Mac and iPhone developer; creator of Tweetie and of the pull-to-refresh gesture.
mixed
I go through a Mighty Mouse every few months (gunked up scroll ball problem). Yes, I tried cleaning it. Yes, I completely disassemble it. Maybe I just have really dirty fingers. But anyway, I have yet to find a better mouse.
The Setup (usesthis.com) interview, given shortly after Tweetie 2 shipped.
Sociologist at Duke University who writes about markets and exchange, and about plain-text tools for social science.
disliked
I use the Mighty Mouse, which I don't particularly care for, and Apple's USB keyboard (the flat one, with the numeric keypad), which is tolerable but not great.
The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: an essay-length account of his research and writing toolchain.
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:
Hardware, services4 years
Software5 years
Podcasts, courses, other8 years
Books25 years
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.