Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Mayor Olivia Chow @mayoroliviachow.ca Mayor of Toronto 🇨🇦
Former City Councillor, Member of Parliament, and school trustee.
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City of Toronto @toronto.ca Official account for the #CityOfTO sharing #TOnews. Not monitored 24/7. Contact 311 Toronto to create a service request. Terms of use http://toronto.ca/socialmedia.
Toronto Blue Jays @torontobluejays.bsky.social We are Blue Jays #TOTHECORE 🇨🇦 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Snapchat and TikTok:
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Chrystia Freeland @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. Proud Canadian, mother, and wife. | Ancienne vice-première ministre du Canada. Fière Canadienne, mère et épouse.
Jens Scherbl @jensscherbl.bsky.social Tell ’em a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call.
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
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Ryan @r-2.io https://r-2.io/
Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social Brooklyn dad, recovering campaigner, improving challah baker. Brooklyn Democratic County Committee Member (the Fightin' 44th!).
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
taylor desseyn @tdesseyn.bsky.social building a community of 100M technologists | vp of global community @torc.dev
follow along for the journey--> linktr.ee/taylordesseyn
Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com Former White House national security official. Storyteller. Truth-teller.
Host of Olivia of Troye.
Real stories. Real stakes.
Helping people connect the dots between power, policy, and everyday life.🇺🇸🇲🇽
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
https://ironcircus.com
Executive/Associate Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
dennis lam @computing.bsky.social i live in the bay area and work in fintech. stream of consciousness account. here for a fun time
ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social I've been online for 100 years. I believe in people power. I want us all to do better.
She/her. Phillyish. Crone-age. So so late.
FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
Questions or complaints,,, harass my management:
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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social Ex-Twitter director for civic integrity. Media commentary & analysis; social media, election admin & voting tech. Lapsed poli-sci academic. Likes: democracy, facts.
http://linkedin.com/in/eddie1perez
Board of Directors @osetinstitute.org
Uncle Joe @sydseter.com Co-leader OWASP Cornucopia. If you like what we do for open source, visit our code repository https://github.com/OWASP/cornucopia and give us a star ⭐
🌈 «Difference is of the essence of humanity» 🦄 – John Hume
#appsec #owasp #cornucopia #threatmodeling
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Mark Nenadov @mark-nenadov.bsky.social Amateur Eclecticist. Wonder-filled explorer of a non-boring world. Tech leader. Software Engineer in the Fintech industry. Incubator of dad jokes. Dad to 3. Husband. Avid reader & nature watcher. Christian. Canadian.
Gabriel Yoran @yoran.com Unternehmer, Autor
www.yoran.com 🏳️🌈
Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org
Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io Site Reliability Eng. Resiliency, Reliability, Go, video game enthusiast, bedroom DJ. 
@jpaulreed @jpaulreed.com Incident response & management+human factors in software development & operations.
“How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?"
(Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social willgallego.com
recursive @recursive.lowerarchy.com Still learning to make the gods shit their pants, but at least I make programs coredump
Trans dyke
Also @recursive@hachyderm.io
Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com Angry old woman. Aspiring RIPTA board member, fascinator wearing cyclist, storyteller/poet; distributed systems dev. @marie.tech’s wife. PVD via OAK,BOS&PIT. she/her
Alex Elman @subterfudge.bsky.social 
Fred Hebert @ferd.ca Principal SRE @ honeycomb.io, Tech Book Author, Resilience in Software Foundation board member, Erlang Ecosystem Foundation co-founder, Resilience Engineering fan. SRE-not-sorry.
blog: https://ferd.ca
notes: https://ferd.ca/notes/
ryan kitchens @this-hits-home.kitchen 100% human. resilience engineering. ex-nflx, blizzard 💙
Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
Sarah Butt @sarahbutt.bsky.social Systems thinker. Student of complexity. “Like a moth to the incident flame”. Normally accompanied by 🦮 (she/her)
Steven Shorrock @stevenshorrock.bsky.social Psychologist & transdisciplinary humanistic, systems & design practitioner | Work, organisations, complexity, risk, justice | Autism, long covid, ME/CFS |
FBPsS CPsychol CErgHF PhD
🐝🇫🇷🏴 humanisticsystems.com
morgan (grumpy trash panda) @monym.me Cronym from the bird site.
I used to do SRE stuff. I still do, but I used to, too.
prev: Netflix, Blizzard
🏳️⚧️ | she/her
Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev Former athlete, reliability wonk.
Laura Maguire @lauramaguire.bsky.social Usually up high 🏔️🪂🧗🏽♀️ Cognitive Systems Engineering Research and systems design.
I study cognition, complexity, and human performance in high risk, high consequence and high value work systems. 🧠
#resilience #humanfactors #cognitivesystemseng
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io 
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
Ron Gantt @rongantt.bsky.social Interested in safety, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Co-host @ punkrocksafety.com. Working to create the conditions for human thriving at work. 
Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com Product Manager AWS. Golang. Distributed Systems.
Views and opinions are my own.
Jepsen @jepsen.mastodon.jepsen.io.ap.brid.gy Breaking distributed systems, one fault at a time.
[bridged from https://mastodon.jepsen.io/@jepsen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com Spring Developer Advocate
Java Champion
Kotlin Google Dev Expert
https://YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware
https://github.com/joshlong
Heidi Howard @heidihoward.bsky.social 
Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social Distributed systems,Database systems, Lightweight formal methods, TLA+
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info Principal Software Engineer, Genesys | 塞翁失马
https://o11y.news
Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own.
Check out my blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/
Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev Knuck if you buck practitioner
Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social Professor at FEUP University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC. Distributed Systems and Data. Co-creator of CRDTs. Founder eurotux.com. Still searching for unknown unknowns. (🦋 July 2023)
Web: https://cbaquero.github.io/web/
Tim Bray @tbray.org Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net ⌯Go ⦁ Walking the line between correctness and comprehension ⦁ bill@ardanlabs.com ⦁ kronkai.com ⦁ wife(aleintech.com) ⦁ GoBridge
Brian Grant @bgrant0607.bsky.social CTO/cofounder of ConfigHub. Original lead architect of Kubernetes and creator of its declarative configuration model.
Mike @mfridman.bsky.social technology, landmarks, left joins and Go vibes.
Protocol Buffers for the rest of us @buf.build
James Munnelly @munnerz.bsky.social Kubernetes @ Apple | cert-manager maintainer | previously @ Jetstack
Stefan Schimanski @sttts.social API Machinery @ ex-Upbound, ex-Redhat, Kubernetes, OpenSource, logician, restless, hungry & foolish, þetta reddast, http://github.com/sttts – Opinions&tweets are my own, http://mastodon.social/@sttts
Alex DeBrie @alexdebrie.bsky.social 💻 Independent consultant
⭐️ AWS Data Hero
📖 Author of DynamoDBBook.com. Creator of DynamoDBGuide.com
⚡️ Ex-@goserverless, @HudlEngineering 
Timo Reimann @timoreimann.bsky.social Systems Engineer working @ Cloudflare
Twitter: @timoreimann
Massimo Re Ferré @mreferre.bsky.social Chief Psychology Officer @awscloud
More about me @ https://it20.info/about/
Fabio Rapposelli @fabio.rapposelli.org CTO @Satispay 🦄 | Ex-VMware/Broadcom Distinguished Engineer | 20+ years discovering that great tech comes from understanding both systems and souls | Speaker, mentor, perpetual student
Dan Farrelly - Inngest @danfarrelly.com CTO + Co-founder @inngest.com: The queuing and orchestration platform for modern software teams.
Former CTO @buffer.com, created @maildev.github.io
Mat Ryer @matryer.bsky.social Director Engineering @ Grafana Labs. Safe and actually useful AI. Music. Podcaster, Conference emcee, Author. Games.
Alex Xu @bytebytego.bsky.social Follow me for system design & book-writing tips. | Author of the bestselling book series: ‘System Design Interview’ | Join 350,000+ Readers: blog.bytebytego.com
Pires @pires.dev Trouble maker, insolent and a pain in the neck. Into distributed-systems. Mostly-retired DJ. Triathlete-wannabe. 🇵🇹
Renee Shah @reneeshah.bsky.social Partner at Redpoint focused on AI, infra, security, and developer tools ⚡️
Otávio Carvalho @otavioccc.bsky.social Yet another software bricklayer.
Peter Evans @peterevans.bsky.social Software engineer @github.com
http://peterevans.dev
Fernando Meyer @fernandomeyer.com LabHacker platform engineer and musician;
I'm drawn to hard problems, abstractions, and music;
I build code, hardware, and systems meanwhile overthinking with pen and paper until they’re simple. ps: I have more notebooks than is socially defensible.
Taichi Nakashima @deeeeet.bsky.social https://deeeet.com/
Justin Sheehy @justinsheehy.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@justinsheehy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Nate Finch @natefinch.bsky.social Gopher at GitHub working on Copilot. Author of Mage. Dungeon Master and Magic player. Used to be NateTheFinch on the Bird Site that shall not be named.
Uwe Friedrichsen @ufried.bsky.social Uwe Friedrichsen. Longtime traveler in the world of IT. Dot Connector. Keeper of timeless wisdom. Translator between floors. System design. Resilience. Sustainability. Tries to make (not only) IT a (bit) better place.
Jason Hall @imjasonh.com World's Okayest Dad, pizza enthusiast, single-hyphenate, container nerd at Chainguard
Udi Dahan @udidahan.com Posts about Software Development, Design, and Architecture.
Founder and CEO of NServiceBus. He/Him.
https://udidahan.com/
https://twitter.com/UdiDahan
https://hachyderm.io/@udidahan
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
@madhavjivrajani.bsky.social @madhavjivrajani.bsky.social Systems @ UIUC | Helping Maintain The Kubernetes Project | GopherCon Co-Chair | ♥️ Theory + Systems | Views are my own.
Fernando @francofernando.com Software Engineer for 15+ years • Algorithms, Distributed Systems, System Design, Computer Vision • Dad & husband • I write http://polymathicengineer.com
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social CEO @ feldera.com, the incremental compute engine for AI, ML and data teams.
Formerly a systems researcher in distributed systems, databases, cloud, OS, PL, and networking. Sci-fi and gaming nerd.
lalith.in/research
Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO InfluxData, makers of InfluxDB, the open source time series database. Founder of NYC Machine Learning Meetup. Former Ruby on Rails developer and enthusiast (still a fan).
Thor @thorfour.dev Building cool things @ Polar Signals
OpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io The official Bluesky account for the OpenTelemetry project! Follow for updates, releases, and more information.
Alex Boten @boten.ca Writes open source software and about technology sometimes. Problems solver & author. He/him https://dot.cards/codeboten
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Andy Grove @andygrove.io Apache Arrow & DataFusion PMC Member. Original creator of Apache DataFusion.
Joy Gao @joygao.bsky.social software engineer at ClickHouse; prev: Figma, WePay
long-form ✍️: https://expertofobsolescence.substack.com
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database. 
shikhar @schmizz.net Making streams serverless @s2.dev
Jakob Homan @jakobhoman.bsky.social Software engineer. Data infra guy. Apache Committer/PMC on various projects. WebAssembly enthusiast. Also cinema, street photography and sarcasm...
No relation to that fascist fuck.
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.
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Teej @teej.bsky.social building Downlink (yc w24)
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev Technologist @ Confluent · Ex-lead of Debezium · Spec lead of Bean Validation 2.0 · Creator of Hardwood, kcctl, JfrUnit, MapStruct · Java Champion · morling.dev · 🚴
rmoff 🏃♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net Shitposting & Memes.
Data & Stuff.
#dataBS #trailrunning
✍️ https://rmoff.net 🔗 https://rmoff.info
(DMs closed because of stupid UK age verification requirements).
Chris K Wensel @chris.wensel.net Co-Organizer of https://lu.ma/sf-distsys
Developer of https://github.com/ClusterlessHQ, https://cascading.wensel.net, and other data related projects.
Ramana @vramana.dev Staff Software Engineer. Interested in #rust, #typescript and #golang. https://blog.vramana.com