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Locally Optimal | Chris Lakin | Substack

// CHRISLAKIN.BLOG

Chris Lakin helps founders get results and does research. In his spare time, he experiments with hosting weird events, matchmaking his friends, and intuitive health experiments. He can be found on Twitter @chrislakin. Before his unlearning research, he worked on boundaries for AI alignment, a metascience non-profit, and physics at Carnegie Mellon. He is based in San Francisco.

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Katy Humphrey - Digital Marketing Specialist

// ITSKATYDEE.COM

KatyDee is a website designer who creates embodied websites for healers and service-based entrepreneurs. She also offers Human Design Clarity Sessions for Entrepreneurs. She helps clients translate what they feel into something clear, grounded, and easy for others to understand. KatyDee is a mom who grows flowers on a farm and enjoys strategy. She uses Human Design, Gene Keys, and intuitive strategy as tools for guidance. Her role is to help clients bring pieces together, so their next steps feel clear, grounded, and aligned with how they actually work best.

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The Pond

// TURNTROUT.COM

Alexander Matt Turner is also known as TurnTrout. TurnTrout enjoys writing about and learning about lots of stuff. Altruism is important to TurnTrout, who is vegan because they believe it is wrong to torture animals for minor selfish benefit. TurnTrout loves geese. They have taken the "10% Pledge," and will donate at least 10% of their post-tax income to effective charities. TurnTrout can be contacted via email at alex@turntrout.com.

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United States
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Bram Adams

// BRAMADAMS.DEV

Bram Adams (@bramses) works on Your Commonbase, which is described as a simple ledger with complex computations. He reads five books a month and lives in NYC. He maintains an irregularly updated Goodreads list of books. His all time favorite books are listed on his website.

DeveloperEngineer
United States
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Home | Patricia Aas - Programmer

// PATRICIA.NO

Patricia is a programmer who has worked mostly in C++ and Java. She has spent her career continuously delivering from the same code-base to a large user base, from working on two browsers (Opera and Vivaldi), to working on embedded telepresence endpoints for Cisco. She is focused on the maintainability and flexibility of software architecture, and how to extend it to provide cutting edge user experiences. Her focus on the end users has led her work more and more toward privacy and security, and she has recently started her own company, TurtleSec, hoping to contribute positively to the infosec and C++ communities. She is also involved in the #include<C++> organization hoping to improve diversity and inclusion in the C++ community.

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Home of the Alfalfa Scout | Alfalfa Scout

// ALFALFASCOUT.RED

Alfie, Abner, or Alan, who also goes by a handful of pronouns (he, they, e, thon, the, this, that, one), is an artist of many flavors. They draw, program, write, and more. They spend a good deal of their time providing tech support and contributing to community resources. They consider themself a helpful internet person by day and a janitor by night. They hacked an old kindle and made it into a weather and calendar display for their kitchen and took a lot of photos in their younger years. They also made an orange website out of math. They can be contacted via XMPP at alfalfascout@projectsegfau.lt or via email at alfalfascout@proton.me, a@alfalfascout.red, or any email @alfalfascout.red.

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Frederick's delirious rantings

// FREDERICKVANBRABANT.COM

Frederick Vanbrabant is located in Antwerp, Belgium. He writes about topics such as enterprise service buses, architecture, value streams, value chains, and CMDBs. He has experience creating enterprise architecture offices. He also writes about technical debt, meetings, solution designs, processes, and teams.

SoftwareArchitecture
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Jeet Mehta

// JEETMEHTA.COM

Jeet Mehta is the founder of Swift, a B2B SaaS company for sports facilities. Previously, he worked as a Product Manager & Data Scientist at Shopify. He was born in Bangalore and raised in Toronto. He has experience in mobile development, circuit design, machine learning, data science, and product management. He played for the Canadian national cricket team. Jeet enjoys reading, writing, and playing cricket. He is interested in building an online presence and publishing written content.

FounderData Scientist
Canada
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Vi Prime

// VPRIME.DEV

Vi Prime is a programmer and artist who helps people explore new and existing worlds. Vi's work on Unity Reflect and VisualLive allowed their customers to peer through walls and keep track of what they find. Work at ExpoTech made it possible to gear up for adventures by practicing with real firearms in a simulated space. Vi focuses on 3D art and game development, supported by experience in programming, web, and videography. Vi is a creative self-starter with a mix of technical and artistic skills.

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Alex Ewerlöf Notes | Substack

// ALEXEWERLOF.COM

Alex Ewerlöf is the author of Reliability Engineering Mindset and creator of Service Level Calculator. Alex is exploring a Senior Staff / Principal role in Reliability Engineering or AI Advocacy. Alex has opened 3 slots for interim advisory projects (starting Feb 2026) to help organizations align Product & Engineering on SLOs or Audit critical infrastructure risks.

Reliability EngineerTechnical Leadership
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Noel Berry

// NOELBERRY.CA

Noel Berry sometimes makes video games and art. They spend most of their time at Extremely OK Games. Noel has worked on games such as City of None, Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain, Celeste Classic 2, Celeste, Celeste Classic, Skytorn, Chaos Heart, Kiki and the Monster, Drunken Assassin, Outpost, Prism Panic, Broken Robot Love, Chunkadelic, Abandoned Incubattle, Reach For It, The Depths, Leap 4 Blue, Pixel Runner 2, The Plunge, Pixel Switch, Red n Blue, AGOSS, Chimpventure, and Zymo. Noel has also written about making video games in 2025, remaking Celeste's Lighting, and procedural generation.

DeveloperArtist
Canada
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Petra Palusova

// PETRAPALUSOVA.COM

Petra Palusova is a writer, researcher and strategist specialized in advanced technologies. Building on her expertise in Extended Reality and synthetic space, her work also includes utilizing AI and intelligent systems. With a career spanning various technical industries and global markets, she offers expertise for developing strategies and frameworks to gain competitive advantage and create meaningful impact. As a founder of this platform, Petra curates a knowledge base designed to offer education and new perspectives on emerging technologies. She advocates for responsible innovation and works with technologies that contribute to human evolution. Alongside her independent practice, Petra serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Digital Tails Group, a software development company specializing in advanced technologies.

WriterResearcher
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A Quaint Laboratorium

// UNARTUR.DE

Artur, who goes by they/he, is a Computer Science student in Germany. They enjoy digital and traditional drawing, taking photos on film, and coding. Inspired by the Yesterweb and Internet Nostalgia, Artur created a small space online to express themselves, moving away from social media's impact on their mental health. This website serves as a laboratory for their ideas, combining art and code while avoiding perfectionism. Artur can be contacted via mail at lyonid [at] protonmail [dot] com, on Discord as un.artur, or on Mastodon as @maus@blasius.club.

DeveloperDesigner
Germany
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Jason Thorsness

// JASONTHORSNESS.COM

Jason Thorsness is a software developer who enjoys exploring various technical topics. He is the creator of Tractor Loader, a library for NextJS and Sharp that enables inline image transformation in JSX or MDX. He has written about topics such as AI, databases, web development, and performance optimization. He shares his projects and thoughts on platforms like GitHub, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

EngineerSoftware
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Tyler Glaiel's Blog | Substack

// TYLERGLAIEL.COM

Tyler Glaiel makes video games and does other things sometimes. He can be found on Twitter, YouTube, TwitchTV, Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, Medium Blog, and Instagram. He has a Glaiel Games Collection website with older games and a Newgrounds Collection with game jam games and other things. He also created Fracuum, Number, Succubox, Adversarial Minesweeper, and Taco Bell Food Name Generator. He has written articles on how to make a game run at 60 FPS and how to make your own game engine. He also runs high class art Twitter bots and novelty accounts.

DeveloperProgrammer
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Adam Pietrasiak blog

// PIETRASIAK.COM

Adam Pietrasiak designs through code. He is building a screen recorder for macOS called screen.studio. He writes about development topics such as Typescript monorepos with yarn workspaces, debugging "multi-issue bugs", creating multi-window Electron apps using React portals, and fast video rendering and encoding using web APIs. He also shares thoughts on topics such as the Fermi Paradox and democracy models.

DeveloperDesigner
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Sam Patterson

// SAMPATT.COM

Sam Patterson is the name associated with this website.

Asset ManagementTicketing System
India
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neodarz — neodarz documentation

// NEODARZ.NET

Neodarz is a software developer and likes to create things. He is interested in reverse engineering, game hacking, and security. He also enjoys learning new things.

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Sandor Dargo's Blog

// SANDORDARGO.COM

Sandor is a C++ developer with an enthusiasm for Python. Before becoming a software developer, Sandor worked in operations as a DBA. Sandor enjoys coding and high-quality code. When not traveling with family or baking, Sandor reads and writes. Sandor writes about books, Stoic philosophy, and C++. Sandor is the creator of Daily C++ Interview.

DeveloperSoftware
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Daniel, Andrei-Daniel Petrica

// DANIELPETRICA.COM

Daniel Petrica is a software developer from Italy who enjoys working with Laravel, Vue, and the web. His full name is Andrei‑Daniel Petrica. He is based between Reggio Emilia, Italy and Tokyo. Curiosity drives his work, and he likes understanding and improving systems, and learning new tools. He contributes to open‑source projects when he can. He has worked on business‑critical systems, real estate and SaaS products, and customer‑facing apps. He has held roles from junior to senior, including Senior Software Analyst at Dedagroup, Software Analyst at Warrant Hub, and Junior Software Analyst at Mow.it. He was also a Full‑stack web developer for products like Timeneye.com and Saleswith.it. He enjoys working with Laravel and PHP, Vue.js and Nuxt.js with TypeScript, and Docker. His toolkit also includes Git, MySQL, SCSS/Sass, and SEO. In 2025 he was part of the team that won Startup Weekend Mantova with fitravel.app.

DeveloperFull Stack
Italy