I would love to read what are the best tricks you learned in your commuting experience.
I would like to propose a format, where we use one comment for each single trick/suggestion, so if you have multiple tricks, post multiple comments. This would allow upvotes to create a ranking of best suggestions
I will start with a couple of tricks from my experience.
Use Strava heatmap to find new paths
Strava has an heatmap that shows the most used paths by categories (cyclists, in our case) based on data collected from Strava users.
It is super useful in new areas, because it shows where cyclists go and which parts they avoid, usually because dangerous (large high speed roads)
https://www.strava.com/heatmap