Programmer Websites

Cobb (also known as cobbland, cobb-dot-land, or Jacob) is a writer, artist, programmer, and game designer. He currently dwells in the foothills of Appalachia. He can be contacted via email at hello@cobb.land and is active on the Fediverse as @cobb@dice.camp. His website, cobb.land, features links to his pages, recent posts, and RSS feeds.

Reilly Spitzfaden is a composer and programmer with an interest in noise, obsolete media, electronics, and nostalgia. They build handmade electronic instruments, design interactive software interfaces, and repurpose audio and telecommunications equipment as instruments. Reilly's compositions have been performed at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and the TaPIR Lab, and by BlackBox Ensemble, Apply Triangle, and others. Reilly's recordings appear on Apply Triangle’s release Oxalis Triangularis: Vol. 2 and elsewhere. Reilly is currently a lecturer in music technology, film and game scoring, and music business at SUNY Geneseo. They hold a PhD in composition from the Eastman School of Music.

Dave Pagurek van Mossel is a programmer and artist who works on tools for computer graphics. He is currently working on WebGL mode in p5.js and motion graphics software. He previously studied at UBC and UWaterloo. Dave is interested in computer graphics and spends his time working on animation software, developing p5.js, and working with the creative coding community to make better tools. In his spare time, he draws, makes animations, and writes music, including sarcastic cover songs and serious music.

Dillon Shook is an autodidact and a Zero One Infinity Advocate located in Boston, MA. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from New Mexico Tech. His interests include programming, photography, cooking, game development, reading, guitar, running, and travel. He is currently working on fusion energy at CFS. He also enjoys writing, styling, and editing.

André Videla is a functional programmer with an inkling for type theory and category theory. He is interested in dependent types, programming languages, user experience and user interfaces, compiler architecture, lenses, and quantitative types. He sometimes works on Idris2, mostly to resolve the problems that he encounters himself with the language. His PhD Thesis is about Monadic programming in the category of containers. He is interested in the ergonomics and the semantics of programming, in particular servers backends, data description languages, and compilers. He can be found on discord (identity5193) and mastodon @andrev@types.pl.

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.

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.

Nyan is someone who enjoys consuming, creating, and tinkering with code, electronics, software, games, and various other kinds of media online. Offline, Nyan teaches CS, enjoys nature and cityscapes, challenges themself physically, or spends time at home. Nyan aims to use their online space for sharing ideas, passions, and other things they feel are important. They are interested in programming, web development (TypeScript, Svelte, Bun, LAMP), games (Godot, Unity), software (Java, C++), scripting (Bash), Linux Desktop (Mint & Cinnamon), ricing VM (Gentoo & DWM), Pinephone (PostmarketOS & SXMO), anime (Steins;Gate, Serial Experiments Lain, Welcome to the NHK, Terror in Resonance, Great Teacher Onizuka, Sonny Boy), self-hosting (Pleroma, Matrix, Jellyfin), urbanism, cycling, city planning, gaming (competitive shooters, rhythm games, grand strategy, colony sims), and privacy (Monero). Nyan is open to talking to anyone.

Lars Thießen is a former professor and currently works as a senior gameplay programmer. He has years of game development experience. On his blog, he shares practical tips, tutorials, and insights for students and fellow developers.

Skye Freeman is a programmer and hobbyist musician who enjoys pancakes. Currently, Skye works in Product Engineering at Aura Frames, and previously worked at Affirm and Venmo. Skye's projects include a self-hosted micro blog, Swift Starter Kits (a modern iOS boilerplate built with SwiftUI), fretboard.el (an Emacs package for visualizing guitar notes), and broadcast.ex (an Elixir package for social media posting). Skye writes a blog, mostly about programming, learning, and current projects.

Diogo Torres Correia is a developer from Portugal with a passion for programming, running, photography, and learning. He has experience building webstores, donation systems, and tools for businesses. Diogo created Triton, a Spigot plugin for Minecraft, and contributed to Craftathon, a charity event. He also developed Resumos LEIC, an open-source website for class notes at Técnico Lisboa. Diogo worked as a research assistant at the LangSec group at KTH, investigating prototype pollution in JavaScript. He is currently pursuing a MSc in Cybersecurity at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Diogo has also volunteered to teach Python and web development to students.

Davis is passionate about software and enjoys building things and discussing tech, music, and art. He has experience shaping backend infrastructure, building scalable multitenant systems, integrating authentication with Azure Active Directory, and managing container clusters. Davis also has experience using LLMs to automate internal workflows and boost team productivity. He is dedicated, creative, and an advocate for good security practices in code. Davis is also known for his leadership skills, ability to solve complex problems, and effective communication. He fosters a positive and inclusive work environment and is a supportive mentor.

Magnus, known online as Duplicake, is a young programmer. He is interested in Google Pixels, programming, Firefox, selfhosting, Obsidian, Steam, and Bluesky. He uses Linux, specifically Fedora on his main computer, Debian on his server, and Arch on his low spec computer. He dislikes skids, Apple, Windows, Google (to some extent), and X. He knows a lot of programming languages. Most of his development work is done on a self-hosted Forgejo instance. He is affiliated with the Green Party UK and is considering moving to Canada or Germany. He is currently "going through school" as part of his work experience at Earth inc Human.

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.

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.

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.

Chris Hannah is a Senior Software Engineer at WorldFirst, where he works on various types of software using Java, Python, JavaScript, and other languages. He also dedicates personal time to writing code and has open-source projects on GitHub, as well as apps like Text Case and Text Shot. Beyond coding, Chris enjoys photography, particularly with 35mm film cameras. He shares some of his photography online, with more on Instagram. Chris also enjoys writing about various topics and is working on refining his writing approach to focus on more thoughtful essays.

Connor Boyle is a former research programmer at Information Sciences Institute and a former M.S. student in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington. At ISI, he worked on the LESTAT project under Marjorie Freedman. At UW, he worked with Tao Yu as part of Noah’s Ark and with Thomas Schaffter on NLP Sandbox. He contributed to the development of Cartograph as an NSF grant-funded undergraduate research assistant to its creator, Shilad Sen. His projects include NLP Sandbox and NL-Augmenter, where he contributed transformations, filters, and bugfixes.

Paul Smith is a software engineer and computer programmer living in Evanston, IL. He has been developing websites and applications professionally for more than two decades. He was a leader of the “tech surge” that fixed HealthCare.gov. He co-founded and was the founding CTO of Ad Hoc. He is formerly the CTO of Public Good Software. He was the Deputy Director of Technology at the Democratic National Committee from September 2011 through February 2013 and worked closely with the Obama For America 2012 campaign. He co-founded EveryBlock in 2007. He co-founded Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail in 2003 and continues to serve on the board. He intermittently attended St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he studied physics and philosophy. He is originally from Maryland.

Angus Cheng develops applications and writes about his experiences. He created Bank Statement Converter and wrote a book about its creation. He is currently working on a visual novel called Busty Barrister Barbara. He blogs about the game's development, including the technical aspects of building it and the process of hiring people for the project. He also writes about his personal experiences, such as applying for eVisas and spending Christmas with his girlfriend's family.

Mayx, also known as Mabbs, is interested in programming and ACGN. Mayx is skilled in writing scripts in Python, JS, and Bash. Mayx's blood type is B and their zodiac sign is Leo. Contact information includes Wechat & Telegram: unmayx, Phone Number: 15209678869, and Email: i@mayx.eu.org. Mayx also has a Mastodon and About.me account.

John Scolaro sometimes writes things down in his blog. He has personal projects. He and his partner drew rank sketches for Sketch Rank. He also has Ol' Scolaro Family Recipes. His resume lists things he's done. He has links to some of his other profiles.

Ben is an artist and programmer from Aotearoa New Zealand. He works on human-scale programs and protocols. Ben also releases tools and games as Derelict Engineering. He can be contacted via email at ben@derelict.engineering. Updates on his work are posted to Mastodon at @ben@derelict.engineering. Support for his work can be provided through Patreon at patreon.com/benbridle. His work can also be purchased from derelict-engineering.itch.io.