Simon Frankau
SRE manager on Google Compute Engine (only speak for me), ex-quant dev. Fan of maths, Haskell, Rust and retrocomputing. London, UK. CS PhD. Fuck cancer.
@pauliehughes.bsky.social
43 years of programming games; from Vic-20 to PS5! The LEGO game guy, The Ocean Loader Guy. 56 shipped titles, 240M sales. Retro Game Code archiver/documenter. Happy Chappy. Occasional Magician. Typography snob. BAFTA member.
@markmoxon.bsky.social
Writer, coder, walker, Acorn nut. Back in the day: Editor of Acorn User, Editor of h2g2. I love analysing old code, and my aim is to create the best code disassemblies you have ever seen. Purveyor of Elite/Lander/Revs hacks. https://www.markmoxon.com
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@matthewmorris.bsky.social
A sometime mathematician and software engineer who should arguably have done something else instead. A convert to Bluesky's block-heavy approach: "But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other."
@samfr.bsky.social
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com) Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Senior fellow: Institute for Government
@benf.org
Retro fan, some time hobby reverse engineer, author of CFR java decompiler and random other pointless rubbish. He. https://www.benf.org
@web3isgoinggreat.com
tracking only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, defi, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects since 2021 • created by @molly.wiki web3isgoinggreat.com
@tubetime.bsky.social
vintage computers, tubes, the MOnSter6502, cross-sectioned electronic parts, capacitors, and other detritus. coauthor of http://nostarch.com/open-circuits
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.com
@russincheshire.bsky.social
Columnist for Byline Times, author of "The Decade In Tory", "Four Chancellors and a Funeral", and "Tories: The End of an Error". Software monkey and slave to an idiot dog. Cheshire, UK https://unbound.com/books?collection=russell-jones
@ozkaterji.bsky.social
Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement. https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com
Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org
@niallm.bsky.social
CEO Stanza Systems. Speaking in personal capacity. Author/instigator SRE books, Reliable Machine Learning, History of the Irish Internet. Photography at http://www.edge-cases.photos
@greatdismal.bsky.social
Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
@garius.bsky.social
He/Him. Author. Historian (inc of obscure Military Holy Orders). Strategy streamer. Tech/Transport Strategist. Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
@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.
@apenwarr.ca
wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, and now CEO @Tailscale.com doing WireGuard mesh. Top search result for "epic treatise."
@danluu.com
Active on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@danluu. Also trying https://threads.net/@danluu.danluu
@kenwhite.bsky.social
Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Signal: KenWhite.1969
@mmasnick.bsky.social
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
@mmalex.bsky.social
synth tinkerer (plinky); midjourney; NVResearch (InstantNGP/NeRF); cofounder MediaMolecule (Dreams, LittleBigPlanet); demoscene/vj (statix/bluespoon)