Developer Websites

Jason (he/him) is an elder millennial, husband, and father. He is a music lover and tech enthusiast. He grew up in Western Maryland, lived in Baltimore for about 10 years, and now lives in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia with his wife, their four daughters, and two dogs. He works in tech and is a fully remote employee. Jason is the admin for the DMV.Community Mastodon instance. He also writes a music blog called The Shrediverse. He enjoys music, tech, hiking, photography, fintech, science, comics, sci-fi, coffee, Linux, FOSS, Android, self-hosting, and mead making.

Michael Charlson is a software engineer. He enjoys building software and solving problems. He is interested in distributed systems, backend development, and cloud computing. He currently works at Google.

Chris Lewis currently lives in New York, having moved from Australia. He works at Twitter on the Timelines Infrastructure team. Prior to Twitter, he helped build and launch Uber Eats. He has degrees in computer science and law. He loves all things computer-related, including functional programming and decompilation of old video games. He also has a collection of unpainted Warhammer models.

GReg TeChnoLogY is largely shy and unknowable. A profile photo of GReg TeChnoLogY was taken by Catalina Kulczar.

Ian Duncan is a software engineer and entrepreneur based in The Netherlands. He is a full-stack developer living in The Hague and currently works as an engineer at Mercury, a financial technology company that develops bank products for startups. At Mercury, he focuses on making it easier for other engineers to write correct, resilient, and maintainable code. Before Mercury, Ian was Principal Engineer at Forge Global, a private equity marketplace, where he helped build a platform for trading private company shares and assisted with the merger with SharesPost. He has been writing in Haskell and other functional programming languages professionally since 2014.

Oscar Molnar, also known as Tymscar, is a Senior Software Engineer currently working at Glean. His professional interests include visualisation, large-scale deployments, *nix systems, and competitive programming. He has been programming for 18 years, starting with making mods for games. Oscar has deep understanding of both React and Lit for front-end development, as well as backend design and maintenance of large scale Node/Express applications. He is proficient in Python 3, using it for competitive programming exercises. Oscar has professional experience with Unity3D & Unreal Engine, creating VR/AR visualisations for Jaguar Land Rover. He is confident using Git and has experience with Plastic SCM. Oscar has personal, daily experience with Linux, macOS & Windows. He also has app development experience with iOS & Android.

Hexaitos, who prefers to be called Hex, is a non-binary, polytherian shapeshifter from Germany. At 26 years old, Hex identifies with it/its and they/them pronouns. Calling themself Hex the Archivist, they enjoy keeping records of things that are important to them. Hex's interests are varied, including working with computers, especially Unix-derived systems like EndeavourOS and Fedora. They also enjoy video games, learning languages such as German, Swedish, English, and Ancient Greek, taking photos, reading, and listening to obscure music. A fan of birds, especially birds of prey, Hex also expresses interest in VR, FOSS, and self-hosting. Currently, Hex works as a systems and network administrator at a small ISP.

Akshat Joshi documents ongoing technical work focused on ephemeral and disposable browser execution environments for security-sensitive workflows. His project examines how short-lived, isolated browser sessions can be used to reduce risk when interacting with untrusted web content. The work is grounded in threat modeling, cloud-native architecture, and execution-lifecycle security, with an emphasis on understanding isolation boundaries, teardown guarantees, and security trade-offs introduced by remote and ephemeral execution models. This platform reflects applied architectural research informed by real-world system design experience and active engagement with the application security community. His technical articles and experiments are intended to contribute practical insights that can be evaluated, discussed, and adapted by other practitioners working in application security, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.

Chris Penner is a software developer. He enjoys building things and open source. He also likes learning, teaching, and writing. He is interested in compilers, programming languages, and systems programming.

Peter Ullrich is a Senior Elixir developer and educator. He has a background in Psychology and Computing Science from the University of Groningen. Peter is a PragProg Author, public speaker, blogger, and founder. He is passionate about Software Architecture, Product Engineering, and sharing knowledge. Since 2024, he has worked as an Elixir consultant, focusing on small-to-medium companies and project development. Previously, he built internal payroll software at Remote and Studitemps. Peter develops frontends preferably with Phoenix LiveView and attempts to apply his Psychology knowledge in the IT context. He is also a bicycle activist living in The Netherlands.

Karbo, also known as Michał Karbowiak, is a software developer who blogs at karboosx.net. While PHP is his day-to-day language, his real drive is curiosity, which leads him to explore interesting tech. More than anything, he loves to create. His projects aren't meant to change the world; he's usually building a random tool because the concept seemed interesting, he wanted an excuse to play around with a new technology, or simply because he felt the impulse to make it. When he's not coding, he enjoys making games, playing them, drawing, or creating animations for YouTube. He is open to interesting conversations and collaborations about tech, games, or even recipes.

Emy is a software engineer and artist. She enjoys building things and exploring new ideas. Her background is in computer science and visual arts. She is interested in the intersection of technology and creativity. She likes working on projects that are both technically challenging and visually appealing. She is currently focused on web development and generative art. She also enjoys learning new programming languages and frameworks.

Brendan McLoughlin is the author of Laconic Wit, a personal blog. He has spent the last decade shipping production code on React and the last two years on Remix. His writing explores the values and technical choices within the React and Remix ecosystems, particularly focusing on the trade-offs between complexity and simplicity in web development. He can be found on LinkedIn, Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky, GitHub, and Twitter.

Markus Strasser works on psychoanalysising generative models (mechanistic interpretability) and infusing them with good taste (preference alignment). He makes art and studies the physics of biological information processing. Previously, he worked on drug discovery, biomedical literature search and knowledge discovery (with funding from Emergent Ventures), machine learning interpretability, no-code tools, browser extensions, and bioinformatic automation at Oxford Nanopore. He studied philosophy, some mathematics, and later fine art with stints in Viennese and Prague Ateliers, the Barcelona Academy of Arts, and Stanford.

Will Morrison is a mechatronics engineer who likes to make things. He is interested in procedural generation, musical instrument design, robotics, and pretty much anything that could be considered tech art. He made his website to have somewhere to document the things that he builds.

Yakko likes building things and telling stories. Yakko is a product/software/data/infra engineer. Currently, Yakko is building Skald, a knowledge base that stays up-to-date. If you want to chat, contact Yakko.

Anthony Shaw is an open-source contributor, author, and Python Engineer at Microsoft. He writes about Python performance, compiler internals, and low-level optimization. Anthony is currently researching a PhD in Computer Science at Macquarie University. He is the author of a book about CPython internals. His open-source projects include VS Code Pets, CSnakes, Wily, Perflint, llm-github-models, and rich-bench.

Dillon Mok is a software engineering student, developer, and musician from New Zealand. He occasionally writes about technology and music. He can be found on Mastodon, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

Michel Barros is a developer based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, working at MIVISEA. He uses his website as a central hub for his online identity and communication, referring to it as his "livro de lugares-comuns online" (book of online commonplaces). He publishes various types of media, covering topics such as technology, information theory, the environment, biology, history, economics, and the humanities. He encourages people to connect with him via email or RSS feed.

Sam Saffron is the Co CEO of Discourse and a co-founder. He lives in sunny Sydney. He loves writing about performance, Ruby, Mini Profiler and technology related topics. He can be contacted at sam@samsaffron.com for speaking engagements and general enquiries.

Fredrik Meyer has a PhD in algebraic geometry and currently works as a software consultant for Scienta AS. His skills include languages such as Kotlin, Java, Python, Javascript, and Clojure. He has experience with AWS, particularly serverless technologies like Lambda, S3, and SQS. He also has expertise in mathematics, especially algebraic geometry. As a hobby, he enjoys programming in Clojure, creating generative art, and implementing geometric algorithms.

DSri Seah is an investigative designer who is returning to freelance design after working in Javascript programming for learning sciences research grants. Their current focus involves articulating personal values as a requirement for work. DSri is interested in expanding this into a creative community engineered to foster genuine friendships, with a prototype community called DS|CAFE. They are also very interested in the Fediverse and Open Social Web initiatives. DSri maintains a digital open studio website as a personal knowledge management system, combining continuity logging with categorized writings, concepts, and tools. The website is the successor to the archived davidseah.com site.

Ruud van Asseldonk loves to create beautiful things with elegant code. He particularly likes low-level optimization for bare metal performance and systems programming, but also enjoys high-level functional programming. Sometimes he writes about that. He tries to write technically interesting posts, such as his series about building a typechecker. His most popular post is a rant about yaml. He is mildly allergic to buzzwords.

Radan Skorić is a senior full stack developer with over 15 years of professional experience solving problems with Software and leading teams of developers. He primarily works with Ruby and its ecosystem although recently he has started developing a taste for Rust on the side. For most of his career he has split his time between coding the backend of (mostly complex) applications and leading, motivating and increasing efficiency of a team of developers. He values simple over complex solutions and puts a lot of emphasis on quality in all aspects of product development. As a team lead he subscribes to the “serving lead” philosophy. He is also one of the organizers of the RubyZG Meetup. He has a passion for elegant and easy to understand code and for having a deep understanding of how the system and libraries he is using work.