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

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British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS and web performance at christianoliff.com.
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Wise - great service for transferring money between currencies at very low rates (Affiliate link - get £15 off with first transfer)

His /uses page, listing the hardware, software and services he uses for web development; the page footer gives 2026-09-03 as its last update.

2026-09-03·christianoliff.com ↗

Scottish software developer working on Statamic and maintaining open-source addons such as Runway; writes at duncanmcclean.com.
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I use Wise for sending & receiving money internationally. They have really low rates compared to the rest of the market.

His post "Uses (September 2025)", listing the tools, services and equipment he uses day to day.

2025-09-06·duncanmcclean.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.