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Ben Landau-Taylor studies power, society, and industry. He reads about history so that he can write about the present. He lives in San Francisco and often likes meeting internet people. He can be reached by email at benlandautaylor@gmail.com.

Seth Herd works on AI safety, applying his background in computational cognitive neuroscience. He studied cognitive psychology and neuroscience at CU Boulder from 1999-2006, and was a researcher there until 2014. He then became CEO of eCortex, Inc, a neuroscience research company. Seth used neural network models to theorize about how the brain works as an information-processing system, studying skill and knowledge learning, episodic memory, vision, and working memory for executive function. In 2022, he transitioned to working on AI alignment and is now a research fellow at the Astera Institute. His work focuses on aligning general intelligence so that it acts in accordance with human desires, even when acting independently and with superior intelligence.

Kaj Sotala splits their time between an emotional coaching practice and writing. They have enabled paid subscriptions on their Substack to support their writing, where they plan to post regularly about topics such as AI, psychology, meditation, and social dynamics. Kaj is interested in using LLMs for creativity, introspection, and mood lifting. Star Wars has been a part of many notable things in their life, shaping their make believe setting, being one of the things they had in common with the first girl they ever had a crush on, its officially licensed role-playing game was the first one that they ever played, and one of its licensed novels was the first novel that they ever read in English.

Left4Code is a person who likes computers. They are interested in programming, operating systems, retrocomputing, and the internet. They also enjoy making websites. They have a fondness for the 90s web aesthetic.

Savelii Pototskii is a software engineer specializing in backend systems, performance optimization, network applications, and open-source software. He is deeply interested in the open-source ecosystem. Savelii shares his thoughts, insights, and practical knowledge on topics like Go, C++, Linux, and FPGAs on his personal blog. He aims to create content that is open, informative, and helpful. Savelii holds a PhD in System Analysis, Management and Information Processing, Statistics from Ural Federal University (2023 - Present), a Master’s Degree in Information Systems and Technologies (2021 - 2023) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering (2017 - 2021), both from Ural Federal University. He works as a Software Developer at IMM UB RAS and a Lead Software Engineer at Drev-Master LLC.

Marc Bowes is a software engineer at AWS. He builds secure, reliable systems and enjoys connecting with customers and answering their questions. He currently works on Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database. Previously, he worked for Amazon EC2, managing a large MySQL installation. His work focuses on the performance and availability of databases and how they impact customers. He has written articles about DSQL engineering and design choices.

Gilleain Torrance is a software developer. They used to work in academia, specifically in bio- and chem- informatics. Currently, Gilleain Torrance works in the finance industry. This website showcases some of the projects they have put time into.

Aaron Ogle started programming at the age of 10 when his dad taught him GW-Basic on an old IBM pc. He has been hooked ever since. He loves learning new languages and considers himself a full stack developer. He enjoys working with every piece of the stack. His current passion is devops / chatops. In 2024, he changed jobs after nearly a decade and emphasized production readiness in his profession. He also returned to martial arts, increased his focus on working out, and traveled to Brazil and London.

Eoin Murray is a software engineer. He is interested in building tools for thought and improving developer productivity. He currently works at Stripe. Previously, he worked at Ink & Switch and Recurse Center. He studied Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin.

Dan is a software developer based in Sheffield, UK. He blogs about technical topics. He can be found on Mastodon as @kingy@antiquated.systems and on Bluesky as @kin.gy. His Github username is northerner.

Scott Antipa is a Software Engineer in San Francisco. He writes about technology, including topics such as reading technology's founding documents, V-Shaped Skillsets, storing app state in the URL, flowchart editors, clearing apps from homescreens, and crafting great commits. He created knotend.com, a flowchart editor, linkians.com, a simulation game, Circle Calendar, a spatial calendar, and react-map-interaction, an open source zoom-pan library in javascript. He can be found on Twitter, Github, and LinkedIn. His resume is available for download.

Dave Peck is an indie software developer based in Seattle, Washington. He is currently experimenting with AI-flavored data pipelines. In the past, he has worked on several startup-y projects. Dave writes about tech, music, and other nerdery on his blog. He can be found on Mastodon, Bluesky, GitHub, and LinkedIn.

Rob Dawson is a freelance software developer from Manchester in the UK. He is the creator of Codebox Software, a website containing various things he has made. The software on the site has been written as a series of evening and weekend projects over the last few years. He encourages users to provide feedback, bug reports, and suggestions for improvements. He allows the software featured on the site to be used for personal or business purposes, and suggests a donation if users earn money by using it.

Noghartt is a 24-year-old software engineer from Brazil. They have interests in distributed systems, compilers, databases, hardware, PL theory and other cool stuff. They can be contacted on Twitter or via email. Their /now page shows what they are currently doing. They also have a bookmarks page where they put all the articles that they read. Their GitHub profile contains the repositories that they are working on, and their blog repository contains the source code of their blog. The blog is under GNU AGPLv3 and CC BY-SA 4.0 licenses.

Vincent Giraud's website highlights his professional and academic work, including his thesis on application security on unmanaged systems. He holds multiple patents related to terminal protection against side-channel attacks, white-box cryptography keys, and white-box encoding. He has an EMVCo certification for a cryptographic implementation for open environments. His research has been presented at various international workshops and symposiums, covering topics such as power analysis, faulting McEliece implementations, and battery fuel gauges. He also teaches mathematics for the Classe Préparatoire Intégrée de la Gendarmerie Nationale (CPIGN). Additionally, he is involved in associative and personal projects, presenting at events like Capitole du Libre and Pas Sage En Seine on topics such as Kinect, secure environments, and self-hosting.

April is the creator of the blog 20ily April, formerly known as turning20web. Her blog is dedicated to topics relevant to those in their twenties, thirties, and beyond. She aims to inspire readers by sharing her views and experiences on a range of topics. Readers can expect to find her written words to be cute, and sometimes with a sexiness and openness. Her goal is to awaken the soul through her blog articles. She believes that every decade of life brings unique growth and experiences, making her content relatable to a wide audience.

Victor Poughon is a software engineer from France. He maintains a personal website where he documents some of his projects and blogs occasionally. Some of his projects include bidicalc, a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards; Interval Calculator and not-so-float, interval union arithmetic in TypeScript; torchlensmaker, a Python library for designing optical systems with optimization; Detailed Logarithmic Timeline, a remake of a deleted Wikipedia article; and The C++ Iceberg. He also created a website about Bayesian modeling of the French presidential election.

Webto is associated with Webto"S NOtDaily 2 Bloody Sunshine. They can be contacted at webto@ fanfou. They claim copyright from 2008 to forever.

Paul Russo builds software. He works at Cursor. This is his personal home on the world wide web, and his views are his own. He can also be found on GitHub and LinkedIn.

Easton is a geek with an interest in coding and other technical pursuits. He enjoys experimenting with single-board computers like Raspberry Pis and Milk V Duo S. Easton is interested in accessing his LAN remotely and has explored solutions for working around Starlink's CGNAT. He enjoys discovering oddities in software and found a vulnerability in the Shopify app, Loox Reviews. He also enjoys buying electronic trinkets and gadgets and experimenting with them. He has a habit of diving headfirst into projects that are fun but maybe not super useful, such as MuStack MicroVM.