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

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Media theorist and writer; author of Program or Be Programmed and Team Human, and host of the Team Human podcast.
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And I watch everything through VLC, and avoid iTunes as much as possible

His Uses This interview, on writing, audio gear and his reasons for leaving software behind.

2011-10-24·usesthis.com ↗

President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead developers of VLC media player.
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And I use VLC :)

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the laptop, distro and programs behind his VLC work.

2019-08-27·usesthis.com ↗

JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
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I use VLC and Boxee for playing all of my videos and iTunes for playing my audio (synced to Last.fm).

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he was building Khan Academy.

2011-07-25·usesthis.com ↗

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.