Cap Watkins @capwatkins.com Design stuff. Dog dad to Yuzu. Plays a lot of video games.
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io Erstwhile SRE, database person, human.
https://matt.blwt.io
Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org Developers fighting self-serving restrictions imposed on the web by tech giants.
Help us end #AppleBrowserBan & make web apps 1st-class. https://open-web-advocacy.org
East River Source Control @ersc.io doin' source control stuff at ersc.io
Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love personal account for internet sensation keith kurson. deleted the old one by accident
🏡 oakland, ca
📥 Software dev helping states respond to HR1 (2025) / working on SNAP
https://pollen.place/@keithlaugh.love
https://keith.is he/him
Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social (she/her)
Interested in information.
I currently work in research library assessment and UX
Adam Schiff @adamschiff.com California Senator. Father, husband, former prosecutor, triathlete, and sometimes comic.
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.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
San Francisco QuakeBot @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social I’m a bot real-time posting/skeeting M 1.0+ earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Built by @djcentos7.bsky.social
Bluesky USGS Quakebot @usgs-quakebot.bsky.social This bot pulls data from the USGS's real-time earthquake feed and posts a summary of any event in the lower 48 states having a preliminary magnitude 3.5+
made with 🫶🏼 by @DataDrivenMD.social
**NOT AFFILIATED WITH USGS**
@neki.dev @neki.dev
Mark McBride @mccv.bsky.social
Ben @benjdd.com databases @planetscale.com
Some stuff I've written:
- https://pscale.link/io
- https://pscale.link/btrees
- https://pscale.link/sharding
Find me at benjdd.com
Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social WIRED Senior Correspondent covering Silicon Valley and its impact beyond. Send tips to Signal handle ChaoticGoode.12. (No PR pitches please)
Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social Skeet about markets and political corruption
Discord: http://bit.ly/3Bf2pNJ
Links: http://bit.ly/3V8D6Gb
Get $50-$5000 to trade: http://bit.ly/4ayctTD
Aaron Straup Cope @thisisaaronland.bsky.social maps and museums and airports / I have come to see these spaces as the absolute worst for anything resembling "conversation" / but I like you all so here I am for now / likely lurking for a while as I figure out how to think about this place
Dak @dak.dev i think of the solutions you won't • Dunbar • software 20+ years • co-owner The Web Team • prev Weedmaps, Trestle, NCSoft
#devsky
Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com • Scottish 🏴 and Sweary 🤬
• Living in San Francisco, CA
• Gen X as Fuck
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
she/it
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social I used to make websites (Blogger, JPG Mag, Fray). I wrote the book “Design for Community.” Now I grow flowers and keep animals at milkbarn.farm in Boring, Oregon.
No dooming in my replies. There's already enough doom in the world.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social How could she breathe in that house so crowded with Norma Desmond?
swyx @swyx.io i want everyone to aspire to integrity, intensity, and intentionality. see also @latent.space
steve o’grady @sogrady.org helped found redmonk. if you see someone at a tech conference wearing a Red Sox hat, that's probably me. otherwise found in the great state of Maine. wrote the new kingmakers and the software paradox. married to @girltuesday.org. eph.
jessfraz @jess.dev CEO @ KittyCADInc, 👩🏻💻 @ oxidecomputer, 📝 @ ACMQueue
Jez Humble @jezhumble.net Works on my machine! Author of some books on software, SRE, portfolio @ continuousdelivery.com. Previously lecturer @ UC Berkeley, 18F, ThoughtWorks. All tweets fictional. He / him. Ⓥ- C Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct.bsky.social
Matt Klein @mattklein123.dev CTO @bitdrift.io. Software engineer and creator of Envoy Proxy. - B Blake Mizerany @blake.io
Aims @ammeep.com Word to who made you. She said go outside, you’ll feel better. Computers are the worst.
ex Fastly Compute, GitHub, GreenButton
Talk to me about scaling your engineering teams. I got you.
Will Larson @lethain.com Write at lethain.com. Author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and An Engineering Executive’s Primer. Worked some places.
Dave Cheney @dave.cheney.net Never look back darling, it distracts from the now.
ᴀʟᴇx ʀᴜssᴇʟʟ @infrequently.org Trying to make a web that works for everyone.
Also at https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff
For more: https://infrequently.org/about-me/
https://infrequently.org/
@hicksca.dev @hicksca.dev Rooting for everybody blk ✊🏾
hicksca.dev
Helping keep things running online: programmer, sys admin, the dude with the pager.
A* / Member council @devcolor.bsky.social
fallthrough @fallthrough.fm A technology podcast from the Go perspective.
Jack Danger @jackdanger.com Engineering @ LaunchDarkly, burritos, acapella
rands @rands.bsky.social Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t tweet about my current gig. https://randsinrepose.com
The Pragmatic Engineer. @pragmaticengineer.com Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech. The #1 technology newsletter on Substack. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/about
Theo Schlossnagle @postwait.lethargy.org Husband, Father, Entrepreneur, Investor, Farmer
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com • Writer of spyglass.org
• Investor in some companies you've heard of (and many you haven't)
• Traveler with 👩🏻 & 👧🏼👶🏼
• #GoBlue 〽️🍻
@becky-sieg.bsky.social @becky-sieg.bsky.social
Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org Leftist Dad. Immigrant nerd. Musician, husband.
Was @ian on Twitter. Is ian@mckellar.social on the fediverse.
Aman Karmani @tmm1.bsky.social open-source enthusiast and full stack developer
Eric @lindvall.bsky.social Currently: relaxing, building @getchannels.bsky.social. Previously: Co-founded Papertrail
Buster Benson @busterbenson.com Founder of https://750words.com. Author of “Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement”. Temporarily human. http://busterbenson.com
Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social Team game
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Hard-for-Me-to-Live-with-Me/Rex-Chapman/9781982197773
@yodateach.bsky.social @yodateach.bsky.social
Tim Lefler @tlef.ca Canadian, Programmer, Father
Danielle Baskin @danielle.bsky.social interactive performances & pixel art. i also build a virtual tarot platform moonlight.world
🐍🌛
daniellebaskin.com
Eric Bolten @bolten.bsky.social thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com Field CTO @sixfeetup
AWS Hero
Co-Host of vBrownBag
We rise by lifting others
Fearlessly Stupid™ 🤣
https://linktr.ee/mistwire
Ray Jenkins @ramond.bsky.social Distributed systems, databases, networking and infrastructure. Skateboarding, making music, reading and art. Building https://rotel.dev previously: Snowflake, Segment, Librato.
Jon Hicks @hicks.design Gentleman Graphic Designer/Artist who wears many hats. Shoegazer, Birder and over-eater of eggs. Works on the Troika music podcast and Supernatural Detective's Field Guide in his spare time.
https://hicks.design
https://supernaturaldetectives.com
revdancatt @revdancatt.com Contemporary printmaker 🇬🇧 pen plotters & algorithms.
Videos: https://youtube.com/revdancatt
Newsletter: https://newsletter.revdancatt.com
Website: https://revdancatt.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/revdancatt
Marcus Barczak @ickymettle.bsky.social Making the machines go ping at Fastly.
Sam Kottler @skottler.me building a new company. formerly of other companies.
brooklyn, ny 🏳️🌈
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
adg @nf.id.au https://andrewgerrand.com/
Go @golang.org Go will make you love programming again. We promise.
https://go.dev/
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.
Russ Cox @swtch.com
tinybaby @tiny.baby
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com Leading expert
https://mcfunley.com
https://dotclub.club
https://primary.every.democrat
Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it Dipshit programmer with a hobby farm
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I saw a world where the dead are worshiped. This world belongs to them, now they can keep it. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Jonah Berquist @droptable.net
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
Brian Scanlan @bscanlan.bsky.social Unix helpdesk at Intercom
Colm MacCarthaigh @colmmacc.bsky.social VP / Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services. Also: Open Source and Apache, Cryptography, Irish Music, mediocre Photography.
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Sheila Bryson @handle.invalid AmeriCanadian, PR, comedy, Oaklander
eve6 @eve6.bsky.social We live under an alternative rock http://mylinx.cc/eve6
James Turnbull @kartar.net 🇦🇺🇺🇸 Engineer, angel investor, & author. Ex-@Glitch, @Microsoft, @kickstarter, @docker. Likes tattoos, food & wine. He/him/his.
Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com writer @ Core Memory • my two accomplishments here are that i invited AOC and i started the first-ever Hellthread • signal: kylie.111 • https://www.corememory.com/p/kylie-robison
Abby Fuller @abby.bsky.social Mom. Security for EC2 and friends at AWS. Carbohydrate fan.
Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social Cofounder at Freeman & Forrest, author, cartoonist, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. Ex-Google. Here to help.
April King @april.social Staff Security Engineer at some random tech company, previously Mozilla, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and (pre-Elon) Twitter. Has read @kateconger.bsky.social’s autobiography.
web @ grayduck.mn // also github.com/april
Chloe Condon @chloecondon.bsky.social Developer Advocate at Google ☁️ & recovering musical theatre girl 🎶🎭
Cassidy @cassidoo.co Making memes, dreams, & software!
Sr. Director of Dev Advocacy at GitHub. Married to a dweeb and mom to a nerdy toddler + baby combo. She/Her ✝️ CHI 🏠
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Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own.
Check out my blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/
Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social Internet Incident Librarian. Founder of the VOID. VP of the Resilience in Software Foundation
Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com 🜗 🝒 🝲 crypto as in 'cryptography' 🝳 🝡 🜖
¹ isogenist, co-host SCWpod
² https://durumcrustulum.com, https://www.youtube.com/@durumcrustulum
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
Adriana Porter Felt @apf.bsky.social I like writing silly skeets, but that doesn't pay so I also make Google Chrome. mamá, Eng Director, volunteer at Second Harvest. 🇺🇲🇨🇷
Twitter: @__apf__
Security Cryptography Whatever @scwpod.bsky.social @durumcrustulum.com, @sockpuppet.org, @dadrian.io
“Freewheelin’ dynamic”.
https://securitycryptographywhatever.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feed/id1578405214
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer
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
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
the grugq @thegrugq.bsky.social
Matt Layher @mdlayher.com Software Engineer at PlanetScale. Go, Rust, Linux, networking, and open source software. On and ever upward. he/him.