Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  The drift from attacking to defending is a temptation facing every incumbent rather than a fault of any particular company.

  Google

  Their words

  I I would I would not say that about Google. I would just say that more generally like that is the incumbent temptation. Um it is is basically is basically go from attack mode to defend mode, right? Go from being the pirate to being the navy.

  youtube.com

Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google

  Their words

  If you're curious how Google built it's culture and the processes thanks to their extremely data & engineering driven nature, this is a great book. What held it back was being ~100 pages too long and Bock didn't always understand where what they did only fit at a $100Bn+, mega-profitable company. Still, the insights on the studies on their 50,000+ employees is well worth the read since so few of us can get similar statistical significance to apply to our teams.

  jasonevanish.com

American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.

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  Google Keep

  Their words

  Google Keep - I use this primarily as a shared shopping list and "wish list," and for saving web links and lists I want to add to/come back to later.

  adamdehaven.com

Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  nativefier

  Their words

  For the rest (e.g., oddly, most Google web apps), I use a command-line tool called nativefier to turn them into desktop apps.

  benkuhn.net

British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.

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  Chrome

  Their words

  My browser of choice is Chrome, mainly because I use Google's tools (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and so on) on a daily basis.

  marclittlemore.com

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

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  Google Colab

  Their words

  spending an increasing amount of my free time working with tools like Google Colab, Runway ML, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face to play around with machine-generated text, audio, imagery, and video.

  usesthis.com

Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.

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  Microsoft Word

  Their words

  When I'm writing articles etc that need to be shared with an editor, I typically write in Microsoft Word. I hate all word processing software, and anyone who insists that Google Docs is so much better than Word is a liar.

  usesthis.com

Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?

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  Google Meet speakermic

  Their words

  so we use Google Meet speakermics, which allow for full-duplex conversations, which makes conversation far more organic. That device turned Google Meet from something exhausting to something really good.

  usesthis.com

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  Google Pixel 3

  Their words

  My phone is a maxed-out Google Pixel 3, which I use for phone things: Email, reading, web browsing, messaging, music, and taking pictures

  usesthis.com

Professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego working on human-computer interaction and programming tools; creator of Python Tutor, the online code visualizer.

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  PDF Expert

  Their words

  In terms of iOS apps, I use PDF Expert, which is a great PDF reader and annotator (using Apple Pencil), Notability as a virtual whiteboard (again with Apple Pencil), Google Docs for document editing, Google Calendar, and Gmail.

  usesthis.com

Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.

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  Visual Studio Code

  Their words

  For coding, I use Visual Studio Code. I use Git for source control, Photoshop for 2D art, Audition for audio editing, Premiere for video editing, and our team coordinates on Google Docs and Skype.

  usesthis.com

Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.

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  Google Docs

  Their words

  Now, almost everything happens in Google Docs, except for when I write straight into the Axios or Substack CMS. (Both of which are lovely, WYSIWYG, very simple and easy to use.)

  usesthis.com

Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  The Algorithm Design Manual

  Their words

  To me, this book is an illustration of the power of names. Today, in the era of Google, if you know the name of something, you can find out about it with a simple search. But if you don't know of what you're looking for, it suddenly becomes much harder to find it. Having in the back of your head the names of common algorithms that help you solve problems is really powerful.

  fivebooks.com

London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.

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  Google Chrome

  Their words

  Google Chrome: What's a Web Developer without Google Chrome browser? The first thing I do with Safari is to get Google Chrome and install the latest version.

  blog.praveen.science

Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.

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  REAPER

  Their words

  I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.

  usesthis.com

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  Unity

  Their words

  I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.

  usesthis.com

Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  emacs

  Their words

  For writing code, I use emacs and Google's internal distributed build system (a version of which was open sourced as Bazel) and our version control system

  usesthis.com

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  LaTeX

  Their words

  For technical papers, I and my coauthors usually use LaTeX. For giving presentations, I almost exclusively use Google Slides.

  usesthis.com

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  Google Slides

  Their words

  For giving presentations, I almost exclusively use Google Slides.

  usesthis.com

Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

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  Site Reliability Engineering

  Their words

  A description of how Google handles operations.

  danluu.com

Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

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  Google Play Music All Access

  Their words

  These days, music makes its way to me through Google Play Music All Access a wonderful service with quite possibly the world's worst brand name.

  usesthis.com

Internet artist and programmer; makes bots and small web projects as Tiny Subversions and co-founded the Feel Train studio.

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  Nexus 5

  Their words

  I also keep a running Google Doc of every project idea that comes to mind – as such, my Nexus 5 is invaluable for jotting down notes on the fly.

  usesthis.com

Software engineer who led Google's webspam team for over a decade and later served as administrator of the United States Digital Service.

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  Pocket Casts

  Their words

  I love Pocket Casts for podcasts. It costs $3.99 but totally worth it to listen to This Week in Google and This American Life and Stephen Tobolowsky.

  usesthis.com

Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  Texpad

  Their words

  For web browsing, I use Google Chrome. As a LaTeX editor, I use Texpad.

  usesthis.com

Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  Adium

  Their words

  I use Adium for chat, because you can make it v. minimal, but Google's crippling of XMPP has made less useful and I have to use Gchat as well.

  usesthis.com

Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  Attaching advertising revenue to links changed the web for the worse, because a link stopped being an act of expression and became a transaction.

  Google

  Their words

  The web was an interesting and different place before links got monetized, but by 2007 it was clear that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links.

  The Web We Lostanildash.com

Game designer; chief creative officer at Spry Fox (Triple Town, Realm of the Mad God) and author of the Lost Garden design blog.

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  Google Spreadsheets

  Their words

  Many of our prototypes store their balancing data in Google Spreadsheets and then we can quickly tweak a value and have it published live to the game. So you get all the version control and group editing of Google Docs feeding directly into your game… this is much nicer than throwing XML files back and forth.

  usesthis.com

Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV.

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  Google Reader

  Their words

  Google Reader is my idea-sieve, though I’ve learned you have to play fast and loose with the “Mark all as read” button.

  usesthis.com

Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

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  Google Sketchup

  Their words

  For At a Distance, I made the environments in Google Sketchup, which is a super pleasant tool to use for simple models.

  usesthis.com

Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.

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  partychat

  Their words

  One of my favorite killer apps is partychat. It is an open source Jabber-based persistent chat room. It works with Google Talk and is VERY simple.

  usesthis.com

Web developer and musician; co-creator of the Django web framework, founder of EveryBlock and of the music-notation site Soundslice.

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  TextMate

  Their words

  I spend most of my day in Google Chrome, Terminal, Colloquy (IRC client) and TextMate.

  usesthis.com

Media theorist and writer; author of Program or Be Programmed and Team Human, and host of the Team Human podcast.

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  Dropbox

  Their words

  I use Dropbox for almost everything I need to store. I'm starting to do simple graphics and tables on Google Docs instead of Adobe.

  usesthis.com

Creator and first user of Slashdot, which he ran for nearly 14 years; later worked at the Washington Post's WaPo Labs. Known online as CmdrTaco.

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  Fluid

  Their words

  I create Fluid installs for each of my major web applications (Mail, Google Reader, Slashdot, Google Docs, we use Jira for bug tracking internally, etc).

  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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  Firefox

  Their words

  For everyday computer use I use Firefox for browsing (holding Google Mail and Calendar in app tabs).

  usesthis.com

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  Keynote

  Their words

  I do a lot of writing in Google Docs, my presentations in Keynote, and my blog post authoring in Textmate.

  usesthis.com

Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  Google Authenticator

  Their words

  I really love the Google Authenticator app, which is a token generator for Google's 2-factor authentication, but makes me feel very safe and high-tech every time I open it up.

  usesthis.com

Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

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  Mailplane

  Their words

  I have five different Google Mail accounts. Mailplane makes it easy to switch between these accounts and keeps my email separate from the rest of my browsing, just the way I like it.

  usesthis.com

Letterer, illustrator and type designer; creator of Daily Drop Cap and of many hand-lettered book covers and typefaces.

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  TeuxDeux

  Their words

  Google Calendar synced to iCal for scheduling projects and social events, TeuxDeux (online to-do list app) for when things get hairy.

  usesthis.com

Writer and web developer; founding editor of Lifehacker, co-creator of ThinkUp and of the todo.txt format.

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  EditPlus

  Their words

  On the Windows desktop I write and code in EditPlus; I chat using Digsby; I organize my photos with Picasa; I use Google Chrome when Firefox is being slow and bloaty

  usesthis.com

Programmer and writer; was Twitter's API lead, co-authored Programming Scala and co-founded Simple.

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  Things

  Their words

  iCal syncs up to Google Calendar for scheduling, and Things keeps track of my tasks on both my MacBook and my iPhone.

  usesthis.com