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ApertureSoftware

by Apple

Who uses, recommends or left Aperture, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

4 people

Zach Holman
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
uses

For photos, I use Aperture to manage things locally, and Exposure to share them with people.

His written "Uses This" interview, from his GitHub years.

2014-04-17·usesthis.com ↗

Mark Nottingham
Web infrastructure engineer; chaired the IETF HTTPbis working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
uses

Photos are edited and organised with Aperture.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the machines, cameras and tools behind his standards work.

2013-08-13·usesthis.com ↗

Rob Malda
Founder and longtime editor of Slashdot, known online as CmdrTaco.
uses

I use Aperture for organizing my photo library.

His Uses This interview, listing the machines and apps he ran while editing Slashdot.

2011-09-16·usesthis.com ↗

Bennett Foddy
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
mixed

I bought Apple's Aperture for photo editing, which is nice to use until it insists on using 6GB of RAM just to copy photos from an SD card, even if your system only has 1GB free.

His Uses This interview, a long and mostly exasperated tour of his hardware and software.

2012-08-10·usesthis.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.