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1. Awesome Bitcoin

C++ Libraries

• libwally-core (⭐287)

2. Awesome Lit

Similar libraries / Other Tools

• hybrids (⭐3k) - UI library for creating Web Components with simple and functional API.

3. Awesome Projects Boilerplates

Go

• Go React JSX Boilerplate (⭐4) Starter code for a React + Go web application

4. Awesome Scientific Computing

Multi-purpose toolkits

• DUNE Numerics - Toolbox for solving PDEs with grid-based methods. (C++, GPL 2, GitLab)

• SciPy - Python modules for statistics, optimization, integration, linear algebra, etc. (Python, mostly BSD, GitHub (⭐13k))

• NumPy - Fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python. (Python, BSD, GitHub (⭐28k))

Finite Elements

• libMesh - Framework for the numerical simulation of PDEs using unstructured discretizations. (C++, LGPL 2.1, GitHub (⭐660))

• deal.II - Software library supporting the creation of finite element codes. (C++, LGPL 2.1, GitHub (⭐1.4k))

• Netgen/NGSolve - High performance multiphysics finite element software. (C++, LGPL 2.1, GitHub (⭐302))

• Firedrake - Automated system for the solution of PDEs using the finite element method. (Python, LGPL 3, GitHub (⭐521))

Meshing / Triangular and tetrahedral meshing

• Gmsh - Three-dimensional finite element mesh generator with pre- and post-processing facilities. (C++, GPL, GitLab)

• MeshPy - Quality triangular and tetrahedral mesh generation. (Python, MIT, GitHub (⭐522))

• CGAL - Algorithms for computational geometry. (C++, mixed LGPL/GPL, GitHub (⭐5k))

• TetGen - Quality tetrahedral mesh generator and 3D Delaunay triangulator. (C++, AGPLv3)

• distmesh - Simple generator for unstructured triangular and tetrahedral meshes. (MATLAB, GPL 3)

Sparse linear solvers / Mesh tools

• SuperLU - Direct solution of large, sparse, nonsymmetric systems of linear equations. (C, mostly BSD, GitHub (⭐281))

• PyAMG - Algebraic Multigrid Solvers in Python. (Python, MIT, GitHub (⭐575))

Other libraries and tools / Mesh tools

• FFTW - Discrete Fourier transforms in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, real and complex. (C, GPL2, GitHub (⭐2.8k))

• Qhull - Convex hull, Delaunay triangulation, Voronoi diagram, halfspace intersection about a point, etc. (C/C++, custom open source license, GitHub (⭐738))

• GSL - Random number generators, special functions, and least-squares fitting etc. (C/C++, GPL 3, Savannah)

• OpenFOAM - Free, open source CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software. (C++, GPL 3, GitHub (⭐1.6k))

• FiPy - Finite-volume PDE solver. (Python, custom open-source license, GitHub (⭐517))

5. Awesome Crypto Papers

Introducing people to data security and cryptography / Simple: cryptography for non-engineers

• Nuts and Bolts of Encryption: A Primer for Policymakers.

Specific topics / Public key cryptography: General and DLP

• Twenty Years of Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem - Great inquiry into attacking RSA and it's internals, by Dan Boneh.

Specific topics / Public key cryptography: Elliptic-curve crypto

• Elliptic Curve cryptography: A gentle introduction.

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: finite fields and discrete logarithms.

• Detailed Elliptic Curve cryptography tutorial.

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: ECDH and ECDSA.

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: breaking security and a comparison with RSA.

• Curve25519: new Diffie-Hellman speed records - Paper on Curve25519.

Specific topics / Zero Knowledge Proofs

• A Survey of Noninteractive Zero Knowledge Proof System and Its Applications.

Specific topics / Post-quantum cryptography

• Post-quantum cryptography - dealing with the fallout of physics success - Brief observation of mathematical tasks that can be used to build cryptosystems secure against attacks by post-quantum computers.

• Post-quantum RSA - Daniel Bernshtein's insight how to save RSA in post-quantum period.

Lectures and educational courses / Post-quantum cryptography

• A Course in Cryptography - Lecture notes by Rafael Pass, Abhi Shelat.

• Lecture Notes on Cryptography - Famous set of lectures on cryptography by Shafi Goldwasser (MIT), M. Bellare (University of California).

Online crypto challenges / Post-quantum cryptography

• Cryptopals crypto challenges.

6. Awesome Beacon

Stackoverflow Q&A

• BeaconKit (⭐22) - Beacon detection framework ns Swift using CoreBluetooth, supporting Eddystone-UID, Eddystone-URL, AltBeacon, iBeacon.

7. Awesome Ffmpeg

Docs

• FFmpeg.org - Where it all starts.

• Wiki & Bug Tracker - Lots of great info on here.

Tutorials

• How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1k Lines

8. Awesome List

Platforms

• Amazon Alexa (⭐593) - Virtual home assistant.

Work

• Code Review (⭐4.4k) - Reviewing code.

Miscellaneous

• Open Source Maintainers (⭐1.1k) - The experience of being an open source maintainer.

• Calculators (⭐187) - Calculators for every platform.

• Captcha (⭐1.2k) - A type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.

9. Awesome Sysadmin

Software / Monitoring

• EdMon (⭐8) - A command-line monitoring application helping you to check that your hosts and services are available, with notifications support. MIT Java

10. Awesome ad Free

Alternatives / Blogs

• The Minimalists - Living a meaningful life with less.

• Zen Habits - Practical advice for developing positive habits.

11. Awesome Theravada

Suttas / Individual Suttas

• Aputtaka Sutta: Heirless - The Buddha criticizes those who hoard wealth without enjoying it or giving it to others.

12. Awesome Draft Js

Standalone Editors Built on Draft.js

• Braft (⭐4.5k) - Extensible Draft JS Editor

13. Awesome Clojure

Database

• Datahike (⭐1.6k)

• Datascript (⭐5.3k)

14. Awesome Regression Testing

Tools and frameworks (a-z↓)

• Zombie.js - Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js.

15. Guides

Programming Languages / Scala

• Scala Style Guide

• Effective Scala

Programming Languages / SQL

• SQL Style Guide

Programming Languages / Vimscript

• Google Vimscript Style Guide

Other / iOS

• The iOS Design Guidelines

Other / Git

• Git Style Guide (⭐5.1k)

Other / UI

• A Good User Interface

• Pagination 101

Other / Writing

• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

16. Awesome Cryptography

Books / Hash functions

• Serious Cryptography - A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption by Jean-Philippe Aumasson.

17. Awesome Cassandra

Using Cassandra / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• Spring Data Cassandra Examples (⭐4) - Examples for the Spring Data Cassandra Project.

Cassandra Data Modeling / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• Common Problems in Cassandra Data Models - Presentation and Article on wide partions, tombstones, and data skew.

Cassandra Deployment / Cassandra Deployment on Docker / Containerized Cassandra

• Packer: Cassandra Image (⭐48) - Cassandra Image using Packer for Docker and EC2 AMI. Covers managing EC2 Cassandra clusters with Ansible.

Communities / Custom Time Series

• Cassandra Slack

• Quora: Cassandra

• Meetups: Cassandra

18. Awesome Ember

Packages / UI components

• ember-attacher - Tooltips & popovers made easy.

Packages / Articles

• Tips for improving build time of large apps

19. Awesome Ant Design

Tools

• Dva Cli (⭐964) - Create Ant Design projects based on Dva.js (⭐16k), a lightweight front-end framework based on Redux and React and inspired by Elm and Choo (⭐6.8k).

Components / Themes

• React Grid (⭐10) [Deprecated] - Grid React UI Component based on Ant Design.

20. Awesome Symfony

Reading

• Symfony 4.1 Jobeet Tutorial

21. Awesome Hacking

Tools / Other

• Amass (⭐11k) - In-depth subdomain enumeration tool that performs scraping, recursive brute forcing, crawling of web archives, name altering and reverse DNS sweeping

22. Awesome Appium

Become an Appium Pro

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 9: When Things Go Wrong

23. Awesome Plotters

Plotter Art For Sale / Patents

• EmergentDesign

Other Awesomes / Patents

• awesome-generative-art (⭐1.7k)

• awesome-creative-coding (⭐13k)

24. Awesome Crystal

CLI Utils

• cride (⭐50) - A light CLI text editor/IDE

Converters

• base62.cr (⭐11) - Base62 encoder/decoder, well suited for url-shortening

25. Tips

Use SSH instead of HTTPs for remotes

git config --global url.'[email protected]:'.insteadOf 'https://github.com/'

26. Awesome No Login Web Apps

Programming Editors and IDEs / Others

• PythonTutor - Visualize Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, C, and C++ code execution in your Web browser.

Miscellaneous / Others

• Edubirdie - An online plagiarism checker which gives percentage of similarity comparing our content with online resources.

27. Awesome Quantum Computing

Learning

• Quantum Computing Playground - 3D quantum state visualisation tool able to simulate up to 22 qubits.

• Quantum in the Cloud - Four qubit photonic quantum simulator and computer.

Development Tools

• Cirq (⭐4.1k) - Python library for writing, manipulating, and optimizing NISQ circuits to run on quantum computers.

• Project Q - Framework for implementing quantum computing in Python.

Blogs

• Quantum Weekly - A weekly correlation of all things quantum - computing, cryptography, entanglement.

28. Awesome Audio Visualization

Downloads

• Soundwhich

29. Awesome Fp Js

Resources / Articles

• Anonymous Recursion in JavaScript - Short and easy to understand article about implementing anonymous recursion in JavaScript.

30. Awesome Geek Podcasts

In English

• Darknet Diaries - Stories from hackers or those who have been attacked. How they got in and what happened.

In Portuguese

• DevDrops - O seu podcast sobre desenvolvimento de software.

31. Awesome Remote Job

Job boards

• Power to Fly - Specific to women

Companies with "remote DNA"

• Baremetrics - Analytics and insights for Stripe, Braintree, Recurly and Chargify.

32. Engineering Blogs

Companies / M companies

• Mesosphere https://mesosphere.com/blog/

Individuals/Group Contributors / D individuals

• Daniel Schmidt https://medium.com/@dschmidt1992

Individuals/Group Contributors / E individuals

• Edward Faulkner https://eaf4.com/

33. Awesome Flutter

Services / Bluetooth / NFC / Beacon

• Dialogflow (⭐215) - Plugin to easily integrate with dialogflow by Victor Rances

34. Awesome Embedded Rust

Books, blogs, and training materials / Free and public materials

• MicroRust Introductory book for embedded development in Rust on the micro:bit.

35. Vertx Awesome

Web Frameworks

• Vert.x Vaadin (⭐44) - Run Vaadin applications on Vert.x.

36. Awesome Cybersecurity Blueteam

Network perimeter defenses / Evidence collection

• fwknop - Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall.

Security monitoring / Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

• AlienVault OSSIM - Single-server open source SIEM platform featuring asset discovery, asset inventorying, behavioral monitoring, and event correlation, driven by AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX).

• Prelude SIEM OSS - Open source, agentless SIEM with a long history and several commercial variants featuring security event collection, normalization, and alerting from arbitrary log input and numerous popular monitoring tools.

Security monitoring / Service and performance monitoring

• Icinga - Modular redesign of Nagios with pluggable user interfaces and an expanded set of data connectors, collectors, and reporting tools.

• Nagios - Popular network and service monitoring solution and reporting platform.

• OpenNMS - Free and feature-rich networking monitoring system supporting multiple configurations, a variety of alerting mechanisms (email, XMPP, SMS), and numerous data collection methods (SNMP, HTTP, JDBC, etc).

Threat intelligence / Threat hunting

• GRASSMARLIN (⭐911) - Provides IP network situational awareness of industrial control systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) by passively mapping, accounting for, and reporting on your ICS/SCADA network topology and endpoints.

• Unfetter - Identifies defensive gaps in security posture by leveraging Mitre's ATT&CK framework.

37. Awesome H2o

Blog Posts & Tutorials

• Using machine learning with LIME to understand employee churn June 25, 2018

38. Awesome Mac

Developer Tools / IDEs

• Haskell for Mac - A Modern Development Environment for Haskell.

Utilities / General Tools

• Mac Cache Cleaner (⭐234) - Cache cleaner for Mac

39. Awesome Heroku

Deployment

• article Six Tips for Mastering your Procfile — improvements for how you run your Heroku processes.

40. Awesome Swift

Cryptography / Barcode

• Themis (⭐1.9k) - Multilanguage framework for making typical encryption schemes easy to use: data at rest, authenticated data exchange, transport protection, authentication, and so on.

41. Awesome Postgres

Contents / Backups

• pg_back (⭐519) - pg_back is a simple backup script

Contents / Utilities

• pg_chameleon (⭐377) - Real time replica from MySQL to PostgreSQL with optional type override migration and migration capabilities.

• pg_bulkload - It's a high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL.

42. Awesome

Community

• Discord - The official Discord community for Craft CMS.

Articles / Front End

• Language switcher for Craft 3 by Jan D'Hollander - 25 July 2018

43. Awesome Code Review

Academic Papers

• Helping Developers Help Themselves: Automatic Decomposition of Code Review Changes (Barnett et al. 2015) (summary on the morning paper) Research into automatically splitting big diffs into smaller diffs leading to better reviews.

Articles

• Brian Guthrie's Feature Branching Rant Twitter thread on the pros and cons of GitHub's open source first model with regards to "in-company" code review practice.

• Code Reviews: Just Do It Seminal post advocating for peer review of software back in 2006.

• Designing Awesome Code Reviews Principles for actively designing a code review process.

• Effective Code Reviews Without the Pain Another 2006 classic on how to effectively perform a code review.

• How I review code More personal advice on how to best review a pull request from an engineer at Tumblr.

• Pull Requests: How to Get and Give Good Feedback Advice for both sides of the code review process, the reviewer and the reviewee.

• Ship Small Diffs Why it's better to review small changes rather than large ones.

• The Art of Humanizing Pull Requests Emoji rich guide to the human side of code review via pull requests.

• Unlearning Toxic Behaviors in a Code Review Culture A how-to guide for pull requests via how-not-too.

• Why I changed the way I think about Code Quality Why code quality is about more than just the code.

Books

• Handbook of Walkthroughs, Inspections, and Technical Reviews Older book covering more formal walkthroughs but covers politics and group dynamics in review well.

• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide A practical guide to formal code inspections as a code review practice.

• Software Inspection: An Industry Best Practice Compendium of papers on code review practice.

• What to Look for in a Code Review JetBrains sponsored ebook of how to spot coding anti-patterns during review.

Talks and Podcasts

• Code Reviews: Honesty, Kindness, Inspiration: Pick Three - Jacob Stoebel RubyConf 2017 How to do effective code review while remaining kind to the original author.

• Implementing a Strong Code-Review Culture - Derek Prior Railsconf 2015 How to instill a healthy code review culture in a team.

44. Awesome Dotnet Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / API

• Swashbuckle (⭐5.2k) - Seamlessly adds a swagger to WebApi projects.
  • MicroElements.Swashbuckle.FluentValidation (⭐370) - Adds FluentValidation rules to swagger.
  • Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.Filters (⭐422) - A bunch of useful filters for Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Application Frameworks

• AsyncEx (⭐3.5k) - A helper library for async/await.

• Aggregates.NET (⭐441) - Aggregates.NET is a framework to help developers integrate the excellent NServiceBus and EventStore libraries together.

• CAP (⭐6.6k) - An EventBus with local persistent message functionality for system integration in SOA or Microservice architecture.

• DotNetCorePlugins (⭐1.6k) - .NET Core library for loading assemblies as a plugin.

• DotnetSpider (⭐3.9k) - DotnetSpider, a .NET Standard web crawling library similar to WebMagic and Scrapy. It is a lightweight ,efficient and fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for .NET.

• ExcelDataReader (⭐3.9k) - Lightweight and fast library written in C# for reading Microsoft Excel files.

• Finbuckle.MultiTenant (⭐1.3k) - Finbuckle.MultiTenant is a .NET Standard library for multitenant support designed for ASP.NET 2.0+. It provides functionality for tenant resolution, per-tenant app configuration, and per-tenant data isolation.

• MoreLINQ (⭐3.6k) - Extensions to LINQ to Objects.

• X.PagedList (⭐883) - Library for easily paging through any IEnumerable/IQueryable in ASP.NET/ASP.NET Core.

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / CMS

• Swastika I/O Core CMS (⭐135) - Open source ASP.NET Core 2.x CMS. It currently supports MS SQL and planned to implement MSSQL, SQLite in the near future. It has many built-in features out of the box like multilanguage support, theme, template...

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Code Analysis and Metrics

• Metrics
  • AppMetrics (⭐2.2k) - App Metrics is an open-source and cross-platform .NET library used to record and report metrics within an application and reports it's health.
  • Audit.NET (⭐2.2k) - Small framework to audit .NET object changes.
  • BenchmarkDotNet (⭐10k) - Powerful .NET library for benchmarking.
  • coverlet (⭐3k) - Cross platform code coverage library for .NET Core.
  • Foundatio (⭐1.9k) - A common interface with in memory, redis, StatsD, and Metrics.NET implementations.
  • MiniCover (⭐209) - Minimalist Code Coverage Tool for .NET Core.
  • NBench (⭐532) - Performance benchmarking and testing framework for .NET applications.
  • Nexogen.Libraries.Metrics (⭐61) - Library for collecting application metrics in .NET and exporting them to Prometheus.
  • OpenCover (⭐1.3k) - Code coverage tool for .NET 2 and above (WINDOWS OS only), support for 32 and 64 processes with both branch and sequence points.
  • PerformanceMonitor (⭐236) - .NET Core Application Performance Monitor.
  • prometheus-net (⭐1.9k) - .NET Client for https://prometheus.io.
  • Prometheus.Client (⭐127) - .NET Client for Prometheus.
    • Prometheus.Client.MetricPusher (⭐15) - Push metrics to a PushGateaway for the Prometheus.Client.
    • Prometheus.Client.AspNetCore (⭐8) - Middleware for the Prometheus.Client.
    • Prometheus.Client.MetricServer (⭐14) - MetricServer for the Prometheus.Client.
    • Prometheus.Client.HttpRequestDurations (⭐10) - Metrics logging of request durations for the Prometheus.Client.

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Graphics

• LibVLCSharp (⭐1.4k): .NET/Mono bindings for libvlc, the multimedia framework powering the VLC applications made by VideoLAN.

• MagicScaler (⭐570) - MagicScaler high-performance, high-quality image processing pipeline for .NET

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / GUI

• Qml.Net (⭐1.4k) - A cross-platform Qml/.NET integration for Mono/.NET/.NET Core.

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Misc

• AgileMapper (⭐457) - AgileMapper is a zero-configuration, highly-configurable object-object mapper with viewable execution plans.

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / ORM

• Chloe (⭐1.5k) - A lightweight and high-performance Object/Relational Mapping(ORM) library for .NET.

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Queue and Messaging

• OpenCQRS (⭐3) - .NET Core library for DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing with Azure Service Bus integration. Supported database providers for the Command and the Event stores are: DocumentDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Tools

• NJsonSchema (⭐1.4k) - NJsonSchema is a .NET library to read, generate and validate JSON Schema draft v4+ schemas.

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