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Mike, also known as That Helpful Dad, is a 50+ husband, father, worker bee, and friend. He shares helpful tips and honest product reviews on topics such as outdoor cooking, intermittent fasting and fitness, fishing, meditation, and self-improvement. His goal is to provide real-world solutions and action-oriented wisdom to help others live their best lives.

Siiri Saunders is the author of the fantasy novel, "Filíns Reise - Der böse Blick," a story about forbidden love, beings that shouldn't exist, and interconnected worlds. She describes writing as a challenging but passionate endeavor, involving deep connection with her characters. She has spent a lot of time developing her characters, including conducting interviews and exploring their pasts.

Gioel Gio is a Creative Action Researcher passionate about designing experiences that facilitate personal and collective transformation. Gioel believes in creating communities that host conscious human connections and practices the idea that the most urgent and important work is play. Gioel works to help small and medium socially-committed organisations to develop sustainability strategies, designs research processes for groups to learn and un-learn together, and collaborates with others to accompany new visionary projects and initiatives. Gioel loves writing and uses theatre, creative writing, and experiential education to surface different ways of knowing.

Jonhnny Weslley is a Senior Full-Stack Developer with over 15 years of experience. He currently works at Railsware crafting software solutions. His expertise includes Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and React. He shares what he learns about building software through posts, talks, and projects. An open-source enthusiast, Jonhnny enjoys contributing to projects. He is also interested in AI and enjoys exploring new places and board games.

Kevin Padan Hayes is based in Buffalo, New York. He works as the operations manager at ReUse Action, a for-profit continuation of Buffalo ReUse, where he focuses on promotion and technology. He manages The Guild @980, an artist/small business space. His small business craft initiatives include woodworking, bookbinding, website development, and print production. Kevin is a co-founder of The Foundry, a business incubator and makerspace. He is involved in community initiatives such as the Preservation-Ready Sites website and Brick Streets. He is a member of Buffalo’s East Side Parkways Coalition and is on Mastodon and BlueSky.

Mohamed Haimoura is a Fez native currently living in Morocco. He began his career as a Web developer, working on various projects as an eZ Publish developer. He gained hands-on experience in creating web solutions. Beyond development, Mohamed took an entrepreneurial step by founding ReWork.fr, an IT service company, which he co-managed.

Araz Gholami is a programmer, blogger, and explorer. He creates things and strives to improve them, acting as a repairer rather than a replacer. Araz enjoys transforming complex concepts into simple ones. He is the creator of numerous projects including Odak.app, EasyCompress, and Soundscape AI. Araz values usability, typography, good user experience and accessibility. He has over ten years of experience teaching design and software development skills and holds a bachelor's degree in computer software engineering. He has been blogging since 2005.

Amir Masoud Abdol is a computational scientist, C++ developer, and build system engineer. He previously worked as a Core Developer at JASPStats and completed a PostDoc in Computational Psychology/Statistics at Tilburg University. He also holds a PhD in Computational Biology from the University of Amsterdam, where he studied and modeled biological systems. He designed and developed SAM, a C++ simulator, during his PostDoc. Amir is also a design enthusiast with an interest in Human User Interfaces and typography. He is currently looking for a new job.

Danny van Kooten is a programmer from The Netherlands and the founder of ibericode, a small software company. He has been making a living selling and supporting open-source software for close to 15 years. He builds and maintains WordPress plugins such as Mailchimp for WordPress and Koko Analytics, which are used on over 2 million websites. He also enjoys contributing to open-source software, with most of his work being MIT or GPL licensed and available on sourcehut or GitHub.

Husam Machlovi is a maker and writer from NYC. He runs With Pulp, a distributed user experience design and development studio. He also teaches a product design course for the City University of New York. Husam writes frequently, posting thoughts and poetry on Medium. He enjoys finding a different point of view and is guided by the creative principle of reducing form and content to their essence. He is an avid reader, gamer, and guitarist.

Halsted, also known as cygnoir, is a writer, diarist, and librarian living just outside Portland, Oregon with her spouse, FunkyPlaid, and their cats. She maintains cygnoir.net as her online journal, where she writes about her interests. Halsted has been publishing online since 1998, using various platforms over the years. She is interested in racial justice, reading, pens and stationery, music, indieweb, games, knitting, postcrossing, and food. Halsted values friendship and has a podcast about it called Friendship Material.

Tomas Laurinavicius is a founder, growth marketer, designer, developer, and writer. He is interested in calm micro software and digital media businesses. He's written an ebook, created an online course, and founded a design magazine. His work has been published in Forbes, TIME, Fast Company, HuffPost, and The Next Web. Originally from Lithuania, he currently lives in Alicane, Spain. He is an indie hacker, building lean independent businesses. He enjoys writing, reading, weightlifting, basketball, and studying history, longevity, and self-development.

Chris Chung writes a blog covering ideas, technology, and self-mastery. He has written about topics such as procrastination, feedback loops, and motivation. In 2017, he designed and built Saladbot, a CNC-based gardener.

Josh Pitzalis writes about building bulletproof LLM evaluation systems. He focuses on how companies can achieve high reliability in production for their Large Language Models. His work covers topics such as systematic error detection for AI systems, building custom annotation tools for AI error analysis, and evaluating RAG systems.

Kyle Marek-Spartz is a Senior Resilience Engineering Manager at Shipt (a Target subsidiary). He has experience managing engineers and building resilient systems. He previously worked at Amazon as a Systems Development Manager and Systems Development Engineer. Earlier in his career, Kyle co-founded Celador and worked as a Site Reliability Engineer and Software Engineer at Granicus. He holds an MBA with a concentration in Leadership and Change Management from Hamline University and a BA in Linguistics with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. Kyle serves on the board of Saint Paul Neighbor Network and facilitates Resilience Coffee.

Lisa Colón DeLay is the creator, producer, and host of the Spark My Muse podcast, which began in 2015 and has released over 665 episodes. She is the author of "The Wild Land Within" (2021) and "The Way of the Desert Elders" (forthcoming in 2026). Her work focuses on spiritual formation, involving historically marginalized perspectives, and fostering transformation in our interior lives and relationships. Lisa is Latina (originally from Puerto Rico). She holds a B.F.A. in Communication Design and an M.A. in Spiritual Formation.

Rachel Warmath (formerly Rachel Koontz) is the founder of Alive in the Fire, an award-winning wellness and yoga lifestyle blog. She is a writer, editor, yoga teacher, author, and master-level Reiki practitioner. Rachel teaches yoga and helps authors publish their books. She grew up in northern California and now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. She incorporates holistic practices into her routine, including yoga, contrast therapy, strength training, energy work, meditation, hiking, and walking. She is also an ultra runner/marathoner turned daily walker.

Scott James is an Executive Coach, Mentor, and Advisor for Conscious Leaders. BusinessWeek Magazine named him one of America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs and Forbes Magazine profiled him as a Game Changer. One of his companies was a Founding B-Corps. His film projects include the opening shorts at the first United Nations Climate Change Summit. He is active in nonprofit work and was awarded a Governor’s Award of Excellence in Service by the state of Washington. He is a sought-after mentor for social entrepreneurs and community organizers, offering 1:1 sessions and facilitating corporate retreats. He supports Founders, CEOs, Executive Directors, and senior managers, helping them reach their personal "highest and best" in the search for solutions to social and climate change issues.

Thejesh GN, also known as Thej, is an independent technologist, developer, teacher, hacker, maker, traveler, and blogger from Bangalore, India. He is the co-founder and chairman of DataMeet trust, a community of data science and open data enthusiasts in India. Currently, he works as CTO of Peppo. He teaches Modern Application Development 1 & 2 at IITM/BS program. He is an open data and open internet enthusiast with interests including FLOSS, Linux, Open Web, Open Data, Data Visualization, Security, and more.