Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com Connect with a rapidly-growing Local-First community. Join us for our third edition 12-14th of July 2026 in Berlin. www.localfirstconf.com
Erik AS - Game Designer @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social Works as a Board Game Designer (Whirling Witchcraft, Hungry Monkey, The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville, and Where is That?) and an Applied Nuclear Physicist.
Agile Testing Days | Nov. 16 - 19, 2026 @agiletdzone.bsky.social Agile Testing Days is a 4-day conference (Onsite & Virtual) for international agile software testers and engineers gathered to learn, share, and network.
James Bell @sarcainian.eurosky.social (he/him) @sarcain@ruby.social (Mastodon)
Web head, reader, cook, rubyist and all that.
Dead Code @deadcode.website A podcast by @jardo.dev about making the software industry better. New episodes every Tuesday. https://deadcode.website
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
Railfinder @railfinder.eu We make taking the train across Europe possible in just one booking.
www.railfinder.eu
Paweł Pacana @mostlyobvio.us Curious engineer digging large-scale legacy Rails apps.
Blogging at https://mostlyobvio.us
RailsEventStore core and former leader. Organizing DRUG and @wrocloverb.com conference.
Crafting tailor-made goods at https://hraba.gs after hours.
Jan Dudulski @jan.dudulski.pl NopeJS programmer at https://northpass.com, unfulfilled football player, board/war gamer, Vim cleric and Elixir fanboy.
Ralf Westphal @ralfw.bsky.social Free and independent. Critical and reflective. Non-dogmatic. Politics, society, psychology. Software architecture, AI & collaboration in the office. Left Germany for living in the mountains of south Bulgaria.
Toshiaki Maki @ik.am https://ik.am
Fade In @fadeinpro.com Because you deserve better screenwriting software.
www.fadeinpro.com
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Sinevibes @sinevibes.bsky.social Downloadable superpowers for KORG, Mac, Windows, and Linux
Victor @vpon.me Helping devs, founders and designers fix their UI.
100 UI/UX tips (free) 👉 https://vpon.me/hundred
@robintegg.bsky.social @robintegg.bsky.social 
Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social Housing 🏠 + transit 🚎 + climate 🌎
President: Peninsula Young Democrats
Lead Member: Peninsula for Everyone
Work: Greenbelt Alliance
Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com Author of bestselling sexy book as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD Book Stuff: https://linktr.ee/kitrocha Whistle Stuff: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Heather Downing @heatherdown.ing Software dev & speaker. Developer Advocate @YugabyteDB & Microsoft MVP. #dotNET/APIs/identity/data/AI. Technical, curious and traveling often from KC, Missouri. KCDC crew.
Greg Schier 👨💻 @schier.co 🦬 Bootstrapping @yaak.app
✍️ Writing at schier.co
👨💼 Founded and sold insomnia.rest
#buildinpublic
Jean-Loup R Smith @jlarts.scot Composer, Musical storyteller 🎼, Artist, Guitar Player 🎸, Taiko player 🥁, Musician 🎹, Photographer 📷, Occasional Actor 🎭, Language nerd, Finnophile 🇫🇮, X-Phile 👽 .
Scottish 🏴 French 🇫🇷 European 🇪🇺
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Alex Good @patternist.xyz I work on local-first software, currently building Automerge at Ink and Switch. Find me at patternist.xyz
Open Local First @localfirst.bsky.social The home for the communities of open source developers, engineers, researchers and designers who love and do Local First software.
Organizing the Local First devroom at FOSDEM'26 in Brussels. 1st Feb 2026.
https://openlocalfirst.org
Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social Prof of Ed Psych & Learning Sciences at UNC-CH | Scholar, speaker, consultant studying how people learn in the digital world | APA & AERA Fellow | Journal & Handbook Editor | Book Author | Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/jeffgreene
@nathanlively.bsky.social @nathanlively.bsky.social 
Craig Motlin @cmotlin.bsky.social - H @hedgehog77.bsky.social @hedgehog77.bsky.social
Palani @palani.bsky.social realtime engineer @planepowers. gsoc'23 '24 @rocketchat. crdts. math.
i use vim i̶n̶ ̶z̶e̶d̶, btw
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Markus Winand @winand.at SQL Renaissance Ambassador. Author, Trainer, Coach. PhD in Common Sense. Creator of http://use-the-index-luke.com and http://modern-sql.com.
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/
Manu Sridharan @manu.sridharan.net CS prof at UC Riverside in Programming Languages and Software Engineering. Original author of NullAway. https://manu.sridharan.net
🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social Bonjour !
Animator, illustrator, director (sometimes) making animals as bouncy as possible ❤️
Safe space 💙 Be friendly and respect eachothers 🙏
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
alicia 🍳 @acorviart.bsky.social alicia - illustrator + sometimes ceramics
work inquiries: acorviart@gmail.com
store: http://acorviart.bigcartel.com
other links: https://acorviart.carrd.co
tags: #art #ceramics #crafts #doodle
𝐎𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬 | オシアス🌪️✨ @aubreanreverie.bsky.social Author/Illustrator/Animator | 📚 Now writing 'Eliel'; an epic fantasy about a necromancer finding redemption | ファンタジー作家兼イラストレーター
https://linktr.ee/AubreanReverie
Jed Brown @jedbrown.org Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | refuse epistemicide | he/they
Antora Project @antora.org A static site generator for creating documentation sites from AsciiDoc content aggregated from multiple repositories. Made by the creators of @asciidoctor.org.
https://antora.org
https://docs.antora.org
https://chat.antora.org
folkjs @folkjs.org A research lab by @orionreed.com and @chrisshank.com exploring radically different directions that we can interface with the web.
Website: https://folkjs.org/
Github: https://github.com/folk-js
Sponsor our work: https://github.com/sponsors/folk-js
Chris Oldwood @chrisoldwood.bsky.social skeet = reinterpret_cast(life)
Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com I build tools for devs and designers: @Polypane.app, FixA11y, Superposition | Electron governance member | He/him
Guido X Jansen @gui.do Bullish on atproto & the open web 🏗️ sifa.id | barazo.forum | singi.dev 🪿
* 20+ years community building (Joomla!, Magento, Spryker, CRO.CAFE)
* Cognitive Psychologist turned DevRel
* Open source & automation
* Former competitive swimmer 🏊♂️
🇪🇺 🇳🇱 👨👩👦👦
🏡 gui.do
Lyra Wenchford - SF Babe @lyrawenchford.bsky.social 26 and a muse & companion from day to night. Come find me at lyrawenchford.com
BAWS - Bay Area Workers Support @bawsupport.bsky.social Advocating for the health, safety, and livelihoods of Bay Area SWers through direct support + community organizing.
https://linktr.ee/BAWSupport
@swop-usa.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA is a national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of people involved in the sex trade and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy.
Whitefox Designs @whitefoxdesigns.net "Human-made" Logo Designs
Commissions: OPEN (Check Queue)
Please visit my Linktree to find my Commissions Guide, Projects List, and Service Review
https://whitefoxdesigns.carrd.co/
Thymeleaf @thymeleaf.org Thymeleaf is a template engine for Java aimed at creating elegant web code while adding powerful features and retaining prototyping abilities.
Daniel Fernández @danfenz.dev Software engineer. Author of open source technologies @thymeleaf.org, unbescape, attoparser, atomichash, javatuples, javaruntype, jasypt, op4j and javagalician.
🏡 Galicia, Spain, European Union.
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com Founder and Publisher of Liberal Currents
liberalcurrents.com
Signal profile adamgurri.41
rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com Smart enough to know he's not smart enough.
🌮
📍Brighton, UK
Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, NBC News and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social Developer Advocate @ JetBrains
#Kotlin since 2015
@arrow_kt maintainer
Majid Mostafavi @mmostafavi.bsky.social 
Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev Vice President of Web Components; billiards enthusiast; father; thoughts and opinions are not AI generated.
https://michaelwarren.dev
Nanda Syahrasyad @nan.fyi occasional writer @ nan.fyi
Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social Researcher, advisor, writer, formal verification eng @ Confluent.
Everything data (dist sys, databases, messaging, data eng/analytics).
https://jack-vanlightly.com, https://www.hotds.dev
Credit: ESO/B. Tafresh
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social My hobby is taking pictures of fun and weird Japanese mascots (and other costumed characters).
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
Félix GV @felixgv.ninja Mostly here to talk about data infra. Opinions will eventually be your own.
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social (she/her)
Interested in information.
I currently work in research library assessment and UX
Daiz @daiz.moe 🔞 Digital media expert & UX designer/developer @ JP-EN media localization
Talks #lightnovels / #anime / #manga / #games / #translation | pro-fiction | Finnish 🇫🇮 but posting primarily in English | opinions firmly my own | he/they
Website ★ daiz.moe ★
The Awkward Yeti @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social Award losing Heart and Brain cartoonist, National Cartoonists Society Board Member, founder of Webcomicon, creator of OrganATTACK
Support my work on Patreon and see the new stuff!
Linktr.ee/theawkwardyeti
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social SFWA promotes, advances, and supports science fiction and fantasy storytelling by educating, promoting, and empowering its creators and the larger community. This account is for informational purposes.
Eric Dittmore @ericdittmore.bsky.social Teacher
Tabletop game designer
DittmoreDesigns.com
Adrienne Braganza Tacke @abt.bsky.social Author of LGTM: Constructive Code Reviews📘manning.com/books/looks-good-to-me • LinkedIn [In]structor ☁️ • Always down for 🍰 • Speaking all ova tha worllld 🎤
Stefan Judis @stefanjudis.com Freelance dev sending Frontend news to 6k people over at webweekly.email. Sharing lots of tips'n'tricks on the way.
Google Dev Expert, former Microsoft MVP and Playwright Ambassador
𝐒𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚 🇪🇺 @skohlmann.bsky.social Twelve-point stag software architect with passion for distributed systems.
I maintain a few moderation lists.
Martin Lippert @martinlippert.bsky.social Spring Tools Lead @ Broadcom, https://github.com/martinlippert, Co-Founder of the Green Software Hamburg Meetup Series, Co-Founder of it-agile GmbH
Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau.bsky.social ASF/Java/.NET/BigData/Js
LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2GIh7Bb
ASF: https://s.apache.org/rmannibucau
Javaccino founder (java/.NET/K8s service)
.NET Blog: https://dotnetbirdie.github.io
Java/Js Blog: https://rmannibucau.github.io
Book: http://bit.ly/4dVRmvh
Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social Whenever I'm close, things reveal that they're broken - and sometimes that was not my intention.
Expect posts about software testing, public speaking, parenting, sports (running & pole) and fashion.
Genderqueer.
Haus Tarabiscoté*e 🪻🖤
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3l3frqadlo32h
OpenAlternative @openalternative.co Discover open source alternatives to popular software. Curated by @kulpinski.dev
Join 8k+ subscribers → openalternative.co
Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social https://essentialrandomness.com
Software engineer (and more) on a mission to bring community back to the web. Founder of @fujoweb.dev, https://fujocoded.com/ and https://bobaboard.com/. Loves building random, chaotically-delightful stuff. 🇪🇺🇺🇸
Mat Brunet (AniMat) @matbrunetvo.com Animation Historian, Film Critic, Actor / Voice Actor, YouTuber, He/Him, Activist and Disney Lover at your service! https://linktr.ee/animat505
Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social He/him. 32. Graphic Designer and tired bird, I doodle from time to time. I also like to talk about history.
ENG/ESP
I have a shop!: https://ko-fi.com/magpies_nest/shop
Telegram art channel: https://t.me/themagpiesnest
Pfp🎨: @asurii.bsky.social
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Josian Chevalier @josianchevalier.bsky.social Software Crafter @ Shodo.io, DDD practitioner
Jan-Niklas Wortmann @wordman.dev Developer Advocate at JetBrains | RxJS Core Team Member | Angular GDE
W-JAX | Community & Konferenzen @jaxkonferenz.bsky.social Globale Community und Events für Java, Architektur & Software-Innovation.
Für Entwickler & Architekten: Core Java, Microservices, Cloud Native, Spring. Experten-Webinare, Sessions, Aufzeichnungen.
Vernetze dich auf Konferenzen & Workshops weltweit.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Isidro López ❤️🩹🇵🇸 @islomar.bsky.social Pastafarian, product developer and eternal curious. And HUMAN. Trying to see reality as-it-is 🙏 https://islomar.es #XP #Lean #DevOps #People #Crafter
CalMatters @calmatters.org CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization. We write stories about California, for Californians.
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social I do housing policy stuff and it’s ruining my life. CADA, SMUD, and SOE fanboy. House Sacramento’s most annoying member.
Urban Land Rent Foundation’s official letterboxd: boxd.it/cUU0R
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social Programmer with a small grey beard.
I do #Python, #Java, #Rust, #JavaScript, #C, #PHP, or whatever else. Often found hanging around sockets, protocols, databases, and cups of tea.
Threema ID: BH83A3XX
Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social Cisqueer author / educator / software eng known for #architecture #performance #observability #Java #JVM
Chaos acc: #cats #antifascism #queer >> #tech
Cornishman in Barcelona. He / him.
More: @kittylyst@mastodon.social
Hayden Jones @haydenpjones.bsky.social Geeky about Java, Star Trek and Proportional Representation
betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social editor/co-founder @thesicktimes.org | journalist covering Long COVID & related crises | she/her/🏳️🌈
email: betsy@thesicktimes.org | signal: betsyladyzhets.25 | https://thesicktimes.org/
seaofclouds @seaofclouds.com 
Automerge @automerge.org Automerge is a library of data structures for building collaborative applications
📚 https://automerge.org/
💬 https://discord.gg/vvnytpgSnr
📆 https://lu.ma/automerge
K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com Writer, cartoonist, editor. Hugo finalist. Very sweary. Half politics, half dog pics. She/her.
🖼️ kbspangler.com
🐨 agirlandherfed.com
🐲 sidequested.com
🎉 patreon.com/KBSpangler
✨ Rep by Bailey Tamayo • btamayo@sjga.com ✨
Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social Gay shit. Sometimes even award-winning gay shit. BLACKFISH CITY; etc. RED STAR HUSTLE is a USA Today Bestseller! https://linktr.ee/samjmiller