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1. Awesome Wagtail

Resources / Recipes

• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Wagtail development guide (⭐63) - Unit Testing Django and Wagtail

2. Awesome Userscripts

Scripts / Media

• Image Max URL - Finds larger or original versions of images/videos for thousands of supported websites, including a customizable image popup feature.

3. Awesome Security

Network / Docker Images for Penetration Testing & Security

• docker pull jeroenwillemsen/wrongsecrets- OWASP WrongSecrets

4. Awesome Digital History

Archives and primary sources / Global

• OpenHistoricalMap - A time travel map created by a community of mappers and historians.

• World Historical Gazeteer - Collection of content and services that permit world historians to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales.

5. Awesome Engineering Team Management

Roles / Engineers

• What Makes A Great Software Engineer? - Doesn't conclude on a definitive answer to the question, but details a model based on 53 attributes (!). Still a good source referencing other papers on the topic.

Motivation / Negotiation

• What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not - “1. Autonomy for software engineers; 2. Curious problem solvers, not mindless resources; 3. Internal data, code, and documentation transparency; 4. Exposure to the business and to business metrics; 5. Engineer-to-engineer comms over triangle-communication; 6. Investing in a less frustrating developer experience; 7. Higher leverage --> higher {autonomy, pay}”.

Engineering / Technical Debt

• Goodbye, Clean Code - “My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was a mess, and mine was clean! (…) I see now that my 'refactoring' was a disaster in two ways: I didn't talk to the person who wrote it; My code traded the ability to change requirements for reduced duplication”.

Product Management / Product-Market Fit

• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea - A tale of building a product no user want to pay for. “You can't just create value for the user: that's a charity. You also can't just create value for your company: that's a scam. Your goal is to set up some kind of positive-sum exchange, where everyone benefits, including you. A business plan, according to this textbook, starts with this simple question: how will you create value for yourself and the company?”

Product Management / Product Strategy

• Talking about Vista, Microsoft found out following its unsuccessful launch that the #1 bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity.

Agile / Tickets

• Failed #SquadGoals - Spotify doesn't use "the Spotify model" and neither should you - “Why it didn't work? 1. Matrix management solved the wrong problem; 2. It fixated on team autonomy; 3. Collaboration was an assumed competency; 4. Mythology became difficult to change”.

Career / Performance Reviews

• Get your work recognized: write a brag document - There's this idea that, if you do great work at your job, people will (or should!) automatically recognize that work and reward you for it with promotions / increased pay. In practice, it's often more complicated than that.

• Performance review generator - Tired of writing reviews? Automate it!

Compensation / Salary

• L8-L10 salaries at AWS - A reference point to what $M+ compensation packages looks like.

Politics / Equity

• The Rules for Rulers - “Smart key supporters will always watch the balance of power, ready to change allegiance if the ruler look to be the loser in a shifting web of alliances. (…) Buy all the loyalty you can, because loyalty, in dictatorial organizations of all kinds, is everything.”

• 4 Clues to Identify a Destructive Leader - “1. I'm kind of a big deal! 2. None of this is my fault! 3. Just do what I say! 4. Trust me; I'm never wrong.”

6. Awesome Iam

Overview

• IAM is hard. It's really hard. - “Overly permissive AWS IAM policies that allowed s3:GetObject to * (all) resources”, led to $80 million fine for Capital One. The only reason why you can't overlook IAM as a business owner.

Multi-factor auth / Identifiers

• Your Pa$$word doesn't matter - Same conclusion as above from Microsoft: “Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9% less likely to be compromised if you use MFA.”

Multi-factor auth / SMS-based

• AT&T rep handed control of his cellphone account to a hacker

Password-less auth / JWT

• JWT, JWS and JWE for Not So Dummies! - A signed JWT is known as a JWS (JSON Web Signature). In fact a JWT does not exist itself — either it has to be a JWS or a JWE (JSON Web Encryption). Its like an abstract class — the JWS and JWE are the concrete implementations.

Secret Management / Hardware Security Module (HSM)

• Everybody be cool, this is a robbery! - A case study of vulnerability and exploitability of a HSM (in French, sorry).

Trust & Safety / Moderation

• You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation - “You can think about the solution space for this problem by considering three dimensions: cost, accuracy and speed. And two approaches: human review and machine review. Humans are great in one of these dimensions: accuracy. The downside is that humans are expensive and slow. Machines, or robots, are great at the other two dimensions: cost and speed - they're much cheaper and faster. But the goal is to find a robot solution that is also sufficiently accurate for your needs.”

Blocklists / Hostnames and Subdomains

• Subdomain denylists: #1, #2 (⭐42), #3 (⭐167), #4.

7. Awesome Billing

Pricing / Usage-based Pricing

• Electropedia: Tariffs for electricity - Before the cloud, there was another metered resource priced by its usage: electricity. Here is a detailed (and multi-lingual) taxonomy of its vocabulary from the International Electrotechnical Commission.

Pricing / Market Research

• Gabor–Granger method - Used in surveys to determine the price for a new product or service. The results can be used to produce a demand chart and a revenue curve.

Coupons and Vouchers / Currencies

• Hacking Scooters: How I Created $100k Worth Of Free Rides - A cautionary tale on how promo codes can be exploited to get unlimited free rides.

History / Cloud providers

• Engineering and Operations in the Bell System - Starting at page #445, the "10.5 Billing Equipment and Systems" section describe the history and technical evolutions of Bell's phone calls metering and pricing.

8. Awesome Regression Testing

Slideshows, talks and videos

• Cypress in 100 Seconds - Introduction video by Fireship.

9. Awesome Cybersecurity Blueteam

Transport-layer defenses / Overlay and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

• OpenZITI - Open source initiative focused on bringing Zero Trust to any application via an overlay network, tunelling applications, and numerous SDKs.

10. Awesome Neovim

Preconfigured Configuration / Diagnostics

• jrychn/moduleVim (⭐8) - A very easy to use for backend and frontend, install lsp automatically.

11. Awesome Zsh Plugins

Completions / superconsole - Windows-only

• bosh (krujos) (⭐2) - Adds BOSH (⭐2k) autocompletion.

• gentoo (⭐36) - Provides ZSH completion support to various Gentoo tools that lack completion scripts upstream.

12. Awesome Falsehood

Dates and Time

• Falsehoods about Unix Time - Mind the leap second!

• $26,000 Overcollection by Labor Department - The consequence of wrong calendar accounting.

Human Identity

• Falsehoods about Gender: #1 & #2 - Gender is part of human identity and has its own subtleties.

• XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom - Funny take on how implementation of a falsehood might lead to security holes.

Phone Numbers

• libphonenumber - Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. Also available for C# (⭐736), Objective-C (⭐2.4k), Python (⭐3.4k), Ruby (⭐549) and PHP (⭐4.7k).

Software Engineering

• Hi! My name is… - This talk could have been named falsehoods about usernames (and other identifiers).

Transportation

• My name causes an issue with any booking! - Old airline reservation systems considers the MR suffix as Mister and drops it.

13. Awesome Openstreetmap

Editors / Web Editors

• iD - JavaScript based editor for the web browser with a wide array of presets. (Source Code (⭐3.2k) / Wiki)

• Level0 - Text based editor that's useful in specific corner cases. (Source Code (⭐50) / Wiki)

• OSMyBiz - Website for managing informations about your business. (Source Code / Wiki)

• OnOSM - Allows anyone to submit business information as a note for inclusion into OSM. (Source Code (⭐70) / Wiki)

• Deriviste - Provides a simple interface to add nodes to OpenStreetMap based on what you see in Mapillary street-level imagery. (Source Code (⭐28) / Wiki)

• Healthsites.io - An online editor focused on adding and improving data on global health facilities. (Source Code (⭐139) / Wiki)

Editors / Native Editors

• JOSM - Advanced extensible desktop editor. (Source Code / Wiki)

• Potlatch 3 - Native intermediate-level editor built in Adobe AIR. (Source Code (⭐23) / Wiki)

Tools / Web Tools

• OpenMapTiles - Set of tools for self-hosted vector maps and map services with labels in more than 50 languages. (Source Code / Wiki)

• OSMNames - Geocoding tool ranking places according to the corresponding Wikipedia page popularity. (Source Code (⭐334) / Wiki)

• overpass-turbo - Web based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap using Overpass API. (Source Code (⭐823) / Wiki)

• hdyc - Statistics viewer for contributions of any OSM user. (Wiki)

• Osmose - QA-tool for fixing problems detected in OpenStreetMap data. (Source Code / Wiki)

• taginfo - Website displaying information on tags and their usage. (Source Code (⭐117) / Wiki)

• ohsome Dashboard - Tool for visualizing changes over a certain time period. (Wiki)

Tools / Mobile Tools

• OSMTracker (⭐481) - Offline GPS tracking tool for recording GPX tracks. (Android / Wiki)

Tasking Managers / Web Services

• MapRoulette - Various challenges for making small edits to achive big tasks. (Source Code (⭐110) / Wiki)

• Pic4Review - Tool for adding objects to OSM by reviewing images. (Source Code / Wiki)

• Map Complete - Tool for mapping in scoped tasks. (Wiki)

• Damn Project - Project for mapping by dividing big areas into small squares mappable by humans. (Source Code / Wiki)

Maps / Web Maps

• Show me the way - Live map showing latest changes on aerial imagery. (Source Code (⭐124) / Wiki)

• OSM In Realtime - Visualization of the changes made to OpenStreetMap as they happen. (Source Code / Wiki)

• indoor= - Map for viewing indoor data from OpenStreetMap. (Wiki)

• Qwant Maps - Modern map with POI search and routing functionality. (Wiki)

• F4map Demo - 3D rendering demo of OpenStreetMap data. (Wiki)

• FacilMap - Map with easy possibility to filter for POI types. (Source Code (⭐236) / Wiki)

• Straßenraumkarte Neukölln - High-detail micromap of the district "Neukölln" of Berlin, Germany. (Wiki)

Maps / Mobile Maps

• OsmAnd - Map viewing and navigation (routing) application with offline functionality available for Android and iOS. (Android, iOS / Source Code Android (⭐4.2k) / Source Code iOS (⭐232) / Wiki)

• Organic Maps - A free offline maps app based on OSM. (Android, iOS / Source Code (⭐8.3k) / Wiki)

• Magic Earth - A free turn-by-turn navigation app. (Android, iOS / Wiki)

Maps / Generators

• Field Papers - Generate maps for printing, annotate them, and manage your notes after. (Source Code (⭐86) / Wiki)

Libraries / C/C++

• libosmium (⭐431) - Fast and flexible C++ library for working with OpenStreetMap data. (Wiki)

• OSRM (⭐6k) - Routing engine for use in C++ applications. (Wiki)

• mapnik (⭐3.5k) - Combines pixel-perfect image output with lightning-fast cartographic algorithms, and exposes interfaces in C++, Python, and Node. (Wiki)

Libraries / JavaScript

• Leaflet - An open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. (Source Code (⭐40k) / Wiki)

• OpenLayers - A high-performance library for rendering raster and vector maps. (Source Code (⭐11k) / Wiki)

Libraries / Python

• osmapi (⭐198) - Python wrapper for the OpenStreetMap API. (Wiki)

• osmnx (⭐4.6k) - Visualizer for street networks. (Wiki)

Libraries / Java

• OpenTripPlanner (⭐2k) - Open source multi-modal trip planner. (Wiki)

• GraphHopper (⭐4.6k) - Open source route planning library and server using OpenStreetMap. (Wiki)

Public APIs / Java

• overpass - Read-only API that serves up custom selected parts of the OSM map data. (Source Code (⭐659) / Wiki)

• planet.osm - Minutely/weekly/yearly/full dumps of osm data. (Wiki)

• bbbike - Custom extracts of areas from planet.osm. (Wiki)

Miscellaneous / Java

• OpenGeofiction - A completely fictional user-made world map, created using the OSM software platform. (Wiki)

Video / Global

• State of the Map - YouTube channel of the State of the Map conference containing VoDs of talks. (Wiki)

Additional Resources / Websites

• TeachOSM - Project assisting educators at all levels to introduce open source mapping and OpenStreetMap in the classroom. (Wiki)

14. Awesome Agriculture

Automation and Robotics

• Ant Robotics development from Ecoterra bot

• Acorn Rover precision farming rover, Odrive, Python.

• Earth Rover Ag AGV ROS1 precision farming rover

• EcoTerra Bot Delta & Rover

• FarmBot - Open source precision gardening project.

• Romi project Europe-funded research project

• ROS Agriculture - Open Source community focusing on using Robot Operating System to empower farmers with robotics tools.

• Weedinator Line following weeding robot

Machine Learning and AI / Shapefiles

• agridat (⭐96) - R package providing an extensive collection of datasets from agricultural experiments.

• Crop Yield Prediction (⭐305) - Deep gaussian process for crop yield prediction based on remote sensing data.

• Deep Learning for Biologists with Keras (⭐97) - Tutorials for deep learning based analysis (mainly) on biological relavent themes.

• PlantCV (⭐548) - Plant phenotyping software using computer vision.

15. Awesome Vue

Components & Libraries / UI Components

• uspin (⭐6) - A vue3 component that adds a spin mask at load time.🔄

16. Awesome Ansible

Tutorials

• Ansible Tutorial for Beginners: Playbook & Examples - Introduction to Ansible for beginners.

17. Awesome Go

Database Tools

• rdb (⭐374) - Redis RDB file parser for secondary development and memory analysis.

HTTP Clients

• go-otelroundtripper (⭐78) - Go http.RoundTripper that emits open telemetry metrics for HTTP requests.

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