Awesome List Updates on Nov 01, 2022

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1. Free for Dev

Monitoring

• appspector.com - Mission control for remote iOS/Android/Flutter debugging. Free for small traffic usage (64MB of logs).

2. Free Programming Books (English, By Subjects)

Artificial Intelligence

• The History of Artificial Intelligence - Chris Smith, Brian McGuire, Ting Huang, Gary Yang (PDF)

Computer Science

• Computer Science I - Chris Bourke (PDF)

• Computer Science II - Chris Bourke (PDF)

Computer Vision

• Computer Vision: Foundations and Applications - Ranjay Krishna (PDF)

Database

• Database Management Systems Solutions Manual Third Edition - Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke, Jeff Derstadt, Scott Selikof, and Lin Zhu (PDF)

Object Oriented Programming

• Object Oriented Programming - Robert Harle (PDF)

3. Awesome Agi Cocosci

Science Logology / Scientific Writing

• The uses of argument - Cambridge University Press, 1958. [All Versions]. Stephen Toulmin's introduction to the Toulmin argument pattern, which is generally consist of a claim, a justification, and a rebuttal.

• The uses and complexity of argument structures in expert and student persuasive writing - Written Communication, 1998. [All Versions]. A behaviorial study revealing the argument structures exploited by people in argumentative writing.

• Speech Acts of Argumentation: Inference Anchors and Peripheral Cues in Dialogue - AAAI'12, 2012. [All Versions]. The original paper introducing the Information Anchoring Theory (IAT) as an alternate for AIF.

4. Awesome Vala

Apps / Games

• GameHub (⭐2.1k) - A unified library for all your games.

Apps / Productivity

• TextSnatcher (⭐533) - Copy text from Images with ease.

5. Awesome Micropython

Sensors / Accelerometer Digital

• MicroPython-LIS3DH (⭐62) - I2C driver for LIS3DH 3-axis accelerometer.

6. Awesome Deno

Modules / Web framework

• wren (⭐75) - A small, but powerful HTTP library with a functional spin for creating composable web apps, built for convenience and simplicity

7. Awesome Mac

Developer Tools / Network Analysis

• Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy.

Design and Product / Design Tools

• Colorpicker - Colorpicker is a complete open-source colors manipulation tool with picking!

Design and Product / Screencapturing Software

• Gifox - Gif Recording and Sharing.

Communication / Email Clients

• MailTags - Use tags to organize email and schedule.

Audio and Video Tools / File Sharing

• Aegisub (⭐3k) - Free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview.

• LMMS - Formerly "Linux MultiMedia Studio", LMMS is a powerful Digital Audio Workstation designed like FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops).

Utilities / Menu Bar Tools

• Vanilla - Hide menu bar icons on your Mac.

Utilities / Quality of Life Improvements

• Grayscale Mode (⭐92) - An open source macOS app that lets you quickly toggle grayscale filter right from your menu bar or using a keyboard shortcut (⌥⌘G).

Utilities / System Related Tools

• Core Tunnel - Application for managing SSH connections.

Remote Login Software / System Related Tools

• Microsoft Remote Desktop - Connect to a remote PC or virtual apps and desktops made available by your admin.

8. Awesome Iot

Hardware

• WisBlock - WisBlock is a modular system that makes it easy to implement low power wide area network (LPWAN) into IoT solutions. WisBlock consists of a base board, core compute module and combination of several sensor modules.

9. Awesome Engineering Team Management

Cognitive Tools / Collections

• UX Core - 105 cognitive biases with simple descriptions, brief and detailed examples.

Product Management / Standups

• The Heilmeier Catechism - A simple set of question which helped DARPA evaluates research programs to generate big rewards by taking big risks.

Agile / Tickets

• Recurring opinions or productive improvements — what agile teams actually discuss in retrospectives - An 3-years analysis of a team's retrospectives, with dire conclusions: people keep forgetting what they already learned, keep discussing unsolveable problems out of their control, and keep debating opinions based on biased interpretations or incorrect understandings.

Communication / Style

• Please don't say just hello in chat - When properly used, interactive written medium allows for asynchronous communication.

10. Awesome Iam

Multi-factor auth / Identifiers

• SMS Multifactor Authentication in Antarctica - Doesn't work because there are no cellphone towers at stations in Antarctica.

Password-less auth / SMS-based

• Magic Links – Are they Actually Outdated? - What are magic links, their origin, pros and cons.

OAuth2 & OpenID / Other tools

• Logto (⭐8.2k) - Build the sign-in, auth, and user identity with this OIDC-based identity service.

SAML / Other tools

• The SSO Wall of Shame - A documented rant on the excessive pricing practiced by SaaS providers to activate SSO on their product. The author's point is, as a core security feature, SSO should be reasonably priced and not part of an exclusive tier.

11. Awesome Courses

Courses / Algorithms

• CS 473/573 Fundamental Algorithms Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Algorithms class covering recursion, randomization, amortization, graph algorithms, network flows and hardness. The lecture notes by Prof. Erikson are comprehensive enough to be a book by themselves. Highly recommended!
  • Lecture Notes
  • Labs and Exams

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