John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Thomas Hogeling @hogeling.bsky.social Suave as hell
Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social I design games, especially tabletop roleplaying games (Cthulhu Dark, Cosmic Dark). I also write books on storytelling (Play Unsafe) and drift into interactive fiction (39 Steps) and LARP (Will That Be All).
And I love theatre, art and history.
Jonas @joehop.bsky.social Rommelt in de marge als militair historicus. Schrijft af en toe voor @historischnwsbl.bsky.social
jwmuk ⚖️ GrogLaw 17 Oct @jwmuk.bsky.social he/him
Tabletop Roleplaying Games.
https://theraspyraven.carrd.co/
Phoenix by Tapbots @phoenix.tapbots.com An upcoming Bluesky Client for iOS/iPadOS & Mac from the makers of Tweetbot and Ivory.
Please don't take it personally if we don't respond often with this account. We are extremely busy working on Phoenix.
https://tapbots.com/phoenix
The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast @oldhammerpodcast.bsky.social A podcast of readings and analysis of the Warhammer fiction of 1989-95
https://anchor.fm/lewis-davies8
https://ko-fi.com/oldhammerfictionpodcast
Trisha Gee @trishagee.bsky.social Java Champion, Developer Productivity Advocate, Author
https://trishagee.com
https://linktr.ee/trisha_gee
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com #GOTO Presents the Brightest Minds in Tech.
Check out GOTO Conferences.
https://gotopia.tech
https://www.youtube.com/@GOTO-
Chris Miles @buchhalter65.bsky.social Retired finance manager, dog owner, games player, carer 
Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org Chief Architect, Java Platform Group, Oracle · Views are my own · https://mreinhold.org
Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social Warhammer historian, content creator, and game designer
Marcin Grzejszczak @toomuchcoding.com Java Champion. Working on observability and contract testing - Micrometer, Spring Cloud Contract.
Joris Kuipers @joris.kuipe.rs CTO & hands-on architect at Trifork Amsterdam. 40 over 40
Daniel Garnier-Moiroux @garnier.wf Fiddler of things. Makes computers go beep-boop 🤖 Contributor to Spring Security. Spring Meetup Paris. 🍃
Certified Java Champignon 🍄
Fate of Bjuna @kitbashtime.bsky.social A philosophical zorn pallet journey in photographs through the backwaters of the warhammer 40K rouge trader universe.
Tom-Jan Meeus @tomjanmeeus.bsky.social NRC opinie. Nieuwsbrief over democratie: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuwsbrieven/machtige-tijden/. Was: politiek columnist, correspondent VS, onderzoeksjournalist, essayist Maand vd Filosofie
Michael Harker @michaelharker.bsky.social Gamer/Academic in Glasgow. Professionally interested in relationships, networks and dev and marketing of Apps. Personally interested in all forms of gaming (especially toy soldiers) as well as history and E-biking. I hope to post positive things.
Spring @spring.io 
Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social Coder, OSS Author (Jackson, Woodstox, java-uuid-generator etc); father; hiker; immigrant; worker. Born in Finland, lives nowadays in the magnificent US Pacific Northwest.
Patrick Baumgartner @patbaumgartner.com Working @42talents. Spring Trainer @VMwareTanzu. Co-Organizer @VoxxedZurich, Board member of @jugch, Software Crafters Zurich & SoCraTes Conf Switzerland
Thomas Vitale ☀️ @thomasvitale.com Software Engineer 📚 Author of “Cloud Native Spring in Action” 🛳️ CNCF Ambassador ☕️ Java Champion 🍃 Creator of @arconia.io for Spring Boot 🎙️ International Speaker 👨💻 OSS. Work with Java and Cloud Native.
Johan Hutting @johanhutting.bsky.social Senior software engineer / Developer advocate @ ING, co-organiser JUG Noord and ING backend summit.
Opinions expressed are my own.
Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com "Do the right thing. Do what works. Be kind."
Aka Calvo Bianco
Father of 2, husband of 1, musician
Dev adv eng @ Zoom
Former Redis, VMware, Pivotal
Dutch
He/him
https://calvobianco.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@calvobianco
Spring I/O @springio.net A two-day conference full of Spring awesomeness in Barcelona. +1300 attendees. Next edition: 13-15 April 2026
Organized by @sergialmar.com
Cubicle 7 Games @cubicle7games.bsky.social Cubicle 7 is an award-winning tabletop games producer behind classic roleplaying games based on Warhammer, Vault 5e, Victoriana, Doctor Who and more! Based in Ireland, working in unison with our cohort of creatives and distribution partners worldwide.
Lukáš Křečan @lukas-krecan.bsky.social SW engineer, maintaner of JsonUnit and ShedLock
Hubert Klein Ikkink @mrhaki.com Love to develop applications with gr8 technologies at JDriven. Interested in #java, #groovy, #clojure, #kotlin, #asciidoctor, #micronaut, #gradle.
https://www.mrhaki.com 🇳🇱🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social Computer scientist & MBA, pilot, inglés y español. Java Champion, Google Dev Expert in Kotlin, Rockstar presenter, author of Spring Boot: Up & Running. Ex Oracle, Pivotal, VMware, Microsoft, Moderne
Frans Bouma @fransbouma.com Software engineer (LLBLGen Pro (.NET ORM) / photomode mods and tooling for games)
Photographer (macro, in-game, real life)
Ex-demoscene
Portfolio: https://fransbouma.com
Camera tooling: https://patreon.com/Otis_Inf
LLBLGen Pro: https://llblgen.com
Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social 👨👩👦👦👨🏻💻🚴🏻 – Father, Husband, Developer, Athlete. Author of Spring Boot Buch, and DuckDB in Action with Manning. Java champion working at Neo4j on various integrations within the JVM ecosystem.
More: https://michael-simons.eu
Oliver Drotbohm @odrotbohm.de Frameworks & Architecture in the Spring open source engineering team, all things Spring, Java, data, DDD, REST, software architecture, drums & music. He/him.
Christoph Strobl @christophstrobl.bsky.social Father of 3. Plant-based 247365 workout enthusiast. Spring Data engineer. Organizer ejug Austria. Author http://amazon.de/dp/B09JJ9D785. He/Him.
Graeme Davis @graemedavis.bsky.social Game writer; WFRP co-creator; myth and monster nerd.
https://graemedavis.wordpress.com/
https://buymeacoffee.com/graemedavis
Insta, Threads: @graemejdavis
Reddit: u/Gromit58
Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com Runs Goalwards: 'Your business, optimized.' Started BDD, caused Cucumber. Optimizes orgs, teams, code. Coach, mentor, geek, mischief-maker. Christian, infrequent blogger. WWGH
https://goalwards.co
Rob Winch @rwinch.github.io Open source enthusiast; Project Lead for Spring Security
NLJUG - Dutch Java User Group @nljug.bsky.social NLJUG, the Dutch Java User Group founded in 2003, unites software developers, architects, ICT managers, student, and partners interested in Java tech.
www.nljug.org
Tom Holland @holland-tom.bsky.social New translation of Suetonius out in February! Dinosaur enthusiast. ‘A leading English cricketer’ - The Times. Podcast: theresthistory.bsky.social
The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
Roy van Rijn @royvanrijn.com Director of OpenValue Rotterdam, is a @Java_Champions, founder of Rotterdam JUG, public speaking: Java, AI, math, algorithms
RotterdamJUG @rotterdamjug.bsky.social Follow this account to get updates on meetings by the RotterdamJUG (Java User Group).
Micky Bun @mr-bun.bsky.social Loves books, food, science, history, cosmic horror and sci-fi. Hates bullies.
Enthusiastic Librocubicularist. Proud Member of the Loony Left. Eat the Rich. Bodily autonomy for all.
"What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?"
Keith Donald @kpdonald.bsky.social Ending homelessness, social housing, biodiversity, ecology, land conservation, habitat restoration, climate action, food security, finance reform, antimonopoly practices, ubi, job guarantee, mmt, universal healthcare, mitochondrial disease parent
Scott Andrews @scott.andrews.me Find me at https://andrews.me/@scott
@annagos.bsky.social @annagos.bsky.social 
Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social Digital designer and owner of mono voce (yes, you can hire me).
TTRPG GM, music and comics nerd, and lover of useless nonesense. - and you can buy cool t-shirts at my web-shop, mono units, and I have a few books for RuneQuest on DriveThuRPG. He/him
Asako_Soh @asako-soh.bsky.social Roleplayer academic and clinician interested in mental health & philosophy. Groggie lifetime achievement award, 2021. Occasional pipe smoker. Never a tank. #OBaWS #TTRPG
Paul Baldwin @paulbaldwin.bsky.social Wargamer and Roleplayer since the 1980s. Perfection is the enemy of finished!
Jurie @jurie.bsky.social Game developer since 1991. Into interactive storytelling, procedural content generation, game AI. Dutch immigrant in Toronto. Ex-demo scene.
Xtroce @xtroce.bsky.social TTRPG GM & player | general nerd | owns a dog that herds cats | programmer by day
Warhammer: The Horus Heresy @warhammer30k.bsky.social The latest heresy news, art, and more brought to you by your favorite Thousand Sons Librarian!
(A fan page for all things Warhammer: The Horus Heresy)
LordDourin @lorddourin.bsky.social Wargamer, Warhammer Fantasy/The Old World, Warhammer 40k, miniature painter, RPG enthusiast, LARPing
Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com 
Wendy @wendydevolder.bsky.social love bringing communities together
Taylor Lane Games @foresteddepth.bsky.social Interested in history, TTRPGs, and LLMs
You can find my games here: https://taylor-lane.itch.io/- C @cubicle7.bsky.social @cubicle7.bsky.social
Tim te Beek @timtebeek.github.io Staff software engineer at Moderne, where I'm the community lead for OpenRewrite.
Max Brooks @mwbrooks.bsky.social Hello! I’m Max, English teacher, mini painter, game enthusiast and cat dad.
James Lewis @boicy.bovon.org Programmer, dad, one of microservices’ grumpy uncles. Warhammer, started playing WoW again - send help
Wilfred Springer @wilfred.lol Startup technologist • ✎ Sketchnoter • Bass player
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Eric Jan Malotaux @ericjanmalotaux.bsky.social Musicologist, piano player, software developer (Java/Kotlin), (grand)father.
Olga Maciaszek-Sharma @olga-maciaszek.bsky.social Java developer. Staff Software Engineer in Spring Cloud team at @spring.io
Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com Software Design Loudmouth. Works for Thoughtworks. Also hikes, watches theater, and plays modern board games. He/him.
host of https://martinfowler.com
Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social Java Language Architect at Oracle. Author, Java Concurrency in Practice (http://amzn.to/2nzZnkl). Also, cats.
Simon Baslé @simonbasle.bsky.social programming by day, ttrpgs by night, reading fantasy and sci-fi at dusk. at dawn I'll be sleeping, thank you very much
Dave Syer @handle.invalid Spring engineering team member. Somewhat responsible for the birth of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. Climber. Sailor. Bass trombonist.
Martin Lippert @martinlippert.bsky.social Spring Tools Lead @ Broadcom, https://github.com/martinlippert, Co-Founder of the Green Software Hamburg Meetup Series, Co-Founder of it-agile GmbH
Sébastien Deleuze @seb.deleuze.fr Spring AI/Framework @ Broadcom, #WebAssembly since 2016, ex @mixitconf.org staff. https://seb.deleuze.fr
Stéphane Nicoll @snicoll.be Proud husband. Software engineer. Working on the Spring team since 2014. Spring Framework, Spring Boot, https://start.spring.io. He/Him. snicoll.be
Sam Brannen @sambrannen.com Core #Spring Framework and #JUnit Committer. Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom. Proud Daddy.
Moritz Halbritter @0.5ritter.de Putting bugs into Spring Boot since 2022.
Spring Boot team member | Lead of http://start.spring.io and Spring Initializr
More socials and info: https://mhalbritter.github.io/
Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social 
Mark Paluch 👨💻,🎹&✈️ @mp911.de Musician, producer, Spring Data, Database drivers.
#Autist | #ADHD | INTJ-T | #Neurodiversity 🧠🌈
Ostfriesland 🌊🌬️🌞🌧️
https://paluch.biz/about-me/ | https://soundcloud.com/rflktd
Phil Webb 🍃 @philwebb.dev Working in OSS on Spring Boot.
https://linktr.ee/phillipwebb
Jeremy Grelle @jeremyg484.bsky.social Builder of things at Bellwood. Former "Spring Web Dude" & Micronaut contributor, currently exploring new frontiers in Go, Rust, and WASM. Abiding for Java and The Web since c. 1999. For music stuff see Inhesion Studios. Miami Heat Lifer (since ‘89).
Stephan Janssen @stephanjanssen.be Founder @Devoxx.com Devoxx4kids, BeJUG and DevoxxGenie | Co-founder @Voxxed.com, VoxxedDays - Founder JCS int. acquired by RealDolmen ('02) : See also @ https://stephanjanssen.be
https://grokipedia.com/page/Stephan_Janssen
Barns. The E isn't required @elevatedpachyderm.bsky.social 
CrAIg Walls @habuma.com Java Champion / Alexa Champion / Author of “Spring AI in Action”, “Spring in Action” & “Build Talking Apps for Alexa”/ Disney Parks Fanatic/ tabletop games player.
https://www.habuma.com
@cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social Stuff and nonsense said the bear.
Scott Frederick @scottfrederick.us Sr. Staff Software Engineer at @hero.dev. Former Pivotal, VMware, Sabre.
Marit van Dijk @maritvandijk.bsky.social 💻 Software Developer | ☕🥑 Java Developer Advocate @ JetBrains | 🏆 Java Champion | 🎤 International Keynote Speaker | 👩💻 Pronouns: She/her
https://maritvandijk.com/
mewelke @mewelke.bsky.social Writer, Forever Student
https://www.ianwelke.net
James Strachan @jstrachan.bsky.social Working on future Apple technology in AI/ML.
Previously created Apache Groovy & Apache Camel. Co-created Apache ActiveMQ & Jenkins X
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social Spring Developer, Java Champion, 2019 Kona IRONMAN Finisher, formerly @oracle @pivotal @vmware @spring.io @atlantajug @devnexus. Plant collector. Board member at Hawaii Island Palm Society.
Spencer Gibb @spencer.gibb.us Software Engineer, Dad, Geek, Co-founder and Lead of #SpringCloud Core on the @spring.io team at Broadcom
Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com Spring Developer Advocate
Java Champion
Kotlin Google Dev Expert
https://YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware
https://github.com/joshlong
Kroppy @kroppywargaming.bsky.social GM of Wargames, Boardgames, & RPGs
Go Dice Roll 🎲
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGTxONw5RdfabyuGcwsF7LA/feed
Tim Popelier, Tankhead Text Typer @tim-popelier.com Dutch 3d miniatures designer, TANKHEAD lore author and rusty goldsmith.
@Tankhead-mecha.bsky.social
He/Him
https://tim-popelier.com
Floor Rusman @floorrusman.bsky.social Redacteur en columnist NRC. Connaisseur, nitwit, liefhebber, hater.
Miskatonic Playhouse @miskatonicplayhouse.com An Actual Play podcast for Call of Cthulhu scenarios.
Community making community
▫️An active discord
▫️Focused on newer creators
▫️Resources and support for Writers, Keepers & Players
🔺www.MiskatonicPlayhouse.com🔺
Andy VZ @andyvz.bsky.social Tabletop game dev/project manager for over a decade, currently with Trick or Treat Studios. Opinions my own.
Fantasy, sci-fi, comic, & video game enthusiast. He/him.
Chris Spivey (Author) @darkerhue.bsky.social Multi-award-winning writer and game designer. Veteran, part-time historian, podcaster, SFWA, and WWA member. Harlem Unbound, Haunted West, Genreless Podcast. Arc Dream Publishing Director (He/Him) #BlackLivesMatter
@kitch66uk.bsky.social @kitch66uk.bsky.social 
@shadowroaddm.bsky.social @shadowroaddm.bsky.social TTRPGs (5e, OSE, Forbidden Lands,Dragonbane), English teacher, hiker, lover of single malt and good beer. Born at 329 ppm.
James Morton @glesga-grognard.bsky.social Occasional curmudgeon. Increasingly angry old man. Failed to ditch politics at the door. Rants, observations and badinage on request.
Dimbyd @dimbyd.bsky.social 
RMZ @rmzhbc.bsky.social Dead Man’s Hand, Rebels and Patriots, Pikeman’s Lament, Frostgrave, Rangers of Shadowdeep, Devilry Afoot and board-game player.
More than a passing interest in historic buildings and landscape.
Occasional wildlife photos when it stands still.
Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social Linux, computer and boardgame geek. Likes cheese. Martial Artist. Very Metal. B-movie zombie film lover. Cats. Evil leader of the Woolly Legions Of Doom (tm).
World's first official* Cripple Mr Onion champion
*probably
(He/him)