Web Development:
- ProxyMan - https://proxyman.io/ — web debugging proxy (30% off the first year)
- Tower - https://www.git-tower.com/ — powerful Git Client (50% off the first year)
- DevUtils - https://devutils.com/ — set of small developer tools (50% off)
For overall productivity:
- BetterTouchTool - https://folivora.ai/ — customize input devices (50% off)
- Trickster - https://www.apparentsoft.com/trickster — handy to access recent files (50% off)
For images/screen capturing:
- Affinity Suite - https://affinity.serif.com/ — (40% off for the Universal License)
A great alternative to Adobe's suite. Version 2 is fresh from the oven. Affinity Photo = Photoshop, Affinity Designer = Illustrator, Affinity Publisher = InDesign. The Universal License includes Mac, Windows, and iPadOS apps.
- Xnapper - https://xnapper.com — Screenshot tool (50% off)
- ScreenFlow - https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm — Screencast tool (20% off)
Would like to add a few other Mac apps that I like:
DEVONthink — https://devontechnologies.com — is a fantastic Mac app for organizing documents. It's a desktop Evernote replacement for me. (25% off)
Cashculator - https://cashculator.app - Personal finance with a focus on planning and "what-if" scenarios. Like a spreadsheet. (50%, no subscription).
And there's tons of other use cases (which I don't use), including gestures, controlling gestures, trackpads, MIDI settings, Elgato StreamDeck, and more.
- ShellHistory (SQLite backend for local shell history, full text search, notebooks and sync via iCloud) 50% off - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shellhistory/id1564015476
- OpenIn (File, Link handler for macOS), V4 (Ventura only) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openin-4-advanced-link-handler..., V3 (Big Sur+) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openin/id1547147101 - 50% off as well
· Thundercontent AI Writer (140+ languages, 20+ tools, based on GPT-3) : $7/ month (usually $49/month)-- https://thundercontent.com
· Article.Audio (Convert articles to audio with AI): $39 Lifetime deal (usually $19/month) -- https://article.audio
If you have ProxyMan you can renew with the discount, too.
This is a really nice piece of tech that has helped me to work outside the house with peace of mind. Can keep my phone charged (which I use for tethering) for over a week, no problem. Drains way quicker when charging my M1, but that one has far less battery issues when compared to my phone.
The discount is real, as well. I know because I bought it recently, but you can also check it against camelcamelcamel or keepa.
Just mind the size because they are quite a bit chunkier than average power packs.
edit: I’ve bought a few of these as gifts. I *strongly* prefer the ones with a molded softshell case to manage the jumpers. I haven’t found any from a well-known brand that weren’t just re-badged noname products with a big mark up. Project Farm on YouTube has some of the best product reviews out there, it looks like he’s done a bit of a bake off, might be worth your while watching if you’re looking at these.
The future is pretty cool.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/black-friday-amazon-noco-jumps...
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerCore-Portable-Charger-Micr...
It's a simplified video editor that removes pauses and dead air, and creates a cut list you can then import into a "real" editor.
Saves a bunch of time if you're doing talking-head videos, vlogging, podcasts, screencasts... the sorts of content where the first step of editing is to chop out the long pauses and mistakes. I originally built it because I was doing screencasts and wanted the process to go faster :D
Companies release products 6-12 months in advance. On the day of their release they are at their most valuable. Every day that goes by they slowly lose a little bit of desirability. For practicality, and human marketing reasons, companies do not adjust their prices every day to reflect the reduction in demand. Instead they gather all the erosion into one big clump and release it in a frenzy on Black Friday.
So are there "deals" on Black Friday? Not really, in the sense that you are buying a product that is of truly lower value. At the same time, many people don't care about the newness of various products, so are happy to trade that time for money in their pocket. In short, Black Friday is about segmentation than it is "deals". It's a way to charge the most eager top dollar at the beginning of the curve, while also cashing in later with the rest at the end of the product lifecycle.
Thank you.
Beyond that, you can also look for any retailer selling gift cards at a discount. Given that gift cards spend at their face value, you know for certain the discount is a real discount.
So do you know any great deals for today?
Just mind blowing to me when we have FOSS software like ShareX which pretty much does the same and more https://getsharex.com/
I wonder if marketers ever think about how black friday sales annoy customers.
https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-egpus/Razer-Core-X/RC21-0...
E: Thanks for all the replies. I have a XPS 15 that was, maybe 5 years ago occasionally reliable for playing Doom 2014 at 1080p for half an hour before the gpu would shut itself down, maybe I could have benefited from one of these + a desktop GPU...
The GPU equivalent of an external hard drive.
If that doesn't work, and since it's just PCIe, I wanna try experimenting with setting up 10 Gigabit fiber to a home server.
That said I'm not sure if this is a Black Friday deal or a permanent reduction to be price-competitive with Intel Raptor Lake.
The first: I bought "unlimited" worldwide maps from Osmand, which I use a TON for offline maps when I bike. It's $9.99 for unlimited worldwide offline map downloads right now. Great deal if you'd like to move away from Google Maps for navigation (not so great for business search, but it's slowly getting there!)
The second: not actually a Black Friday deal, but I recently switched to https://purelymail.com/ for email. It's a one-man show, significantly cheaper than the competition because... it's not bootstrapping some massive startup or running off VC capital. If you just want IMAP for desktop/mobile for cheap, but can't self-host because Google will throw all of your emails into spam, this is a great option. $10/year or less estimated cost. And it's fully encrypted on their servers, not used for advertising, pretty much exactly what you want if you JUST want mail.
Oh, and the Gigabyte M28U 144hz 4k 28" monitor that I use is now down to an all-time-low cost of $450. If you're looking for a beautiful monitor for your home office, this is it.
I wish we had better words to describe encryption and the specific tradeoffs of each approach. I did not know purelymail, but knowing IMAP I had a gut feeling that things were a bit more complicated than a blanket "fully encrypted on their servers".
Sure enough, reading between the lines of their documentation they can pretty much decrypt any email on an account by just using the password given by the client when connecting to their IMAP server. Since most clients either connect regularly to fetch emails or maintain a long-lived connection to the server, they can pretty much decrypt anything, any time. So it's back to trusting them just like it emails were stored in plain text.
I don't want to pick on this small player, I applaud their effort in pushing email forward, but I have enough with companies using encryption to handwave security concerns. A big example of that is Apple iCloud.
It would be nice to see a lot of competing small-fry players innovating in the email space. In an ideal world, I could just shop around between mail providers with my domain and pick whichever option provides the best price:features ratio for my needs. I was pretty keen on Proton for a while but they're diving deep in the VPN space, and their approach to encryption makes it nearly impossible to use them with simple mail apps like K9 and Apple Mail.
Much like the browser space, it's not healthy for Google to run a near-monopoly of email. We need a healthy number of alternatives out there so they can't push consumer unfriendly standards and creep more and more advertising into their email product.
> the Gigabyte M28U 144hz 4k 28" monitor that I use
How is the brightness when set to minimum? I have an LG that with brightness set to 0 is too bright to use in the evening (compared to my laptop screen, for example, where brightness 0 is very dim, hardly visible, as it should be)
Thanks
FYI: even now, monitors aren't necessarily shipping with the latest firmware. They've improved response times significantly since the early firmware, so it's likely worth your while to update the firmware when you get the monitor. Sadly you need a Windows computer to update the firmware -- if you manage to run the updater via Wine, let me know!
Like, are you growing crops at home? Or just curious about hyper-local weather over time?
And for people in rural areas that are not near other weather sensors, or areas that may not have regular internet connectivity or frequent outages (and coastal areas subject to storms and high winds). And of course weather nerds and sensor nerds, because those MQTT databases won't fill themselves.
Also, there is no vaguely-accurate local weather station for our place (internet services report wind speeds and temps that are routinely off by 20% / 10 degrees F, and rainfall that is off by 5x)
I have mine feeding to Ambient Weather, but also a custom API endpoint that feeds the data into a local database, so I can use my own software/scripts to do as I please without having to make external API calls.
I've been looking for a station to integrate into my home automation system.
$312.07 + $5.54 shipping on Amazon.ca
Keyboards and trackpads are generally tolerable (so, 75th percentile or so).
I wish they'd make windows ARM laptops with less locked down (than Chromebook) BIOSes (that would also run Linux), but windows on arm is perpetually non-viable.
The pine book pro is also a decent choice for a cheap Linux laptop.
Not Black Friday, but in the UK and maybe other countries, Amazon Warehouse is currently doing a 20% off sale, so 20% off the price when you get to checkout.
I've had a few good "As New" things off there in the past, worth having a look.
There's also a 50% off books sale on the UK Warehouse, loads of tech books, though I don't know how many decent ones are left.
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Specific Black Friday deals though: Quest Apps on sale:
https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/15301901340...
I like what Tutanota does instead: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/black-friday-hype
I really like their service and their attitude towards Black Friday makes me like them even more.
Also...that goes till end Dec.
So might make sense to wait for people returning all their BF crap
https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/?ld=ASXXSPAPIDirect...
It's also used as a commercial device by companies directly nowadays but the good deals there are usually worth checking out.
I considered the newer version but the reviews made it seem like it wasn't a huge upgrade and in some ways a downgrade, like the newer version doesn't fold to a smaller size.
I use my headphones very often in conference calls and the XM5s have excellent microphones compared to their predecessors. Side note: before, I have tested the Bose QC45 but those microphones are absolutely garbage. Sad, because the QC35 microphones were good.
I don’t mind that the XM5s don’t fold anymore. In a way I like the new design better compared to my wife’s XM3s.
The coupon code is on their blog.
Who knows, they might ship to your location?
The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition your journey to mastery (Indian B&W Edition)
Where? I found it listed on the rOtring site (https://www.rotring.com/pens-pencils/pencils/rotring-800/SAP...), but they don't clearly give any option to buy that I can see.
That said, I was unable to resist myself and bought four to gift to my direct reports this holiday season, so, thank you OP!
If you like:
- learning from real industry experts
- learning in small cohorts
- having live lectures
- working on real-world projects each week on order to finish the course
Check out corise.com [1]
Yearly subscription for unlimited courses is down to $750 from $1000 and you get a single course for free as a gift to someone.
[1] https://corise.com?utm_source=HN
Edit:
We also occasionally run 100% free courses for 1000+ students (also broken down in smaller pods), for those you just need to apply by filling out the form:
https://corise.com/course/python-for-data-science?utm_source...
M1 Airs are 800 and great for your lower tech relatives.
Where are you finding them? Apple themselves do not seem to have any such discount.
Otherwise, there is a huge chance to buy something you don't actually need, just because it's a good deal. Then it will be a good deal for the seller :)
Asus TUF F15 at B&H: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1702433-REG/asus_fx50...
Acer Predator Helios at Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-predator-helios-300-15-6-f...
They're really almost identical; I ended up buying the TUF (which has since gone up but only by $20) because it had a larger SSD. I'm sure somebody else can do better - please comment here if you do! - but this seems to set a pretty good benchmark.
My experience with these low-end gaming laptops is that the screens are low quality. You might buy her an external monitor and a wireless keyboard + mouse so she can use it in clamshell mode.
But those are fantastic deals -- kind of jealous actually. Last year I paid ~$1,400 on Black Friday for an MSI GE76 Raider 11UE that has these specs:
> 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, 17.3" FHD 144 Hz, i7-11800H (11th Gen), RTX 3060
There's a few regional equivalents as well. I know of
r/bapcsalescanada
r/bapcsalesuk
r/BaPCSalesEurope
r/bapcsalesaustralia
r/bapcsalesgermany
Another already affordable VPS provider, Contabo, also seems to have nice deals: https://contabo.com/en/ (they expire in an hour at the time of writing)
The Namecheap domain registrar that also offers e-mail and other stuff has some ongoing deals: https://www.namecheap.com/domain-web-hosting-ssl-deals/black...
Fitbod Elite - Workout tracking/planning - 40% off - 47.99 annually - I was paying 12.99$ a month!!!
Plex Pass Lifetime - 25% off - 90$ once - Regular $120
I have used YNAB for budgeting for years. I wish I could find a discount on that. Still keeping an eye out for any other similarly useful deals on stuff I already pay for.
It can help you write anything: from a cold email to a Facebook Ad to a blog post...
It has super affordable and generous Black Friday deals:
-> One-time $6.99 for 200 credits
-> One-time $11.99 for 300 credits + 25 FREE
-> One time $16.99 450 credits + 50 FREE
- Laracasts - https://laracasts.com - Screencasts for modern developer, 45% off
- DevUtils - https://devutils.com/ — set of small developer tools, 50% off
- 20% off https://getimg.ai (text-to-image and AI editor) monthly subscription for 3 months
I've also collected deals from other indie creators, publishers, etc on my blog (https://learnbyexample.github.io/programming-deals-2022/). Some highlights:
* Python books by Michael Driscoll - https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2022/11/22/python-black-f...
* Python Morsels - https://www.pythonmorsels.com/pricing/
* Boost Your Django DX - https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/byddx and Speed Up Your Django Tests - https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/suydt
* Python, Git, and Pandas courses - https://twitter.com/reuvenmlerner/status/1595402066213601280
* Practical Guide to Technical Blogging - https://bhavaniravi.gumroad.com/l/technical-blogging/WRITELI...
* Complete Guide to CSS Flex and Grid - https://shrutibalasa.gumroad.com/l/css-flex-and-grid/BlackFr...
* Explain Ideas Visually - https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis/status/1595743978531348480
* Leanpub Monthly Sale - https://mailchi.mp/leanpub/monthly-sale-2022-november-black-...
* Infosec - https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday
It allows you to send multiple types of content to your Kindle: Reddit posts, Hacker News discussions, Twitter threads & newsletters. It supports multiple file types too: PDF, DOCX, markdown etc.
That being said, I grabbed a lifetime Laracasts subscription for $219 - about 2 years of the ordinary yearly price ($99, on sale at $54). Great resource for new & rusty Laravel developers.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/deals/apple-black-friday...
Thundercontent AI Writer (140+ languages, 20+ tools, based on GPT-3) : $7/ month (usually $49/month) -- https://thundercontent.com Article.Audio (Convert articles to audio with AI): $39 Lifetime deal (usually $19/month) -- https://article.audio
Coupon code: BLACKFRIDAY2022