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

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Kieran Healy
Sociologist at Duke University who writes about markets and exchange, and about plain-text tools for social science.
liked

I clone disks with SuperDuper. (Their customer support is terrific, by the way.)

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: an essay-length account of his research and writing toolchain.

2010-10-17·usesthis.com ↗

Jeffrey Zeldman
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
recommended

run backups with SuperDuper, a program every Mac user must own. SuperDuper is quite simply the easiest backup program ever invented, and it just works.

His written "Uses This" interview, from Happy Cog and A List Apart.

2009-11-13·usesthis.com ↗

Andy Baio
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
uses

I'm currently running macOS Mojave, backed up with both Time Machine and SuperDuper to an external drive and BackBlaze to the cloud.

His written "Uses This" interview, covering the hardware he keeps for years and the software he writes and curates with.

2019-12-10·usesthis.com ↗

Dan Cederholm
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
uses

NetNewsWire for RSS reading, SnapnDrag for taking screenshots of application windows, iShowU for taking screencasts, Keynote for presentations, SuperDuper! for creating mirrored backups,

His Uses This interview, on a minimalist Mac web-design setup.

2010-01-07·usesthis.com ↗

John Siracusa
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
uses

I make a bootable backup of the first drive onto the third drive using SuperDuper! every few weeks.

His written "Uses This" interview, describing his Mac Pro setup, backup regime and software.

2009-07-01·usesthis.com ↗

John Gruber
Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown.
uses

Every night I use SuperDuper to clone my MacBook Pro's internal drive to one of the two aforementioned Lacie hard drives.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·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.

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

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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:

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