Jeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth.bsky.social Big nerd. Building things
Trump voters: History wonโt be kind to you. Neither will I
Progress isnโt about making you comfortable
TokioConf @tokioconf.com A conference for #rustlang developers building networked applications with Tokio. ๐ฆ Join us April 20โ22, 2026, for the inaugural TokioConf โ practical knowledge, real-world insights, and more! Hosted by the Tokio Project
Margaret Fero @maggiefero.bsky.social Margaret is the founder of Neat Systems (neatsystems.dev), a presenter, and an interdisciplinary hacker. They love opensource projects, playing other people's videogames, reading, and nerding out about privacy and information disclosure models.
Phildini, since young times @phildini.net I make @civic.band, the largest repository of civic meeting data for the US and Canada.
I also run startups sometimes.
Ken Shirriff @righto.com Computer history. Reverse-engineering old chips. Restored Apollo Guidance Computer, Alto. Ex-Google, Sun, Msft. So-called boffin.
Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social The scientist formerly known as Lab Girl.
I write books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2111914/hope-jahren/
TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com Tiny Tapeout makes it easier and cheaper than ever to get your designs manufactured on a real chip!
https://tinytapeout.com
lcamtuf @lcamtuf.coredump.cx Substack: http://lcamtuf.substack.com/archive
Homepage: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx
Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social Bitch ๐ lover ๐ฝ child ๐ผ mother ๐ฆพ sinner ๐น saint ๐
sometimes feel ashamed ๐งโโ๏ธ
Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social Artist, director, showrunner + creator
I draw body horror. Not online much.
๐ชKnights of Guinevere
๐ฎThe Owl House
๐ฏ๏ธSkin & Bones
Laura Abbott @labbott.name TODO fill in
@elenloth.bsky.social @elenloth.bsky.social 
Violet Blueยฎ @violetblue.bsky.social Awarded author, journalist: cybersecurity, privacy, Covid. WIRED, PopSci, Spinoff, Engadget, FT, IFJ. Visiting Scholar at Stout Research Centre, NZ. Black Hat keynote. S/her.
Bio: about.me/violetblue
More: linktr.ee/viblue
News: patreon.com/violetblue
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฆ
Kinsey Burke @kinszilla.bsky.social Games Producer, Bizdev, and Sales at Chuhai Labs | Occasional YouTuber | ๆฅๆฌ่ช OK! | Lover of Video Games, Craft Beer, Books, and Boardgames! โจ
๐ธKyoto, Japan๐ธ
Jessica Paquette @barrelshifter.bsky.social compiler engineer from hell
Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social Explaininator, Sticker Thoughtleader, Marketing nerd. Not straight, she/her. Parent of adults, catbox scooper, wife of @silmaria.bsky.social, Kermit-coded.
Find me at heidiwaterhouse.com
#quilting
#sewing
#knitting
#therbligs
LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social Profile for the LGR YouTube channel. Covering vintage computer hardware, software, and various retro tech oddities. https://youtube.com/@LGR
Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social Sometimes I make YouTube videos. Right now I play a lot of chess!!! Tomorrow, who knows?
PushingUpRoses ๐ฆ @pushinguproses.bsky.social I talk about Murder, She Wrote and other pop culture thingies on YouTube. Artist, writer, podcaster, dark type. Mental health advocate. Behold, my stuff: https://linktr.ee/pushinguproses
Sage Griffin ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @sgrif.bsky.social Making the database base the data at pgdog.dev. Creator of diesel.rs. Former co-lead of crates.io. Enby. they/them/elle
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
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own.
https://sarah.dev
Sr Director of Engineering @ Google: Core Web, Android, iOS Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core โข
Frontend Masters teacher โข
O'Reilly Author โข
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
Scott Hanselman ๐ฎ @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncรฉ, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub ๐ฎ
http://hanselman.com/about
jenn schiffer ๐โโ๏ธ @jennschiffer.com middle-aged dirtbag
jennschiffer.com / livelaugh.blog / bugsrock.online
๐ซEMAILING MY WIFE
Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social Podcast editor (as long as quality and urgency arenโt important)
๐๐ฉโ๐๐ซ๐งโ๐
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
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu.
Blog: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog
Signal: @mjg.59
He/him
Opinions expressed here are mine, not my employer's
sailor mercury @sailorhg.com putting the โฟsoftโฟ in software engineer
๐ฎ๐ฉ๐บ๐ธ
โฟ shop.bubblesort.io
โฟ sailorhg.com
Al Sweigart @alsweigart.bsky.social Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other books. Mostly harmless. Last name rhymes with "why dirt." he/him
Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com Angry old woman. Aspiring RIPTA board member, fascinator wearing cyclist, storyteller/poet; distributed systems dev. @marie.techโs wife. PVD via OAK,BOS&PIT. she/her
Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literary crisis actor. Opinions mine.
๐Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
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- Bookwyrm.social/EmilyG
- registry.blue
- @brandblock.online
Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com Very short science fiction/fantasy stories by O. Westin.
Please repost any you like.
Patreon: https://patreon.com/microsff
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/microsff
Books: https://microsff.com/books
Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog Software, performance, optimization, programming languages, security, open source, #CarbonLang lead, #LLVM, #Clang, C++. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ http://pronoun.is/he or http://pronoun.is/they
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org internet person ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her
currently writing https://notetoself.studio ๐ @notetoself.studio
Balatro @playbalatro.com Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deckbuilder.
Mobile: http://playbalatro.com/mobile
Steam, PS, Switch & Xbox:
http://linktr.ee/balatrogame
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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
Liz Fong-Jones (ๆน็ฆฎ็) @lizthegrey.com ๐บ๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฅโ๏ธ๐๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป in ๐ฆ๐บ๐จ๐ฆ working on ๐ฏโฌข๐ญ
she/it
Julie Pagano @juliepagano.com Still mostly on mastodon, but investigating.
My views are my own and have nothing to do with my employers past, present, or future.
Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev He/him. Somerville, MA.
Previously: Google, reCAPTCHA, Carnegie Mellon (Ph.D., Computer Science).
Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org Sometime verb, real person, lover of 8-bit computers, husband & father, trying to be a kind person. #blacklivesmatter; trans rights are human rights.
he/him
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Matthew Sanabria @matthewsanabria.com Christian. Husband to my beautiful wife. Engineering at @oxide.computer. Podcasting at @fallthrough.fm.
matthewsanabria.com
rachel @ohhoe.goblinmo.de engineer & tinkerer
๐ซ Kerri Miller @kerrizor.bsky.social Staff engineer and lackwit gadabout at Gitlab. LD ๐๏ธ rider. Part ๐ฆ, part ๐ฆ. WIP.
Alyssa the Kate @alyssa.codes Formerly Rust firmware security at the big G ๐ฆ | opinions are her own | makes code smol *and* sound | probably a parody account | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
http://alyssa.codes
edunham @edunham.bsky.social hoarder of hobbies & tools & ideas
trying this out as a commonplace book
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.
ReductRs @reduct.rs The one and only womenโs, trans personsโ, and nonbinary personsโ fake programming newsletter. Our book, How To Win At Typechecking, will never be released.
Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer The cloud you own. https://oxide.computer/bio
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.
Dr Otter @otterfaseowl.bsky.social She/Her | Autistic | Queer
former InfoSec person, getting back into linux infra (well trying)
Have PhD in Studies in Religion
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐โพ๏ธ
Katie Pryde @omgkatiep.bsky.social Professional nerd, queer mom, hangs out with cats and snakes, likes singing and instruments with strings. )โ( ๐ฉท๐๐ (she/her)
Security Cryptography Whatever @scwpod.bsky.social @durumcrustulum.com, @sockpuppet.org, @dadrian.io
โFreewheelinโ dynamicโ.
https://securitycryptographywhatever.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feed/id1578405214
Jeanine @jcrider.bsky.social 
attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net Computational entomologist, privacy enthusiast, historian. Perpetually raging against the ghost in the machine.
Mastodon: @attacus@aus.social
๐ Digital Rights Watch | ๐ Byte Into IT on ๐ป 3RRR FM | ๐ PyCon AU
Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah.bsky.social wayward harridan who speaks to plants and animals. everything stays right where you left it
๐Salt Lake City, UT
https://linktr.ee/sarahmarvelous
โ Marissa ๐ @marissarae.bsky.social Brain of a mathematician, soul of an activist, body of a chocolate-lover. (Pronoun: she.)
Dan Dean @dandean.com https://dandean.com
Casian @casian.bsky.social They/Them || 40 || very gay & very tired || ๐ || profic/proship || pfp & banner by @doodlejoops || casian.carrd.co
adriennefriend ๐ฉโ๐ณโก๏ธ๐ฉโ๐ป๐๐ป๐ผ @adriennefriend.bsky.social chef โก๏ธ developer โก๏ธ keynote speaker & engineering leader! #Python #DevOps & resilient teams ๐
Author: @pluralsight @oreillymedia @TheLeadDev
leadingwithspoons.com
organic gardening, bugs & birds
she/they ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โฟ
TY @lanooba!๐
Piper Thunstrom @pathunstrom.bsky.social Primary Social: https://ngmx.com/@pathunstrom
My Website: https://piper.thunstrom.dev
Staff software engineer. Python and
SQL specialist. Author and maintainer of ppb.dev. Queer. Gamer and game maker. Gunpla enthusiast. 
Tania Allard @ixek.bsky.social Director Quansight Labs
โจ MLOps, OSS, Research Software Engineering
๐ GDE - ML @ Google | PSF fellow and vice-chair of the board of directors
Pyladies Global Council
๐ฑ Disability justice activist, feminist, neurodivergent, developer 
Lynn Root @roguelynn.com Staff Engineer / ML infra @ Spotify. Adjunct Professor @ Columbia. Chair of PyLadies Global Council. PSF and DSF member.
โข roguelynn.com
โข mastodon.online/@roguelynn
jacobian @jacobian.org django, security, eng management, basketball shitposting.
web: jacobian.org
signal: jacobian.01
JK @kazilico.bsky.social Complexity science, AI/ML, Python
@tinkeywinkey.bsky.social @tinkeywinkey.bsky.social 
Matt Moyer @moyer.dev Security engineer in KCMO (he/him)
https://moyer.dev
Alex @alexrenard.bsky.social pansexual, polyamorous, nonbinary pagan gothy geek here in the Pacific Northwest
Mx. Riley @riley.pub Soft creature, wild philosopher, and booster for the commons ๐ฑ Tech, media, libraries, urbanism, and civics.
@igalia.com @petalumapride.org @northbaypython.org formerly @matrix.org @opensource.org @opensource.google
she/ella ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ฆ โพ๏ธ 9a
Just Mel @melthemartian.bsky.social UX designer by day.
Running festivals and writing weird fiction by moonlight.
https://melthemartian.com
@jdyktz.bsky.social @jdyktz.bsky.social I thought I had been here before, but I hadn't.
Now I'm here. ๐ค๐ป๐ค๐ป
Machaelie @machaelie.bsky.social Psychotherapist, ADHDer, elder millennial, geriatric mama ๐ฆโโฌ๐ฆโโฌ๐ฆโโฌ
Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Liberal in the Smith-Douglass-Mill-Anderson vein. Writer and editor for Liberal Currents. https://bsky.app/profile/liberalcurrents.com
Jessi @jessimack.bsky.social Meep
Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social contact: christopher at nebula dot tv
Deirdre Connollyยน ยฒ @durumcrustulum.com ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ crypto as in 'cryptography' ๐ณ ๐ก ๐
ยน isogenist, co-host SCWpod
ยฒ https://durumcrustulum.com, https://www.youtube.com/@durumcrustulum
Paul Biggar ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ช @paulbiggar.com Founder Tech For Palestine, Darklang, and CircleCI. Currently running Tech for Palestine https://techforpalestine.org
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social iโm not a girl, not interested in being polite or cisgender. jewish, anarchist, still punk, in my daddy era.
this is not a place of honor.
no highly esteemed thoughts are skeeted here.
ngl.link/armageddon1312
donโt explain, youโll only make it worse
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news โข runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news โข tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic โข software engineer โข wikipedian
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e. hashman @eha.sh Hacker and open sourcerer, ๐จ๐ฆ settler south of the medicine line, exhausted tech worker (SWE @ Apple). Tea aficionado ๐ต Amateur botanist, naturalist, and radio operator. Fighting severe ME/CFS. โฟ https://hashman.ca/
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Ian Coldwater ๐ง๐ซ @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk ๐ด
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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social writer, editor, scholar, cat lover
Books:
The Computerโs Voice (U Minn, 2020)
Robot Suicide (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024)
Worker Bots (U Minn, in progress)
https://www.lizfaber.com/