Readit Newsswansonator commented on Ask HN: What are options to replace “G Suite legacy” when it's retired in May? · Posted by u/doctoboggan
Fastmail is excellent. A bit cheaper than the new Google Workspace and less invasive. It supports multiple domains easily. Interface is great and the iOS app is just as great. I'm sure the Android version is good too.
Since about 2001 I used YYYY-MM.txt plain text files and have a shell script to help create notes in the most friendly way I could think of from the command line at https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
Totally works fine for a knowledge log when you're streaming high level details from your brain into text. I still use it today. The repo hasn't been updated in 2 years because it's a ~20 line script with a simple API that hasn't failed yet.
But when you want to really go all-in with in-depth notes on 1 semi-broad subject it's tricky because in 1 month's time if you're hardcore deep in the woods of learning, applying and using something you're going to end up with hundreds of concepts from an assorted set of tools and it kind of stinks to have all of that info sitting in 1 file. Think about using something like Kubernetes. That's really Kubernetes, Kustomize / Helm, EKS, various cloud hosting details (networking, etc.), Terraform and ton of super useful commands / context. Details you for sure want recorded for later.
For this type of info I've been building up a personal knowledge base with https://obsidian.md/. It's really nice and I highly recommend it. It's been working well for keeping things reasonably categorized without wasting a lot of time on the details around keeping links and tags up to date. It also has Vim mode that's good enough where day to day writing feels natural.
Hey Nick! Thanks for linking to this! Had seen this once and forgot to bookmark it! While reorganizing all my knowledge notes lately just kept racking the brain on who created it.
Which SMTP do you recommend? Is it best to use the AWS one or what are the other options?
From my past experience with AWS SES, it requires a bit more development to handle bounces, spam, etc. Perhaps at $previousjob, we did not have the resources to handle this development time.
Personally, I prefer Postmark. Their onboarding, support, and pricing is excellent. The interface is good and decent integrations.
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