Angelina Nguyen

I got to use a free trial of their paid plan as part of the github student developer pack (which ended just recently). I don't think I was savvy enough at the time to use all of their cool features unfortunately (e.g. checking accessibility, social media thumbnail previews, etc). Reading their newsletter updates (which I think are some of the best email content out there), they have so many features I wish I did try them out! At the time I just used Polypane primarily to check how my websites handled different viewport sizes. But then I had wanted to do responsive sizing, so to check there wasn't a weird edge case at an odd viewport size I ended up reverting to just the regular resizing of my browser window ahahaha. Also polypane couldn't handle my framer animations that would appear on entering the viewport that well (some intense flicker that I had to turn on prefersReducedMotion in order to dev the rest of my stuff in polypane). But all-in-all this was an impressive app and I really appreciate the student discount following the year-long free trial.

The features in the free plan are easily worth five stars to me. I use this because I don't like how Apple screenshots take a second to actually appear and save. What I'm docking a star for is the humongous paper clip creature (I think that's Windows' Clippy?) that appears whenever you take a screenshot with a huge textbox asking you to upgrade to the paid version. Its quirky and I laughed the first time I saw it, but now its a bit annoying, sorry. :( The features in the paid plan do look tempting though...

Love this, use it every time a video plays LOL. 5 stars for the keyboard shortcuts, it saves the hassle of going through settings menus to change the speed in normal video players when all you need to do is press a single key. I've found that it also allows me to seek forward/backward on videos that dont offer the ability to do that in their own players, so this Chrome extension has been super duper helpful for me.

This one I would give 6 stars, never got an ad in my life after downloading it as a chrome extension. Props to the people who maintain ad blocking lists, and props to the ublock devs for tirelessly racing against youtube's ad block prevention strategies that happened some time ago.

I use this in my personal life to generate different emails for each service I sign up, instead of using the same email whose role is to collect spam lmao. I also use it when dev-ing to create different sign ins on prod so that emails don't bounce and affect our email deliverability. I think one thing from me is that when opening my Chrome extension, it takes a while to load the content in it (though its only a minor inconvenience). I think I would also like it if you guys made it so the browser extension has a badge with the number of emails you've created for the website you're currently on.

I use this as my password manager as its free + open source. I'm pretty happy with it, it fills all the functionalities of a password manager regular people would need. Something of a minor inconvenience (I'm using the Chrome extension) is that the UX is a bit inconsistent. Sometimes clicking an icon button in an item opens its viewer and clicking the item itself activates autocomplete, and sometimes clicking the item opens its viewer. I keep on mistaking the user icon as 'view item' but instead it copies the username hahaha 😂 Other than that, I like and use the 'generate password' and 'autofill last login for this page' keyboard shortcuts a lot. Maybe a suggestion is to have separate keyboard shortcuts for generating a password with random characters vs one that generates a passkey. I prefer passkeys but when some websites have password requirements I need to change my password generation settings and its inconvenient to change the setting back to passkey every time.

I use this to increase the resolution of my 1080p external monitor (zooms it out and makes everything look crisper). Also fixes my 4k external monitors that Apple makes look blurry. A must have for me. I had to use virtual screens (which their wiki notes as having drawbacks) since the other option wasn't working for me. The only downside I've found so far when using virtual screens is that sometimes when an external monitor with a virtual screen has nothing moving on it, it starts displaying a frame that used to be on that screen like 5 seconds ago. When i move my mouse to that monitor and wiggle it, it updates back to the current display. Mildly annoying, but it could be an OS limitation so I'm ok with it.

Highly, highly recommend. I would give it 6 stars if I could! Honestly I've been a mac user all my life, so I first learned about window snapping from my Windows friends when they got Macbooks and found the feature missing. I found Rectangle when looking for something that replicated that feature on Mac, and its been in active daily use for me since then. I'm glad it was free/open source, as it was what got me into downloading and trying it out in the first place. The quality is top notch. Best thing is the keyboard shortcuts! If you have external monitors, you can switch around and resize windows with a few keypresses instead of trying to drag them on a trackpad. Its so very convenient that its really not an exaggeration for me to say that I don't know how I lived without it for close to a decade. 😂

Gives me more space to put my menu items when I upgraded to a laptop with a notch. While its base feature is a necessity for me, I unfortunately don't need/use the extra features.