Maybe you have bought some tools, extensions, libraries, etc, or you have some active paid subscription plans on some services?
Currently, I can't think of any of my own, but I would be interested to discover recommendations on the best cost-value stuff worth paying for?
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1Password as a Password manager
Notion
I cannot live or work without this amazing app
link: notion.so/
Patreon
GitHub Sponsor
I use gitkraken for its automerge engine, easy to use and issue tracker. Also boards are nice and it's cheap.
Besides investing my money paid for Digital Ocean. The other online services are Bonsai for invoicing and contract.
Full JetBrains suite. I'd not be without them as a suite of IDEs. My blog is hosted on Ghost professional, so I pay monthly for that.
I'm sure there's probably one or two others, but at the end of the day I am happy to pay for software/tools which make my life easier. Whilst I love open source software, and the freedom which comes with it, people still need to pay bills. Not everything can be free.
I also use Webstorm and pay the yearly fee.
One of the few subscription, if not the only one, for which I have absolutely no doubts that it is worth the money. I am just more effective with their editor and the fact that you can reach out their support anytime, makes it worth it.
I have the full toolbox. I also got my employer to pay for it for the rest of the dev team. JetBrains have done alright from me over the years, and will continue to do so.
If I had to pay the full £499 a year for just me, I'd reconsider it and just go for PHPStorm alongside PyCharm Community
Indeed the full one is quite an investment. I only use Webstorm (since a couple of years), so I (aka my company 😉) pays something like 79$ a year.
I use PHPStorm just about every day. I also use DataGrip quite often, so there's two tools already. I dip in and out of PyCharm, but use it less than I would like.
I've been a customer long enough that an annual licence for toolbox for me is less than 2 licences individually, so I stick with it.
It makes fully sense 👍
Last time I used webstorm was 4 or 5 years ago. Currently, I am working with VS Code and a friend lately has been saying that I should try WebStorm and he gives me a list of features that I believe are already in VS Code. Does anyone of you know features that are not built in VS Code?
This week I saw a tweet mentioning that you can now in VS Code visualize upcoming changes before refactoring in order "to be sure that it is correct". I found it actually funny because in Webstorm, refactoring just works, period. It's really a powerful and reliable feature.
Another feature which I found better implemented in Webstorm is Git. Even if you are slick with the GitHub commands, which are seamlessly integrated, it can still helps in case of merge conflicts. The way of resolving these is pretty well handled.
Summarized: Refactoring + Git are really great in Webstorm
Of course the above answer is my humble opinion. Other might see it differently and even I might change my mind with the time. That being said, few times I tried VS Code, these two features were bringing me back to Webstorm.
Just my domains. Everything else is hosted on vercel for free.
Same - Netlify and free tier of various hosting services for the win!
Domain names are very cheap, compared to hiring a VPS.
Pricing is PER YEAR.
None. Everything should be free 🙂
There's so many open source projects for every domain of life that can help you.
I heard this phrase and it stuck with me:
But yeah, I know where you are going. There is most likely a free and OSS alternative for most stuff.
You can create your website for nothing. Just to pay the domain per year and it's good. Hosted with GitHub or other and pass into a serverless 🙌🏼
There are free domains too. Namely .la, .md and .ag
Yeah but I not recommend free NDD because isn't better for SEO 😁
Everything should be free?
One of the issues with Open source projects:
But I think it all comes down to what your time is worth :)
If I can pay 3$/ month for a todo list app I would happily do that than spend hours trying to set it up and manage it myself :)
I'm grateful to be tech literate and a proficient developer. Using open source software is quite fast and efficient in my case :-)
Alfred (though a lifetime licence, not a subscription)
GSuite (for my personal email)
Various Domains
Netflix
Jetbrains, LucidChart, Gsuite, various cloud products, github pro, gitbook.com, and testing fellow.app.
I still have a physical copy of Adobe CS6 that I refuse to let go of until it completely stops working.
SourceHut. It's still in alpha, but I really enjoy the simple and straightforward build system based on Linux shell scripting in separate stages. The pipeline definitions and secrets system are concise and allow you to pull in configurations to files at specific locations as well, which makes applying a secret for AWS or NPM CLI commands a single entry in the secrets property and you're good to go.
I'm using this primarily as a tool to automatically build and host webpages on Netlify with ease, but it allows functionality like containers (long live podman) for reproducible builds and supports various Linux and BSD distributions already.
Plus the UI is just easy to work with, most websites today feel like they're hiding things I care about in random corners of subsections in the page (I'm looking at you, GitHub, why is my Starred tab gone)
1Password
Notion
Alfred (Lifetime membership)
Discord Nitro
I started my blog pretty recently. These are the things I've paid for so far:
These are things that I plan on paying for at some point:
Skillshare is really worth subscribing to. I started with atrial and went up a 1-year subscription. It was worth it for me
What classes on there have helped you the most?
Domain + Virtual Private Server to run my projects there.
Also, I have supported several projects by donations (from the top of my head, Wikipedia and The Perl Foundation).