HN Popularity Contest

@annoying.technology

Curated annoyances by @manufaktur.bsky.social and @tehwey.bsky.social Blogging at: https://annoying.technology

@inessential.com

NetNewsWire person. https://netnewswire.com/ https://inessential.com/ https://micro.inessential.com/

@jenson.org

UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, & Apple HI guidelines. UX Director Symbian, managed Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design SF. Head of Product for two startups. Google Physical Web + Android UX research. Semi-retired

@matuzo.at

frontend developer and consultant HTML, CSS, accessibility big fan of <button>s creator of HTMHell author of the Web Accessibility Cookbook

@laplab.me

🦑 I like TTRPGs and retro computing they/he

@miguelgrinberg.com

I write software. And from time to time, I write or speak about writing software.

@jamesbvaughan.com

Living in Oakland. Building architectural design software at Arcol. Interested in slacklines, music, writing, and learning more about computers and how people use them.

@ian.sh

Founder @ Seats.aero. Travel/points, application security, security research, etc.

@vole.wtf

Official Unicode Consortium sponsor of the bogroll 🧻 emoji 🐘 Mastodon: https://crispsandwi.ch/@VOLEwtf 🔥 Site: https://vole.wtf

@connortumbleson.com

@Sourcetoad Director, Apktool Maintainer, PHP nerd, Leaf Halo stats, Cicada 3301 researcher. Opinions are my own.

@surma.dev

DX at Shopify. Web Platform Advocate. Craving simplicity, finding it nowhere. Internetrovert 🏳️‍🌈 He/him.

@markodenic.com

Software Engineer. Public mentor. Making the web faster. Blogging at https://markodenic.com.

@kevinlynagh.com

I design and build things. Mostly software, sometimes furniture, and a few small buildings once. American in Amsterdam.

@wattenberger.com

web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought ✨ Design @ SHV 🌸 wattenberger.com

@devonzuegel.com

I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait

@snarky.ca

#Python core developer who also works on packaging; works on Python stuff at #Microsoft (although this is a personal account). Proudly #Canadian.

@without.boats

i would prefer not to

@hypercritical.co

Nothing is so perfect that it can’t be complained about.

@b-list.org

Django/Python guy. Tip your servers and normalize your Unicode. he/him Angry politics and other non-tech parts of me are at @ubernostrum.bsky.social Elsewhere: https://www.b-list.org/ https://infosec.exchange/@ubernostrum https://github.com/ubernostrum

@bravenewgeek.com

Introspections of a software engineer

@alternet.org

@agwa.name

Bootstrapped founder of SSLMate (https://sslmate.com). Making SSL certificates easier and doing #WebPKI and #CertificateTransparency research on the side. Blog: https://www.agwa.name He/him

@ghuntley.com

It's an uncertain time for our profession, but one thing is certain—things will change. Drafting used to require a room of engineers, but then CAD came along...

@ariadne.space

Operating system designer and security engineer focused on small Linux-based systems of all flavors. I work at @edera.dev, but opinions are strictly my own.

@casparwre.de

I am a solo developer making keepthescore.com #indiehacker #buildinpublic

@mattferraro.dev

programmer, aerospace engineer, cat lover

@bert.org

@jmmv.dev

Operating systems, build systems, and programming languages. Mostly Unix, Bazel, and Rust. Author of Blog System/5. Creator of EndBASIC, and more. https://jmmv.dev/

@den.dev

Principal Product Engineer, Tinkerer, Nerd, Trail Explorer. ✨ AI Developer Tools - Developer Division @ Microsoft 🎙️ Host of theworkitem.com 🪐 Reverse engineer behind a few projects

@akkartik.name

Programmer building programs that are useful, easy to install, easy to run, easy to modify, easy to share. https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps

@3blue1brown.com

Math videos

@jakelazaroff.com

nyc-based programmer and designer. alum @recursecenter.bsky.social. public transit enjoyer. thoughts on local-first, javascript frameworks, web components, css and other web minutiae. 🌐 https://jakelazaroff.com

@danshapiro.com

CEO @Glowforge and http://RobotTurtles.com. He/him. Once Google, Sparkbuy, Ontela. Author of Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook. Lucky dad.

@ericlippert.com

Eric Lippert designs programming languages; prior work includes architecting the Hack and Bean Machine compilers at Facebook, and developing the Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C# compilers at Microsoft. Blog at https://ericlippert.com

@jasondavies.com

computer programmer

@waitbutwhy.com

@viewsourcecode.org

@geoffreylitt.com

Malleable software @inkandswitch.com prev PhD @csail.mit.edu geoffreylitt.com 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@markosaric.com

Co-Founder @plausible.io, easy-to-use and privacy focused web analytics. Escaping the adtech machine and making the web a bit more human friendly → markosaric.com

@infrequently.org

Trying to make a web that works for everyone. Also at https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff For more: https://infrequently.org/about-me/

@bitecode.dev

Quality and to-the-point bites about the Python world. And other tech stuff. Get more on https://bitecode.dev

@512pixels.net

512 Pixels is a blog covering Apple, computer history, space, design, and other fine nerdery, written by Stephen Hackett.

@zeit.de

Nachrichten und Geschichten in Texten und Bildern. Impressum: https://www.zeit.de/impressum

@hynek.me

Pythonista & PSF fellow 🐍🏆, Gopher 🐹, blogger 📝, speaker 📢, YouTuber 📺. ❤️ nuance & outcomes, 🗣️🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸 • https://hynek.me/ • https://github.com/hynek • https://www.youtube.com/@The_Hynek • https://mastodon.social/@hynek • https://x.com/hynek

@joel.is

Founder CEO of @buffer.com. Building a long term, independent, profitable business with big ambitions, focused on value for customers and team. https://joel.is

@kibty.town

computer witch

@sockpuppet.org

Full of passionate intensity.

@lihaoyi.com

@swizec.com

Writing Scaling Fast,a book on lessons learned from ~15 years of engineering in tech startups. blog ⏵ http://swizec.com prev book ⏵ http://SeniorMindset.com

@quoteinvestigator.com

Authoritative quotation information. Book: Hemingway Didn't Say That. Website receives 4.5 million visitors/year. https://quoteinvestigator.com/about/

@onemileatatime.com

Blogger. Airline, hotel, and loyalty program expert. Love A380s, jetlag, dogs, dirty martinis, and crime shows.

@lukeplant.me.uk

Christian, husband, father. Interests in Python, web dev, Django. UK. https://lukeplant.me.uk/ https://github.com/spookylukey/ https://x.com/spookylukey/

@crawshaw.io

tailscale co-founder, programmer, building sketch.dev

@sachagreif.com

I run the State of JS/CSS/etc. surveys. Kyoto, Japan.

@samwho.dev

That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev. He/him.

@dustri.org

Blog feed for https://dustri.org/b Also available at https://infosec.exchange/@jvoisin

@craigmod.com

Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years. Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!! shop.specialprojects.jp craigmod.com

@evertpot.com

https://evertpot.com/

@allenpike.com

Building Forestwalk.ai, hosting Infer and It Shipped That Way, and writing about software and other tricky things. ⭐️ Vancouver • @apike elsewhere • allenpike.com

@mnot.net

Co-chair IETF HTTP & AIPREF working groups, member Internet Architecture Board (again), standards lead at Cloudflare. Former W3C TAG, W3C BoD. Interested in the intersection of legal regulation and technical standards. https://www.mnot.net

@sneak.berlin

https://sneak.berlin free speech absolutist. i think censorship is abhorrent and those who advocate for it are fools.

@davidgerard.co.uk

discontent creator https://pivot-to-ai.com davidgerard.co.uk rocknerd.co.uk 🐘 https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard books! https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/book/ https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/libra/ London he/him Слава Україна

@masswerk.at

Mostly retro and vintage computing content, I guess. www.masswerk.at

@grumpygamer.com

Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.

@baldurbjarnason.com

Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff. https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/ https://softwarecrisis.dev/

@jcs.org

Hello, cyberpals. I make @pushover.net and old Macintosh stuff and sometimes OpenBSD stuff for you and me. World Wide Web: jcs.org

@kristoff.it

VP of Community @ Zig Software Foundation • Zig Livecoding http://twitch.tv/kristoff_it • Creator of http://softwareyoucan.love • Blogging http://kristoff.it • Host of https://zig.show • 📧 loris@sycl.it

@justinjackson.ca

Internet stuntman 🤸‍♂️ justinjackson.ca ⚡ Bootstrapping, SaaS, podcasting, calm companies 🎙️ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting).

@tyler.io

Building Mac apps for https://retina.studio since 2006. Writing nonsense at https://tyler.io Also over here https://social.lol/@tylerhall

@arslan.io

Software Engineer at PlanetScale. Creator of vim-go. Design addict. Photographer. Previously at GitHub, DigitalOcean. For longform thoughts follow my blog: arslan.io

@bernsteinbear.com

Baking bread and compilers are kinda similar if you think about it @tekknolagi elsewhere

@macwright.com

writes, bikes, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music and other stuff. posiwid twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com

@thorstenball.com

Author of interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com. Working at Sourcegraph. Previously Zed. Programming where the rubber hits the road. Writing Register Spill at: registerspill.thorstenball.com

@bradfrost.com

Design system consultant, web designer, speaker, teacher, writer, musician, & artist. Author of Atomic Design. Enthusiasm enthusiast.

@ianbicking.org

Software developer in Minneapolis. Working with applications of LLMs. Previously: Mozilla, Meta, Brilliant.org

@flowingdata.com

Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com

@ma.tt

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

@neugierig.org

I aim to mostly use this account to announce the blog posts found on my website: https://neugierig.org

@jakearchibald.com

Engineer at Shopify. No thought goes unpublished. 'IMO' implicit. He/him.

@paulbutler.org

I build jamsocket.com and write digest.browsertech.com

@phrack.org

since 1985 https://phrack.org

@abortretry.fail

I write about computing history. https://www.abortretry.fail

@eugeneyan.com

RecSys, AI, Engineering; Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon. Led ML @ Alibaba, Lazada, Healthtech Series A. Writing @ eugeneyan.com, aiteratelabs.com.

@staltz.com

JavaScript and open source guy. Working at @socket.dev Previously: Manyverse, SSB, Cycle.js, RxJS

@nicole.express

retro computing and gaming // pachinko, organs, drum machines, sure why not? // developer of aspect star, space ava // https://nicole.express

@httptoolkit.com

Beautiful & open-source tools to debug, test and develop with HTTP(S). 👨‍🔧 Built by @pimterry.fyi 🌐 https://httptoolkit.com/ 🦣 http://mastodon.social/@httptoolkit

@mattkeeter.com

✨ Weird CAD and graphics research ⚙️ Embedded software and Rust 🌎 Cambridge, MA 🏠 mattkeeter.com

@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

@lethain.com

Write at lethain.com. Author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and An Engineering Executive’s Primer. Worked some places.

@vitalik.ca

@al3x.net

Writes stories. Donates and invests towards an equitable, habitable future for humans and animals. Also, a dad. 🌱Ⓥ Hudson Valley + NYC https://al3x.net/

@downtowndougbrown.com

Classic Mac geek, Linux geek, blogger, embedded firmware developer, Blazers fan. https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/

@ntietz.com

software engineer, writer, leader. recurse center alumna. not sorry for the puns. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈☕🐈 she/her. https://ntietz.com

@redblobgames.com

Hi! I'm Amit Patel. I explain algorithms and math with interactive web pages (incl. pathfinding, hexagons, procgen maps, voronoi). Wrote Solar Realms Elite; helped w/Barren Realms Elite and Realm of the Mad God. https://www.redblobgames.com/

@dmitry.gr

Creating order out of chaos, or reverse (as needed). https://dmitry.gr

@ianvisits.co.uk

@stavros.io

I like making things. Most of them are silly. Sometimes I post about them.

@waxy.org

Since 2002, hot links and cool takes from Andy Baio aka @andy.baio.net. WWW: https://waxy.org/ RSS: https://waxy.org/feed/ Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy

@jeremykun.com

Portland-based mathematician and software engineer. Building a homomorphic encryption compiler at Google. https://jeremykun.com https://pimbook.org https://pmfpbook.org https://buttondown.email/j2kun https://heir.dev