSocial, Opower. I play bass and love to scuba dive.
Jonathan Markwell @jot.is Product at Urlbox
Advisor & Supporter of B2B SaaS in Sussex, UK.
Coworking at The Skiff
Newsletter: Brighton Dynamic
Building my next SaaS on Rails.
Buford @castingcall.club Creator of
https://www.castingcall.club
https://www.closingcredits.com
https://www.videomancy.com
https://www.shosay.com
Angel Investor
Founding eng of https://www.reforge.com
First 10 at https://www.eventbrite.com
I wish I was a voice actor.
Lianna Patch @punchlinecopy.com saas website and email copy that doesn’t suck. ranked #1 for "funny copywriter" (i killed all the others)
www.punchlinecopy.com
Amanda Perino @amandabrooke.bsky.social 
tapster @mileswoodroffe.com CTO | Software Engineer | Rails Foundation Director | Rubyist | Ex-Sound Engineer | Runner | https://1500cals.com
https://mileswoodroffe.com
Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com Sincere poster. No cynicism. Dad to two sets of twins! Co-founder of tryhardstudios.com
- https://MasteringPostgres.com
- https://HighPerformanceSQLite.com
- https://screencasting.com
- https://mostlytechnical.com
- https://aaronfrancis.com
Joel (1 syllable) @jayroh.dev 👨👩👦 Dad, Husband, Son, Human
🐶 #EnglishBulldog Dad (also)
👨💻 Eng Manager
🌇 Ex-(thoughtbot, meditatehappier, dribbble)
🛠️ Building - joeloliveira.com, other fun stuff
🍻 #movies #tv #comics #coding #ruby #rails #selfhosting
🏀 👉 @jroholi.day
Tim Riley @timriley.info Rubyist. Leading Hanami, Dry, Rom.
Canberra, Australia. he/him.
https://timriley.info/
Adrian Marin @adrianthedev.com Building the best dev-tools for Rails developers 🙌
Father, developer, aspiring entrepreneur
#conferencehost 👉 @friendlyrb.com
#indiedev 👉 @avohq.io
#podcast 👉 http://friendly.show
OKURA Masafumi @okuramasafumi.com A Rubyist.
Roy Tomeij @roy.io Founder · Operator · Advisor · Investor | https://roytomeij.com | Board member @AppSignal.com
Oli Woods @oli-aukus.bsky.social Co-founder at PreProduct. Passionate about product design, web dev, Ruby/Rails and building software companies.
Building at: https://preproduct.io and https://context-link.ai/
Lily Ray 😏 @lilyray.nyc SEO by day, DJ by night - S Gregory Brown [MOVED, SEE BIO] @skillstopractice.com No longer here.
Find me on Mastodon instead:
https://mastodon.social/@skillstopractice
Or if you don't use Mastodon, you can follow my bridged account here on Bluesky:
@skillstopractice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Dan Rowden @danrowden.com Building Codelet.co, a usage-based billing layer for Stripe and Paddle.
Developer Experience Engineer at loops.so
James Ivings @jivings.world Bootstrapping products while travelling around the world! 🌊⛵🌍
🙅♂️ Easily unsubscribe from emails 👉 https://leavemealone.com
Can Burak Çilingir @canb.net about me: 2 games: lemmings, factorio.
Zed @zed.dev A next-generation code editor that enables high-performance collaboration with AI and your team.
zed.dev
Lukas Hermann @lukashermann.dev Building https://stagetimer.io & https://rundownstudio.app ⋆ Bootstrapping to $1M ARR → Then $100M ARR → Then Moonshot Project ⋆ Daydreamer
(Previously @_lhermann on the old place)
Brian Lovin @brianlovin.com Co-founder of Campsite
Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me Working on Playbit https://playb.it/ . Designer of Figma, Inter, Spotify. Software painter. https://rsms.me/
Nate Hopkins @hopsoft.bsky.social Software writer, maker. Creator of several Ruby and JavaScript libraries.
Christina @cszhu.dev devrel @ google cloud ai :)
chaotic good
Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com Work: CTO, Quantum Inventions.
Also: Councillor, ITS Singapore.
Opinions: Own.
Posts: ITS/ Transportation, Ruby, Rails, Windows, Tech, Programming, Life, Languages & Oddballs.
Kevin Ko @kokev.in Founder/dev @ mightyscout.com - $100k+ MRR SaaS Hacker, 100% bootstrapped.
I enjoy helping founders find passion and purpose in their life's work.
Tokyo, SF, NYC-based 🇯🇵 🇺🇸
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social Aka @mentalizer from Twitter.
Rails OG, web application developer, consultancy owner, sailor, and dad joke appreciator.
Building substancelab.dk, frontlobby.dk, skrift.eu, writes at mentalized.net
Good Enough @goodenough.us Good Enough is a team effort to make the web a little more interesting. Building useful, well-made software since 2022.
https://goodenough.us
James Adam @lazyatom.com Building Jelly, a shared mailbox for the rest of us: https://letsjelly.com
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Daniel Legut @devmandan.bsky.social I like Computer Vision. I like python. Currently obsessed with QR codes. You can go checkout how obsessed I am with QR codes over at humanQR.com
Marcin Doliwa @handle.invalid Rails dev by day, indie hacker by night. Building coloring pages generator for Polish kids at https://kolorobot.pl
Tim Wong @t31k.bsky.social Indie Hacker
🍔 calorieasy.app
❤️ rentagf.com
kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
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.
Paul Campbell @paulca.com Co-founder and CEO of Team Tito.
Tito is an Irish company that makes:
- Tito (https://ti.to) for event registration
- Vito (https://vi.to) for online communities
- Tito Pro (https://pro.tito.io) for branded experiences
CJ Avilla @cjavilla.bsky.social 
Kirill So @kirso.bsky.social ⭐ On sabbatical
🤖 www.MakeKeepsake.com | www.AiWorkIndex.com
💭 http://kirillso.com
💸 Tiny cheques @Replit @CalmFund
🌏 Global citizen
Colleen Schnettler @leenyburger.bsky.social Rails developer, startup founder. Accidentally started 3 businesses.
https://www.bitmappeddesigns.com
https://www.simplefileupload.com
Oğulcan Girginç @ogirginc.bsky.social Ruby & Rails ❤️
Ronnie Liew @ronnieliew.bsky.social