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1. Mind Expanding Books

Science and Medicine

• Name: The Brain: The Story of You

  Author: David Eagleman

  Goodreads Rating: 4.20

  Year Published: 2015

Education

• Name: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

  Author: Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

  Goodreads Rating: 4.20

  Year Published: 2014

2. Awesome Creative Coding

Hardware

• AxiDraw - Simple, modern, and precise pen plotter.

Articles • Tutorials / Hardware

• Pen Plotter Art & Algorithms Part 1, 2 - How to use the AxiDraw pen plotter with JavaScript.

3. Awesome Non Financial Blockchain

Identity Applications / Public Blockchain Identity

• uPort - Self-Sovereign identity on Ethereum by ConsenSys.

Identity Applications / Unclear

• UniquID - Identity both for people and devices.

Internet of Things Applications / Guidance

• IOTA - Decentralized Internet of Things token on blockless blockchain.

• Machinomy - Distributed platform for IoT micropayments.

• Project Oaken - IoT blockchain platform.

Energy Applications / Guidance

• bankymoon - Blockchain consultancy. Presented bitcoin-topped smart electricity meter. Once topped up, it chooses a plan, and starts moving energy.

• Co-Tricity - Decentralised energy marketplace by Innogy and ConsenSys.

• PowerPeers - Peer-to-peer energy marketplace in the Netherlands.

• Solar Change - Makers of Solar Coin. AltCoin for a MW of solar power.

• Terraledger - Provider of Renewable Energy Certificates.

Talks and Books / Guidance

• 19 Industries The Blockchain Will Disrupt - List of industries to be changed by blockchain.

• EventHorizon - First global summit on blockchain technology in Energy Sector.

4. Awesome Mac

Reading and Writing Tools / Text Editors

• LightTable - The next generation code editor.

Utilities / System Related Tools

• Juice (⭐758) - Make your battery information a bit more interesting.

5. Vertx Awesome

Web Frameworks

• REST.VertX (⭐151) - Lightweight JAX-RS (RestEasy) like annotation processor for Vert.x verticals.

6. Awesome Fp Js

Programming Tools / Lenses

• ftor (⭐44) - A pluggable runtime type checker and functional debugging tool that supports parametric and row polymorphism, implicit rank-2 types and algebraic data types via Scott Encoding.

7. Awesome Esp

Firmware

• Espressif AT - The default vanilla firmware for the ESP8266.

• Frankenstein (⭐315) - A quick and dirty firmware with cool features for the ESP8266.

• DeviceHive - A firmware made as a client for DeviceHive's IoT data platform, only for the 8266.

Tools

• ESP Flash Tool - The vanilla firmware flasher for both ESP's.

• Arduino Core/8266 (⭐14k) - The Arduino core for the ESP8266.

• Arduino Core/32 (⭐9.5k) - The other Arduino core for the ESP32.

• ESPTool (⭐4.5k) - Espressif's command line tool for bootloader comms in both ESP's.

• ESP-Open-SDK (⭐1.9k) - An open SDK for the ESP8266.

• Arduino FS Plugin (⭐645) - An Arduino plugin for filesystem uploads in the 8266.

8. Awesome Jvm

Memory and concurrency

• mug - A small, zero-dep functional util library originating from Google.

Metaprogramming

• lombok - Reduce the amount of boilerplate code that is commonly written for Java classes.

9. Awesome Saltstack

Official resources

• GitHub repo (⭐14k) - Salt's source code, issues discussion and collaboration.

• Jinja2 documentation - This official documentation covers the used templating language in Salt.

Tutorials

• A dive into SaltStack - SaltStack uncovered - Configuration management has been a big leap forward for System Engineers.

• How To Use Salt Cloud Map Files to Deploy App Servers and an Nginx Reverse Proxy - Walkthrough on how to use Salt Cloud Map Files to deploy application servers and an Nginx reverse proxy.

• An Introduction to SaltStack Terminology and Concepts - Part 1 of 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.

• SaltStack Infrastructure: Installing the Salt Master - Part 2 of 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.

• SaltStack Infrastructure: Configuring Salt-Cloud to Spin Up DigitalOcean Resources - Part 3 of 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.

• SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for Nginx Web Servers - Part 4 of 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.

• SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for HAProxy Load Balancers - Part 5 of 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.

• SaltStack Infrastructure: Creating Salt States for MySQL Database Servers - Part 6 in the series Managing Development Environments with SaltStack.

• Getting Started with SaltStack - the Other Configuration Management System Built with Python - A Linux Journal "Getting started" from 2013.

• Create an army of Salt minions on DigitalOcean - Combine the simplicity of Salt with DigitalOcean's snapshot and image feature.

• Salt-API, A Crash Course - Get a barebones salt-api proof of concept up and running.

• SaltStack Examples - Will teach you some of default functions in a quick way.

• Introduction to SaltStack (⭐19) - A two day course designed to quickly introduce System Administrators and Application Developers on how to start using Saltstack.

Code

• madflojo/masterless-salt-base (⭐27) - Quickly bootstrap a generic(ish) Ubuntu server. One that is ready to host Docker containers.

Videos

• SaltStack - SaltStack's official YouTube channel.

• Managing Your Infrastructure with SaltStack - PyCon 2015 - April 11, 2015 - Colton Myers.

• Beyond Configuration Management with SaltStack for Event-Driven Infrastructure - Southern California Linux Expo - January 23, 2016 - David Boucha.

• Automation and Orchestration with SaltStack and Twilio - Devops Chicago - March 2, 2016 - Nathan Brooks.

Blogposts and opinions

• Docker with SaltStack - How-to use SaltStack on a virtual cloud server based on Debian or Ubuntu.

• One week of Salt: frustrations and reflections - First hand experiences from a Chef user.

• Getting started with SaltStack by example: Automatically Installing nginx - A good getting started guide for both Salt master and minions.

• SaltStack: Manage entries in unmanaged files with File Blockreplace - How to use the SaltStack's core file.blockreplace.

• SaltStack: Keeping Salt Pillar data encrypted using GPG - On secure encryption/decryption of pillar data.

• Secure Pillar in SaltStack with GPG - Encrypting your pillar data can be done with GPG.

Discussions

• Reddit: Vagrat, SaltStack, Ansible, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Packer.. Something - Discussion on Reddit, started Sept. 2014 in /r/sysadmin.

Community

• Mailing list - Salt-users mailinglist on Google Groups.

• SaltStack Meetups - Worldwide Meetup groups.

Formulas

• SaltStack Formulas - A central collection of formula repositories for SaltStack.

• Salt Formulas - A community developed SaltStack formulas ecosystem.

• Writing SaltStack formulas - An overview on writing SaltStack formulas.

Cheat sheets

• SaltStack Wiki (⭐14k) - Cheat sheet in the SaltStack GitHub Wiki.

Uncategorized

• Salt (software) - Wikipedia (English).

10. Awesome Bigdata

Internet of things and sensor data

• NetLytics (⭐10) - Analytics platform to process network data on Spark.

11. Awesome AutoHotkey

Others / Web

• WinSpy - by Alguimist - Useful window spy / information tool written in AHK.

12. Awesome Selfhosted

Software / Automation

• Headphones (⭐3.4k) - Automated music downloader for NZB and Torrent, written in Python. It supports SABnzbd, NZBget, Transmission, µTorrent, Deluge and Blackhole. GPL-3.0 Python

• Sonarr - Automatic TV Shows downloader and manager for Usenet and BitTorrent. It can grab, sort and rename new episodes and automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available. (Source Code (⭐11k)) GPL-3.0 C#/Docker

Software / Blogging Platforms

• Antville - Free, open source project aimed at the development of a high performance, feature rich weblog hosting software. (Source Code (⭐77)) Apache-2.0 Javascript

Software / Communication - Custom Communication Systems

• TextBelt (⭐3k) ⚠ - Outgoing SMS API that uses carrier-specific gateways to deliver your text messages for free, and without ads. MIT Javascript

Software / Communication - Email - Mailing Lists and Newsletters

• Mautic - Mautic is marketing automation software (email, social and more). (Source Code (⭐7k)) GPL-3.0 PHP

• Schleuder - GPG-enabled mailing list manager with resending-capabilities. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 Ruby

Software / Communication - IRC

• Weechat - Fast, light and extensible chat client. (Source Code (⭐2.9k)) GPL-3.0 C/Docker/deb

Software / Communication - Social Networks and Forums

• Elgg - Powerful open source social networking engine. (Source Code (⭐1.6k)) GPL-2.0 PHP

• HumHub - Flexible kit for private social networks. (Source Code (⭐6.3k)) AGPL-3.0 PHP

Software / Communication - XMPP - Web Clients

• JSXC - Real-time XMPP web chat application with video calls, file transfer and encrypted communication. There are also versions for Nextcloud/Owncloud and SOGo. (Source Code (⭐714)) MIT Javascript

Software / Content Management Systems (CMS)

• REDAXO - Simple, flexible and useful content management system (documentation only available in German). (Source Code (⭐327)) MIT PHP/Docker

• TYPO3 - Powerful and advanced CMS with a large community. (Source Code (⭐1k)) GPL-2.0 PHP

Software / Feed Readers

• Temboz (⭐81) - Two-column feed reader emphasizing filtering capabilities to manage information overload. MIT Python

Software / File Transfer - Peer-to-peer Filesharing

• Transmission - Fast, easy, free Bittorrent client. (Source Code (⭐12k)) GPL-3.0 C++/deb

Software / File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload

• Plik (⭐1.4k) - Plik is a scalable and friendly temporary file upload system. (Demo) MIT Go/Docker

Software / Miscellaneous

• DomainMOD - Application to manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location. DomainMOD includes a Data Warehouse framework that allows you to import your WHM/cPanel web server data so that you can view, export, and report on your data. (Demo, Source Code (⭐473)) GPL-3.0 PHP

• google-webfonts-helper (⭐12k) ⚠ - Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. Get eot, ttf, svg, woff and woff2 files + CSS snippets. (Demo) MIT Nodejs

Software / Money, Budgeting & Management

• Invoice Ninja - Powerful tool to invoice clients online. (Demo, Source Code (⭐8.1k)) AAL PHP/Docker/K8S

Software / Note-taking & Editors

• Turtl - Totally private personal database and note taking app. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 CommonLisp

Software / Office Suites

• Infinoted (⭐572) - Server for Gobby (⭐572), a multi-platform collaborative text editor. (Source Code (⭐572)) MIT C++

Software / Pastebins

• Sup3rS3cretMes5age (⭐509) - Very simple (to deploy and to use) secret message service using Hashicorp Vault as a secrets storage. MIT Go

Software / Software Development - Project Management

• Gitea - Community managed, lightweight code hosting solution (fork of Gogs). (Demo, Source Code (⭐44k)) MIT Go/Docker/K8S

Software / Ticketing

• Zammad - Easy to use but powerful open-source support and ticketing system. (Source Code (⭐4.3k)) AGPL-3.0 Ruby/deb

Software / Wikis

• Dokuwiki - Easy to use, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine with a simple syntax allowing reading the data outside the wiki. All data is stored in plain text files, therefore no database is required. (Source Code (⭐4.1k)) GPL-2.0 PHP

• Gitit (⭐2.1k) - Wiki program that stores pages and uploaded files in a git repository, which can then be modified using the VCS command line tools or the wiki's web interface. GPL-2.0 Haskell

• Gollum (⭐14k) - Simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend. MIT Ruby

13. Awesome Testing

Software / Make your life easier

• Xmind - The best (free) Mindmapping tool for documenting your tests.

14. Awesome Vscode

Other extensions / Smarty Template Support

• phpfmt - phpfmt for Visual Studio Code

15. Awesome Lumen

Written

• Creating Your First Artisan Command in Lumen 5.5

Packages and Middleware

• Lumen Passport (⭐651) - Making Laravel Passport work with Lumen.

16. Awesome

Productivity

• Cold Turkey - The only blocker for distracting websites that actually works. (even doesn't let you uninstall it when blocking is active).

17. Awesome Blockchain Ai

Blockchains for AI algorithms / Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning

• SingularityNET - SingularityNET is a distributed AI platform on the Ethereum blockchain, with each blockchain node backing up an AI algorithm.

Blockchains for data / Blockchain projects for AI algorithms

• Ocean Protocol - Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that lets people share and monetize data while guaranteeing control, auditability, transparency and compliance to all actors involved. Its network handles storing of the metadata (i.e. who owns what), links to the data itself, and more.

Blockchains for computation / Blockchain projects for AI algorithms

• TrueBit - TrueBit gives Ethereum smart contracts a computational boost.

Blockchains for AI in finance / Blockchain projects for AI algorithms

• Cindicator - Cindicator is a crowd-sourced prediction engine for financial and crypto indicators.

Blockchains for AI in medicine / Blockchain projects for AI algorithms

• doc.ai - doc.ai aims to decentralize precision medicine on the blockchain by using AI.

18. Awesome Vue

Projects Using Vue.js / Open Source

• TimeMark (⭐15) - A Time manager which will can record your time and some more function will be developed.

Components & Libraries / UI Components

• vue-ip (⭐25) - An ip address input with port and material design support

19. Awesome D3

Charts

• dagre-d3 (⭐2.7k) - Layout directed graphs on the client-side

• dc.js (⭐7.4k) - For heavy amounts of data

Maps / Third Party

• d3-exploder (⭐94) - Lets you easily move and resize geographic features

• d3-geo-projection (⭐999) - Extended geographic projections

• d3-geomap (⭐124) - Library for creating geographic maps

• simple-map-d3 (⭐114) - Easy choropleth style maps

Utils / Third Party

• swoopy-drag (⭐119) - Artisanal label placement for d3 graphics

20. Awesome Swift

2D

• ImagineEngine (⭐1.8k) - Blazing fasst 2D gaming engine.

UI / Barcode

• Fluid Slider (⭐2k) - A slider widget with a popup bubble displaying the precise value selected.

21. Awesome Dotnet Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Application Templates

• kendo-ui-core (⭐2.5k) - An HTML5, jQuery-based widget library for building modern web apps. http://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui.

• Serenity (⭐2.6k) - Serenity is an ASP.NET MVC / TypeScript application platform designed to simplify and shorten development of data-centric business applications with a service based architecture.

22. Awesome Crystal

Database Tools

• migrate (⭐31) - A simpler database migration tool with transactions

23. Awesome D

People

• YOU - Please add your information if you've done something interesting in D. It is you, the awesome people that made D awesome.

Scientific / XML

• decimals - Decimal library for D.

24. Awesome Markdown

Libraries / Perl

• Markdown.pl 💎 John Gruber's original Markdown library.

Libraries / Python

• Python-Markdown (⭐3.2k) - Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown.

Tools / Converters

• turndown (⭐6.9k) - HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript.

Tools / Linters

• Markdown Lint Tool (⭐1.5k) - Tool to check Markdown files and flag style issues.

Tools / Miscellaneous

• Dillinger - Dillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage, AngularJS powered HTML5 Markdown editor.

Resources / Documentation

• Stack Overflow Markdown Documentation (archived) - Well organized Markdown documentation.

25. Awesome Elixir

Command Line Applications

• ex_prompt (⭐29) - Helper package to add interactivity to your command line applications as easy as possible.

Cryptography

• ntru_elixir (⭐16) - Elixir wrapper for libntru. A post quantum cryptography system.

Debugging

• rexbug (⭐250) - An Elixir wrapper for the redbug production-friendly Erlang tracing debugger.

Deployment

• akd (⭐52) - Capistrano like, Configurable, and easy to set up Elixir Deployment Automation Framework.

Framework Components

• plug_checkup (⭐73) - Plug for adding simple health checks to your app.

HTTP

• gun (⭐893) - HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Websocket client for Erlang/OTP.

Miscellaneous

• licensir (⭐74) - A mix task that lists the license(s) of all installed packages in your project.

Networking

• torex (⭐10) - Simple Tor connection library.

Templating

• calliope (⭐197) - An Elixir HAML parser.

• slime (⭐365) - An Elixir library for rendering slim-like templates.

Text and Numbers

• remove_emoji (⭐8) - Emoji text sanitizer in Elixir. It can remove any emoji symbol.

Third Party APIs

• gringotts (⭐481) - A complete payment library for Elixir and Phoenix Framework similar to ActiveMerchant (⭐4.5k) from the Ruby world.

Books

• Phoenix for Rails Developers - This book shows how Rails developers can benefit from their existing knowledge to learn Phoenix. By Elvio Vicosa (2017).

Editors

• vim-mix-format (⭐222) - Async mix format for Vim and Neovim.

Screencasts

• ElixirCasts.io - Simple screencasts to help you learn Elixir and Phoenix.

26. Awesome Choo

Contents / Projects using choo

• busca (⭐10) - A small web-extension to search the current tab on reddit.

27. Awesome Gbdev

ASM / Music drivers and trackers

• assemblydigest (⭐73) - Exploring Game Boy programming techniques:
  • Making an Empty Game Boy ROM (in Wiz)
  • Making Art for the Game Boy

Directories / Syntax highlighting packages

• Archive of related files

• The Game Boy Archive - A library of Game Boy related software, hardware and literature. Aimed to mirror and preserve old and fragmented contributions from the last three decades.

28. Awesome React Native

Continuous Integration

• The simplest way to automate delivery of your React Native Application

Talks / Navigation Demos

• Reactotron

Training & tutorials / Navigation Demos

• React Native Basics: Build a Currency Converter - (Free) A multi-hour in-depth video course showing you how to build apps with React Native.

• React Native in Arabic: Build a newspaper app - (Free) A simple to follow video series in Arabic showing you how to build a newspaper app with React Native.

• Building Youtube UI in 30 Minutes - A quick tutorial showing how to build Youtube Mobile app's UI using React Native. This tutorial helps in getting started with coding designs from scratch.

29. Citizen Science

Literature / Citizen Science Practice

• Lead Concentrations in Inner-City Soils As a Factor in the Child Lead Problem - A 1983 pharmacology paper detailing a low-cost, low-tech method of doing soil heavy metal testing.

• How to Run a Feminist Science Lab Meeting - A guide by the Civic Laboratory in St. John's, Newfoundland

• First-Ever Video May Show Pig-Like Animals Mourning Their Dead - An example of an important scientific discovery being made by someone who was not an institutional academic (an 8-year-old boy). The boy received lead author credit in a scientific paper.

30. Awesome Readme

Tools

• Make a README - A guide to writing READMEs. Includes an editable template with live Markdown rendering.

31. Awesome4girls

General / UX

• Czechitas – Loc:

  Czechitas is a nonprofit organization based in the Czech Republic which organizes events, courses, and summer camps to help women, girls and children to explore the world of IT. The events cover topics from programming, web development, graphic design, digital marketing, and data analytics.

Initiatives/Programs / Conferences/Talks

• Female Founders Conference

  An annual conference organized by accelerator Y Combinator and targeted at female founders and entrepreneurs. The event features talks and panels, including sessions where female founders share their experiences and offer startup guidance.

32. Awesome Cl

C, C++

• cmacro (⭐881) - Lisp macros for C. MIT.

• C-mera (⭐401) - a source-to-source compiler that utilizes Lisp's macro system for meta programming of C-like languages. GPL3.

• lispc (⭐535) - a powerful "lispsy" macrolanguage for C. MIT.

To third parties

• dyna (⭐22) - an AWS DynamoDB ORM. MIT.

Tools

• pileup - a portable, performant, and thread-safe binary heap for Common Lisp. MIT.

• sycamore (⭐115) - a fast, purely functional data structure library. BSD_3Clause.

Objective-C

• objc-lisp-bridge (⭐42) - A portable reader and bridge for interacting with Objective-C and Cocoa. MIT.

Miscellaneous

• cl-webkit (⭐52) - A binding to WebKitGTK+. Also adds web browsing capabilities to an application, leveraging the full power of the WebKit browsing engine. MIT.

Beginner

• Casting SPELs in LISP - A fun way to learn LISP while reading a comic book.

Reference

• Simplified Common Lisp reference - The simplified version of CLHS.

Emacs / Third-party APIs

• cl-devel2 - a Docker container for Common Lisp development environment. Ships SBCL, CCL, Roswell and Emacs25 with Slime.

33. Awesome Sre

Service Level Agreement

• Consequences of SLO violations — CRE life lessons

34. Awesome Hacking Locations

Portugal 🇵🇹 / Lisbon

Montana Lisboa Café

Street Art shop + speciality coffee place that is laptop friendly!

Webpage: http://4sq.com/2fHRcQF

Wifi pw: graffiti

Padaria Portuguesa - Cais do Sodré

One of the many Padaria Portuguesa bakeries, delivious sweets and sandwiches.

Webpage: apadariaportuguesa.pt

Wifi pw: portuguesa

35. Awesome Tensorflow

Videos

• Image recognition in Go using TensorFlow - by Alex Pliutau

36. Awesome Cpp

Frameworks

• FunctionalPlus (⭐2.1k) - Functional Programming Library for C++. Write concise and readable C++ code. [MIT]

Artificial Intelligence

• frugally-deep (⭐1.1k) - Header-only library for using Keras models in C++. [MIT]

Containers

• sparsepp (⭐1.2k) - A fast, memory efficient hash map for C++. [BSD 3-clause]

Cryptography

• Tiny AES in C (⭐4.2k) - Small portable AES128/192/256 in C. [PublicDomain]

Logging

• loguru (⭐1.8k) - A lightweight C++ logging library. [PublicDomain]

Machine Learning

• xgboost (⭐26k) - Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Flink and DataFlow. [Apache2]

Other Awesome Projects

• AwesomePerfCpp (⭐2.3k) - A curated list of awesome C/C++ performance optimization resources.

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