Germ Network @germnetwork.com Private conversations, faster.
End-to-end encrypted DMs and voice notes from your Bluesky/Blacksky/atproto handle.
Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/germ-dm/id6446882771
Learn: germnetwork.com/blog
Find out: germnetwork.com/android-waitlist
Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com you're in her DMs, I made her Germ DM ๐
ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com ๐ฑ san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva
proponent of life on earth ๐
lately writing at https://rhosf.leaflet.pub
natalie ๐ซ @eclecticcapital.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/nataliemarie.eth
Eleftherios @lftherios.bsky.social 
Radicle @radicle.dev The sovereign forge.
https://radicle.dev
Johannes @kuehlewindt.com radicle.xyz, #rustlang, #decentralized, #localfirst, #Berlin
He/Him
Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com GP&CTO @blueyard.com
Author, musician, speaker, developer
AT-proto based encrypted group chat protocol: @freeq.at
Regenerative Software with the Phoenix Architecture: https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/
https://chadfowler.com/
Semblance of Toby Shorin @tobyshorin.bsky.social 
Metalabel @metalabel.bsky.social A new operating system for creative people
https://www.metalabel.com
localfirst.fm @localfirst.fm A podcast about local-first software development. Hosted by @schickling.dev.
Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social Open source strategy consultant (details at https://fastwonder.com/), Governing Board member and WG chair at CHAOSS, OpenUK board, TODO Group Ambassador, runner, sci-fi, 3D printed designs, vegan, world traveler. Opinions my own.
Powen Shiah @powen.net Taking a look around. @polexa@tech.lgbt on Mastodon, comms @sovereign.tech
he/him
Berlin, Germany
atpotato ๐ฑ๐ฅ @atpota.to A super serious legal entity responsible for weird and creative Atmosphere projects: atpota.to
๐ @anisota.net
๐ @aturi.to
๐งป @flushes.app
๐ @bsky38.com
Created by @dame.is
David Soria Parra @thedsp.bsky.social Creator of the Model Context Protocol (https://modelcontextprotocol.io) with @jspahrsummers.bsky.social. Member of Technical Staff @ Anthropic. Ex-Meta, Ex-Sun. https://experimentalworks.net
Robyn Wilder! @orbyn @robynwilder.bsky.social Horrible harridan (freelance journalist). She/her.
https://linktr.ee/robynwilder https://instagram.com/orbyn https://x.com/orbyn
@jasonleder.bsky.social @jasonleder.bsky.social 
Alden @heyalden.bsky.social engineer, artist, human // @ figma.com, prev @ Coda // making convivial tools
Protocol Berg v2 @protocol.berlin The decentralized protocol and infrastructure conference โฌฉ June 12-13, 2025 โฌฉ Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
- a @dod.ngo event
Julien Genestoux @ouvre-boite.com VP of Engineering at @relayProtocol!
Previously, founder @unlock-protocol.com (aqui-hired by Relay in 2025), founder @superfeedr (RSS, websub), sold to @medium.com in 2016!
Also goes by julien51 on the Internet!
https://ouvre-boite.com
Will Bennett @willbennett.bsky.social Investor @ Seedcamp
Damian Bradfield @djbradfield.bsky.social WeTransfer
The Supporting Act
Sarabande
Megalomaniacs
Caro Carrowack
Siim Teller @teller.bsky.social I invest in and help startups, raise 3 boys and a dog and get progressively worse writing these short blurbs as I get older.
Lemonadestand.ee
dennis lam @computing.bsky.social i live in the bay area and work in fintech. stream of consciousness account. here for a fun time
dame @dame.is Creator of @anisota.net, @aturi.to, @flushes.app. Product design engineer by day, three moths in a trench coat by night. (they/them) ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Website: dame.is
Sarah Kunst @sarahkunst.bsky.social @cleocapital Founder. Ex: Chanel & Bumble. Investor in Groq, Hill House, Modern Treasury, Ellevest, Mill etc. Repped by Creative artists agency
@shemtovo.bsky.social @shemtovo.bsky.social 
Jackie Lu @jackielu.bsky.social Advancing legibility and transparency for data, sensors and AI in urban tech. Leading Helpful Places (https://helpfulplaces.com) + stewarding DTPR (DTPR.io). Formerly built new nervous systems out of tech and data. at Mozilla | Sidewalk Labs | NYC Parks.
Mr Bingo @mr-bingo.bsky.social art, jokes etc
๐ช Shop open 10am - 6:30pm every Friday
๐๏ธ 'By appointment' on the other days (DM or email me)
๐ Address: 46 Amwell St, London EC1R 1XS
Open {re}Source @openresource.dev Open {re}Source is your community for sharing, discovering, and mastering the Open Source world together! https://openresource.dev
Btw, I'm JulienโOpen Source advocate, Bootstrap core team, Design System tech lead at Thales github.com/julien-deramond
max drake @maxdrake.md eng @tldraw.com, my website is maxdrake.md I sometimes write there
london
she/her
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Ellis Hamburger @hamburger.bsky.social helping founders find their truth & share it with the ๐ โ https://meaning.company โข past: browser company, snapchat, verge, umich
Dirt @dirt.bsky.social โจ๐ ๐ Microdosing culture. ๐๐โจ
Subscribe here: https://dirt.fyi/- T Tom Wilson @twil.bsky.social
.txt @dottxtai.bsky.social We make AI speak the language of every application
Rรฉmi @remilouf.bsky.social CEO & co-founder at .txt. I wander.
Common Magic @commonmagic.bsky.social investing in products with community at their core / craft-based - S @sariazout.bsky.social @sariazout.bsky.social
austin robey @austinrobey.xyz Building the Mondragon of Music ๐ Subvert
@subvert.fm
Subvert @subvert.fm Subvert is a music platform owned and controlled by a co-op of over 25,000 members. We are now LIVE.
www.subvert.fm
New_ Public @newpublic.org New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
Anna Fielding @annafielding.bsky.social Writer and editor. Formerly associate ed of Stylist. Anna.fielding@gmail.com
Shripriya Mahesh @shripriya.bsky.social ๐ Forza Ferrari! 1644
Investor at Spero Ventures. Filmmaker. Immigrant ๐บ๐ธ
Albert Wenger @albertwenger.bsky.social VC at usv.com, blog at continuations.com, book at worldaftercapital.org
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social Here we go again
Gordon @gordon.bsky.social Everything around me was someoneโs lifework.
Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com Building WebSim websim.com
Product thoughts: RobHaisfield.com
My research: ScalingSynthesis.com
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought
โจ Design @ SHV
๐ธ wattenberger.com
Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy!
Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
https://andymatuschak.org
Twitter: andy_matuschak
Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
dan @danabra.mov no, this is how it works
Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf ๐จ๐ฆ "Vancouver"
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Sappho's Roommate ๐ธ
๐ข @inkandswitch.com
๐ฐ Always learning
๐ก Woke AF
๐ค United we stand, divided we fall
โ BLM/Land Back/Antifa/Trans Rights/ACAB
โ๏ธ NixOS
๐ฅ Niri
๐ notes.brooklynzelenka.com
๐งถ tangled.org/expede.wtf
๐ types.pl/@expede
Andrรฉ Staltz @staltz.com I make softwarr. Working at @socket.dev Previously: Manyverse, SSB, Cycle.js, RxJS. Opinions expressed are my own.
rich harris @rich-harris.dev my life is derp and i do derp shit
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote โDesigning Data-Intensive Applicationsโ (OโReilly). he/him
Jess Martin @jessmart.in ๐ Tools for a better tomorrow
๐ง Architect-philosopher
๐ผ Building https://lifebuild.me
๐ https://jessmart.in
๐Fuquay-Varina, NC
Aaron Boodman @aaronboodman.com CEO rocicorp.dev. Building replicache.dev and zerosync.dev, raising two great kids, trying to be a better person. Also found at http://aaronboodman.com.
Paul Butler @paulbutler.org I build jamsocket.com and write digest.browsertech.com
Alex Good @patternist.xyz I work on local-first software, currently building Automerge at Ink and Switch. Find me at patternist.xyz
Linus @thesephist.com thought & craft
Jason Chan @jasonchan.bsky.social ๐จ Building subset.so in public
๐ถ Dog dad
๐ SF 
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
Gavin Nelson @gavin.social Designer
Steve Ruiz @steveruizok.bsky.social Founder tldraw.com
Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
https://michaelnotebook.com
Tom Ballinger @ballingt.com Duboce Triangle in SF
ballingt.com
@jlongster.bsky.social @jlongster.bsky.social 
Predrag Gruevski @predr.ag Querying (Almost) Everything // Frontier Systems @ OpenAI // Author of cargo-semver-checks & Trustfall // https://predr.ag/blog // ex Kensho // MIT alum // https://hachyderm.io/@predrag // not from around here ๐ฒ๐ฐ // he-him
Matt @tantaman.com https://rocicorp.dev/
๐ซ๏ธ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest "God is the garden I tend to believe"
Day job: Design Systems
Making https://biscuits.club (apps for your family) and https://verdant.dev (framework for the same)
Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com I explore the interfaces with which we think & the future of personal computing: alexanderobenauer.com
I also make books: buddybindery.com
HYTRADBOI @hytradboi.bsky.social Have you tried rubbing a database on it?
https://www.hytradboi.com/2025
Razberry @raz.lol coding & stuffs for the user-owned web ~ cofounder @basic.tech
Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me Working on Playbit https://playb.it/ . Designer of Figma, Inter, Spotify. Software painter. https://rsms.me/
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @๐ก๐ซ๐ฎ๐ช๐บ๐งโ๐ป
Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social Recent writing at https://grantslatton.com/latest
Formerly built the world's fastest filesystem at AWS, now the fastest spreadsheet at http://rowzero.com
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.
Andric @andric.dev Indie software dev.
Striving to build software thatโs pragmatic, ergonomic, and collaborative.
Bootstrapping https://promptbible.ai with @ideosyncretic.com to help you better manage your AI prompts
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.
๐ https://jakelazaroff.com
Bartosz Sypytkowski @horusiath.bsky.social Yrs/Yjs core dev team. Interested in distributed systems, databases and CRDTs. Blogging: https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com
unconed @unconed.bsky.social Professional shape rotator.
More true than is convenient.
https://acko.net/
https://usegpu.live/
Sam Willis @samwillis.uk Building sync and streams Databricks & Neon.
Prev co-founder @electric.ax - acquired.
Started http://PGlite.dev, co-creator of Tanstack DB @tanstack.com.
Anselm Eickhoff @anselm.io Thinking about code & design. Play is the only humane form of work. Founder of @garden.co - creator of Citybound & @jazz.tools
Daniel Steigerwald @steida.bsky.social Local-first (user-owned) software is inevitable. I'm building https://evolu.dev
Cyrus Omar on sabbatical in Cambridge @neurocy.bsky.social ๐ฑ ruining programming forever @ hazel.org
๐ฑ professoring @ Michigan
๐ฑ poetry
๐ฑ dendrites
๐ฑ immersion
๐ฑ flowers
๐ฑ resisting idiocracy
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~comar
Silicon Jungle @jungle.bsky.social ๐ค๐๐ต shapeโฆ shiftโฆ
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.)
Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev Building a local-first music app overtone.pro with @livestore.dev. Host @localfirst.fm. DX Effect. Founded @prisma.io. schickling.dev
Gregor Samosa @watwa.re putting the yikes in Dijkstra
Building: floma.io & mietencheck.de
Before: MDN & commonvoice.mozilla.org
Blog: https://watwa.re
I'm on Germ DM ๐
https://ger.mx/A7-MU0u2kNOoKLoRUO1PH_m7V0EVTamQmquKWtsrlh7W#did:plc:c764uyv2vgzswy5gpc4jgknf
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com Malleable software @inkandswitch.com
prev PhD @csail.mit.edu
geoffreylitt.com
๐ฏ๐ต๐บ๐ธ
Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
๐@jack@jackrusher.com
๐ฆ@jackrusher
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.
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.
๐ London
๐ฑ maggieappleton.com
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingertips
and turn my flittery feelings into multimedia.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion ฮ masto
@inkandswitch.com ฮ research
feelingof.com ฮ podcast
ivy.boo ฮ myself
she / hrt ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
ab ๐จ๐ฆ
Kartik Agaram @akkartik.name Programmer building programs that are useful, easy to install, easy to run, easy to modify, easy to share. https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps
Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda.bsky.social Dissident computer scientist 
Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org ๐ง๐ฝโ๐ป Co-founder of Gloodata & Instadeq
๐ Co-author of https://wasmgroundup.com/
๐ฐ Feeling of Computing Newsletter: https://newsletter.futureofcoding.org/join/
๐ Public Projects: https://marianoguerra.github.io/
๐๐๐ @mrogalski.eu Working towards a virtual workbench for your cybernetic contraptions.
Check it out at https://automat.org/ (or Steam - link below !!WISHLIST!!)
Feel free to come and hang out with me at https://twitch.tv/maf_pl or https://www.youtube.com/@MarekRogalski !
Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com Programmer & researcher, co-creator of https://ohmjs.org. ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ช๐บ
Co-author of https://wasmgroundup.com โ learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript.
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