Ask HN: Products/Services you swear by – Dec. 2022
I've been happy using/buying products recommended in previous threads and I figured I'd get another one started for the end of the year.
So HN: what are some items you bought or services you've started using (could be paid apps, OSS projects, etc.) this year that you swear by?
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 134 ms ] threadIt’s the streaming service I use the most. Easy to do a 10 minute workout from my desk between meetings. Generally good software and hardware quality. Interesting new products like lanebreak, peloton guide, etc.
Sent from my Librem 5.
The thing that kills is for me is the lack of NFC. I haven't carried a wallet / cards with me since about 2018 and I'm not super eager to go back.
You can either roll your own PG + API + other goodies, or you can spend $20+ / month on AWS, or use Supabase for free. They did a cool market segmentation - ratchet their pricing down one level. What AWS charges $25 for, Supabase is free. Where AWS is around $100, supabase is $25. Etc.
I swear to Havaianas I've never met her before
With Amazon Prime as my witness I'll pay you back
If you're ever in Australia, don't forget to ask for a "Golden Gaytime". ;)
Also got my first robot vacuum to test the waters, so didn't want to go all in. Got a Eufy LR20 on sale. It's not perfect, but wow was I wrong. I always thought robot vacs were gimmicky, but this thing saves us so much time sweeping and vacuuming.
I use it for infinite throwaway addresses which won't get put on a blacklist because I'm the only one using that domain.
Anyway send me mail at (anything) at poggers.website
> With free email forwarding, get up to 100 alias email addresses with your domain. Design as many sites as you need with up to 100 sub-domains.
So not infinite, but up to 100. Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
I don't use aliases but instead a catch-all email, and the web UI knows to respond to emails with the correct catch-all email, so you don't have to set your From address manually. Very handy.
Github’s Copilot labs is also doing some cool stuff with their code explaining and refactoring tools. I don’t use them much yet but I’m sure they’ll continue to improve.
NopCommerce is an amazing free platform. I've worked with a few web frameworks in the past but not with ASP.net (the framework Nop is built on). Nop is a really nice platform. The speed is incredible and figuring out how the code works is intuitive. Almost everything you need for an online store is there out of the box, or available as a plugin. Writing your own plugins is easy.
- icloud... on windows. Cloud drive works well, chrome plugin for passwords works well, and all Of the webapps were recently updated and work good enough there’s no annoyance for an apple person to have a windows machine too.
- Barrier for using one keyboard and mouse with multiple systems with different OSs.
It's not cordless/battery power but rather uses usb-c power delivery directly. It's up to 60W on "normal" usb-c, but supports up to 88W with newer usb-c standards your charger probably doesn't support. I think even higher if you really want to push it. Even using it at 45W with a usb-c battery pack, it heats up in a few seconds. And since it has an OLED screen, you can understand what power it's getting with your battery pack and change settings like temperature and idle temperature easily.
It's also based on RISC-V and you can get a $4 breakout board to turn it into a dev kit.
Finally, it's $26. Don't forget to add a high-temp silicon cable ($3.50) and extra tips (4 for $25). I'm so excited just writing about this I think I am going to buy 5 or so as go-to gifts for nerdy people.
I have a Hakko 888 as well and while I like it, there's a bit of a set up as I'm limited on space. So when you said it's as good as your Hakko, you sold me on it.
https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim (Fuzzy finder plugin that uses ripgrep and fzf)
https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide Smart replacement for `cd`
https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka My favourite font for coding, it's width lets me fit more text on the screen
cd ../../../<dir> or whatever
Or are you saying you can skip a greater portion of the path?
If there are more than one you either repeat the command to go to the next match, or can do `zi sup` and it will give you the results in an fzf picker to just pick the right one
- Sublime Text.
- Proton Mail. Its good, its secure, and its gdpr compliant.
- Sublime Text
- Proxmox
- wasabi s3
Freet, a UK maker. Wholesome (according to my taste). So good for my feet. Have been wearing only these and Skinners for around five years now. Cannot imagine going back to thick-sole, narrow, heel-having shoes.
Skinners, barefoot shoe-sock. The most barefoot experience without actually going barefoot. Have been regularly wearing these for three years, my main outdoorsy shoe (with a waterproof sock when might get wet). Ran ~240km in these this summer, mostly on paved roads, and they're still fine.
- Glider is the best HN client you can find on Android that is also open sourced and on F-droid
- Proton has amazing VPN, mail, and cloud storage services that are still a bit lackluster in features when it comes to applications (Linux VPN GUI is bad, no cloud storage app or sync) but very capable, affordable, and promising for the future
- Wikipedia. I don't know if this fits exactly, but it has been so useful not only to me in research and studying, but also to voice assistants, web browsers, documentarians, students and countless others.
Obsidian app-I pay for the monthly subscription even though it'd be pretty straightforward (I think?) to self host just to support development. I do the same thing with Bitwarden.
- Tokyo powder industries' climbing chalk, i tried many climbing chalks this is the one that works for me. i use it for indoors, outdoor, training and performing! the only time i do not use this chalk is during hangboarding at home to avoid making a mess.
- The clever dripper, i finally gave away my V60, the clever dripper constantly produces decent coffee.
- DataDog, my teams services are written in Scala, we use DD's JVM agent and we get lots of integrations for free (JVM metrics, tarcing for http calls, tracing for DB queries...) and we push our own metrics.
- my Iphone 10 (now 13 mini) & Macbook pro 2015, Super happy about the quality & the constant OS updates, but i miss a proper package manager like APT from Debian, i cannot seem to trust homebrew's reliability :(
- retropie
- Sonos arc and sub
BitWarden. Every time someone asks about password managers, the answer is always BitWarden or KeePass.
My answer is no different. I have been very happy with it. And the secure notes feature is nice.
MOLLE. This is the military webbing soldiers use that makes their packs modular. My SOG ninja backpack is only $35. lacks a laptop compartment, but a standalone sleeve fixes that.
The pouches are cool, but what really sells the system is putting an extra water bottle holder, or a carabiner attachment with Grimlocs that can then hold a bag for extra shoes, a keychain solar flashlight, or a towel case so it's out and can dry.
(By the way, I would NOT recommend a solar backpack for any reason unless you really like walking in direct sun all day. They cost a fortune, weight a lot, have stuff to break, and MOLLE lets you carabiner on a folding solar charger if you really want.)
YoLink temperature sensors. If you think you have an area where pipes might freeze, don't wait till they do, watch them with a sensor of your choice. Or maybe wait for a Matter compliant one.
A pourover coffee maker. The filter catches the cholesterol raising stuff, the process is focused and relaxing and a break from the screens, coffee makes you live longer, and it tastes better than keurig or instant.
One of the few analog functional items I actually use and recommend.
Plano molding plastic ammo boxes. Put all your stuff for one project in them, put them in a cube shelf organizer by your shoes, and getting ready to go somewhere for a project is so easy! If you can't fit all your stuff, then you know it's time to reassess how much stuff you need to take there.
They're cheap enough to have a bunch and dedicate them to different activities.
Kind of an odd one since I just now learned of their existence and have not personally tried them yet(They haven't come in the mail), but I can't just not share this one.
Uni-ball Power Tank pens.
Currently, I use a Rite in the Rain pressurized pen, but reviews say the uni-ball ones are just as good, but in a disposable form factor, for $16 per 10 pack.
Pressurized pens are amazing. Nothing else stands up to being left to sit around unused quite like that. Having them available cheaply makes them the perfect pen for occasional users. I just wish I had known about them sooner, since I know so many people who would appreciate a few for Christmas.
-Raindrop.io
-Gitpod
I’m a tool junkie, but those three are the only ones I’d swear by.