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Ask HN: What subscription services are worth paying for IT professional
O'Reilly seems expensive
Educative?
Coursera?
Brilliant?
- dinom 4y agoDomain name[s] and a decent/minimal host that doesn't blackhole port 25 egress.
- ocbyc 4y agoNavicat, SecureCRT, and Jet Brains.
- Something1234 4y agoWhat do you see in SecureCRT over something like MobaXTerm or Putty?
- ocbyc 4y agoI like the window tiling and speed of SecureCRT.
- ah88 4y agoJetBrains, O’Reilly subscription
- DMell 4y agoJetBrains
- Havoc 4y agoThe Microsoft action pack may be worth consider. Comes with significantly more azure credits than it costs and has various software included too ( with some usage restrictions )
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y agoThe downside to discounted Microsoft software is that it's Microsoft software. Ignoring the security ramifications of same, should a startup begin life with such a ball-and-chain?
- Havoc 4y agoAzure can run Linux VMs just fine...
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y agoAzure platform security is terrible. https://www.wiz.io/blog/omigod-critical-vulnerabilities-in-omi-azure https://www.wiz.io/blog/omigod-critical-vulnerabilities-in-o... https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-explained-azures-cosmos-db-vulnerability-walkthrough https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-explained-azures-cosmos-db-v... https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-discovers-extrareplica-cross-account-database-vulnerability-in-azure-postgresql https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-discovers-extrareplica-...
- solardev 4y agoJetbrains, hosted email and calendar, health insurance, Netflix sometimes. But mostly Jetbrains.
- nkotov 4y agoHosting (both websites and VMs to run services on), domain names, and Office 365.
- firstSpeaker 4y agohttps://pragmaticengineer.com/ https://pragmaticengineer.com/ newsletter for me was a fun investment. another thing that I do, which is not a subscription for products, is putting money into opensource projects that I use. E.g. the terminal emulator, cli tools and some such. If they have patron or something I try and sign up or send one time sums.
- mellowagain 4y agoThis may be an unusual recommendation but a music subscription service such as Spotify, Tidal or Apple Music. Music helps me personally to be way more productive when working on IT problems.
- millzlane 4y agoLinked in learning is only $26.99 a month if you pay annually. If you have a university email try logging into O'Reilly with it. It it works for me.
- Phrenzy 4y agoI get into LinkedIn Learning via my library card. You might be able to as well.
- adamhp 4y ago1Password or any other password management application.
- grillermo 4y agoSetapp, I get so much value out of the software available there each month. Im saving hundreds of dollars per year.
- speedgoose 4y agoGitHub Copilot. https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/ https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-c...
- solardev 4y agoHow has your experience with it been? When I tried it a few months ago, it was a cool novelty, but over time I found that it helped me with the simplest use cases, but often messed up in subtle ways for more complex code -- i.e., it would produce code that looked right and worked, but had really subtle bugs. Not sure if I was using it wrong, or if it's getting better... definitely has promise, but is it ready for production use yet?
- speedgoose 4y agoI tend to avoid writing complex code in production for various reasons. Of course if I ask copilot to write an new complex algorithm using my unique data structures in one try, it will not generate perfect code. But usually I try to go slowly line by line in these cases. Copilot shines to write the boring easy code and help you line by line, but it’s not there yet for advanced unassisted programming.
- seized 4y agoPretty general but Todoist. I'd be a disorganized mess without it.
- mmh0000 4y agoI'm a tightwad, so for me to pay a recurring fee, the software must continually improve or provide immense value to my life. To that end, here's what I pay for ordered most favorite to least: Cronometer - https://cronometer.com/ https://cronometer.com/ BitWarden - https://bitwarden.com/ https://bitwarden.com/ FastMail - https://www.fastmail.com/ https://www.fastmail.com/ Grammarly - https://grammarly.com/ https://grammarly.com/ Raindrop - https://raindrop.io/ https://raindrop.io/ Adobe Photoshop, but not for photoshop, but for image hosting. If I decide to trim my budget, Photoshop is going first. But raindrop is a close second. It's really expensive for what it does, but it is so far the best way I've found to keep bookmarks sorted between multiple Linux, iOS, and Windows machines.
- solardev 4y agoWhat do you like about Cronometer over other calorie trackers? Looking for a similar thing myself... Also Bitwarden, why that instead of 1password or Lastpass or anything else?
- n_ary 4y ago> Also Bitwarden, why that instead of 1password or Lastpass or anything else? Disclaimer: Not Op. Entirely my personal experience, not affiliated with any of these. Being a long-time user of Lastpass, their browser-extension is resource heavy and the clients are immensely clunky. 1Password has neat UI but suffers clunkiness of Lastpass. Bitwarden is light-weight(client, extension, mobile app), does everything well, has most of the features of other two and very cheap($10/year). Their UI is not the prettiest, but UX is superb.
- mmh0000 4y agoI haven't used other trackers, so I can't compare them there. I love that Cronometer has a paid option that kills ads. They're constantly improving their database of foods. The app works on Android/iOS, and a web app works everywhere else. And it intregrates nicely with Apple health (and other similar things). I have been using Cronometer for four years now; between tracking what I eat and getting regular bloodwork done to test vitamin/mineral levels, I am living a much healthier life than I used to.
- spodletela 4y agoNo subscriptions, but I do buy upgrades. - I buy Udemy courses when they are on sale. - JetBrains (Annual) - MobaXTerm (Annual) - Synergy (Once) - Beyond Compare (Once) - Total commander (Once) - LinqPad (Major Upgrades) - The Bat (Major Upgrades) - Ashampoo Office (Much cheaper than MS Office)
- n_ary 4y agoThe usual ones: - Jetbrains [1] - Bitwarden - Migadu (Email) - Porkbun (domain) - AWS (Hobby Projects) That is all I can think of. Had netflix for a while, but didn’t feel the need, so stopped. [1] Subsidised by employer. [ Edit: Formatting ]
- kkirsche 4y agoI wouldn’t say any are worth it inherently. There are a lot of good subscription services but what matters most is your tech stack, habits and needs. For example, I haven’t found the per-language focused IDE approach of JetBrains to fit well with the multi-language architectures I commonly work on, and while I’ll watch Pluralsight courses I find I don’t read as much O’Reilly content even though it’s often something I get more out of. End of the day, identify what you want to take away from things and focus on optimizing for your own mannerisms.