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Once a week: 5 things worth your time, not your feed. No noise, unsubscribe anytime.
1 story, 1 idea, 1 discovery, 1 tool, 1 book.
List your monthly subscriptions and see what they really add up to over a year.
Monthly total
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Annual total
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This is a simple sum of the amounts entered — review it regularly, since subscription prices tend to creep up over time.
This tool gathers all your monthly subscriptions, from streaming and music to apps and software, into one list to show what they cost together. People who think "it's only a little each month" are often surprised by the yearly total. It also flags the single most expensive subscription, helping you decide what to cut first.
You enter a name and a monthly price for each subscription in a multi-row list. The tool ignores rows with a zero price, adds up the rest to get the monthly total, and multiplies by 12 for the annual total. It then compares the prices and highlights the one with the highest monthly cost, showing its name and amount. The name is optional; without one it appears as unnamed.
Suppose you pay $15.99 for video streaming, $10.99 for music, $2.99 for cloud storage, and $4.99 for a reading app. The monthly sum is $34.96 and the annual total comes to $419.52. The most expensive one is the video service at $15.99 per month.
This is a plain sum of the amounts you type. It does not account for price hikes, promotions, extra taxes, or discounted annual plans. Subscription prices tend to rise over time, so review your list every so often.
An Alexa-compatible smart speaker brings voice controls into a room. A practical category guide to help compare options before choosing a specific listing.
A streaming stick adds app-based video playback to a compatible television. A practical category guide to help compare options before choosing a specific listing.
A basic activity watch can put steps and daily reminders on the wrist. A practical category guide to help compare options before choosing a specific listing.
A portable speaker brings wireless audio to different spaces. A practical category guide to help compare options before choosing a specific listing.
Andrew Hunt and David Thomas's book of practical advice on craft, tooling and attitude for professional programmers.
Frederick Brooks's essays on managing software projects, drawn from his experience leading the IBM System/360 operating system effort.
Martin Kleppmann's guide to how databases, replication, transactions, and batch and stream processing actually work under the hood.
Entendendo algoritmos, by Aditya Y. Bhargava: a technology and computing book in a Portuguese-language edition; check the edition before buying.
Digital infrastructure increasingly sits beneath ordinary life and becomes visible when it fails.
You do not need to replace an entire home network to begin. A phone, comparable tests and small placement changes can reveal the weakest points. First find where the weakness occurs, then choose the least complicated change that addresses it.
A sensible security strategy protects identity, money and files without making ordinary tasks impossible. The key is identifying relevant threats and applying appropriate layers of protection. Security is a continuing process of prevention, detection and recovery, not permanent immunity.