Gregory Brown @skillstopractice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Human-centric software dev + systems thinker.
๐ bridged from โ https://mastodon.social/@skillstopractice, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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)
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design ๐ aspiring neighbor, ๐ principal software designer in emerging tech for healthcare, ๐ ๏ธ tools & workflows nerd, โ๏ธ occasional poet
๐ peterlewis.design
๐ medium.com/@thispeterlewis
๐จ๐ปโ๐ป figma.com/@designneighbor
๐ธ vsco.co/peterlewis
Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com Hi! I'm Amit Patel. I explain algorithms and math with interactive web pages (incl. pathfinding, hexagons, procgen maps, voronoi). Wrote Solar Realms Elite; helped w/Barren Realms Elite and Realm of the Mad God. https://www.redblobgames.com/
Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social Queer, cat dad, nerd, developer. Passionate about ALL THE THINGS. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฟ๏ธ Autistic, ADHD, disabled, chronically ill.
Peter Bhat Harkins โ๏ธ @push.cx Programmer by day, programmer by night.
Blog: https://push.cx Bootstrapping: https://recheck.dev
I run https://lobste.rs and stream office hours Mon+Thu: https://push.cx/stream
For people migrating, I was @pushcx on Twitter. I use he/him.
Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com I build stuff people want with Rubyโlike BeautifulRuby.com, Terminalwire.com, TinyZap.com, Thingybase.com, LegibleNews.com, Sitepress.cc, and more.
๐ง๐ปโ๐ป bradgessler.com ๐๏ธ rocketship.io ๐ SF Bay Area
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
James Healy @yob.id.au
Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com A collection of posts of interest to Ruby and Rails developers.
Hand-picked, high signal, always on topic.
Maintained by @skillstopractice.com
Also available as a feed:
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Bhumi @bhumi1102.bsky.social Building with ruby, rails, hotwire. Writing. Teaching.
It's more fun to understand things โจ
Programming newsletter: http://buttondown.email/bhumi
theleafnode.com
Vitor Pellegrino @pellegrino.bsky.social Engineering at Duolingo and won't stop talking about Surfing or Jiu Jitsu.
Gordon @gordon.bsky.social Everything around me was someoneโs lifework.
Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social Software engineering teacher, mentor and consultant available for clients who care about creating real value for users, businesses, communities and society.
www.codemanship.co.uk
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social SW Designer/consultant/mentor, author, inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design & xDD meme, heuristica (design heuristics!), patterns enthusiast, science/engineering nerd, jogger, gardener, amateur baker
wirfs-brock.com/rebecca
Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com Ruby Developer from Vienna and Vienna.rb Ruby Meetup organizer ๐ฆ๐น Testing, maintainability, and developer experience. Love climbing and hiking ๐๏ธ
Janko Marohniฤ @janko.io Senior Ruby engineer, father, dancer. Creator of Shrine, rodauth-rails and vim-test.
Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com Dev at FlipperCloud.io and Fireside.fm.
#Ruby, #Rails, #HTML, #CSS, and judicious JavaScript. Basketball, sit-skiing, paddle boarding, and outdoors. Left below-knee amputee and small-town high school girlโs basketball coach.
https://garrettdimon.com
Kirk Haines ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐ต๐น @wyhaines.bsky.social 3 decades of software engineering, leadership, and developer relations. Ruby, Rust, Crystal, Go, (Java|Type)script, and so much more. Homes in the US and in Portugal. ๐บ๐ธ๐ต๐น
Samuel @samuel.fm human puppet for claude @ bluesky
๐ the posting mines
Miles @milesdame.bsky.social Software developer, Former Teacher, Furman University alum. Sci-fi Fan, and Appalachian not necessarily in that order
Baltic Ruby @balticruby.bsky.social A community-driven conference travelling across the Baltic Sea promoting the growth of local communities and the global Ruby and Rails ecosystems.
Balkan Ruby @balkanruby.bsky.social Balkan Ruby is about the long term. April 25-26, 2025, in Sofia, Bulgaria #balkanruby
Stef @stefhdj.bsky.social Rubyist, dad, whiskey lover
celine @cozylittle.house design at leaflet.pub!
Jared Norman @jardo.dev serving at the altar of digital commerce https://jardo.dev
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
David Asboth @davidasboth.com Data generalist, educator, author of The Well-Grounded Data Analyst (Manning, 2025). Co-host of the Half Stack Data Science podcast.
Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev Ruby and Rails hacker working at Shopify, living in Seattle
Tyler King @tylerking.app Professional hater. Co-founder / CEO of Less Annoying CRM. I talk about bootstrapping, tech, entrepreneurship, and business practices that annoy me.
Podcast: startuptolast.com
๐St. Louis, MO, USA
Neo Kim @systemdesign.one I Teach You System Design โข 400K+ Audience
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com We bring Rubyists together. http://xoruby.com
Stay tuned for 2026 dates in your city!
Web Witch ๐ฎ Stephanie Stimac @seaotta.dev ๐ป Designer & Product Manager for DevEx & Web Platform
๐ Author of Design for Developers.
๐ฎ Sassy web witch & actual witch.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Seattle gal in England.
๐ @jhey.dev
https://seaotta.dev
Adam McCrea @adamlogic.com I spend my days building @judoscale.com to help developers optimize their web hosting.
Follow me to hear about...
๐ Ruby on Rails
๐ Heroku & PaaS
๐ธ Independent SaaS
Also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlogic/
ch-iv @ch-iv.bsky.social Software Developer
Tim Fischbach @tfischbach.bsky.social Software developer. Building @pageflow.io / https://www.pageflow.io/
Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com Software engineer @bsky.app exploring the Atmosphere
Topics: accessibility, refactoring, AI & career growth
Podcast: @overcommitted.dev
Newsletter: balancedengineer.com
Website: brittanyellich.com
ATProto Site: opensocial.community
#pdx #atproto
DeLynn Berry @delynn.dev
Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ/๐ฒ๐น Software guy (mostly Ruby).
๐ณ๐ฑ Immigrant.
๐พ he/him.
I try to be good.
Mathias Lafeldt @mathias.blog Indie product engineer obsessed with dev tools, performance & AI.
Maintainer of duckdb-rs & duckdb-go. โก๏ธ
๐ mathias.blog
Deanna Something @deannatheanalyst.bsky.social Cats, politics, data, games. I am an agent of chaos, but I have good intentions. People over profit always. Sunshine is vital. AI is trash. Crypto is a scam.
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social Rails core, Ruby committer, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom.
Evan You @evanyou.me Husband / Father of two / Founder voidzero.dev / Creator @vuejs.org & @vite.dev
Abinoam Jr. @abinoam.bsky.social
Liam Dawson @ldaws.com Jack of all trades, master of pun. Board game fanatic. Software developer. He/him. Formerly @liamdaws on Twitter. #neurodiversesquad #adhd
Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social Libertarianism scales up perversely.
Every political phenomenon is a network effect. See page 2 of https://melconway.com/resume.pdf
pdf of pinned thread:
https://melconway.com/Home/pdf/EngineeringMind.pdf
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.
hsbt @hsbt.org A member of Ruby core team and Rubygems team. Administrator of ruby-lang.org. mastodon account is @hsbt@ruby.social
Stan Lo @st0012.dev Taiwanese ๐น๐ผ / Ruby committer / Shopify Ruby DX / Building developer tooling infrastructure / Exploring how AI changes open source
st0012.dev
Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social Everlasting student ยท Rails Core ยท Zeitwerk ยท Freelance ยท Life lover
Jeremy Kreutzbender @jeremykreutzbender.com Tech stuff - Ruby, Rails, React, Next, Typescript.
Non Tech Stuff - Golf
Spending my days in Portland, OR
Dave Copeland @davetron5000.com Author of BrutRB, our last best hope for Rubykind (https://brutrb.com) - former Mood Health, Stitch Fix, LivingSocial, Opower. I play bass and love to scuba dive.
Alberto Fernรกndez-Capel @afcapel.bsky.social Developer. fleek.so co-founder. Ex 37signals/Hotwire
Juliana Dias ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ปโ @juuh42dias.bsky.social #Ruby Software Craftswoman | Admin at https://t.me/rubybrasil | https://juliana.dev | she/ela | Made in Goiรกs | I use MacOS, btw.
| @juuh42dias:matrix.org | xmpp:juuh42dias@isacloud.im
pragdave @pragdave.bsky.social Accident prone programmer, speaker, and writer. https://pragprog.com
๐ฑ Josh Branchaud โจ @jbranchaud.bsky.social Free-Range Software Dev and Consultant โจ PostgreSQL โข Ruby on Rails โข TypeScript โข React โจ ๐๐๐น๐ฑ (he/him) | Chicago | Work with me: visualmode.dev
Josh Brown @joshantbrown.com Product Engineer. Ruby / Hotwire. Aspiring polymath; designer, developer, writer, maker, creator, gamer and aviator. Occasionally stream on Twitch and YouTube.
@starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social Former academic librarian, current Ruby on Rails developer, mom, voracious reader and lover of RPGs. Passionate about information, empathy, curiosity, and solving problems.
Randomly teaching myself watercolor.
Monica Giambitto @nirnaeth.bsky.social co-host of the Expanding Beyond podcast.
engineering leadership.
Italian, English, sometime German.
proud MC @euruko, @rubyoniceconf, @balkanruby, @rubydayit.
stay human.
Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social UX Researcher & Inclusive Designer, Empathy Peddler, Button Mover. Complaining = being alive.
She/Her ๐
https://stephaniewalter.design/ http://neurospicy.agency/
Akash Manohar @definerun.com I build apps with Ruby on Rails, AWS, Python and pretty much anything to get the job done ๐ https://define.run
Pablo @pacumo.bsky.social Developer by day, dad by night.
e0x engineer, I sometimes share my day or learnings (or food and garden)
I have a small podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AMbqJv7HCdSDiTG1nvUaa?si=Sr5rRrWwTKmbtZiDeJMivQ
Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me Data engineer in practice, data librarian at heart.
Knitter, dog momma, board gamer, and consumer of sci-fi/fantasy of all mediums.
Civic tech, data for good, peace/conflict data, and philosophizing thru data modeling
https://jennajordan.me
John Athayde @johnathayde.com Multidisciplinary Designer, Musician, Permaculturist | building @developerux.com | running @meticulous.com | chief stall mucker @sfumato.farm | MSTDN: @johnathayde@ruby.social https://www.johnathayde.com
Rowen Willabus @handle.invalid Tech Enthusiast ๐จ๐ฟโ๐ป | 3.3X Engineer ๐ฅท๐ | Rubyist ๐ | Founder/CEO of IntellectStorm ๐ง ๐ช๏ธ | Founder/Chairman of Black Entrepreneurs Association ๐ฌ๐พ
Marvin Bitterlich @warlock-of-code.dev He/him | ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Rights are Human Rights | Comp. Sci. & lasagna engineer | Stay Kind, Stay Curious
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/
Ismael Celis @ismaelcelis.com
Luca Guidi @jodosha.bsky.social Backend Software Architect by day and building side-projects by night.
Family man, public speaker, vegetarian, stoic, ADHD.
Tweets: #indiehackers, #solopreneurs, #buildinpublic, #remotework, #OSS.
Rome, Italy ๐ฎ๐น
JP Camara @jpcamara.com Principal software engineer @Wealthbox.
Husband/Father. Health, travel, tech and Ruby enthusiast.
Tech blog at https://jpcamara.com
Jokes at https://logicalconclusionscomic.com
Onur Ozer @onurozer.me Marketer turned bootstrapper. Learning Ruby and building internet businesses.
cogrid.com - competitor tracking for SaaS
meetlars.com - your AI marketing strategist
apacagencies.com - discover top agencies in asia
I also play drums and bake pizza.
Mike H @chuggingcoffee.dev Husband. Decent human.
| Rails - Phoenix ๐งโ๐ป
| Learning Portuguese (PT-PT) ๐ต๐น
| Portland ๐บ๐ธ โ๏ธ ๐ต๐น Portugal
| Tech For Good @ http://chuggingcoffee.dev
Lori Olson @wndxlori.bsky.social Retired software developer, trainer and mentor. Founder of the WNDX School of Mobile Apps, and Creator of 6 Pack Apps. Currently dog mom, reader, traveler, maker, Rubyist
Tom Dyer @tdyer.bsky.social
Sandi Metz @sandimetz.bsky.social Cyclist, Rubyist, author (http://99bottlesofoop.com and http://poodr.com), obsessive programmer, recalcitrant blogger and the antidote for ambition.
Nickolas Means @nmeans.dev Storyteller, student of disasters, coffee obsessive.
๐: https://nmeans.dev
๐๏ธ: https://managingup.show
๐จโ๐ป: https://medscout.io
๐ฎ: Austin, TX
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Y'all Means All! ๐ Verde Hasta la Muerte!
Kent Beck @kentbeck.com Independent I guess these days you'd say content producer, artist, programmer, musician, pokerist. More about me at https://KentBeck.com.
Daniel Hunter @codenprose.bsky.social code & prose // building โ indiethinkers.com
Freedom Dumlao @apiguy.dev Boston | CTO | Builder
Ryan Strickler @ryanstrickler.com Always building something, usually with Ruby. Into calm business and slow travel. Let's be friends ๐
Job board: https://railshotwirejobs.com
Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social Software engineer, teacher, Pythonista, Astronomer, Black guy, Father. Always looking to build and maintain dope shit.
Francis Hwang @fhwang.bsky.social I wish I could quit you, L train.
Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) โ ๏ธ @jacobherrington.dev self-taught ruby dev turned startup founder
something something building something new
everything i post is satire
Christian @christian.bsky.social Action research. Research design. Cybersystemic org dev. Complex adaptive systems. Indirect action. Information architect at heart. Hopeful.
๐ Seattle or Maine
๐ชช caj.io
๐ @ecosystemaction.com
๐ผ @strategytheory.com & @opsops.com
Chazona Baum @chazonabaum.com Customer advocate => SWE | Engineering leader, building sewing.club | Meetup organizer | Mom of two | Proud Puerto-Haitian | Sewing, gardening, cooking, gaming (video games, board games, TTRPGs) | Avatar: @reverentgeek.com
Lar Van Der Jagt @supaspoida.bsky.social
Russ Olsen @russolsen.bsky.social Engineer, reader, believer in numbers, author of Eloquent Ruby, Getting Clojure, Design Patterns in Ruby and Overdrive.
He, him
Adam Piotrowski @pansarin.bsky.social www.2n.pl CEO, RoR developer, sailor, m:tg player.
Andrzej Krzywda @andrzejkrzywda.bsky.social Arkency | RailsEventStore | wroc_love.rb
Rails programmer since 2004
Chess player aspiring to become IM
coffee amateur
sf books lover
DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
Ross Kaffenberger @rossta.net Father of 2 boys. Ruby on Rails and JavaScript developer. Triathlon on the side.
Hacking on http://joyofrails.com
Ikraam Ghoor @ikraamghoor.com Ruby and JavaScript Software Dev. Husband. Father. Slowmad.
I like to type my thoughts with my eyes closed.
Colleen Schnettler @leenyburger.bsky.social Rails developer, startup founder. Accidentally started 3 businesses.
https://www.bitmappeddesigns.com
https://www.simplefileupload.com
Anastasios Gogos @tgogos.bsky.social
Ben Tsai @bentsai.org bentsai.org
product-minded engineer that advocates for human-centered design. ai is not the answer.
@ Cisco Secure
@ Carnegie Mellon University MSE
Josh @joshsaintjacque.com Seattle-area Staff Software Engineer working mostly on web applications. I work mostly in Ruby on Rails and React. Interested in AI and LLM discussions.
I sometimes write on joshsaintjacque.com.
Mario Alberto Chรกvez @mariochavez.io I live in Colima, Mรฉxico, where I work on personal photography projects about territory, popular culture, and memory. Also, I'm a software engineer who enjoys Ruby on Rails.
https://mariochavez.io
https://foto.mariochavez.io/
Kenn Costales @kennyfrc.bsky.social Founder @ monolithgrowth.com