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John D. Nilles

// JOHNDNILLES.COM

John D. Nilles is an award-winning director/cinematographer/producer & film educator based in Montana. He has over 20 years of film industry experience working on a variety of projects for NBC, NatGeo, HBO, Paramount, FOX, VH1, & many others. John discovered his passion for filmmaking at an early age and has directed, shot, & produced countless films, several of which have played at dozens of film festivals around the world. He has written over 10 screenplays and has several others in various stages of development. John currently resides in Missoula, MT where he owns Shoot Montana & Treasure State Studios. His latest feature, “Saving For The Day,” won best Montana Film at the Flathead Lake International Cinemafest and has secured a distribution deal for an international release in 2025.

Director/Cinematographer/ProducerMontana Filmmaker
United States
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David Bieber

// DAVIDBIEBER.COM

David Bieber is a builder of projects, including Go Note Go, a headless keyboard note-taking device. He has also created Bieber Bot, Escape Castle Heterodyne (an escape room), Python Fire (for generating CLIs), and at Scheduler (a command line task scheduler). He developed a personal Roam-to-Twitter bot and a messaging setup for sending messages from Roam Research or a standalone keyboard.

PythonRoam Research
United States
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Gary Gale

// VICCHI.ORG

Gary is a husband, father, and CTO at Kamma. He is a geotechnologist, map geek, coffee addict, Sci-fi fan, and a UNIX and Mac user. He maintains the vicchi.org website, where he writes about topics such as the geographies of the British Isles, the United Kingdom, and maps found on the internet.

MapsGeotechnologist
United Kingdom
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Didier Jordana

// GLYPHE.ART
Personal
France
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Kojo Baffoe

// KOJOBAFFOE.COM

Kojo Baffoe is of Ghanaian/German heritage and was raised in Lesotho. He has worked and run businesses in Retail, Management Consulting, Publishing, Events, IT and Media. He has a B.Commerce and speaks and writes on a broad spectrum of topics, focusing on the building and sustainability of the African, whether individually, in business, in culture or in society. He is the host of the Listen To Your Footsteps podcast and is the author of the book of the same name. He is the founder and chief storyteller for Zebra Culture, an African content agency. He lives a fluid, ‘tapas’ life and brings that fluidity, broad understanding, empathy and curiosity to everything that he engages with.

African CultureEditorial Consulting
South Africa
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Simon Cox

// SIMONCOX.COM

Simon Cox is a Technical SEO consultant and web explorer based in the UK. He builds and manages websites, and has been practicing Search Engine Optimisation since the late half of the 1990s. In his spare time, Simon enjoys modelling narrow gauge railways. He is a web standards evangelist, content management specialist, and amateur bread baker. He was an early member of the LondonEErs ExpressionEngine Group and a founding member of the Croydon Creatives social group. He is also a member of the Greenwich and District Narrow Gauge Railway Society and a member of the 009 Society.

Web DevelopmentContent Management
United Kingdom
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Justin Higgins

// ENCAPSULATE.ME

Justin Higgins is a creator who shares his projects, ideas, hopes, and aspects of his life on his website. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and dog. He shares his daily logs, recipes, reading list, yearly goals, and writing. He also has a project called 24HourHomepage.com and English Numerical Contraction (e25n).

Los Angeles
United States
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Viktor Nyblom

// NYBLOM.IO

Viktor Nyblom has spent over a decade building apps, teams, and companies. He now focuses on helping founders and senior leaders find their authentic leadership voice. He shares his learnings through his blog and enjoys coaching CTOs on challenges they face in startups. Viktor has invested in early-stage startups and served as CTO at a baby tech app startup. He co-founded an IT consulting company and has worked with high-performance teams in companies such as Spotify, BookBeat, and Doktor.se. Viktor is also an advisor to companies in his investment portfolio.

Team BuildingStartup CTO
Sweden
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Chris Hughes

// WHOSCHRISHUGHES.COM

Chris Hughes is a digital marketing expert who builds and creates digital real estate. Over the past 10 years, he has built a social media network of over 10 million people, generated hundreds of thousands of leads online, and traveled the world. His goal is to positively impact the lives of people who meet him and come across his content. He enjoys surfing, traveling, and bucket list activities.

TravelDigital Marketing
United States
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Osvaldo Santana Neto

// OSANTANA.ME

osantana is a Python and Django developer with an interest in career development and entrepreneurship. He has been programming since childhood, starting with Logo, Basic, and Assembly. He has experience in various roles, including webmaster and consultant, and has worked with multiple programming languages, including dBase, Clipper, Smalltalk, and Java. He is also interested in the relationship between grammar and programming, exploring how knowledge of natural language grammar can improve code.

Software EngineeringDjango Development
Brazil
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Simone Tomirotti

// SIMONETOMIROTTI.COM

Simone Tomirotti is a human being. He received a Voigtländer camera from his father in the 70s and still uses it. He can be contacted via email or LinkedIn. He is also associated with the music producer "Il Mio Nome è Simone."

PhotographyVoigtländer Camera User
Italy
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Konstantinos Chousos

// KCHOUSOS.GITHUB.IO

Konstantinos Chousos is an AI/Security researcher and a member of the UoA AI team. He recently completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens, having worked on his thesis under Professor Thanassis Avgerinos. He also contributes to the RECITALS EU project as part of Professor Manolis Koubarakis’ team. His research interests include AI and its applications, software security, and cryptography. Beyond computer science, Konstantinos is a classical guitarist, having earned a diploma from the national conservatory of Greece, and a member of the Vox Fortis choir. He is also relearning to draw.

CryptographyAI/Security Researcher
Greece
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Michael E. Gruen

// MICHAELGRUEN.COM

Michael E. Gruen is involved with the Vocation Literacy Trust, focusing on literacy intervention through professional development. He also works on special projects through Greyworks. His publications include "Write Like an Adult" and "Twitter for Dummies" (First and Second Editions). He has worked on projects such as building a mechanical keyboard and tools for reclaiming address books. He can be found on various social media platforms.

Literacy InterventionSpecial Projects
United States
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Jeremy Wong

// CRAFTBYZEN.COM

Jeremy Wong is a maker who enjoys sharing what he's learning and his experiences. He has a background in engineering, having worked in the medical device field before transitioning to software engineering. He enjoys making both physical and digital things, especially in collaboration. His software projects span various domains, including BioTech, neurogaming, data visualization, and mixed reality apps. He also pursues creative outlets such as writing, music, baking, and cooking.

Software EngineerWeb Developer
United States
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Oshyan

// OSHYAN.COM
Personal
United States
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Max Wrenna

// MAXWRENNA.COM

Max Wrenna writes about a variety of topics, including personal experiences, technology, and short stories. Recent posts include reflections on meditation, productivity, and observations on culture. Max also shares creative writing pieces.

ProductivityShort Stories
United Kingdom
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Eddy Lu

// EDDY.LU

Ed is an individual exploring "out of the ordinary" life solutions. He documents his explorations, which include interests in web3, personal finance, and health. He is interested in independent creation and thinking, and shares his thoughts on topics ranging from metabolic health to book notes to travel. He values creating something of value for the world and questions mainstream values.

Personal WebsiteMetabolic Health
China
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Cait Gordon

// CAITGORDON.COM

Cait Gordon is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction author and anthology editor. She advocates for disability, mental health, and neurodiversity representation in written works. Her books include *Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain*, *Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space!*, *Nothing Without Us Too (Book Two)*, and *Nothing Without Us (Book One)*. She is also involved with the Spoonie Authors Network.

Speculative Fiction AuthorDisability Representation
Canada
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Mayari Avendaño

// MAYARI.IO

Mayari, also known as Maya, is a British-Filipina from the UK. She currently works in community at Vercel. Previously, she held senior frontend engineer and design engineering roles at Chaselabs, Outverse, hipeople, and Siemens. Mayari is passionate about building joyful and helpful products with Svelte, aiming to create UI that is visually appealing. She has a background that includes experience as a rail engineer before transitioning to frontend engineering and DX engineering.

CommunityFrontend Engineer
United Kingdom
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Rohit Farmer

// ROHITFARMER.COM

Rohit Farmer is a computational biologist with a passion for the outdoors, self-hosting, Ham radio, and FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). He uses his website as a personal space to share his thoughts, projects, and explorations. He built the website using Quarto to convert Markdown files into static HTML pages, and he hosts it on Google Cloud Platform. He also uses GitHub Pages for some subdomains.

FossSelf Hosting
United States