Recommendations
Websites:
News:
Blogs/Comics:
Misc
Chuck Dries - Very cool example of a personal website
Sara Adkins - Incredible artist bringing together music and technology
Products
Klean Kanteen or S'well water bottles (buy B Corps wherever you can!)
Stasher reusable silicone bags
Smooth Photo Scanning Services
Apps/Plugins
This will be a bit lengthy but there is a lot of software I feel passionate about supporting
asterisk* indictates free and open source (FOSS)
Tools
Snapdrop* - like AirDrop but for any computer
ShareX* - The best screenshot program
OBS* - The best screen recording program
Bitwarden* - Open source password manager
Exif Cleaner* - Strips image data away to stay secure before posting things online
7-Zip* - Open source zip program
WizTree - Breaks down your storage in a visual way, useful for quickly identifying and removing bloat
Everything - Quick search for windows
Recycle Coach
Proton (VPN, mail, etc.)
Ear Trumpet - Windows app to easily control volume of indiv
ClickMonitorDDC - Allows you to sync brightness of multiple display setups easily
Creative
Reaper - A (kinda) free powerful DAW
DaVinci Resolve - A free and extremely versatile video editor (Shotcut is FOSS, need to into it)
GIMP* - Open source photoshop
InkScape* - Open source illustrator
Subtitle Edit* - Very niche but great at what it does
Rainmeter* - Great customization tools
Firefox* - Chormium is a good web core, but competition should always be supported (sorry Brave)
Obsidian
Visual Studio Code
Signal