Recommended and mentioned products
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Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.
Trello: Developer Advocacy involves a lot of context switching. Trello helps me keep track of what I do in each context (videos, articles, writing sample code, etc.).
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An open source Firebase alternative
Supabase: Offers me a backend as a service plug-and-play platform. Auth, DB, and storage are all in the same place. As a frontend developer, I plug easily into Supabase.
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Speaker Deck is the best way to share presentations online.
SpeakerDeck: I like SpeakerDeck to share slides because it has a lightweight interface and provides nice embeds to use on your website.
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Slides is a place for creating, presenting and sharing presentations. The Slides editor is available right in your browser. Unlike traditional presentation software, like PowerPoint, there's no need to download anything.
Slides.com / Google Slides: These two are great for making and presenting slides. I use them interchangeably.
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Continuous deployment cloud hosting
Platform.sh: It's great for deploying and hosting all of my talks and tutorial app demos. Everything is in one place.
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Deploy blazing fast static sites and serverless functions.
Cloudflare Pages: Great for shipping & hosting fast, secure JAMstack sites. Super awesome for frontend developers.
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Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming for Mac, Windows and Linux.
OBS Studio: For talks and live streaming, I use OBS Studio, which gives me the flexibility and advanced features for screen recording.
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A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
Obsidian: It's great for writing. It's very distraction-free. I just write, no fancy buttons to grab my attention. I have ADHD, so obsidian does it for me!
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All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
Notion: I organize most of my thought processes here. Think of Notion as a think pad. I get to keep and track my priority list. Video courses, articles, conference talks, demos. Etc.
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Build, deploy and host your static site or app with a drag and drop interface and automatic delpoys from GitHub or Bitbucket
Netlify: It's great for deploying and hosting SPAs, PWAs, serverless functions and JAMstack sites. All my demos and apps are deployed on Netlify.
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Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
GitHub: Version control and code host for my demos. It's also great because of the automation benefits I get with the straightforward Netlify deployment.
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Team-based interface design, Figma lets you collaborate on designs in real time.
Figma: As a developer advocate, I use this for prototypes and slides. I know designers use this a lot, but I use this a lot for slides and demos at conferences. Each artboard is a slide. Once you enter the "present mode", you are good to go!
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Capture your Mac’s screen like a PRO ⚡️
Cleanshot: Screenshot with wings. Great for screenshots and recording screens.
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Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
Carbon.now.sh: Create and share beautiful images of code snippets.
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Buffer makes it super easy to share any page you're reading. Keep your Buffer topped up and we automagically share them for you through the day.
Buffer: Great for scheduling content to post on different social media platforms.
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Storage, Analytics, Push Notif. & SMS Delivery SDKs
AWS Amplify: Provides auth tools, great for creating and deploying serverless functions. With AWS Amplify, you can deploy static web apps faster as well. Great support for frontend frameworks and mobile.