Awesome List Updates on Jun 29 - Jul 05, 2015

22 awesome lists updated this week.

🏠 Home · 🔍 Search · 🔥 Feed · 📮 Subscribe · ❤️ Sponsor

1. Awesome Deep Vision

Blogs / Question Answering

• Deep down the rabbit hole: CVPR 2015 and beyond@Tombone's Computer Vision Blog

• CVPR recap and where we're going@Zoya Bylinskii (MIT PhD Student)'s Blog

• Facebook's AI Painting@Wired

• Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks@Google Research

2. Awesome Projects Boilerplates

Websites

• HTML5 Boilerplate Web's most popular front-end template

• Open Designs Open Source WebDesign Templates

• Open Web Design Community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates

3. Awesome Artificial Intelligence

Courses

• Artificial Intelligence For Robotics - This class will teach you basic methods in Artificial Intelligence, including probabilistic inference, planning and search, localization, tracking and control, all with a focus on robotics

• Paradigms Of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp - Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems

• The Cambridge Handbook Of Artificial Intelligence - Written for non-specialists, it covers the discipline's foundations, major theories, and principal research areas, plus related topics such as artificial life

• On Intelligence - Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines. Also audio version available from audible.com

• How To Create A Mind - Kurzweil discusses how the brain works, how the mind emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world’s problems

Programming

• Prolog Programming For Artificial Intelligence - This best-selling guide to Prolog and Artificial Intelligence concentrates on the art of using the basic mechanisms of Prolog to solve interesting AI problems.

Philosophy

• Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence And The End Of The Human Era - Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?

Free Content

• Foundations Of Computational Agents - This book is published by Cambridge University Press

• The Quest For Artificial Intelligence - This book traces the history of the subject, from the early dreams of eighteenth-century (and earlier) pioneers to the more successful work of today's AI engineers.

Videos

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Deep Learning - The Director of Facebook's AI Research, Dr. Yann LeCun gives a talk on deep convolutional neural networks and their applications to machine learning and computer vision

Learning

• Deep Learning. Methods And Applications Free book from Microsoft Research

• Neural Networks And Deep Learning - Neural networks and deep learning currently provide the best solutions to many problems in image recognition, speech recognition, and natural language processing. This book will teach you the core concepts behind neural networks and deep learning

4. Inspire

Creation / These sites are good for building a basic framework for the site.

• Images
  • AllTheFreeStock - All the Free stock mmages, videos, sounds and icons in one location.
  • TheStocks.im - A collection of great stock photo websites.
  • Unsplash - Free, high quality stock photos.

Testing / Before you launch, these are good tools to make sure your site is ready for stardom.

• Localtunnel - Open localhost ports to the world.

5. Awesome Foss Apps

Web Apps (frontend only) / The Guardian

• play2, scala, node

Desktop Apps / Daytona

• Apache 2.0 License

Web Apps (frontend only) / Ghost

• node, express, ember

Desktop Apps / Atom

• MIT License

• coffeescript, electron, node

Web Apps (frontend only) / Discourse

• ruby, rails, ember

Web Apps (frontend only) / Reddit

• python, pylons, node, react, rabbitmq, postgresql

• Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Web Apps (frontend only) / Taiga

• python3, django, coffeescript, angular

Web Apps (frontend only) / Travis CI

• ruby, rails, sinatra, rabbitmq, ember

Desktop Apps / Blender

• c, c++, python

Desktop Apps / 0ad

• c++, python

Desktop Apps / Hedgewars

• c, c++, pascal, haskell

6. Awesome Backbone

Tutorials and articles

• Using BackboneJS to improve your JavaScript code organization over a Ruby on Rails app by Ezequiel Rivadeneira Lichardi

• JavaScript For The Impatient: BackboneJS - Part 1, Part 2 by Corey Howell

• Building Backbone apps using Flux by Victor Doss

7. Awesome Slack

Development

• Cordova

8. Awesome Elm

Articles / Miscellaneous articles

• Learning FP the hard way - Experiences on the Elm language.

9. Awesome Crystal

Caching

• crystal-memcached (⭐35) - Implementation of a memcached client

Database Drivers/Clients

• crystal-pg (⭐462) - A Postgres driver

HTTP

• crul (⭐113) - Command line HTTP client

Testing

• webmock.cr (⭐103) - Library for stubbing HTTP::Client requests

Third-party APIs

• crystal_slack (⭐19) - A tool that parses Slack slash commands or send incoming web hooks

Editor Plugins

• Atom
  • crystal-tools - Enables built in tools in Crystal compiler
  • language-crystal-actual - Crystal language support in Atom

10. Awesome Microservices

Sites & Organizations / Scala

• Microservice Patterns - Microservice architecture patterns and best practices.

11. Awesome Elixir

Algorithms and Data structures

• blocking_queue (⭐52) - BlockingQueue is a simple queue implemented as a GenServer. It has a fixed maximum length established when it is created.

• count_buffer (⭐2) - Buffer a large set of counters and flush periodically.

• exfsm (⭐11) - Simple elixir library to define a static FSM.

• fuse (⭐499) - This application implements a so-called circuit-breaker for Erlang.

Behaviours and Interfaces

• connection (⭐265) - Connection behaviour for connection processes. The API is superset of the GenServer API.

Build Tools

• pc (⭐65) - A rebar3 port compiler.

• rebar3_eqc (⭐13) - A rebar3 plugin to enable the execution of Erlang QuickCheck properties.

• relx (⭐695) - A release assembler for Erlang.

Encoding and Compression

• huffman - Huffman encoding and decoding in Elixir.

Framework Components

• airbrake_plug (⭐5) - Report errors in your Plug stack or whatever to Airbrake.

• plug_forward_peer (⭐24) - Very simple plug which reads X-Forwarded-For or Forwarded header according to RFC7239 and fill conn.remote_ip with the root client ip.

• plug_ribbon (⭐23) - Injects a ribbon to your web application in the development environment.

HTTP

• uri_template (⭐18) - RFC6570 compliant URI template processor for Elixir.

• webdriver (⭐120) - This is an implementation of the WebDriver protocol client. It currently supports PhantomJS, FireFox, ChromeDriver and remote webdriver servers (e.g. Selenium).

JSON

• exjson (⭐71) - JSON parser and generator in Elixir.

• ja_serializer (⭐640) - JSONAPI.org Serialization in Elixir.

Logging

• logger_logstash_backend (⭐73) - A backend for the Elixir Logger that will send logs to the Logstash UDP input.

Macros

• anaphora (⭐18) - Anaphora is the anaphoric macro collection for Elixir. An anaphoric macro is one that deliberately captures a variable (typically it) from forms supplied to the macro.

Native Implemented Functions

• nifty (⭐29) - Helper script for setting up the boilerplate required when writing a NIF.

ORM and Datamapping

• erlastic_search (⭐162) - An Erlang app for communicating with Elastic Search's rest interface.

• red (⭐15) - Persist relationships between objects in Redis, in a graph-like way.

• timex_ecto (⭐162) - An adapter for using Timex DateTimes with Ecto.

Protocols

• ex_hl7 (⭐41) - Health Level 7 (HL7) is a protocol designed to model and transfer health-related data electronically.

Templating

• bbmustache (⭐177) - Binary pattern match Based Mustache template engine for Erlang/OTP.

Testing

• gimei (⭐2) - Gimei is a pure Elixir library for generating Japanese fake data.

Text and Numbers

• cirru_parser (⭐0) - Cirru Parser in Elixir.

• eden (⭐37) - EDN (⭐2.6k) encoder/decoder for Elixir.

• erldn (⭐28) - EDN (⭐2.6k) format parser for the Erlang platform.

• mbcs (⭐27) - Wrapper for erlang-mbcs. This module provides functions for character encoding conversion.

• number (⭐222) - Number is a pretentiously-named Elixir library which provides functions to convert numbers into a variety of different formats.

Third Party APIs

• airbrake (⭐27) - An Elixir notifier for the Airbrake.

• elixir_authorizenet (⭐11) - Unofficial client for the Authorize.Net merchant API.

• feedlex (⭐3) - Feedly RSS reader client for Elixir.

• m2x - Elixir client for the AT&T M2X, a cloud-based fully managed time-series data storage service for network connected machine-to-machine (M2M) devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). (Erlang Version).

• reporter (⭐4) - Reporter is simple reporting App reviews library. Support AppStore and GooglePlay.

Utilities

• global (⭐3) - Wrapper of the Erlang :global module.

• pubsub (⭐69) - A Publish-Subscribe utility library that implements a pub-sub mechanism to ease the burden of communication on the business logic processes.

XML

• erlsom (⭐264) - Erlsom is an Erlang library to parse (and generate) XML documents.

• xmlrpc (⭐40) - Library for encoding and decoding XML-RPC for clients and servers.

Reading

• The Little Schemer in Elixir (⭐347) - Exercises and algorithms from the Little Schemer book, ported to Elixir.

12. Awesome Javascript

Bundlers

• webpack (⭐64k) - Packs CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser.

Testing Frameworks / Assertion

• chai (⭐8.1k) - BDD / TDD assertion framework for node.js and the browser that can be paired with any testing framework.

MVC Frameworks and Libraries / Runner

• backbone (⭐28k) - Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events.

• ractive (⭐5.9k) - Next-generation DOM manipulation.

• way.js (⭐2.9k) - Simple, lightweight, persistent two-way databinding.

Templating Engines / Runner

• mustache.js (⭐16k) - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript.

• hogan.js (⭐5.1k) - A compiler for the Mustache templating language.

Functional Programming / Runner

• underscore (⭐27k) - JavaScript's utility _ belt.

• lodash (⭐59k) - A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras.

• lazy.js (⭐6k) - Like Underscore, but lazier.

Data Structure / Runner

• immutable-js (⭐33k) - Immutable Data Collections including Sequence, Range, Repeat, Map, OrderedMap, Set and a sparse Vector.

Date / Runner

• jquery-timeago (⭐3.8k) - A jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago").

• date (⭐1.5k) - Date() for humans.

String / Runner

• string.js (⭐1.8k) - Extra JavaScript string methods.

• he (⭐3.4k) - A robust HTML entity encoder/decoder written in JavaScript.

• multiline (⭐1.4k) - Multiline strings in JavaScript.

• query-string (⭐6.7k) - Parse and stringify URL query strings.

Number / Runner

• odometer (⭐7.3k) - Smoothly transitions numbers with ease.

Storage / Runner

• store.js (⭐14k) - LocalStorage wrapper for all browsers without using cookies or flash. Uses localStorage, globalStorage, and userData behavior under the hood.

• localForage (⭐25k) - Offline storage, improved. Wraps IndexedDB, WebSQL, or localStorage using a simple but powerful API.

Color / Runner

• randomColor (⭐6.1k) - A color generator for JavaScript.

• chroma.js (⭐9.9k) - JavaScript library for all kinds of color manipulations.

• TinyColor (⭐5k) - Fast, small color manipulation and conversion for JavaScript.

Control Flow / Runner

• q (⭐15k) - A tool for making and composing asynchronous promises in JavaScript.

• step (⭐2.2k) - An async control-flow library that makes stepping through logic easy.

Routing / Runner

• director (⭐5.6k) - A tiny and isomorphic URL router for JavaScript.

• page.js (⭐7.7k) - Micro client-side router inspired by the Express router (~1200 bytes).

Log / Runner

• log (⭐3k) - Console.log with style.

Loading Status / Runner

• Spin.js (⭐9.3k) - A spinning activity indicator.

• pace (⭐16k) - Automatically add a progress bar to your site.

• topbar (⭐428) - Tiny & beautiful site-wide progress indicator.

• nanobar (⭐2.8k) - Very lightweight progress bars. No jQuery.

Keyboard Wrappers / Runner

• keymaster (⭐6.5k) - A simple micro-library for defining and dispatching keyboard shortcuts.

• Keypress (⭐3.2k) - A keyboard input capturing utility in which any key can be a modifier key.

Tours And Guides / Runner

• intro.js (⭐23k) - A better way for new feature introduction and step-by-step users guide for your website and project.

• shepherd (⭐13k) - Guide your users through a tour of your app.

Notifications / Runner

• messenger (⭐4k) - Growl-style alerts and messages for your app.

Sliders / Runner

• Swiper (⭐39k) - Mobile touch slider and framework with hardware accelerated transitions.

• slick (⭐28k) - The last carousel you'll ever need.

Form Widgets / Input

• typeahead.js (⭐17k) - A fast and fully-featured autocomplete library.

• Ion.CheckRadio (⭐69) - jQuery plugin for styling checkboxes and radio-buttons. With skin support.

Form Widgets / Calendar

• rome (⭐2.9k) - A customizable date (and time) picker. Dependency free, opt-in UI.

Form Widgets / File Uploader

• dropzone (⭐18k) - Dropzone is an easy to use drag'n'drop library. It supports image previews and shows nice progress bars.

Misc / Other

• echo (⭐3.7k) - Lazy-loading images with data-* attributes.

• platform.js (⭐3.2k) - A platform detection library that works on nearly all JavaScript platforms.

• json3 (⭐1k) - A modern JSON implementation compatible with nearly all JavaScript platforms.

13. Awesome Devenv

Dotfiles

• dotfiles.github.io - Collected dotfile resources. Has sections with dotfile bootstraps and lists of frameworks for various shells and editors.

Shell / Extensions

• awesome-zsh-plugins (⭐12k) - List of zsh plugins usable with zgen (⭐1.4k) and other oh-my-zsh (⭐151k) compatible zsh frameworks

• zgen (⭐1.4k) - Faster framework for managing your zsh configuration, backward compatible with oh-my-zsh plugins

• shellcheck (⭐30k) - Lint for shell. Will find deprecated and/or dangerous usage in shell scripts

14. Awesome Android Ui

Calendar

• Name: SublimePicker (⭐2.3k)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

• Name: MaterialDateTimePicker (⭐4.6k)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

Other

• Name: EasyFonts (⭐419)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

15. Awesome Courses

Courses / Systems

• 6.828 Operating Systems MIT
  • MIT's operating systems course focusing on the fundamentals of OS design including booting, memory management, environments, file systems, multitasking, and more. In a series of lab assignments, you will build JOS, an OS exokernel written in C.
  • Assignments
  • Lectures
  • Videos Note: These are student recorded cam videos of the 2011 course. The videos explain a lot of concepts required for the labs and assignments.

16. Awesome Swift

UI / Barcode

• GaugeKit (⭐1k) - Customizable gauges. Easy reproduce Apple's style gauges.

17. Awesome Flexbox

Books

• CSS3 Layout Modules 2nd Edition - Rachel Andrew

Who to Follow / Slides and Notes

• Afonso Pacifer @afonsopacifer

• Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew

18. Awesome Electron

Open Source / Other

• Loop Drop (⭐825) - MIDI looper and synth for live electronic music performances.

Closed Source / Other

• Prepros - Compile almost any preprocessing language with live browser refresh.

For Electron / Other

• electron-debug (⭐739) - Adds useful debug features.

Videos / Other

• Multi Window Electron Desktop Apps

19. Awesome Ruby

Caching

• Second Level Cache (⭐396) - Write-Through and Read-Through caching library for ActiveRecord 4.

Data Processing and ETL

• Kiba - A lightweight data processing / ETL framework for Ruby.

20. Awesome Answers

Algorithms

• Sorting 1 million 8 digit numbers in 1MB of RAM

• Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?

Miscellaneous / Ruby

• Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

• What are the current fads in computer science, IT and software engineering?

Data Structures

• What are some lesser known but useful data structures?

• What are the underlying data structures used for Redis?

Functional Programming

• What is a good beginning text on functional programming?

Math

• If floating-point can't represent 0.1, how does parseFloat (".1") equal .1?

Programming Languages / Clojure

• Why would someone learn Clojure?

Programming Languages / JavaScript

• How does bellard.org/jslinux work?

• Will WebAssembly make Javascript skills more or less valuable in the future?

Programming Languages Theory / Ruby

• What is fascinating about dynamically-typed programming languages?

21. Engineering Blogs

Individuals/Group Contributors / A individuals

• Andrew Bancroft http://www.andrewcbancroft.com/

Individuals/Group Contributors / E individuals

• Evan Hahn http://evanhahn.com/

Individuals/Group Contributors / M individuals

• Michael Herman http://mherman.org/

Individuals/Group Contributors / R individuals

• Ramon Fried https://nativeguru.wordpress.com/

Individuals/Group Contributors / T individuals

• Thomas Young http://upcoder.com

Individuals/Group Contributors / Y individuals

• Yifan Lu http://yifan.lu/

22. Awesome Ciandcd

Source Code Management

• phabricator Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.

Static Check

• findbugs Find Bugs in Java Programs

Testing

• opensourcetesting open source software testing tools, news and disccussions

Delivery

• herd (⭐410) A single-command bittorrent distribution system, based on Twitter's Murder

Database Version Control

• dbdeploy dbdeploy is a Database Change Management tool. It’s for developers or DBAs who want to evolve their database design – or refactor their database – in a simple, controlled, flexible and frequent manner

• Prev: Jul 06 - Jul 12, 2015
• Next: Jun 22 - Jun 28, 2015