Spacing @spacing.bsky.social Spacing.ca / Toronto urbanism uncovered in award-winning mag/web/books/podcasts.
Spacing Radio podcasts: spacingradio.bsky.social
Spacing Vancouver: spacingvancouver.bsky.social
Spacing Store: spacingstore.bsky.social
austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social we altered the flow of time, so that the world might once again feel small (bg: Roses, Butterfly and Puppies, by Nagasawa Rosetsu)
https://github.com/thoughtpolice / overengineering @ersc.io / #jj-vcs maintainer
East River Source Control @ersc.io doin' source control stuff at ersc.io
Marie LeBlanc Flanagan @omarieclaire.bsky.social 
Russ Cox @swtch.com 
Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social http://tom7.org
SIGBOVIK @harryqbovik.bsky.social The official Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik | Senior Computer Scientist at CMU | Research Interests include Perplexity Theory, k-Armed Bandits, and Cloud Rendering
spencer chang @spencer.place software you can touch
artist, engineer, toymaker
🌐 spencer.place (home)
🧭 wewere.online (a game across the internet)
🛝 playhtml.fun (turn any website into a public space)
📱 shrine.computer (interactive sculpture protocol)
🥠 internetsculptures.com (shop)
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca Disaster prevention chihuahua. Reliability at PagerDuty. Living on unceded land in Punamue'katikt, Mi'kma'ki (Dartmouth, NS). May all beings be free from suffering. He/him.
also hachyderm.io/@mendel.
formerly @mendel on twitter.
www.lafferty.ca
Peter Sobot @petersobot.com maple-flavoured engineer, drummer, and bassist in brooklyn
https://petersobot.com
Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com Building Astral: Ruff, uv, and other high-performance Python tools, written in Rust.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Ben Vinegar @benv.ca Co-founder modem.dev. Before: founding engineer then VPE at
@sentry.io. Organizes Devtools Toronto. 🇨🇦
More: benv.ca
Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital.bsky.social Presenter of music and sound cultures.
https://dusttodigital.substack.com/
Jaz @jaz.sh Jasmine (Jaz)
Gender Nomad
IRC made me gay
Reject drab, wear bright colors and play fast
Former Platform Engineering Lead at Bsky
28. she/her 🏳️⚧️
BSky Stats- https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
https://github.com/jazware
Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com Dad, husband, brother, son. Working on Dart at Google, ex-game dev at EA, wrote "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". http://stuffwithstuff.com/
Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com Canadian software/data engineer and yoga teacher from the East Coast
Writes about: Clojure, data, open source, community, yoga
Loves: dinner parties, live music, violin, my dog
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingers and
turn my weathered feelings into wriggly music.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto
@inkandswitch.com Δ research
feelingof.com Δ podcast
ivy.boo Δ myself
she / her 🏳️⚧️
Daniel Rotsztain @theurbangeog.bsky.social The Urban Geographer • artist, writer, cartographer 
Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social Historian (Berlin/Flensburg) 🏳️🌈 he/him
1st book: global / German / queer history, memory studies. Present project: mobility / Europeanization / landscapes
🦇 Grufti 🦦 Nerd & 🩰.
Born in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke
I'm lost between three languages. Bear with me.
1RG @1rg.space 1RG cultivates tools, practices and communities that empower people through a humane relationship with technology.
🏡 https://1rg.space
👾 https://labs.1rg.space
📖 https://words.1rg.space
🐣 https://incubator.1rg.space
Papers We Love @paperswelove.org A community of folks into computer science research and using it for great justice.
🌏 https://paperswelove.org
👀 https://pwlconf.org
🦣 https://mstdn.io/@paperswelove
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@PapersWeLove
Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
🐘@jack@jackrusher.com
🐦@jackrusher
`fogus @fogus.me bibliophile, flâneur, occasional programmer, Clojure core
https://www.fogus.me
https://blog.fogus.me
🇺🇸🇯🇵
Gregory Anders @gpanders.com Systems engineer at Cloudflare. Formerly an embedded software engineer at Reliable Robotics and Sandia National Labs.
Neovim core team member.
Brandon Rhodes @bcr.bsky.social Writer and speaker about the Python programming language, taking a year off to restore an old Victorian house.
Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me CEO of System Initiative, Co-Founder of Chef. Open source. Heavy metal and music. Comics. @adamhjk on Twitter, @adamhjk@hachyderm.io on Masotodon. 
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
kat cosgrove @kat.lol village sorcerer @villagesql.com
kubernetes steering committee, release team subproject lead, sig docs tech lead, uwubernetes, colorado springs via memphis
she/they
Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll.org Principal Engineer at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com Linux and Linux accessories
Host of @fafo.fm
Work at @siderolabs.com
justingarrison.com
DM justingarrison.com/signal
Alt @justins-alt.bsky.social
Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social Former Engineering lead working on Gemini and Google Cloud AI
I want you to win :) For more on what I'm up to, I'm at addyosmani.com
_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social perfect and upright, eschews evil (she/they)
https://okayfail.com • https://hachyderm.io/@phillmv
May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social used to be @mayli in the old place.
hello! 👋 maylikhoe.com
tin house winter workshop 2025
Interdisciplinary designer writer artist musician dancer inventor educator. vp of design and former dj. mfa candidate.
A L O N Z O @alonzo.zip Alonzo is like Rihanna before Umbrella, like James Blake before Limit to your Love, like Charli XCX before I Love It
Alonzo is the artist project of Brooklyn polymath Robbie Lyman
Saltine Idol @ivortossell.bsky.social Stop! Hammer time
Neovim @neovim.io Neovim is a hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
Ways to support the project:
- https://github.com/sponsors/neovim
- https://store.neovim.io
- Have fun using it and spread the word
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
apenwarr @apenwarr.ca wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, atlogin.net, and now Top Chicken @Tailscale.com doing WireGuard mesh. First search result for "epic treatise."
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
jacobian @jacobian.org django, security, eng management, basketball shitposting.
web: jacobian.org
signal: jacobian.01
Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social Compiler engineer and co-host of the feeling of computing podcast
https://jimmyhmiller.com
https://feelingof.com/episodes/
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺 @zekjur.bsky.social Mensch mit starkem Datendrang • Artisanal Open Source • latenz-unverträglich • ::) • he/him
Daniel Martí @handle.invalid #cuelang #golang
https://mvdan.cc
London, UK
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
Professional open source maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com Author of interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com. Working at Sourcegraph. Previously Zed. Programming where the rubber hits the road. Writing Register Spill at: registerspill.thorstenball.com
pictures of the end @neighbourswifi.bsky.social Documenting the end of the world / Follow to witness the last era of humans and animals on earth
previously neighbours_wifi on what is formerly known as Twitter
Dave Cheney @dave.cheney.net Never look back darling, it distracts from the now.
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com Leading expert
https://mcfunley.com
https://dotclub.club
https://primary.every.democrat
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social My hobby is taking pictures of fun and weird Japanese mascots (and other costumed characters).
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
Justin Tunney @justine.lol I built a C library that lets you compile 12kb static binaries that run natively on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and BIOS using just GCC/Clang.
ee @durbin.ee 🖥 snek. signal: +1.216.217.8688. they/them.
jenn schiffer 🙂↔️ @jennschiffer.com middle-aged dirtbag
jennschiffer.com / livelaugh.blog / bugsrock.online
🚫EMAILING MY WIFE
rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io (gender)queer transsexual / they/them / eng @oxide.computer / atheist and scientific humanist / 🦀 #rustlang / #jj-vcs #1 fan / https://nexte.st / https://sunshowers.io
also on mastodon: @rain@hachyderm.io / https://hachyderm.io/@rain
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
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
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com Indie developer and educator. Blogging at http://joshwcomeau.com.
Previously at DigitalOcean, Khan Academy. Taught at Concordia Bootcamps.
He/Him 🌈
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
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
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Hater of the Oxford Comma. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or when viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- Bookwyrm.social/EmilyG
- registry.blue
- lefttoourowndevices.blog
- @brandblock.online
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/
Hillel is on Social Media Break @hillelwayne.com Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open and happy to meet up in Chicago. Currently writing *Logic for Programmers* (out July-ish)
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me Pythonista & PSF fellow 🐍🏆, Gopher 🐹, blogger 📝, speaker 📢, YouTuber 📺. ❤️ nuance & outcomes, 🗣️🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸
• https://hynek.me/
• https://github.com/hynek
• https://www.youtube.com/@The_Hynek
• https://mastodon.social/@hynek
• https://x.com/hynek
Łukasz Langa @lukasz.langa.pl CPython Developer in Residence, Python 3.8 and 3.9 release manager. Gradual typing enthusiast, asynchronous programming proponent, creator of the auto-formatter Black.
He produces electronic music, which includes software and hardware of his own making.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Brett Cannon @snarky.ca #Python core developer who also works on packaging; works on Python stuff at #Microsoft (although this is a personal account). Proudly #Canadian.
Tim Pope @tpo.pe Vim plugin artist
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3l3frqadlo32h
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.- D Dan Luu @danluu.com Active on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@danluu. Also trying https://threads.net/@danluu.danluu
Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.
tef @tef.bsky.social failed mathematician, i dance like ian curtis
they/them thanks. part of the bipolar webring < prev | random | next >
Nadia Halim @nadiahalim.bsky.social Eccentric spinster, bookstore worker, Toronto, she/her
Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at Creator of Flask • earendil.com ♥︎ writing and giving talks • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” • More AI content on https://x.com/mitsuhiko
More stuff: https://ronacher.eu/
Andrew Louis @hyfen.net Building a memex.
ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com Sure you're weedy, and kinda shy, but some girly out there must be needy for a weedy shy guy.
Toronto. He/Him. https://funkaoshi.com
Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Richard Littauer @richlitt.bsky.social PhD in CS at Te Herenga Waka, focusing on birds. Open source. Linguist and conlanger. eBird and iNat. SustainOSS and CURIOSS. He/him.
See https://burntfen.com for a list of things I did when I should have been doing other things.
Bartek Ciszkowski @justbartek.ca 🌊 Halifax, Nova Scotia 💻 Building things 👧👦 Dad Of 2 🍀 Gardener/forager ⛰️ Running through cities and forests 🇵🇱 1.5G Canadian 🇨🇦
A Gardner @plorry.bsky.social tokens may now only be redeemed on food products bearing the Exalted One's "apprehensive face" (or better)
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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