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

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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
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I switched to using Syncthing to avoid the overhead of running a server instance, which works particularly well when combined with Tailscale.

His /uses page, covering hardware, homelab and the software he runs day to day.

2026-08-27·jnsgr.uk ↗

Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer.
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Each secret is stored in a separate file in $PASSAGE_DIR, which I keep synced with Syncthing and backed up with restic.

Blog post describing his personal password and secret management setup

2022-12-28·words.filippo.io ↗

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.