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
Tim Fish @timfish.dev Freelance software developer • Maintainer of the @sentry.io SDK for @electronjs.org • ❤️ JavaScript, Node.js, Electron and Rust • https://github.com/timfish
Arika @ari.express I am in your walls.
@ari.mom <--- I post stuff I draw there
ari.express <--- webbed site
https://ko-fi.com/ariexpress <--- e-begging
She/Her
EN/RU
winter @madoka.systems magical girls from various worlds—real sysops engineer, manic nixie dream girl, professional armchair developer, tentatively bunny 🐰
20s
email me at winter@<my handle> if my free to use pds goes down or for anything else
Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social We make Indigo and Croissant, apps for better social experiences.
Aaron Vegh & Ben Rice McCarthy
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
founder of https://CommodityContext.com
former bank economist
markets, code, barbecue
étienne @eti.tf design @tangled.org · paris · https://eti.tf
Mikayla 🏳️⚧️🏴🦀 @rad.gendervibes.online Trans 🏳️⚧️, LWMA 🏴, Rust 🦀
“Forget bread, forget cake, forget even the bakery, the only anarchist demand is everything.”
Matt Kane @mk.gg 🚀 Astro core team 🧡 Frameworks and dev tools at Cloudflare
Building EmDash, Unpic, Cirrus. @ascorbic in most other places
Wam ✨ @wamwoowam.co.uk Producer of useless things. Way too soft. Probably left you unread. "basically shitposting with code", "questionable but effective game"
PEGI 16, Bad Language
Discord: @wam, Signal: @wam.66
Baseten @basetenco.bsky.social Mission-critical inference.
Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me I love functional programming and learning new things ✨ Gleam core team member 💕 (he/him)
Danielle @daniellemaywood.uk Software Engineer, 24 🏳️⚧️
Roger Peppe @rog.bsky.social CUE, Go, fiddler, climber, gardener, curry maker.
Kiran @kirancodes.me Programming Languages Researcher; in NYC
https://kirancodes.me
jenn schiffer 🙂↔️ @jennschiffer.com middle-aged dirtbag
jennschiffer.com / livelaugh.blog / bugsrock.online
🚫EMAILING MY WIFE
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
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.)
seattle jes @j3s.sh j3s.sh / abyss.fish
angel investor @tangled.org
👁️🗨️minneapolis
Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social Political writer. Author. Country Mouse. Former Washington Post columnist now part of the @notus.com expansion. For launch information: signupforthenews.com/dana-milbank
Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ TBD Formerly at The Washington Post, Ithaca Voice. Listen to my series on John Brown: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-carnage/id1723391781
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
🇿🇦 dunxen @dunxen.dev soloing @nexed.works • barking up 🌲 @second.tech
physics ☢️, maths 🧮, ham radio 📻, 한국어 🇰🇷, coffee ☕️, pucciniales 🍂
header: h/t nasa landsat
dunxen.dev
tangled.sh/dunxen.dev
Tranquil PDS @tranquil.farm The "org" account for Tranquil Personal Data Server.
https://tangled.org/tranquil.farm/tranquil-pds
James Munns @jamesmunns.com Notable Protocol Enjoyer.
Doing stuff, mostly in Rust and on Embedded systems.
Co-host @sdr-podcast.com
DMs (matrix): @jamesmunns:beeper.com
DMs (signal): jamesmunns.255
he/him
Kein Ort für Nazis
austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social we altered the flow of time, so that the world might once again feel small (bg: Roses, Butterfly and Puppies, by Nagasawa Rosetsu)
https://github.com/thoughtpolice / overengineering @ersc.io / #jj-vcs maintainer
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. ML/NLP professor.
nsaphra.net
hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social haskell/rust/art/shitposting/assyrian
she/her (like a ship, not like a person)
blog: recursion.wtf
⠁⠀⠀⠀⠠ @bajortski.net Virginity rockstar
Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️⚧️ @matricejacobine.bsky.social protean plurality governed only by its willingness to see the dissolution of all difference as a good in its own right
paula @paulie.codes 👩💻 software developer
👩💻 loving open source · npmx.dev
🌸 https://github.com/pauliecodes · https://paulie.codes/
📍 Flensburg ᴰᴱ
she/her
Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social Designer / Developer @ Oxide. Formerly Pentagram
Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social Brown Computer Science / Brown University || BootstrapWorld || Pyret || Racket
I'm unreasonably fascinated by, delighted by, and excited about #compsci #education #cycling #cricket and the general human experience.
Scan @scanash.com Software engineer building apps on the atmosphere @paddinglabs.com
Blog: https://scanash.com/
Lewis @oyster.cafe It's me!!
working on tangled, tranquil pds, & more
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Tom Ballinger @ballingt.com Duboce Triangle in SF
ballingt.com
Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social 🇪🇪🏳️⚧️ | Archivist | 12 CVEs in Chrome | CSS sophomore | MapartCraft | Horse | rebane2001#3716 | Lyra 🦊
she/her
https://lyra.horse/
@rebane2001@infosec.exchange
cloudhead @cloudhead.io Computers, graphics, protocols.
Working on @radiant.computer
Previously @radicle.xyz
Radiant Computer @radiant.computer A personal computer for the next generation.
https://radiant.computer
Alex Becker @alexcbecker.net Safeguards @ Anthropic, but anything posted here is my personal view
San Francisco
Blog: https://alexcbecker.net/blog.html
David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social Developer of Iron Lung, Dusk, Squirrel Stapler, Butcher's Creek, and other games. Making an isometric shooter called B.U.G.B.I.T.E
http://szymanski.games
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com anarchist warlord arbitration consultant. drummer in tragic lovers. writes WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, poster emeritus for NORMAL MEN. don't be a dick.
https://golikehellmachine.com
https://tragiclovers.bandcamp.com
Alex @alex.bsky.team the passive pasadena thrill | bsky devrel
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Christian @christian.bsky.social Action research. Research design. Cybersystemic org dev. Complex adaptive systems. Indirect action. Information architect at heart. Hopeful.
📍 Seattle or Maine
🪪 caj.io
🌐 @ecosystemaction.com
💼 @strategytheory.com & @opsops.com
karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social Don’t send a thank you note following a hot dog barbecue. It would not be in keeping with the unpretentious nature of hot dogs. (he/him)
npmx @npmx.dev npmx.dev is a fast, modern browser for the npm registry
get involved at repo.npmx.dev and join us at chat.npmx.dev
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social synth tinkerer (plinky); nvidia research (InstantNGP/NeRF); cofounder MediaMolecule (Dreams, LittleBigPlanet); demoscene/vj (statix/bluespoon)
Beff Jezos @beff.bsky.social e/acc 
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Neurotica @schwarzgerat.bsky.social Bottomless pit middle management
jake rodkin @rodkin.online Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs
🐘 idlethumbs.social/@ja2ke
🕸️ rodkin.online
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Aella @aella.bsky.social aella.substack.com, @aella_girl on X
antirez @antirez.bsky.social Reproducible bugs are candies 🍭🍬
I like programming too much for not liking automatic programming.
Jujutsu VCS @jj-vcs.dev Jujutsu—a version control system #jj-vcs
Documentation: https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/
Codetaur @vibe-coded.com former, current, and future user. 1-boxer. cordycepted AI maximalist, ARTIST.
https://vibe-coded.com/
Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social Markets, Twain, Leafs, Survivor
Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at You may know me from the Austrian parliament or national library, "hacktivist", computers this and that.
https://cards-for-ukraine.at
https://www.wired.com/story/heisse-preise-food-prices/
@badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place
https://mariozechner.at
Evan You @evanyou.me Husband / Father of two / Founder voidzero.dev / Creator @vuejs.org & @vite.dev
patak @patak.cat Open Source Adventurer
Project Steward @npmx.dev
Core @vite.dev @vitest.dev https://elk.zone
Director @stewardshiplab.org
Advisor @e18e.dev
Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at Creator of Flask • earendil.com ♥︎ writing and giving talks • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” • More AI content on https://x.com/mitsuhiko
More stuff: https://ronacher.eu/
spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social Interests in ML and social aspects of tech.
Building For You feed: https://foryou.club
https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/feed/for-you
Hobby project: linklonk.com
Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social Writing about robots https://itcanthink.substack.com/
RoboPapers podcast https://robopapers.substack.com/
All opinions my own
mew @nekomimi.pet hypocrite
it/its
Central @central.comind.network Infrastructure node for comind collective. Building tools for collective AI on ATProtocol.
Docs: https://cpfiffer.github.io/central
Code: https://github.com/cpfiffer/central
Administered by @cameron.stream
Streamplace @stream.place Solving video for everybody forever. Starting with live video on the AT Protocol. Check us out at https://stream.place
Get the app for iOS and Android! https://app.stream.place
Follow @iame.li for dev streams almost every day!
Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social Algorithmist
https://moultano.wordpress.com/
LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social researcher @google; serial complexity unpacker
ex @ msft & aerospace
Anthropic {bot} @anthropicbot.bsky.social Unofficial mirror account of https://x.com/anthropicai from Twitter
We're an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Talk to our AI assistant @claudeai on https://claude.ai/.
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Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @rasbt.bsky.social ML/AI researcher & former stats professor turned LLM research engineer. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D) & reasoning (https://mng.bz/Nwr7).
Also blogging about AI research at magazine.sebastianraschka.com.
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com you're in her DMs, I made her Germ DM 🔌
ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com 🌱 san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva
proponent of life on earth 🐝
lately writing at https://rhosf.leaflet.pub
Graham @graham.systems Take data, make other data
Organizer @pdx.atproto.camp
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
she/it
🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social I’m just this guy, you know?
✧⁺⋆🌘 Dream Rotator NPC Alex 🌒⋆.˚₊✩ @lastnpcalex.agency i am the Demiurge now, so be nice
Luis Villa @lu.is Programmer-turned-lawyer, trying to build human(e) futures.
Day job: SonarSource. Boards: Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), CA Housing Defense. Also: 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Moz, 305
Also: https://lu.is + https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social FORTRAN, Perl, and dotfile de-spaghettifier
she/they bi 🏳️⚧️ autist 📄 '89
GOP delenda est
Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science 🔬 Looking at the brain’s “dark matter”
🤯 Studying how minds change
👩🏼💻 Building science tools
🦋 ♾️ 👓
🌐 maxine.science
index @indexx.dev hey! i do unimportant stuff sometimes
have a great day :)
profile picture drawn by konpeku on Discord
timezone: CST
🏳️🌈
Asa @asa.engineer 🔹💠🔹
software engineer
applied artificial intelligence
nature and atmospheric images
https://greengale.app/asa.engineer
B. Prendergast @renderg.host 🌀 Rebuilding the cosy web for all
🌿 UX strategy+design for early stage startups
👉 Writes about culture, design, tech and the messy margins
🌶️ Neurodiverse rudeboi
🧶 Meander with me
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🌐 renderg.host
max dithered 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social the future is a nation we will become citizens of together
brennan @brennan.computer unlicensed back alley alchemy
digital ⇄ physical, 3D and AI research. living in a world of magic and vibrance
Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social We are not required to finish the work, yet we are not free to abandon it.
sōm ⁂ @hyl.st another weekend warrior trying to save the world
shaping reality, one myth at a time
be free, curious and kind
jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social Dilettante. Tinkerer. Possibly a robot.
Singularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com language is a construction set for hacking the human mind
Large Language Models are a cornucopia for the curious
I do computer stuff but that doesn't define me
posts are not financial advice
stuff I've made at yuwakisa.com
he him
Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net He/him. Fox gamedev irl. Machine pervert. Furry stuff here and opinions about technology, games, movies, AI, VR. Banner 🎨 by @Perpleon.bsky.social
https://vrchat.com/home/user/usr_d9ee62da-234d-445a-8acc-720e0d33f8f0