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1. Awesome Android

Kotlin / Custom Dialog

• Koin - Lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin

2. Awesome Serverless

Projects

• Official joke API (⭐635) - Vue Jokester application backend.

• Event Gateway Getting Started (⭐48) - Walkthrough application for using the Event Gateway.

3. Awesome Decentralized

Applications

• LCVPN (⭐540): Light decentralized VPN in golang.

• Meshbird (⭐3.5k): Meshbird enables distributed private networking across geographically dispersed datacenters.

• nuTorrent ☠️ (⭐234): A Pure Javascript BitTorrent Client. Built with Electron and React.

4. Awesome Mobile Web Development

Books

• Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Smartphone Apps - UI patterns which can be useful for mobile web apps.

Other Useful Tools and Libraries

• Workbox - JavaScript libraries for adding offline support to web apps.

5. Tools

Pagespeed

• GTmetrix

6. Awesome Deep Learning Resources

Books

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning - This book covers many of the core concepts behind neural networks and deep learning.

Papers / Recurrent Neural Networks

• Neural Machine Translation and Sequence-to-sequence Models: A Tutorial - Interesting overview of the subject of NMT, I mostly read part 8 about RNNs with attention as a refresher.

• Adaptive Computation Time for Recurrent Neural Networks - Let RNNs decide how long they compute. I would love to see how well would it combines to Neural Turing Machines. Interesting interactive visualizations on the subject can be found here.

Papers / Convolutional Neural Networks

• U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation - The U-Net is an encoder-decoder CNN that also has skip-connections, good for image segmentation at a per-pixel level.

• The One Hundred Layers Tiramisu: Fully Convolutional DenseNets for Semantic Segmentation - Merges the ideas of the U-Net and the DenseNet, this new neural network is especially good for huge datasets in image segmentation.

• Prototypical Networks for Few-shot Learning - Use a distance metric in the loss to determine to which class does an object belongs to from a few examples.

Papers / Attention Mechanisms

• Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate - Attention mechanism for LSTMs! Mostly, figures and formulas and their explanations revealed to be useful to me. I gave a talk on that paper here.

• Neural Turing Machines - Outstanding for letting a neural network learn an algorithm with seemingly good generalization over long time dependencies. Sequences recall problem.

• Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention - LSTMs' attention mechanisms on CNNs feature maps does wonders.

• Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend - A very interesting and creative work about textual question answering, what a breakthrough, there is something to do with that.

• Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation - Exploring different approaches to attention mechanisms.

• Matching Networks for One Shot Learning - Interesting way of doing one-shot learning with low-data by using an attention mechanism and a query to compare an image to other images for classification.

• Google’s Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation - In 2016: stacked residual LSTMs with attention mechanisms on encoder/decoder are the best for NMT (Neural Machine Translation).

• Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory - Improvements on differentiable memory based on NTMs: now it is the Differentiable Neural Computer (DNC).

• Massive Exploration of Neural Machine Translation Architectures - That yields intuition about the boundaries of what works for doing NMT within a framed seq2seq problem formulation.

• Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions - A WaveNet used as a vocoder can be conditioned on generated Mel Spectrograms from the Tacotron 2 LSTM neural network with attention to generate neat audio from text.

7. Awesome Courses

Courses / Machine Learning

• CS 189 Introduction To Machine Learning UC Berkeley
  • Introductory ML course covering a wide range of topics: ranging from least squares to convolutional neural networks
  • Notes
  • Homework

8. Awesome Preact

Contents / Components

• Pimg (⭐99) - Progressive Image Component; Used for lazy loading images.

9. Awesome Jamstack

Tutorials / Articles / Automation

• Handling Static Forms, Auth & Serverless Functions with Gatsby on Netlify

10. Awesome

Games

• LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.

11. Awesome Elixir

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

• Kazan (⭐139) - Kubernetes client for Elixir, generated from the k8s open API specifications.

Date and Time

• cocktail (⭐217) - Elixir date recurrence library based on iCalendar events.

Examples and funny stuff

• feedx (⭐12) - Add social feed functionality to current applications. Exemplify OTP umbrella app, with 3 apps. Thin phoenix controllers.

Framework Components

• plug_canonical_host (⭐40) - Plug to ensure all requests are served from a single canonical host.

HTML

• tidy_ex (⭐9) - Elixir binding to the granddaddy of HTML tools http://www.html-tidy.org.

Queue

• gen_rmq (⭐182) - Set of behaviours meant to be used to create RabbitMQ consumers and publishers.

Security

• pwned (⭐24) - Check if your password has been pwned.

Testing

• mockingbird (⭐3) - A set of helpers to test code that involves http requests.

Third Party APIs

• shopify (⭐104) - Easily access the Shopify API.

Translations and Internationalizations

• getatrex (⭐6) - Automatic translation tool of Gettext locales with Google Translate for Elixir/Phoenix projects.

12. Awesome C

Compilers

• CompCert - Fully-verified C compiler. Supports almost all of C89. GNU GPL2.1 or later

• Intel SPMD - Compiler for a variant of the C language, for single program, multiple data programming. Various licenses

Compression

• lz4 - Fast Compression algorithm.

• quicklz - Fast compression library. GNU GPL2.1

Crypto

• libgcrypt - General-purpose cryptography library, with a range of available ciphers. GNU LGPL2.1or later (code) and GNU GPL2.1 or later (manual and tools)

• libsodium - Modern and easy-to-use crypto library. Expat

• libtomcrypt - Fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit. Public Domain

Database

• sophia - Modern, embeddable key-value database. FreeBSD

Editors

• Qt Creator - Cross-platform IDE written with C++ and Qt, part of the Qt SDK. Supports Clang Code Model. GNU GPL3 with Qt exception

RTOS

• Amazon FreeRTOS - RTOS for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program. MIT

• Contiki - Connect low-cost, low power microcontrollers to the Internet. 3-clause BSD

Frameworks

• C Algorithms - Collection of common algorithms and data structures for C. ISC

• EFL - Large collection of useful data structures and functions.

• qlibc - Simple and powerful C library, designed as a replacement for GLib while focusing on being small and light. qLib license (similar to FreeBSD)

Engines

• ioquake3 - The Quake3 engine, freed at last. GNU GPL2.1

• Orx - Portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven, 2D-oriented game engine. zlib

Resources

• Chipmunk2D - Fast and lightweight 2D game physics library. Expat

• FreeGLUT - Alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit. Allows the creation and management of windows with OpenGL contexts. X11

• libao - Cross-platform audio library with a wide variety of outputs. GNU GPL2.1 or later

• SDL and SDL2 - Cross-platform development library designed to provide low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick and graphics hardware via OpenGL. SDL2 is the most current version. zlib

Generic Programming

• klib - Small and lightweight implementations of common algorithms and data structures. MIT

JSON

• WJElement (⭐101) - Advanced JSON manipulation library, with support for JSON Schema. LGPL, any version

Memory Allocators / Language Standards

• jemalloc - General purpose malloc(3) implementation that emphasizes fragmentation avoidance and scalable concurrency support, commonly used in production systems. FreeBSD

Multimedia / Language Standards

• libmpv - Music-playing library. Compile with ./waf configure --disable-cplayer --enable-libmpv-shared to not have the music player. GNU GPL2.1 or later

• libsoundio - Library for cross-platform, real-time audio input and output. Has a range of back-ends. Expat

Networking and Internet / Language Standards

• czmq - High-level binding for ZeroMQ. MPL2.0

• libuv - Cross-platform asynchronous I/O. Expat

• lwan - Experimental, scalable, high-performance HTTP server. GNU GPL2.1

• mongoose - Embedded web server for C. GNU GPL2.1

Web Frameworks / Language Standards

• balde - Microframework for C based on GLib. GNU LGPLv2.1

• kore - Easy to use, scalable and secure web application framework for writing web APIs in C.

• klone - KLone is a fully-featured, multiplatform, web application development framework.

Numerical / Language Standards

• apophenia - Library for statistical and scientific computing. GNU GPL2.1

Parallel Programming / Language Standards

• ck - Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking data structures. FreeBSD

• libdill - Structured concurrency in C. X11

String Manipulation / Language Standards

• shoco - Compressor for small text strings. Expat

Testing / Language Standards

• CHEAT - Very simple unit testing framework. FreeBSD

• CMock - Mock/stub generator for C. Expat

• Unity - Simple unit testing framework for C. Expat

Tools / Language Standards

• rr - Debugger that records non-deterministic executions to allow for deterministic debugging. FreeBSD

Utilities / Language Standards

• libusb - Generic access to USB devices. LGPL2.1

13. Awesome PICO 8

Contents / Tools

• MIDI to PICO-8 (⭐61) - A tool to convert MIDI files to PICO-8 music.

14. Awesome Hacking

Tools / Other

• Autopsy - A digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit and other digital forensics tools

Bug bounty / Other

• Awesome bug bounty resources by EdOverflow (⭐5.4k)

General / Other

• Movies For Hackers (⭐10k) - A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch.

15. Awesome Free Software

Resources / Organizations

• Free Software Movement Karnataka - Group in Bengaluru, India that spreads awareness about free software.

• Free Software Movement of India - Coalition of free software organizations in India.

Resources / Other Lists

• Awesome Humane Tech (⭐2.9k) - List of projects focusing on ethics, transparency, and privacy.

16. Awesome No Login Web Apps

Programming Tools / Others

• jsonstore.io - jsonstore.io offers free, secured JSON based API endpoints for small projects. It supports common types of HTTP operations like POST, GET, PUT, DELETE etc.

Text based tools / Others

• Write.as - Cross-platform writing and publishing tool that supports Markdown and editing / deleting past posts.

17. Awesome Crystal

System

• baked_file_system (⭐177) - Virtual file system implementation

• hardware (⭐72) - Get CPU, Memory and Network informations of the running OS and its processes

18. Awesome Remote Job

Tools / Communication

• Slack – Text, voice, and video chat system with loads of integration options including ScreenHero, a real-time, HD screen sharing system for collaboration in teams

19. Awesome Influxdb

Plugins / Hooks

• sensu-plugins-influxdb (⭐18) - Sensu InfluxDB Plugins

Awesome lists that include links to InfluxDB / Hooks

• awesome-microservices (⭐11k)

20. Awesome Opengl

Debug

• CodeXL (⭐986) - AMD's tool suite that includes debugger, profiler and frame/shader analysis.

Libraries

• assimp (⭐9.4k) - Portable library to import 3D models in a uniform manner.

Videos

• TheChernoProject - Introduction to OpenGL in C++

21. Awesome Network Analysis

Review Articles / Archeological and Historical Networks

• Graph Theory and Networks in Biology (preprint; IET Systems Biology, 2007).

22. Awesome Aws

Open Source Repos / Elastic Beanstalk

• eb-demo-php-simple-app 🔥 (⭐142) - Simple PHP app.

Open Source Repos / Elastic MapReduce

• emr-bootstrap-actions 🔥🔥🔥 (⭐612) - Sample bootstrap actions.

23. Awesome Malware Analysis

Open Source Threat Intelligence / Tools

• MalPipe (⭐102) - Malware/IOC ingestion and processing engine, that enriches collected data.

24. Awesome Shell

Applications / Directory Navigation

• gcalcli (⭐3.2k) - Google Calendar command line interface

25. Awesome Vue

Components & Libraries / UI Components

• vue-persian-datetime-picker (⭐586) Persian material datepicker. Supports datetime, date, time, year, month.

Components & Libraries / UI Utilities

• vue-next-level-scroll (⭐49) - A component based and SSR ready approach to smooth scrolling using the modern Scroll behavior API

Components & Libraries / Utilities

• vue-router-user-roles (⭐241) - Protects routes based on user roles. Add your own authentication.

26. Awesome Cheminformatics

Libraries / General Purpose

• CDK (Chemistry Development Kit) - Algorithms for structural chemo- and bioinformatics, implemented in Java.

Libraries / Visualization

• JChemPaint (⭐106) - Chemical 2D structure editor application/applet based on the Chemistry Development Kit.

27. Awesome Ember

Packages / Automation

• ember-cli-dependency-lint (⭐83) - Lint your app's addon dependencies, making sure you only have one version of each.

Packages / End-user customization

• ember-wormhole (⭐284) - Render a child view somewhere else in the DOM.

Packages / Helpers

• ember-root-url (⭐10) - A template helper to keep your URLs relative to the app's rootURL.

• ember-cli-string-helpers (⭐75) - Set of the String helpers extracted from DockYard's ember-composable-helpers.

Packages / Articles

• A collection of links that summarize EmberConf 2017 (⭐101)

• A collection of links that summarize EmberConf 2016 (⭐268)

• A collection of links that summarize EmberConf 2015 (⭐244)

Packages / Styleguides

• ember-styleguide (⭐79)

• Softlayer Ember.js (⭐40)

• Netguru Ember.js

• DockYard Ember.js

Packages / Videos

• Developing ember apps on glitch.com

28. Awesome Laravel

Conferences / Third-party Service Integration

• Laravel Live UK

29. Awesome Machine Learning

JavaScript / General-Purpose Machine Learning

• TensorFlow.js - A WebGL accelerated, browser based JavaScript library for training and deploying ML models.

.NET / General-Purpose Machine Learning

• GeneticSharp (⭐1.2k) - Multi-platform genetic algorithm library for .NET Core and .NET Framework. The library has several implementations of GA operators, like: selection, crossover, mutation, reinsertion and termination.

• ML.NET (⭐8.9k) - ML.NET is a cross-platform open-source machine learning framework which makes machine learning accessible to .NET developers. ML.NET was originally developed in Microsoft Research and evolved into a significant framework over the last decade and is used across many product groups in Microsoft like Windows, Bing, PowerPoint, Excel and more.

• Vulpes (⭐116) - Deep belief and deep learning implementation written in F# and leverages CUDA GPU execution with Alea.cuBase.

30. Bots

Tools For Building Bots

• Dialogflow - Build natural and rich conversational experiences.

31. Awesome Mqtt

Tools

• moxy (⭐23) - A Golang MQTT proxy providing useful output traces to monitor and troubleshoot your MQTT communications.

• mqtt-shell (⭐16) - A simple interactive shell for MQTT.

Smart Home Hardware Interfaces / Firmwares for ESP based Devices

• homeeToMqtt (⭐10) - Bidirectional Interface between homee and MQTT.

32. Awesome React Native

Assorted

• React and React Native State Museum

33. Awesome Vapor

Libraries

• Ferno (⭐52) – Vapor Firebase Realtime database provider.

• Local Storage (⭐3) – Storage driver using local filesystem.

• Vapor reCAPTCHA (⭐11) – Validate Google reCAPTCHAs using Vapor.

• Vapor Request Storage (⭐7) – A replacement for request.storage which was available in Vapor 1 & 2.

Tools

• Ice (⭐372) – A developer friendly package manager for Swift; 100% compatible with Swift Package Manager.

Open-source Projects / Videos

• User Manager Service (⭐69) – A small, useful user manager made for production application setups.

34. Awesome Broadcasting

Metadata

• SDPoker (⭐37) - CLI tool and library for testing SMPTE ST2110 SDP files.

35. Awesome Security

Other Awesome Lists / Other Security Awesome Lists

• Awesome Container Security (⭐14) - A curated list of awesome resources related to container building and runtime security

36. Awesome Swift

Animation

• SpriteKitEasingSwift (⭐115) - Better Easing for SpriteKit.

Core Data

• SugarRecord (⭐2.1k) - Helps with Core Data and Realm.

Images / Barcode

• BlockiesSwift (⭐64) - Unique blocky identicons/profile picture generator.

• ImageDetect (⭐302) - Detect and crop faces, barcodes and texts in image with iOS 11 Vision API.

Logging / Barcode

• TraceLog (⭐52) 🐧 - Dead Simple: logging the way it's meant to be! Runs on iOS, macOS, and Linux.

Webserver / Barcode

• Curassow (⭐397) 🐧 - HTTP server using the pre-fork worker model.

Scripting / Barcode

• Swift for Scripting (⭐285) - A hand-curated collection of useful and informative scripting material.

Text / Barcode

• Croc (⭐130) - A lightweight Emoji parsing and querying library.

Template / Barcode

• Stencil (⭐2.3k) - Simple and powerful template language.

Transition / Barcode

• EasyTransitions (⭐1.7k) - A simple way to create custom interactive UIViewController transitions.

37. Awesome Css Learning

CSS References

• Can I use - Interactive browser support tables for CSS (and HTML5).

Fundamental concepts

• The cascade - This article explains what the cascade is and how this affects you.

• Specificity and inheritance - Understanding specificity and inheritance is important to master CSS. This article will help.

• CSS Box Model - An article explaining the foundation of layout on the web.
  • Also have a look at the detailed information about the box-sizing property.

Selectors

• Advanced CSS Selectors - Level up your knowledge. From attribute selectors to CSS3 pseudo classes.

Custom properties (aka CSS variables)

• CSS Variables: Why Should You Care? - A short introduction to CSS variables.

• Locally Scoped CSS Variables: What, How, and Why - Describes the advantages of locally scoped CSS variables.

• Using CSS variables correctly - Patterns and anti-patterns for using CSS variables.

• Everything you need to know about CSS Variables - In depth article going beyond the basics of CSS Variables using real-world examples.

• Getting Reactive with CSS - Mindblowing talk about the possibilities of the combination of CSS variables and functional reactive programming in JavaScript.

Layout

• Learn CSS Layout - Learn about CSS layout techniques in 5 chapters.

• Laying Out The Future With Grid And Flexbox - Introduction of a new layout system encompassing Flexbox, CSS Grid and the Box Alignment Module.

Layout / Classic layouting

• Floats - In depth information about how to use (and clear) floats.

• Positioning Types - A closer look at a few little-known things related to the CSS positioning layout method.

• inline-block - Shows in which cases it makes sense to use the display property inline-block for layouting.

Layout / Flexbox

• Flexbugs (⭐13k) - Community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them.

• Flexbox Zombies - A training course driven by a storyline where you use Flexbox and a crossbow to hunt zombies.

Layout / Grid

• Grid Garden - Lovely game where you write CSS code to grow your carrot garden.

Animation / Grid

• CSS 3D transforms - Multi page tutorial with examples like card flip and carousel effects.

• CSS Animation for Beginners - Imparts the concepts of CSS animations with keyframes.

• animatable - Nice little page demonstrating which CSS properties are animatable.

38. Awesome Recursion Schemes

Implementations / Hylomorphisms in the Wild

• dada (⭐58) for Dhall - a library for recursion schemes in Dhall.

39. Awesome Geek Podcasts

In English

• Elixir Outlaws - Panel discussions of topics in and around Elixir development.

40. Awesome Dotnet

Assets

• Bundle Transformer (⭐130) - Modular extension for Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework. Its modules supports LESS, Sass, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Mustache, Handlebars, Autoprefixer along with a bunch of different JS and CSS minifiers.

Compilers, Transpilers and Languages

• Mond (⭐359) - A dynamically typed scripting language written in C# with a REPL, debugger, and simple embedding API.

Compression

• DotNetZip.Semverd (⭐545) - An open-source project that delivers a .NET library for handling ZIP files, and some associated tools. (fork of Unmaintained DotNetZip)

Cryptography

• HashLib - HashLib is a collection of nearly all hash algorithms you've ever seen, it supports almost everything and is very easy to use

ETL

• Cinchoo ETL (⭐762) - ETL Framework for .NET (Read / Write CSV, Flat, Xml, JSON, Key-Value formatted files)

• Reactive ETL - Reactive ETL is a rewrite of Rhino ETL using the reactive extensions for .NET

Event aggregator and messenger

• Xer.Cqrs (⭐101) - A simple library for creating applications based on the CQRS pattern with support for attribute routing and hosted handlers. Developed in C# targeting .NET Standard 1.0.

GUI

• Office Ribbon (⭐749) - A library that implements MS Office Ribbon for WinForms.

HTTP

• Refit (⭐8.4k) - The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET

Minification

• Microsoft Ajax Minifier - Contains JS and CSS minifiers which have a highest performance, because its have been specifically designed for .NET. Optionally produce Source Maps for JS code.

Misc

• MSBuild ILMerge task - MSBuild ILMerge task is a NuGet package allows you to use the famous ILMerge utility in automated builds and/or Visual Studio projects.

MVVM

• MVVM Light Toolkit (⭐1.2k) - The main purpose of the toolkit is to accelerate the creation and development of MVVM applications in WPF, Silverlight, Windows Store (RT) and for Windows Phone

Office

• EPPlus (⭐3.8k) - EPPlus is a .NET library that reads and writes Excel 2007/2010 files using the Open Office XML format (xlsx).

PDF

• WkhtmlToPdf (⭐265) - C# wrapper around wkhtmltopdf console utility. Allow to generate preety PDF using HTML and CSS.

Reactive Programming

• Rx.NET (⭐6.6k) - The Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences and LINQ-style query operators

Testing

• NCrunch - An automated continuous & concurrent testing tool for Visual Studio. [$]

Visual Studio Plugins

• VSColorOutput - Color highlighting for Build, Find and Debug output windows. Custom match patterns and colors can be added.

WebSocket

• WebSocket4NET - WebSocket client for .NET 2.0+, Xamarin, Mono, Silverlight, Windows Phone, & WinRT

• Crossertech - Provides a great set of tools for you to build real-time applications on the Microsoft.NET plattform and much more. [$]

• WampSharp (⭐385) - A C# implementation of The Web Application Messaging Protocol - a protocol that provides messaging patterns of Remote Procedure Calls and Publish/Subscribe over WebSockets.

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