Awesome List Updates on May 09 - May 15, 2016

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1. Awesome Funny Markov

Web and Tech

• Headline Smasher - Fake headlines created by smashing up real headlines.

• Subreddit Simulator - The most confusing subreddit (often on the front page).

• Alternative Hacker News - Hacker News dataset eats itself.

• Cybersauce Broadcasting Corporation - A computer generated and dictated podcast.

• Java! Real or Not? - Guess the Spring Framework class name.

• The Doom That Came to Puppet - Mutations on Puppet documentation and the assorted works of H. P. Lovecraft.

• King James Programming - Combined King James Bible, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and some of Eric S. Raymond's writings.

• Git man page Generator - Suspiciously believeable (but incorrect) Git documentation.

Twitter

• @erowidrecruiter - Erowid trip reports and tech recruiter emails.

• @TwoHeadlines - Takes two headlines about different things and then confuses them.

• @SarowidPalinUSA - Sarah Palin speeches and Erowid trip reports.

• @twatterhose - A mashup of the Twitter public timeline.

• @redditron - Reddit comments.

• @markovmtg - [Magic] Markov the Gathering.

• @HNTitles - HN Titles.

Media

• Calvin and Markov - Calvin and Hobbes strips reimagined.

• Garkov - Transcripts of old Garfield strips.

• The Big Markovski - The Big Lebowski.

• Jesus Markoving Christ - An incoherent savior for an incoherent age.

• XKCD - 90's Flowchart.

• Markov Bible - The whole book (archive.org).

Tools

• That Can Be My Next Tweet - Generates your future tweets based on the DNA of your existing messages.

• Mark V. Shaney at Your Service - Interactie Markov examples.

• foswig.js - Generate awesome Javascript project names from the popular JavaScript library names on GitHub.

• Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator - Permutations on the gentleman's names.

A history of funny Markov chains

• "I Spent an Interesting Evening Recently with a Grain of Salt" - The Original Prank (archive.org).

• Mark V. Shaney's Website - Mark V. Shaney's finest hours (archive.org).

• Fun With Markov Chains - Featuring "Alice in Elsinore: The Alice books and Hamlet", and "The Revelation of St. Alice: The Alice books, and the books of Genesis and Revelation".

Sober applications

• PageRank - Google is built on Markov Chains.

• Digital Music Programming - MIDI Markov music.

• A visual explanation of Markov chains - A useful guide to Markov chains by Victor Powell.

2. Awesome Cpp

API Design

• Designing Qt-Style C++ APIs

3. Awesome Tap

Producers / Bash

• bats (⭐7.1k) - Bash Automated Testing System.

4. Awesome Talks

Cognitive Development

• Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle by Brandon Hays [35:26]

5. Awesome Hacking

Reverse Engineering / Other

• Crackmes.de - The world first and largest community website for crackmes and reversemes.

6. Awesome Microservices

Serialization / Scala

• Avro - Apache data serialization system providing rich data structures in a compact, fast, binary data format.

7. Awesome Phalcon

Miscellaneous

• Feedback - Is intended to be used as a replacement for Phalcon's built-in Flash and Message functionality

8. Awesome Music

Audio Libraries

• mxml (⭐20) - MusicXML parsing and layout library.

Music Notation

• MusicKit (⭐109) - Music sheet rendering for iOS and OSX.

9. Awesome Ctf

Wargames

• WebHacking - Hacking challenges for web.

10. Awesome Deep Learning

Table of Contents / Courses

• Deep Learning - Udacity/Google by Vincent Vanhoucke and Arpan Chakraborty (2016)

• Deep Learning - UWaterloo by Prof. Ali Ghodsi at University of Waterloo (2015)

Researchers / Frameworks

• DSSTNE - Amazon's library for building Deep Learning models (⭐4.4k)

• SyntaxNet - Google's syntactic parser - A TensorFlow dependency library (⭐75k)

11. Awesome Composer

Plugins / IRC

• Documentation for Plugins - This offical documentation is good starting point, when writing a Composer plugin.

• Composer-AWS (⭐77) - The plugin loads repository data and downloads packages from Amazon S3 (with authentication support for private repositories).

• Composer-Composition (⭐107) - Provides an API, for checking your environment at runtime.

• Composer-Suggest (⭐5) - Enables you to install a custom group of suggested packages, based on keyword patterns.

• Composer-Versions-Check (⭐233) - Shows outdated packages from last major versions after using the update command (showing "Latest is vX.Y.Z").

• Composer-Changelogs (⭐587) - Provides a summary of the updates with links to changelog/releasenote/tag. The output is ready to be pasted into the commit message when updating the composer.lock file.

• Composer-Merge-Plugin (⭐923) - Merges multiple composer.json files at Composer runtime.

• Composer-Patches-Plugin (⭐79) - Enables you to provide patches for any package from any package. When the dependency is fetched, the patch is applied on top.

• Composer-Cleanup-Plugin (⭐147) - Removes tests & documentation folders from the vendor dir.

• Composer-Cleaner (⭐133) - The tool removes unnecessary files and directories from the vendor directory.

• Prestissimo (⭐6.2k) - A parallel downloader using phpext_curl.

• Composer-Dependency-Analyzer - Allows you to build a dependency graph for an installed composer project.

• PackageVersions (⭐3.2k) - Provides a very quick and easy access to installed composer dependency versions.

Tools / IRC

• Studio (⭐1.1k) - A workbench for developing Composer packages. Its an alternative to editing dependencies in the vendor folder or using PathRepositories to load a local clone of your dependency into your project.

Tutorials / IRC

• A short & simple Composer tutorial

Blogs / IRC

• Jordi Boggiano (seldaek)

• Composer Stability Flags

• Composer Versioning

Videos / IRC

• PHP Composer Quickstart

• How Composer helped shape the new way of writing PHP - Nils Adermann @ Drupal Camp Frankfurt

• Composer Package Management - Nils Adermann @ T3CON12DE

12. Awesome Laravel

Books / Videos

• Laravel: Code Smart by Dayle Rees

13. Awesome Electron

Closed Source / Other

• WhatsApp - Official WhatsApp app.

Videos / Other

• The New Desktop: Electron, React, & Pixel-Perfect Native-Feeling Experiences

14. Awesome Tensorflow

Models/Projects

• Neural Caption Generator (⭐507) - Implementation of "Show and Tell"

• Neural Caption Generator with Attention (⭐507) - Implementation of "Show, Attend and Tell"

• Weakly_detector (⭐361) - Implementation of "Learning Deep Features for Discriminative Localization"

• Dynamic Capacity Networks (⭐9) - Implementation of "Dynamic Capacity Networks"

• HMM in TensorFlow (⭐285) - Implementation of viterbi and forward/backward algorithms for HMM

• DeepOSM (⭐1.3k) - Train TensorFlow neural nets with OpenStreetMap features and satellite imagery.

Powered by TensorFlow

• YOLO TensorFlow (⭐1.7k) - Implementation of 'YOLO : Real-Time Object Detection'

Libraries

• caffe-tensorflow (⭐2.8k) - Convert Caffe models to TensorFlow format

• keras - Minimal, modular deep learning library for TensorFlow and Theano

• SyntaxNet: Neural Models of Syntax (⭐77k) - A TensorFlow implementation of the models described in Globally Normalized Transition-Based Neural Networks, Andor et al. (2016)

Videos

• Stanford CS224d Lecture 7 - Introduction to TensorFlow, 19th Apr 2016 - CS224d Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing by Richard Socher

Papers

• Globally Normalized Transition-Based Neural Networks - This paper describes the models behind SyntaxNet (⭐77k).

Official announcements

• Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source - Release of SyntaxNet, "an open-source neural network framework implemented in TensorFlow that provides a foundation for Natural Language Understanding systems.

Blog posts

• The Good, Bad, & Ugly of TensorFlow - A survey of six months rapid evolution (+ tips/hacks and code to fix the ugly stuff), Dan Kuster at Indico, May 9, 2016

15. Awesome Shell

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• aria2 (⭐33k) - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• rebash (⭐73) - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...

• Google's Shell Style Guide

16. Awesome Aws

SDKs and Samples / Ruby SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 (⭐3.4k)

17. Awesome Canvas

Libraries / To draw using canvas

• fabric.js provides interactive object model on top of canvas element and also has SVG-to-canvas (and canvas-to-SVG) parser

18. Awesome Flexbox

Sketching with CSS Flexbox Guide by @sfioritto / Slides and Notes

• CSS Layout: from Table to Flexbox

Featured Projects / Slides and Notes

• Flexbox layout (⭐18k) - FlexboxLayout is a library project which brings the similar capabilities of CSS Flexible Box Layout Module to Android.

19. Awesome Network Analysis

Software / Social, Economic and Political Networks

• Polinode - Web-based platform to both analyze network data as well as collect network data via relationship-based surveys.

20. Awesome Sre

Reliability

• SRE Hour: Tech Talks by Box & Yelp

Capacity Planning

• Capacity Planning

21. Awesome Jvm

Metaprogramming

• GHCVM (⭐2.5k) - A Haskell to JVM compiler that supports GHC Haskell.

Profilers

• HdrLogProcessing (⭐29) - Utilities for HDR Histogram logs manipulation.

• Java Flight Recorder (JFR) - Tool for collecting diagnostic and profiling data about a running Java application with almost no performance overhead.

• jfr-flame-graph (⭐244) - Converting JFR Method Profiling Samples to FlameGraph compatible format.

22. Tips

List only the root and merge commits.

git log --first-parent

23. Awesome Broadcasting

Blogs

• The Netflix Tech Blog - A Netflix blog focused on technology and technology issues.

24. Awesome R

Reproducible Research

• checkpoint (⭐163) - Install packages from snapshots on the checkpoint server.

Web Technologies and Services

• RSiteCatalyst (⭐127) - R client library for the Adobe Analytics.

Network Analysis

• rgexf - Export network objects from R to GEXF, for manipulation with network software like Gephi or Sigma.

Podcasts / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• Not So Standard Deviations - The Data Science Podcast.
  • @Roger Peng and @Hilary Parker.

• R World News - R World News helps you keep up with happenings within the R community.
  • @Bob Rudis and @Jay Jacobs.

• The R-Podcast - Giving practical advice on how to use R.
  • @Eric Nantz.

• R Talk - News and discussions of statistical software and language R.
  • @Oliver Keyes, @Jasmine Dumas, @Ted Hart and @Mikhail Popov.

25. Awesome Machine Learning

C++ / General-Purpose Machine Learning

• DSSTNE (⭐4.4k) - A software library created by Amazon for training and deploying deep neural networks using GPUs which emphasizes speed and scale over experimental flexibility.

Python / Data Analysis / Data Visualization

• Dora (⭐644) - Tools for exploratory data analysis in Python.

• Ruffus - Computation Pipeline library for python.

26. Awesome Elixir

Examples and funny stuff

• oop (⭐306) - OOP in Elixir.

Office

• xlsxir (⭐213) - Xlsx file parser with support for ISO 8601 date formats. Data is extracted to an Erlang Term Storage (ETS) table and is accessed through various functions.

27. Awesome Interview Questions

Programming Languages/Frameworks/Platforms / Android

• Collection of Android and Java questions divided by experience

28. Awesome Javascript

Misc / Other

• picturefill (⭐9.9k) - A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes.

29. Awesome Opensource Apps

Meteor

• Name: Wekan (⭐19k)

  Description: The open-source Trello-like kanban

  Link: https://wekan.io/

30. Awesome Hacking Locations

United States 🇺🇸 / Massachusetts

Bloc 11

Same good food as Forge and Diesel, back room is nice, moderately busy, outdoor seating. If you have xfinity, good reception for wifi for that. Acid coffee.

Webpage: http://blocsomerville.com/

United States 🇺🇸 / Minnesota

Forge Baking Company

Same good food as Bloc 11 and Diesel, busy, bright, not many plugs. Acidic coffee, no vietnamese coffee option.

Webpage: http://www.forgebakingco.com/

United States 🇺🇸 / Virginia

Pushcart Coffee Chelsea

Great community workspace with coffee, pastries and beer.

Webpage: http://www.pushcartcoffee.com/

United States 🇺🇸 / Seattle, WA

Bellevue Public Library

Free to all, a lot of space, 3 floors, free parking lot.

Seattle Public Library

Free to all, lots of space, must be quiet though.

Ada's Technical Books

Tasty coffee and great food, free wifi and places, but also has paid day passes for private space.

31. Awesome Fp Js

Libraries / Algebraic Data Types

• immutable-ext (⭐492) – FantasyLand extensions for Immutable.js (⭐33k).

Resources / Books

• Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (⭐23k) – This is a book on the functional paradigm in general using the world’s most popular functional programming language: JavaScript. It’s a practical introduction that builds up intuition through real-world examples. Strongly recommended. By Brian Lonsdorf (2016)

• JavaScript Allongé, the “Six” edition. Starts with as little as possible about functions – but no less! – and builds up towards powerful combinators and decorators. A foundational book. By Reginald Braithwaite (2016)

• Functional Programming in JavaScript teaches JavaScript developers functional techniques that will improve extensibility, modularity, reusability, testability, and performance. Through concrete examples and jargon-free explanations, this book teaches you how to apply functional programming to real-life development tasks. By Luis Atencio (2016)

• Eloquent JavaScript. A modern introduction to programming using JavaScript. By Marijn Haverbeke (2014)

• Functional JavaScript teaches how to create code that’s beautiful, safe, and simple to understand and test by using JavaScript’s functional programming support. By Michael Fogus (2013)

Resources / Articles

• FP Concepts in JavaScript – An introduction to Functional Programming Concepts in JavaScript. Uses the Ramda library to teach the concepts of composition, pointfree style, and functors through the simplest of examples.

• Functional programming with JavaScript – Another introduction to Functional Programming in JavaScript with a focus on three key themes: computation as the application of functions, statelessness, avoiding side effects.

• A gentle introduction to functional JavaScript – A four-part series introduction functional programming in JavaScript that gets you up to speed what all the hype about functional programming is all about.

• Why Curry Helps – A short overview of how to write reusable and declarative code using currying.

• Favoring Curry - Practical applications of currying using Ramda.

• JavaScript and Type Thinking – Learn to reason about your JavaScript code with type thinking. Algebraic Data Types are introduced as a conceptual basis to reason about program entities.

• Why Ramda – To those not used to functional programming, Ramda seems to serve no purpose whatsoever. However, it does offer a different style of coding, a style that’s taken for granted in purely functional programming languages: Ramda makes it simple for you to build complex logic through functional composition.

• Monads in JavaScript – An introduction to the Monad design pattern in JavaScript.

• A Monad in Practicality: First-Class Failures – A walk through some practical use cases for specific monadic structures in JavaScript: use the Maybe monad to handle simple failure cases and model more complex scenarios with the Either monad or the Validation applicative functor.

• Data Structures in JavaScript – A series of blog posts that reimplements various data structures in JavaScript to better understand their benefits and downsides.

Resources / Videos

• Functional programming patterns for the non-mathematician – Learn about practical use cases for functors, applicatives, and monads.

• Pure JavaScript – Christian Johansen will show you how you can significantly up your game by leaving loops behind and embracing functions as the primary unit of abstraction.

Resources / Examples and Exercises

• FPJS-Class (⭐94) – Functional Programming learned through JavaScript.

• functional-javascript-workshop (⭐2k) – The goal of this workshop is to create realistic problems that can be solved using terse, vanilla, idiomatic JavaScript to teach fundamental functional programming features of JavaScript.

32. Awesome Audio Visualization

Downloads

• Motion Sound

Experiments

• Audiograph - Amazing audio visualization made by Matt DesLauriers.

33. Engineering Blogs

Companies / S companies

• Segment https://segment.com/blog/categories/engineering/

34. Awesome Python

Testing

• GUI / Web Testing
  • locust (⭐24k) - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
  • PyAutoGUI (⭐9.9k) - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
  • Schemathesis (⭐2.2k) - A tool for automatic property-based testing of web applications built with Open API / Swagger specifications.
  • Selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
  • sixpack (⭐1.8k) - A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.
  • splinter (⭐2.7k) - Open source tool for testing web applications.

35. Awesome Json

Databases

• MongoDB - an open-source document database, and the leading NoSQL database.

Format Extensions

• JSON Resume - The open source initiative to create standard for resumes.

Libraries

• JSON::Tiny (⭐11) - Perl module for encoding and decoding JSON in a minimalistic way.

• MultiJSON (⭐746) - A generic swappable back-end for JSON handling.

Transformations

• JsonMapper (⭐1.5k) - Map nested structures onto PHP classes (PHP)

36. Awesome Functional Programming

Table of Contents / Blog posts

• Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures

• Monads Made Difficult

37. Awesome Rethinkdb

Community

• RethinkDB Google Group

• RethinkDB YouTube Channel

• RethinkDB Reddit

Community / Technology Integrations

• Maintainer: RethinkDB Team

• Epiphy (⭐8) - Lightweight RethinkDB ORM.

• Maintainer: Vinh Quốc Nguyễn

• lotus-rethinkdb (⭐6) - RethinkDB adapter for Lotus::Model.

• Maintainer: Angelo Ashmore

• RabbitMQ - Integrating RethinkDB with RabbitMQ

• RabbitMQ - Integrating RethinkDB with RabbitMQ

Community / ORM

• NoBrainer (⭐387) - Ruby ORM for RethinkDB.

• Maintainer: Nicolas Viennot

• RethinkDB Java ORM (⭐2) - A custom POJO converter for RethinkDB Java driver.

• Maintainer: Peter Knego

Community / Drivers

• Rethinker (⭐1) - A simplistic serialisation library for use alongside the official RethinkDb Java driver.

• Maintainer: Dave Hrycyszyn

• Rethinkdb4j (⭐1) - Asynchronous Netty-based RethinkDB driver for Java.

• Maintainer: Anton Ustyuzhanin

Articles / Technology Integrations

• Shahid Shaikh | 08-Mar-16 - Building real time polling app using RethinkDB and Nodejs.

• Dr. Gleb Bahmutov PhD | 08-Feb-16 - Redux and RethinkDB

• Scott Hasbrouck | 13-Mar-16 - Using Socket.Io With RethinkDB Changefeeds To Build A Reactive JavaScript Stack

• Khalid Abuhakmeh | 15-Nov-15 - Getting Started With RethinkDB and ASP.NET 5.

• Slava Akhmechet | 01-Sept-15 - Build real-time Web apps with RethinkDB.

• Justin for Fanout | 20-May-15 - Building a realtime API with RethinkDB.

• Nicholas Duffy | 30-Apr-15 - Getting Started with the RethinkDB Connector for LoopBack.

• Rob Conery | 17-Apr-15 - RethinkDB 2.0 Is Amazing.

• Gordon Dent | 01-Apr-15 - A Comprehensive Guide to moving from SQL to RethinkDB.

• Gordon Dent | 11-Mar-15 - We use RethinkDB at Workshape.io.

Talks / Technology Integrations

• Michael Glukhovsky at Clevertech | 30-Mar-16 - RethinkDB Presentation to Clevertech.

• Ryan Paul at ForwardJS | 21-Jan-16 - RethinkDB: Database for realtime apps.

• Rob Conery at DevDay 2015 | 17-Sept-15 - Rethinking NoSQL.

• Jorge Silva at RethinkDB Meetup | 29-June-15 - Data Modeling in RethinkDB.

• Ben Tranter | 05-Apr-15 - A Simple REST API with Express, RethinkDB, and Thinky.

• Associated Source (⭐6)

• Ryan Paul at Mattermark | 17-Feb-15 - Build a realtime RethinkDB cluster monitoring app with live graphs.

• Associated Blog Post - A realtime RethinkDB cluster monitoring app with live graphs.

RethinkDB Examples / Technology Integrations

• RethinkDB NodeJS Chat (⭐205) - A node.js chat application running on rethinkdb.

• RethinkDB Flask Backbone ToDo (⭐123) - A canonical backbone todo application running on flask and RethinkDB.

• RethinkDB ccoenraets/nodecellar Fork (⭐13) - Sample app built with Backbone.js,Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, RethinkDB.

• RethinkDB PubNub Live Blog (⭐22) - PubNub / Express Blog Example App.

• RethinkDB Angular Express Promise (⭐138) - Promise based Todo example with RethinkDB, ExpressJS and AngularJS .

• RethinkDB Angular Express (⭐138) - Todo example with RethinkDB, ExpressJS and AngularJS.

• RethinkDB Angular KOA (⭐138) - Todo example with RethinkDB, KoaJS and AngularJS.

Community Examples / Technology Integrations

• RethinkDB Chat (⭐67) - A simple chat applications built with RethinkDB + Sockets.

• RethinkDB Reactjs (⭐22) - rethinkdb + react.js + ActionController::Live (Rails) + Server Side Events.

• Realtime Chat RethinkDB (⭐26) - A realtime chatroom built with RethinkDB

• Boot RethinkDB (⭐38) - Chat example with spring boot and RethinkDB.

• Go RethinkDB ToDo (⭐64) - Go RethinkDB Todo List Example Application.

• Meguca (⭐406) - High performance real-time imageboard in Go, TypeScript and RethinkDB.

• VueJS RethinkDB (⭐63) - Vuejs + Express + RethinkDB example.

• 3ree (⭐855) - An example universal JS application written with the 3REE stack, React + Redux + RethinkDB + Express.

• Meteor GraphQL (⭐44) - A Meteor and RethinkDB Example Using GraphQL.

Administrative Tools / Technology Integrations

• Chateau (⭐207) - Another (awesome) data explorer for RethinkDB.

• RethinkDB CLI (⭐22) - CLI and REPL for Rethinkdb.

• RethinkDB Nightly - A node module that will execute a nightly backup and push it to S3.

Deployment / Technology Integrations

• Vagrant (⭐47) - Install RethinkDB using Vagrant.

• Puppet (⭐4) - Puppet module for RethinkDB.

• Chef (⭐15) - Chef RethinkDB cookbook.

• Wrecker (⭐10) - Wercker box for RethinkDB.

• Docker (⭐299) - Single node Dockerfile.

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