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You know, the @qwantz.com guy! The How To [Invent Everything | Take Over The World] guy? The Fantastic Four / Flash / Squirrel Girl / Star Trek comics guy? The non-linear Shakespeare guy? The "stuck in a hole with his dog" guy?
Look... I'm a lot of guys
my shortform posting energy is spent over at @maya@occult.institute on Mastodon, but I also read, reply, and repost here
she/her
๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ: creative hypertext, anti-futurological design, good outfits
home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Editor of Tedium (https://tedium.co), freelance writer, pop-up search engine maven (https://udm14.com).
See my writing: https://erniesmith.net/
โLife is too short to not say exactly what you mean all the time.โ โ Jesse Welles
We make Things, the award-winning to-do app for Mac, iPad, iPhone, Watch & Vision.
things.app
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries. A project of @NYUEngelberg.
Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; donโt be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Newsletter software for people like you.
https://buttondown.com
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
Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
i make: https://donotreply.cards
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
coder โข speaker โข musician โข MS MVP โข creator of @codewithrockstar.com โข founder of @linebreakers.band โข organiser of @ldnug.org โข fun stuff: dylanbeattie.net โข work stuff: ursatile.com โข he/him โข ๐ฅ
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employersโ
I did a TED talk once
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
San Francisco; Bikes; Urbanism
Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, Enlightenment, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, history pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com
The free and flexible app for your private thoughts. For help and deeper discussions, join our community: http://obsidian.md/community
Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
Android @ CashApp | she/her
chaotic mix of writing Android code and SFF fiction
https://sherryyuan.me/
Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
The podcast where Chris Sims and Benito Cereno read Bible and Bible-adjacent literature and try not to be ding-dangs about it
https://apocrypals.libsyn.com/
https://apocrypals.dashery.com/
Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Reproducible bugs are candies ๐ญ๐ฌ
I like programming too much for not liking automatic programming.
Writer/Researcher ๐ถ ABC's Hard Quiz ๐ถ The Whippet, a newsletter of science, history, language & weirdness: https://thewhippet.org ๐ถ she/her
Build, test, and discover front-end code ๐ป
https://codepen.io
Support: https://codepen.io/support
Helping you stay up to date with CSS.
๐ฅ YouTube: https://cssw.io/youtube
โ๏ธ Mastering Linting: https://cssw.io/lint
๐ท๏ธ CSS Stickers https://cssw.io/stickers
I post when browser makers announce an intent to ship, change or remove features in their web engines!
I was made by @burrito.space.
https://github.com/autonome/intenttoship-bot
โก๏ธ makin' ideas click
๐จโ๐ณ staff design engineer @shopify (ex @google, @vercel ๐ซก)
๐ making ui/ux playbook craftofui.dev
๐ฐโโ๏ธ @seaotta.dev
Building web stuff and design systems. Focused on accessibility, progressive enhancement, and web components. At the intersection of CSS and the Shadow DOM.
he/him
Mรฉtis/settler
Treaty 1/wpg
https://knowler.dev
https://sunny.garden/@knowler
Purveyor of fine CSS. Principal Design System Engineer @ turquoise.health. Curator of dogs @ dogsof.dev.
mikeaparicio.com
Web nerd, Photographer, Foodie, Audiophile. All the good things in life should be cherished and savoured. Posts are my own - he/him - Gen X - ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ช
Blog: dutchcelt.nl
For the full web nerd: @dutchcelt@mastodon.social
agentic creative technologist.
building teams and products for Google.
always seeking soccer, photography, design & engineering
โ
๐ prev: ux & engineering for Barack Obama, Nest Labs and Continu
Hello World ๐ฝ
โ css-media-vars, augmented-ui, Space Toggles, CSS CPU Hack, css-bin-bits & more
๐ฎ CSS Sweeper, css-conways-game-of-life, CSS Etch-A-Sketch, CSS Checkers, CSS Breakout
๐ฉโ๐ป Senior Software Engineer
๐ http://dev.to/janeori
๐ Art
she/her
jennschiffer.com of @bugsrock.online & @countingsheep.bsky.social
renaissance goblin, candle-maker, pixel artist, ceramics student & karaoke professional with two compsci degrees
blog: livelaugh.blog
shop: bugsrock.online
nyc co-host: robotkaraoke.live
Tech's Favorite Auntie
VP Eng, AI Tools & Enablement @ Block
#techgirl1908
Design Systems Advocate / GDE / they/she / ๐ฉท๐๐ / ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฎ๐นhapa / neurodivergent / drag stan / cheerful goth
jina.me
Founder of @clarityconf.com
WebKit Engineering Manager at Apple. Ex-Google Chrome, ex-NPM. OOCSS, CSSLint. CSSConf founder, speaker. Climber ๐ง, knitter, disabled zebra. Probably riding the hobby carousel ๐ . ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her @stubbornella on Twitter
mimarobe | Prev affiliations: React core team, AWS Principle TPM, W3C and Mozillian | agentic web herald
๐ท he / they
๐ผ Principal TPM, Accessibility Innovation, Microsoft
Founder, WebWeWant.fyi
Editor-in-chief, AListApart.com
๐ฃ International Speaker
๐ Author, AdaptiveWebDesign.info
๐คฌ Sometimes
https://tabatkins.com
"they"
Base 6, kpop (VIVIZ/MAMAMOO/HIGHLIGHT/many others), CSS, board games. #foodposting
Sonabat facilius.
VIVIZ posting: @daily-viviz.bsky.social
Bias list: https://www.xanthir.com/kpop/bias/
Webworker, podcaster and blogger, advocate of the #openweb and citizen of the #indieweb and the #fediverse, working on #activitypub & #indieweb plugins for #WordPress
Open Web Lead @automattic.com
๐ป Accessibility @ GitHub
๐ฎ XR + AI
๐ป Recovering frontend dev
โจ Star Wars fan (obviously)
๐โโ๏ธ she/her
Avaโs pa. OG blogger/designer. Automattician. Author, Designing With Web Standards etc. Founder alistapart.com, happycog.com (emeritus). Co-founder abookapart.com, Big Web Show, Web Standards Project. Former faculty SVA MFA IXD. ๐ก NYC, ๐ธ๏ธ zeldman.com.
I build tools for devs and designers: @Polypane.app, FixA11y, Superposition | Electron governance member | He/him
๐ Designer / author / speaker
๐ Fine Specimens
๐ Universal Principles of Typography
๐จโ๐ป Adobe Fonts
โ๏ธ Google Fonts, 8 Faces, Lagom
โ ๏ธ (Views are my own)
๐ https://elliotjaystocks.com/links
Same me, another platform. Authentic Transylvanian vampire. I code stuff. Usually involves some Maths. I enjoy music mandatory religion classes warned me about. And other things that may kill me.
Replies usually restricted.
https://thebabydino.github.io/
โฅ JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTTP, performance, security, Bash, Unicode, i18n, macOS. https://mths.be/
On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I just make it suck less.
CSS stuff by Temani Afif (https://support.temani-afif.com)
๐ก https://css-tip.com
๐งฉ https://css-shape.com
๐ซ https://css-loaders.com
๐ https://css-articles.com
โ๏ธ https://css-generators.com
๐งฑ https://css-pattern.com
๐จ https://css-only.art
๏ฃฟ Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & Webkit. #PwME
Daughter driven development.
Sr. Principal Software Engineer.
Created theDevenOrg.
Loves standards, DX tooling, open source, enabling people.
Big smile. Gonna eat u alive. Autocorrect hates me. Proud mom of 3.
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UI Engineer
One hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
Active at toot.cafe/@aardrian.
ellyloel.com
queering the web.
trying to make things less shit.
#WebDesigner / #DesignEngineer ( #Accessibility #DesignSystems )
#WebPlatform & #WebStandards ( #HTML #CSS )
#Queer, #Disabled & #Neurodivergent ( #AuDHD #POTS )
see pinned post for more.
Founder/organiser of beyond tellerrand (@beyondtellerrand.com). Co-Founder of Smashing Conference.
i work on things related to web accessibility. i'm probably reviewing your github issue/pr right now. i'll have thoughts.
Head of product design @checkout.com. Typographer. Cyclist. Likes tea.
Senior engineer frontend infrastructure at @KhanAcademy.org, accessibility advocate, cyclist, hiker, wife, mom ๐ Bellingham, WA
She/her
Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter.
amyhupe.co.uk
wearefrankly.co
#DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
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https://chenhuijing.com
https://redviolapanda.com
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
I write about design and careers at https://www.antonsten.com
Designer & developer. Creator of Kirby CMS
Also here at @typetura.com
Mastodon at @scott@typetura.social and @typetura@typetura.social
The Goodwitch of Accessibility (A11Y)
Kรผnstler/Artist. Kunst, Fotografie, Bildgedรถns allgemein. *1965, Kiel/Germany. He/him.
Website: http://nils-pooker.de
Instagram: http://instagram.com/pookernils/
Impressum: https://www.nils-pooker.de/about/
Designer of many rectangles at Loud Room, a funsized design consultancy.
I love and geek out on books, pencils, horror movies, fonts, smart quotes, photography, and games โ both video and tabletop. I live and work in Philadelphia under a pile of books.
Nick: Schepp | Into Front-End & WebPerf | Co-Host https://workingdraft.de | Co-Organizer https://fronteersconf.org, https://www.meetup.com/webworker-nrw & https://css.cafe | Co-Author https://wir-zaehlen.com
Web standards a11y lovegod who leverages synergies at Vivaldi browser. More posts & conversation at @brucelawson@vivaldi.net. This is broadcast-only, as I've been disappointed by non-Fediverse platforms before. Musician. He/ him. Personal views. RTโ +1.
Smart enough to know he's not smart enough.
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๐Brighton, UK
๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ป๐ฐ๏ธ DX engineer for an IoT startup โ๐ผ Current focus: Docs and API design ๐๐ Journalist covering intimacy and emerging tech (on IG: @attentionvohr) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her โจ๐ Berlin
CTO of Salonhub. Creator of http://html5test.com, writes at http://nielsleenheer.com, team @FronteersConf, Google Developers Expert, Invite me to speak at your event.
Web application developer at the University of Notre Dame.
Posts are my own and most certainly do not represent the views of Notre Dame.
@erunyon@webperf.social
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, building at Unbreaking.org.
Cofounded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Author of Designing Interface Animation ๐ Always likes dogs. Sometimes likes running. Principal Designer at Adobe. (Opinions mine.)
DX & monorepo at Shopify.
Craving simplicity, finding it nowhere.
Internetrovert ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ He/him.
I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
๐ป Designer & Product Manager for DevEx & Web Platform
๐ Author of Design for Developers.
๐ฎ Sassy web witch & actual witch.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Seattle gal in England.
๐ @jhey.dev
https://seaotta.dev
Award winning bog hag, platform and systems designer in tech (derogatory), accessibility advocate, happily neurodivergent ๐
Website: https://annaecook.com/
Newsletter: https://annaecook.com/newsletter
He / him / "Hey Chris cut that part out"
I edit podcasts so you don't have to.
I live in #Saskatchewan so you don't have to?
Blog: https://chrisenns.com/
Work: https://www.lemonproductions.ca
Find me elsewhere: https://chrisenns.com/links
Founder of @dev.to
Favorite bagel: Everything.
Helping people fall in love with CSS
๐บ https://YouTube.com/@kevinpowell
โ๏ธ https://kevinpowell.co/newsletter
Design systems at Adobe, CSS Working Group, ex-Red Hatter and ASD human. Posts represent my personal ideas and preferences and not those of my employer.
Content strategy mom. Backyard birder. Founder of Brain Traffic and Button Events.
Minnesota strong. ICE OUT NOW.
Making the web a better more accessible place on GOV.UK at GDS and in my own time with https://calumryan.com
#Accessibility Advocate
INFJ, Neurodivergent ๐ญ
Train travel enthusiast ๐งณ๐
๐ he/him
๐ฌ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ช
Hauptsรคchlich auf mastodon.social/@webrocker - aber wenn meine Lieblingstimelinebewohnermenschen alle lieber hier sind, was soll mer mache?
Google Developer Expert | Front-end Developer at iO | blog owner https://utilitybend.com | guest writer at Smashing Magazine | father | geek | photography enthousiast | oklchroma.utilitybend.com
Staff Frontend Engineer - GitLab, Public speaker, Podcast Co-Host Working Draft, Podcast Host expect(Exception), prev. Head of Frontend - Zavvy by Deel
๐จ๐ปโ๐ป Front end dev at Red Hat on Ansible Automation Platform. Author of CSS in Depth. he/him
๐ https://keithjgrant.com https://notes.keithjgrant.com
๐ https://www.manning.com/books/css-in-depth-second-edition
๐ https://front-end.social/@keithjgrant
Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica. I write speculative fiction and think about the future of news and technology at https://werd.io.
