Subscriptions and Services
Recommendations.
These are some of the subscriptions & services I use(d), and recommend.
Domains & Websites
- Domain Registrar: Cloudflare / Namecheap / Porkbun / dynadot
- DNS Nameservers: Cloudflare 1
- Monitoring: UptimeRobot
- URL Shortener: Short.io
- Static Site Hosting: Cloudflare Pages
- Website Performance Analysis: PageSpeed Insights
- SSH Tunnels: Serveo
Privacy & Security
- DNS Pi-hole: NextDNS
- Search: DuckDuckGo / Brave Search
- Password Manager: Bitwarden
- Authenticator: Duo
- Private Web Analytics: GoatCounter
Mass Media
- Podcasts: Overcast / Apple Podcasts
- News: The Economist / ThePrint (for India)
Personal Management & Productivity
- Email / Calendar / Contacts: Fastmail
- Storage: Mega / iCloud Drive 2
- Wine Tracker: Vivino
- Book Tracker: LibraryThing
- PDF Reader: Documents by Readdle (iOS)
- Workouts: Darebee
Misc. Tools
- Research Papers: Semantic Scholar / Internet Archive Scholar
- Editor: Texpad 3 / Overleaf
- Bibliography Cleaner: Rebiber / BibTeX Tidy
- Color Palettes: Coolors / Colormind / TailwindInk
- Rich Media Embeds: iFramely
- QR Code Generator: Free QR Code Generator
- Guitar Lessons: Justin Guitar
- Drinks: Drinkify
- Music Theory: muted.io
- SVG Icons: Iconbuddy / StreamlineHQ Freebies
- Miles/Rewards: Points411
- Fonts: Fontsource / Bunny Fonts / Fontshare
- Semantic Annotations: Wikifier
Footnotes
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DNS proxied through Cloudflare also provides free SSL certificates! ↩
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iCloud Drive is not really end-to-end encrypted, and by the nature of Apple services, any trouble with one service can lead to suspension of the whole account. ↩
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TexpadTeX (Texpad’s distribution) provides near realtime incremental compilation. I prefer it to Overleaf since most significant writing happens before collaboration. Most popular packages are supported. ↩