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Deepak Jois is a computer programmer with a highly distractable brain. He keeps a daily log. He moonlights at cottongeeks llc, his boutique tech consultancy, where he tinkers with cutting edge tech, builds tools, and occasionally gets paid to write code. Some of his selected projects include ytt-mcp, an MCP Server to fetch YouTube transcripts; podscript, which generates podcast transcripts using AI models; www.debugjois.dev, the code for his website and daily log, written from scratch in Markdown, HTML/CSS and Go; www.cottongeeks.com, the code for the cottongeeks website, made using Astro; luaharfbuzz, Lua bindings for Harfbuzz (bundled with LuaTeX); and hs-logo (archived), an interpreter for the Logo programming language written in Haskell.

Priyavrat Misra is a Software Engineer and Computer Science Graduate. He is also an Open Source Advocate and Cycling Enthusiast. He has a passion for the submerged 90% of the iceberg and loves writing clean, efficient code in Vim. He enjoys geeking out over system internals, whether it’s operating, database, or distributed systems. He documents his findings in his blog. He pedals to work and wears a shiny orange helmet.

Stephen Barrack is an aspiring techno-wizard who aims to improve the way users, hardware, and software interact with each other. He uses his programming knowledge and soft skills to facilitate how people interact with computers and how programmers interact with business partners. Outside of work, he codes on his GNU/Linux servers and repairs and repurposes old electronics. When he is avoiding screens, he spends his time doing Gregorian chant, hiking, playing tennis, reading, and playing table-top games with friends & family.

Sam Broner is building and investing in NYC and online. He is generally happy and interested in blockchains, distributed systems, dev tools, CRDTs, and local-first software. He focuses on UX+AI as an Investor at a16z. Previously, he was at Dorm Room Fund, MIT, and was a founding engineer at Fluid Framework at Microsoft.

Johannes Enevoldsen is interested in excitable cells. He presented a demonstration on February 18, 2025, about how reentry tachyarrhythmias can develop in a system of excitable cells.

Matt is a product-focused software engineer. He enjoys building things and solving problems with code. He has experience working across the stack, from databases to deployments, but he is most passionate about crafting great user experiences. He is currently building things at Vanta. Before that, he was building things at Dropbox. He studied Computer Science at Cornell.

Miles Blackwood Robinson is a music producer, educator, and performer. He is currently working on a constructed musical language called MaNePu and has a solo project called Baze Blackwood. He also creates content related to music, such as "Smash a Guitar, and You Go to Jail," "Adolescence and Authenticity at the Talent Show," and "How to Make a Music Video on Your Own."

João Paulo Aguiar launched Blog do João Aguiar, an independent publication, in January 2026. He writes about topics such as alternative tools to avoid big tech, game design, writing, and photography. His work also touches on community internet networks and personal projects. He has experience in the game industry, including working on a mobile RPG game in 2008. He currently works in communication at the Internet Society.

Steven Saus was in medical imaging for over twenty years, both in the US Army and in multiple civilian settings. He earned his Master’s in Applied Behavioral Science in 2011, has presented sociological and economic research at regional conferences, and has taught research methods at the collegiate level. He has written fiction and non-fiction, contributed to open source computing projects, and published a dozen or so anthologies of other people’s work. He can be found at stevensaus.com or ideatrash.net.

Doug Holland is someone who has worked office jobs off and on for 40 years. He receives a monthly pension from Acme Amalgamated of $345. He has a brother named Dick who had surgery, a sister named Hazel who was in the hospital, and a mother who texts him. He enjoys watching old movies, especially musicals. He anticipates needing to borrow money from his mother. He expresses a desire for a job.

Laurent is a software developer with over ten years of experience, primarily in web technologies. He also enjoys working with Postgres, maps, and data science. He has written on platforms like Medium and Dev.to, and now maintains his own dev blog to collect what he learns, experiments with, and finds interesting. He is available for hire and more information about his professional background can be found on LinkedIn.

Herb Sutter is a leading authority on software development. He is the best selling author of several books including Exceptional C++ and C++ Coding Standards, as well as hundreds of technical papers and articles, including the essay “The Free Lunch Is Over” which coined the term “concurrency revolution” and its recent sequel “Welcome to the Jungle” on the end of Moore’s Law and the turn to mainstream heterogeneous supercomputing from the cloud to ‘smartphones.’ Herb served as chair of the ISO C++ standards committee for a decade and is a software architect at Microsoft where he has led the language extensions design of C++/CLI , C++/CX, C++ AMP, and other technologies. He is an author and speaker, and a programming language nerd whose focus is on enabling program code to be both clean and fast. He has been writing about programming since 1993, usually about C++ or about concurrency and parallelism. He is the designer or co-designer of a number of standardized ISO C++ language and library features. He served as the chair of the Standard C++ Foundation since 2012. He is a technical fellow at Citadel Securities.

Shiver River is a writer and artist. They make games, music, and websites. Shiver River is interested in dreams, virtuality, and folklore. They like to explore liminal spaces and altered states of consciousness through their work.

Konloch is a Lead Software Engineer (Full-Stack) with a deep passion for reverse engineering and low-level computing. He has been actively coding since 2008, with Java being his preferred language for personal projects. His background in reverse engineering has provided him with extensive experience in a variety of languages, including Java, C, and x86 Assembly, as well as creating and working with domain-specific languages. He maintains Konloch.com as a wiki and source of documentation for his various projects. The majority of his software is open source and he welcomes contributions and critique.

Spredehagl is the author of a personal blog, updated irregularly. The blog uses JavaScript, requiring it to be enabled in the browser for full functionality. The author acknowledges that the English used on Spredehagl is a second language, and therefore may contain linguistic errors. They also note the use of the alternative spelling "osse" instead of "også," aligning with a tradition used by Storm P and Halfdan Rasmussen. While Spredehagl aims for accuracy, they acknowledge the possibility of errors and encourage readers to report any they find via the contact link provided on every page. Comments are welcome via email, and may be published with explicit approval and a chosen name, which must be non-revokable.

Cynthia is a technologist with a diverse background and broad interests. She is an enthusiastic teacher turned librarian turned support engineer. Her interests include general computing and technology, instruction, accessibility, information management, technical services and metadata, and documentation. She works with web technology and likes to learn and dig into code. Cynthia's methodology is user oriented, and she aims to improve the user experience and quality of life for team members. Outside of GitLab, she mentors students as part of the UBC Arts Co-op Students’ Association mentorship program and through the Aspire mentorship program by Support Driven. She also helps with organizing conferences and workshops.

Brian Smith works on Firefox and the web platform at Mozilla, based in Berlin. His work sits between engineering, documentation, and product. He has spent close to two decades working with web technologies and software teams. His work has ranged from technical writing and content architecture to product thinking for developer platforms and open-source projects. Before working on MDN, he was Head of Content at QuestDB, a YC-backed open-source database. He maintains MDN Web Docs, an open-source project that documents web platform technologies.

Kyrylo Silin is a software engineer, web developer, and entrepreneur. Originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is an alumnus of Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, in the Department of Information Control Systems (ICS). He received his MSc in 2015.

This person is Taiwanese and may be called Pipi. They were born in the 1980s and are influenced by Y2K culture. They enjoy playing video games and once appeared on television because of it. They live in the mountains, a 30-minute walk from the city. They commute at least two hours a day. They graduated from a forest elementary school with fewer than 100 students and grew up in nature, but are afraid of cockroaches. They attended a private vocational high school and a university. They say they are a typical 학점 student and didn't read much. They built their university computer with prize money from a Hearthstone competition. They can make a living by typing and post nonsense online when they have time. They understand recommendation systems and algorithms. They like old movies and their favorite instrument is the sanshin. Their favorite artist is Miyuki Nakajima.

Raviteja has a blog called Security Log, which can be found at securitylog.