Subscriptions and Services

These are some of the subscriptions & services I use(d), and recommend.

Domains & Websites

• Domain Registrar: Cloudflare / Namecheap / Gandi.net
• DNS Nameservers: Cloudflare ¹
• Monitoring: UptimeRobot
• URL Shortener: Short.io
• Static Site Hosting: Vercel / Netlify
• Website Performance Analysis: GTmetrix

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
• $\LaTeX$ 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

Footnotes

1. DNS proxied through Cloudflare also provides free SSL certificates! ↩

2. 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. ↩

3. TexpadTeX (Texpad's $\LaTeX$ distribution) provides near realtime incremental compilation. I prefer it to Overleaf since most significant writing happens before collaboration. Most popular packages are supported. ↩