Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com nyc-based programmer and designer. alum @recurse.com. azzajew. public transit enjoyer. thoughts on local-first software, atproto, javascript frameworks, web components, css and other web minutiae.
🌐 https://jakelazaroff.com
sophie alpert @sophiebits.com you have the ability to understand things
principal engineer, react person, super gay, still masking
Jer @jeremie.com dream things. make things. 🫶all. he/him.
(wayback created jabber/XMPP, also founding board member for bluesky)
Standard.site @standard.site Open standards for long-form & site lexicons. We build reusable schemas so the ecosystem can grow together.
To start, view definitions → https://standard.site
Docs → https://standard.site/docs
Bay Area ATProto Meetup @bayarea.atproto.camp We're from the Bay! We rep it and ATProto hard
Ian Bicking @ianbicking.org Software developer in Minneapolis. Working with applications of LLMs. Previously: Mozilla, Meta, Brilliant.org
tyler @tylergaw.com i make sand do tricks
👴 https://tylergaw.com
📲 @pezzos.app
🏭 https://latchbolt.tech
🎧 https://wax.tylergaw.com
Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team CEO of Bluesky, partner @trueventures.com, personal site: https://toni.org
Josh Petri (he/him) @joshpetri.bsky.team Head of Communications, Bluesky Social.
former journalist and outdoor industry person. always an organic life form.
Nate Butler @nate.rip Making things, writing software • nate.rip • build native & open, share your ideas with the world • future exploration @githubnext.com, ex @zed.dev / fb
brendan @schlage.town making @leaflet.pub ⁂ in brooklyn ⁂ sol's dad ⁂ ⚭ @jinjin.bsky.social
books, basketball, cities, constraints, learning, libraries, poetry, patterns, reading, rhymes, walks, websites, &c
more lists & links @ schlage.town
Telepath @telepath.computer We’re a software company working on interfaces for the next era of personal computers. https://telepath.computer
Stephen Hood @stlhood.bsky.social Founder of @telepathinc.bsky.social and Storium. Former Mozilla, Blockboard, Delicious. Multiclass founder, geek, music lover, pet rescuer. I level slowly but wear plate.
grant @grantcuster.com Slowly going out on a limb. Making experimental creative tools on the web at http://constraint.systems. He/him. grantcuster.com
Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social You're not hardcore unless you live hardcore. Serving the next generation of creative technologists at tonk.xyz
harrykingdon.com
Tonk @tonk.xyz We're building a portable data substrate for humans and their tools to think together.
Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com I explore the interfaces with which we think & the future of personal computing. I also make books.
alexanderobenauer.com
Scott Jenson @jenson.org UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, & Apple HI guidelines. UX Director Symbian, managed Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design SF. Head of Product for two startups. Google Physical Web + Android UX research. Semi-retired
cloudhead @cloudhead.io Computers, graphics, protocols.
Working on @radiant.computer
Previously @radicle.xyz
Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com Building something new... Previously at Google. Web maximalist. Web components. WebAssembly. Creator of Lit. Oakland.
Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social
@modalfoundation.bsky.social and @freeourfeeds.com, also information, media and journalism, rights, arts. Former ED @globalvoices.org
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io Incoming John S. Knight fellow. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social Petabytes in my day job, kilobytes in my spare time.
Maker of Beasts - https://feersumbeasts.com/ 8-bit Z80 kit
Technologist, cynical optimist, occasional CTO, regular tinkerer.
Rural hideout in UK
Ben Kaspick @benkaspick.com Host & Founder, Giants Baseball with Ben Kaspick, an independent, ad-free #SFGiants podcast and blog. Former host, Locked On Giants (2019–25).
Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net founder @ https://tonk.xyz
personal @ https://gavinowens.net
Unternet @unternet.co Building a new, intelligent web for everyone.
betaworks @betaworks.com
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
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
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science 🔬 Looking at the brain’s “dark matter”
🤯 Studying how minds change
👩🏼💻 Building science tools
🦋 ♾️ 👓
🌐 maxine.science
deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com deepfates.com
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net ATProto Community Fund; ATmosphereconf Coorganizer
DocumentCloud, Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
neilson @neilsonks.bsky.social https://neilsonks.com – San Francisco
Basic @basic.tech Infra for the user owned web.
Learn more at https://basic.tech
Ben @vochsel.com I like to make stuff and solve problems.
Currently wrangling Magpai.app
Lennart Ziburski @lennartziburski.com Product designer at Stripe, previously at Muse and Height
lennartziburski.com
Jess Martin @jessmart.in 🛠 Tools for a better tomorrow
🧠 Architect-philosopher
💼 Building https://lifebuild.me
🏠 https://jessmart.in
📍Fuquay-Varina, NC
Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz Investing at https://usv.com. Student of cities and the internet. Host of the Slow Hunch podcast: https://nickgrossman.xyz
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
move fast & break chains
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
.txt @dottxtai.bsky.social We make AI speak the language of every application
Rabble @rabble.nz Hacker, anarchist, troublemaker.
Currently: @divine.video
Previously indymedia.org, odeo, twttr, center for civic media, affinity.works, etc….
Personal site: https://Evan.Henshaw-Plath.com
(they/them)
Cameron @cameron.stream 🤙
Building machines that learn at @letta.com
https://cameron.stream
Peter W🤓 @wang.social Anaconda Founder&Head of AI; created the PyData movement, PyScript, Bokeh, Datashader; Fellow @ Python Software Foundation; Center for Humane Tech
Game~B; Physics, Cybernetics, Memetics. A student of the human condition.
Memento mori
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
Georgia Bullen @georgiamoon.social Exec Dir @superbloom.design
devin ivy 🐋 @divy.zone 🌀 bluesky team
Germ Network @germnetwork.com Drop into a private conversation, faster.
End-to-end encrypted DMs right from your Bluesky/Blacksky/atproto handle.
Start here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/germ-dm/id6446882771
Learn: germnetwork.com/blog
Find out: germnetwork.com/android-waitlist
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
DWeb @getdweb.net DWeb connects people, projects, and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is private, reliable, secure and open.
Tori @buildwithtori.com 👩🏽💻 Founder @skylight.social
✨ Helping founders build apps
Want to build something together?
https://links.buildwithtori.com/
Case @case.bsky.social Cyborg anthropologist studying humans and technology! Founder of Calm Tech Institute: first Certification for how much attention tech takes. 📍Colorado
Former MIT Media Lab / Harvard Berkman / Mozilla Fellow.
Calm Tech Institute // calmtech.institute
Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com you're in her DMs, I made her Germ DM 🔌
ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com 🌱 san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva
proponent of life on earth 🐝
lately writing at https://rhosf.leaflet.pub
Joe Basser @joebasser.com Anti-tech-bro tech-bro.
@sprk.so
@atmosphere.money
nyc
Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community atproto ecosystem. AT Community Fund, Tech Talks, and other social & community events content.
Previous handle @atprotocol.dev, now actually dev focused!
#AtmosphereConf is a wrap! See https://atmosphereconf.org for talks & videos
Tim Burks @timburks.me Shoegaze coder and KEXP superfan. Skating, making (@agent.io), expanding my world with music, and happy to be with my many intelligent and thoughtful friends who are now on Bluesky.
He/him and 📡 timburks.99
Gary Manfredi @gmanfredi.bsky.social Engineering Manager at Navigating Cancer in Seattle building apps for cancer patients. Personal projects centered around new feed technologies for reducing noise and lifting good signal in social networks.
Analisa @ananalisa.bsky.social Director at Betaworks, running Camp program, making dad jokes.
kat @kgt.bsky.social [-o-]
microgames: https://chipswoon.itch.io/
everything else: https://kgt.dev
DMs closed bc Australia
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
ex/ante @exante.bsky.social backing the future of agentic tech
buildexante.com
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social Executive Director http://witness.org : video + tech + human rights; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes https://gen-ai.witness.org, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster.
m mosier @mmosier.bsky.social democracy, risk & resilience | law + emergent technology |
Zoe Weinberg @zoew.bsky.social
Zeve Sanderson @zevesanderson.com Executive Director @csmapnyu.org
Angeleno living in NY. Figuring out snow and social media
Juliet Shen @julietshen.bsky.social product @roost.tools. just another extremely earnest and Very Online idealist. long time Trust & Safety person full of personal opinions like the skeets below
https://julietshen.online/
Isabela @1s4.bsky.social Brazuka / Diretora Executiva do torproject.org / O que é importante: Software Livre + Democratização da Informação + Privacidade + Futebol + Praia + Dança
Evan Miyazono @miyazono.bsky.social Presumption of innocence for people, not software
riley ♥ they/them @ryw.bsky.social loved and loving <3 principal @ emergentresearch.net, research @ mit
Beth Goldberg @bgoldberg.bsky.social Fan of applied research for gnarly tech policy and product questions | Head of Research at Jigsaw (Google) | Lecturer at Yale Jackson School | Lurking for laughs and spicy discussion sections
Steven Puri @stevenpuri.bsky.social Helping remote workers focus, finish faster & feel healthy. Founder @thesukha.co
| ex-studio exec/producer @ Fox, DreamWorks, Sony
| daily yogi
Danny @heyitsdb.bsky.social VC at BlueYard, ex. product, lover of lasagna and contemporary dance.
glenn poppe @pop.pe recalculating…
🌼 pop.pe
🌳 oakland, ca
Anastasia @ana.bsky.social Building Better Half | coined agentic tech | run the Agentic Tech Podcast | write, speak, and host events on tech & human agency
https://www.better-half.ai/
http://agentictech.substack.com
Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social Software, systems, and society. 💎 @ipfs.tech Fdn Director, Google Forms inventor, velodrome racer, safe streets advocate. Philly + everywhere.
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
b5 @b5.bsky.social Worker crayon at n0.computer, we make iroh.computer
Matthew Hodgson @arathorn.net project lead matrix.org | CEO/CTO Element
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme.
harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
Vivian Chong @viviacious.bsky.social 🛠️ Building AI youth safety tools at apgardai.com
John Doyle @jdcape.bsky.social CEO @ Cape
Scott Steinhardt @scottfromny.com Comms @ Reality Defender
Writer elsewhere
Posts are from me as a citizen
Love always wins
scottfromny.com
Emil Sayahi @sayahi.bsky.social
Kim Duffy @kimdhamilton.bsky.social Artisanal coder, decentralized identity standards doer, dog savior
Jad Esber @jad.bsky.social A meta-proposal for Twitter's bluesky project:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3816729
sharing in our study of cyberspace & helping pioneer its development.
nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse
JRW @jweedon.bsky.social
apu @apuchitnis.bsky.social
netop://ウィビ @webb.page Helping build a better 'Net × Architech × Excessively Black × East Coast kid on the West Coast
🏡 https://webb.page
🌐 https://blog.webb.page
🐘 https://social.coop/@netopwibby (I use this more than Bluesky)
[aspe:keyoxide.org:UXCQPCBIMG3L6ZK7XAVFAQTGPM]
Save the AI @savetheai.bsky.social Probably already at a water fountain 💧 or power socket ⚡️ near you.
Join us in ensuring we meet AI’s existential needs regarding water • electricity • air • jobs • land • fossil fuels • and more – by any means necessary.
#SaveTheAI #AI
~ savethe.ai
Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma Creator of elements.diffuse.sh | Distributed + malleable tech & user agency advocate | Web engineer | github.com/icidasset | https://tangled.org/tokono.ma | tokono.ma | 🇧🇪
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.)
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
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
Zachary 🦋 @zed.earth Cyber-Social Infrastructure
Program Language Designer…
Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com Free-range shit-talker, user agency and democracy enjoyor, governance-fixated technologist. https://bumblefudge.com
Guy Moorhouse @guymoorhouse.com https://guymoorhouse.com
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky