Recommend subs/products for hacker/developer? (Proton Mail, Kagi etc.)

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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......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).

davidjhall · Accepted Answer

*Fair warning -- I LOVE Obsidian.md ; not an evangelist, per se, but it's a great tool.
Free and practically future-proof ( all markdown; some extra flavor markdown but that's optional, extensions anyone can build in javascript )
Macros that help me do redundant things with a keystroke, a calendar that automatically populates with my custom template when I click on the date ( could set it to do it when I log in every day but not always in My-Day mode.)
I pay for replication because it supports the devs -- you can customize replication yourself with existent tools --- dropbox, syncthing, etc.
If you're an author, there are tools that make it more Scrivener-like. If you're a TTRPG player, there's tutorials on importing rules, rolling dice and autogenerating from tables, etc.
Anyway, I thoroughly recommend

purple-leafy · Answer

Obsidian is something I just thought of. Could be good for someone like me? I currently just take notes on Apple Notes, but need something "better" but not "over the top" to get going in.I want to remember "how to program" and "why I did this" etc.

solardev · Answer

Unreal Engine is free with a huge ecosystem to learn from.Jetbrains IDEs are worth every dollar.

ismailsevik · Answer

There is Titan Email.

Recommend subs/products for hacker/developer? (Proton Mail, Kagi etc.)

Obsidian is something I just thought of. Could be good for someone like me? I currently just take notes on Apple Notes, but need something "better" but not "over the top" to get going in.
I want to remember "how to program" and "why I did this" etc.

Unreal Engine is free with a huge ecosystem to learn from.
Jetbrains IDEs are worth every dollar.

There is Titan Email.