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Keith Phelan

// VOOL.IE

Keith is an interactive designer and developer based in Kerry, Ireland. He currently works with the Irish social enterprise FoodCloud as a developer on the Foodiverse team, working towards a world where no good food goes to waste. Previously, he spent a decade doing interesting stuff with the IMaR Technology Gateway at the Munster Technological University. In his spare time, he dabbles in arts and event organisation with nonfaction, ClubHeadBangBang, and WildMInd. He previously helped out with Samhlaiocht Chiarrai, Kerry Film Festival, and the Kerry Bicycle Festival. Vool was originally set up in 2009 as a design/development business, but is now mainly a home for his personal projects and ramblings.

Web DevelopmentInteractive Design
Ireland
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Edie Walls

// RARIMENA.NEOCITIES.ORG

Edie, also known as @rarimena or @emotionalmilkshake, is a 21-year-old college student who uses she/they pronouns. She identifies as an INTP-T and Enneagram type 5. Edie enjoys peaches, quirky internet content, her betta fish Zipper, sweet tea, reading (especially poetry and short stories), novelty earrings, and the backstage aspects of musical theater. She creates various things and uses her NeoCities site as a central hub for her work.

College StudentNeoCities User
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Daniel Miller

// DANIEL.INDUSTRIES

Daniel is an educator, writer of songs and stories, and cyclist. He is married to Carissa Byers and is the father of Margot, Lucy, and Milo, and stepfather of Penn. He is also an Indieweb advocate. Daniel maintains a blog with over 3,000 posts dating back to 2001, covering topics such as philosophy, bicycling, music, and the internet.

IndiewebMusic
United States
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Alexi George

// YOURBARNABAS.COM

yourBarnabas.com is a pastor, teacher, and writer. He is regularly engaged in training leaders and coaching church planters and pastors. He and his wife Annie pastor Adoor Vineyard Church and teach at Faith Theological Seminary. He teaches Old Testament, and she teaches Christian Education. He earned a B.A. in Christian Ministry, an M.Div. in Biblical Languages and Christian Education, and a D.Th. in Old Testament. He aims to encourage people to live well and lead well, taking on the role of Barnabas, the "son of encouragement."

Pastoral LeadershipBiblical Studies
India
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Dean Watson

// DEANROBERTWATSON.COM

Dean Robert Watson is an Australian living in Auckland, New Zealand. He leads EdTechNZ and co-runs EdTech Jobs NZ. Dean enjoys helping people, particularly those in education technology. He has worked in EdTech startups for over 10 years and values the mission-driven nature of the people in the field. He is interested in connecting with people, asking questions, and documenting systems. Dean also enjoys sports highlights, personal finance, and spending time with his partner, Sierra Truong, who is an artist.

EdTechEducation Leadership
New Zealand
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Kunal Bhalla

// EXPLOG.IN

Kunal Bhalla is a Principal Software Engineer at Meta in New York, working on developer tools for data and ML engineers. He is currently focused on building infrastructure and tools for large models. Previously, he worked on tools for ML developers, aiming to make debugging ML models faster and simpler. Earlier roles at Facebook included leading a team working on infrastructure for Bento, Facebook's in-house Jupyter Notebook solution, and working on Android battery consumption. He has presented tech talks at conferences such as PyTorch Conference and JupyterCon.

Machine LearningSoftware Engineering
United States
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Simone Silvestroni

// MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT.CO.UK

Simone is a Gen X musician and sound designer based in the UK. Under the moniker Minutes to Midnight, Simone plays bass and designs sound. Simone has been running an online journal since March 2002, writing about music production, personal topics, politics, and web development.

Web DevelopmentBass Guitar
United Kingdom
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Bradley Taunt

// BTXX.ORG

Brad is a designer and developer hybrid. He helps software companies improve user experience and ship more performant products. He is passionate about open source software, usability, performance, privacy, and minimal design. He maintains several open source projects and enjoys tinkering with basic shell scripts and Unix systems.

Software Development
Canada
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Taylor Troesh

// TAYLOR.TOWN

Taylor Troesh has a website, taylor.town, featuring a variety of projects and essays. They have given talks at conferences such as !!Con, DDD Europe, POSETTE, and Elm Town. Their interests span software development, culture, and synthetic intelligence, as reflected in their writings on topics ranging from async tasks in Postgres to the history of microwave ovens. Taylor also explores themes of curiosity, creation, and the cheap web.

Software DevelopmentScrapscript
United States
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Frederik Braun

// FREDERIK-BRAUN.COM

Frederik Braun is a security engineer and manager working on the Mozilla Firefox web browser. His work involves various topics ranging from security, web standards, static analysis, bug bounty, and public speaking. Some of his major projects include eslint-plugin-no-unsanitized, the Mozilla Attack & Defense blog, the paper Hardening Firefox against Injection Attacks, and the Subresource Integrity web standard. He is particularly proud of his blog post Examining JavaScript Inter-Process Communication in Firefox. Before working at Mozilla, he wrote a diploma thesis about the Same Origin Policy in 2012, which concluded his studies of IT-Security at the Ruhr University in Bochum. This is also where he co-founded the CTF team fluxfingers.

Security EngineeringStatic Analysis
Germany
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Joe Regenstein

// JOEREG4.COM

Joe Regenstein is a CPA, CMA, and FPAC. He is a finance leader, author, and developer. Joe explores the intersections of performance, process, and technology. He is the author of "Managing Work in Process for Non-Manufacturing Teams." He also develops projects like PokeDexAPI and ReadKeeper.

AuthorSoftware Developer
United States
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Robin Wils

// ROBINWILS.COM

Robin Wils is a developer, storyteller, and thinker who works in technology despite not being a big fan of it. He is gentle and non-aggressive, yet enjoys boxing. He visualizes personal stories through traditional drawings to promote life-affirming values. Robin works as a tester at Dover Fueling Solutions and has a bachelor's degree in application development, though he values experience more than degrees. He enjoys GNU/Linux, quality assurance, web development, content writing, and backend development.

Web DevelopmentTraditional Drawing
Belgium
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Henry Molofsky

// HENRYMOLOFSKY.COM

Henry Molofsky is an Executive Producer at Pineapple Street Studios. He leads the production of documentary podcasts including *Hysterical*, *9/12*, *Wind of Change*, *Missing Richard Simmons*, *Persona*, *Running From COPS*, *Love Thy Neighbor*, and *Surviving Y2K*. His work has been recognized with Peabody and International Documentary Association Award nominations, a Tribeca Film Festival official selection, and has been featured on *This American Life* and radio stations around the world. He also launched *The New York Times* ‘ *Still Processing*, *The Severance Podcast* and *Stay Tuned with Preet*.

Documentary PodcastsExecutive Producer
United States
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Fabian Holzer

// HOLZER.ONLINE

Fabian Holzer is a software engineer with a long-standing passion for programming. He enjoys reading widely and exploring ideas that spark his curiosity. His writing covers topics such as software engineering, web development, blogging, and the web in general. He invites readers to contact him to discuss any of the topics on his site.

Web DevelopmentSoftware Engineering
Germany
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Martina and Jürgen

// PLACESOFJUMA.COM

Martina and Jürgen are the travel experts behind PlacesofJuma, a travel blog providing professional travel information since 2017. They share their knowledge and insider tips from personally visiting destinations worldwide. Their blog offers researched, informative articles with travel tips, cultural insights, and practical advice. They focus on adventure travel, luxurious vacations, road trips, and city breaks, offering hotel and accommodation recommendations for various budgets. They also provide tips for travel planning and finding the best photo spots.

Travel ExpertsRoad Trip Itineraries
Austria
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Miles Curry

// MICURRY.ORG

Miles A. Curry is a 30-something Oregonian who has been living in Colorado for the past four years. Professionally, Miles works as a software engineer. He is interested in culture and food, and enjoys cooking and reading cookbooks. He values honesty, vulnerability, and growth. Miles identifies as mostly Buddhist, practices non-violence, and is a meditator. He has previously suffered from mental illness and has worked hard to change his behavior patterns. He is now trying to live with more joy, fun, and gratitude.

Software EngineerVegan Recipes
United States
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Denton Jacobs

// DENTONJACOBS.COM

Denton Jacobs is the Head of Incapnet Engineering at InspereX, a financial services firm. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. He recently completed a Master's degree in Financial Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He can be found on Mastodon, Github, and LinkedIn. He can be contacted via email.

IndiewebSoftware Engineering Management
United States
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Simon Forman

// SFORMAN.CODEBERG.PAGE

Simon Forman is a computer enthusiast and aspiring ecosystem co-creator. He is the author of the blog "Heliotrope Pajamas." After dropping out of high school and experiencing homelessness, he learned Reiki and how to operate and program Linux computers. He presented a project at CodeCon 2004, which led to a career as a computer programmer. Now semi-retired, he focuses on gardening and ecology.

LinuxComputer Programming
United States
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Ethan Thompson

// ETHANTHOMPSON.ORG

Ethan Thompson is the ERP Project Manager for Kee Safety. He designs useful objects in CAD and enjoys riding bikes. Ethan also shares what he's learning on his blog.

ERP Project ManagementCAD Design
United States
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Landon Lawson

// RISING.LOVE

Born in Palm Springs, California in 1982, rising.love joined the US Army in 2002 and was deployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004. In 2005, rising.love was awarded the Combat Medical Badge and was honorably discharged from the Army in 2006, beginning college the same year. Rising.love graduated from The George Washington University in 2013 and moved to New Haven, CT for Yale School of Public Health in 2014, graduating with a Master's in Public Health in 2016. In 2019, rising.love co-founded an axe throwing business.

Public HealthUS Army Veteran
United States