Stop Paying for Dev Tools — Here Are Free Alternatives for Every Task

Stop Paying for Dev Tools — Here Are Free Alternatives for Every Task Every few months, I do an audit of what I'm actually paying for. Last time, I found $47/month going to four different micro-tools I use maybe twice a week each. A JSON formatter. A color picker. A base64 encoder. A unit converter. None of these are hard problems. None of them justify a subscription. And yet, somehow, they all ended up on my card. Here's the thing nobody tells junior developers: most daily tooling tasks have be