Michael Cruickshank @cruickshank.bsky.social Geospatial analyst, OSINT investigator, and journalist. Investigating the intersection of climate resilience and human systems, and sometimes writing fiction. From 🇦🇺, now in 🇪🇺.
📍Berlin, Germany
https://www.michaelcruickshank.me/
World Central Kitchen @wck.org WCK immediately prepares & serves fresh, nourishing meals to communities impacted by natural disasters and during humanitarian crises. #ChefsForTheWorld
Learn more: linktr.ee/wckitchen
User & Agents @userandagents.org We are a community focused on shaping the future of user-agent systems. Our goal is to empower people by designing and building software that provides agency, control, and choice in our digital lives.
https://userandagents.org
@theoweeden.bsky.social @theoweeden.bsky.social
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
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
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Bryan Watts @outermind.bsky.social Software author on a lifelong quest to reimagine the systems we’ve inherited. He/him. Safe person. Local-first software/event sourcing/hypermedia nerd.
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
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.)
LiveStore @livestore.dev Client-centric local-first data layer for high-performance apps. Currently in private preview via https://github.com/livestorejs.
Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf 🇨🇦 Vancouver
🏢 @inkandswitch.com
💍 @katiewilde.com
🏳️🌈 Sapphic
♾️ Poly
🔰 Always learning
💡 Woke AF
🤝 United we stand, divided we fall
✊ BLM/Land Back/Antifa/Trans Rights/ACAB
❄️ NixOS
📝 notes.brooklynzelenka.com
🧶 tangled.org/expede.wtf
🐘 types.pl/@expede
@gongpaul.bsky.social @gongpaul.bsky.social
Aaron Boodman @aaronboodman.com CEO rocicorp.dev. Building replicache.dev and zerosync.dev, raising two great kids, trying to be a better person. Also found at http://aaronboodman.com.
Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev Building a local-first music app overtone.pro with @livestore.dev. Host @localfirst.fm. DX Effect. Founded @prisma.io. schickling.dev
James Cowling @jamescowling.dev @convex.dev co-founder/CTO. Dropbox storage designer. Distributed systems researcher at MIT. Bad motorcycle mechanic. Database shill.
Tanner Linsley @tannerlinsley.com ⚔️ Sir Tan @TanStack.com 🎉 TypeScript 🌎 Web ⚛️Open Source Software💡UI/UX/DX 💼Co-Founder @NozzleIO 👨👩👧👦@Ch_JesusChrist
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
Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development. 12th Nov2025 in SF.
https://syncconf.dev/ | View talks: https://tinyurl.com/mr3yzxea
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Iris @finkiris.bsky.social Film & Media,
Falafel 🥙 Lover, Style campaigner, Geopolitics geek