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

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Iván Olivares Rojas
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
loved

Always a Github Fan!

His /uses page, "My tools, gear and apps", a one-line verdict on each thing he uses; it states that some of its links can contain referrals. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, app/(main)/uses/page.tsx in his site repo ivolivares/iolivares.com-v2025, whose contents match the quoted lines.

2026-03-29·iolivares.com ↗

Harper Reed
Technologist; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
loved

I love and use github. I was not a git convert at first, but github made sharing code and working collaboratively better than ever. It is an amazing tool.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview, given while he was CTO of the Obama 2012 campaign.

2012-02-01·usesthis.com ↗

Rasmus Andersson
Swedish designer and programmer; designed early Spotify, worked at Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
loved

GitHub is an amazing place, product and breeding ground for ideas revolving around software development, created by the ever so humble Chris Wanstrath (and Tom Preston-Werner).

His Uses This interview, on owning few things and the tools he kept.

2011-04-03·usesthis.com ↗

Mitchell Hashimoto
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
mixed

I love GitHub more than a person should love a thing, and I'm mad at it.

Announcing that the Ghostty project is leaving GitHub after 18 years of him using it daily, because of repeated outages.

2026-04-28·mitchellh.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.