Hey HN.
I'm an early-career developer. I'm looking for free, or paid products, that can improve my life in some way based on context - they don't have to just be digital!
I currently pay for the following products:
- Proton Mail (Unlimited): Email, Passwords, VPN, Storage, Calendar ... replaces Google suite.
- Kagi (Unlimited): Search Engine, replaces Google Search.
- GitHub Copilot (Solo): Okay for coding.
- Anthropic Claude (AI/LLM): Just to bounce ideas around and help me with UI design mockups.
- Chrome developer account ($5): So I can make Chrome extensions.
- Spotify (music): Its okay, doesn't have some stuff I want (Roky Erickson etc - seriously check out "Roky Erickson - The Evil One (Album)" on YouTube if you haven't before, and enjoy Old Rock)
- Steam (games): Fallout 4 etc.
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CONTEXT
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I'm quite private, but not reclusive, I don't have social media or read the news, I own a "dumb" flip-phone, I basically only use this site for my world and tech news. Hence Proton Mail, Kagi, and staying off socials? I like privacy and security tools, and information management tools. Should I try Obsidian???
I'm roughly 3 years into a dev career (young-ish). Mostly doing frontend with the usual suspects (React, TypeScript), but trying to break into C#/.NET commercially. I've been exploring C in my spare time, and want to try low-level Graphics Programming (C or C++). I like paying for technical courses and books, papers etc (though free is even better).
I'm an early-career developer. I'm looking for free, or paid products, that can improve my life in some way based on context - they don't have to just be digital!
I currently pay for the following products:
- Proton Mail (Unlimited): Email, Passwords, VPN, Storage, Calendar ... replaces Google suite.
- Kagi (Unlimited): Search Engine, replaces Google Search.
- GitHub Copilot (Solo): Okay for coding.
- Anthropic Claude (AI/LLM): Just to bounce ideas around and help me with UI design mockups.
- Chrome developer account ($5): So I can make Chrome extensions.
- Spotify (music): Its okay, doesn't have some stuff I want (Roky Erickson etc - seriously check out "Roky Erickson - The Evil One (Album)" on YouTube if you haven't before, and enjoy Old Rock)
- Steam (games): Fallout 4 etc.
.....
CONTEXT
_______
I'm quite private, but not reclusive, I don't have social media or read the news, I own a "dumb" flip-phone, I basically only use this site for my world and tech news. Hence Proton Mail, Kagi, and staying off socials? I like privacy and security tools, and information management tools. Should I try Obsidian???
I'm roughly 3 years into a dev career (young-ish). Mostly doing frontend with the usual suspects (React, TypeScript), but trying to break into C#/.NET commercially. I've been exploring C in my spare time, and want to try low-level Graphics Programming (C or C++). I like paying for technical courses and books, papers etc (though free is even better).