Applications

Chat Clients

Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free.

Platforms and Software Resources

Public Engagement Tools and Platforms

Metroquest - Comprehensive community engagement platform, providing surveys, games, and interactive maps to engage the public around planning issues.

NJTPA Engage - Database of 300 + public engagement tools, techniques, and software. Searchable on multiple levels.

Ushahidi - Open-source crowdsourced mapping tool with the aim to empower communities around the world to tackle their own problems by collecting citizen input.

Educational and Informational Resources

General Planning Information and News

Streetsblog - Blog for news related to walking, biking, and transit.

Encryption

Symmetric Encryption - Transparently encrypt ActiveRecord, Mongoid, and MongoMapper attributes. Encrypt passwords in configuration files. Encrypt entire files at rest.

Applications

System tools

sharkdp/fdstars19.6k — A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

Hardware

S2 Nuggetstars4 - a Wi-Fi Nugget breakout board combined with an ESP32S2 based S2 Mini development board.

JPConstantineau - BlueMicro840, PyKey60

Plugins

newvwpstars1 - Spins up a new WordPress site using Valet.

Multiple languages

Codiga ©️ - Automated Code Reviews and Technical Debt management platform that supports 12+ languages.

Plugins

tmux-super-fingersstars37 like fingers, but also opens files in vim.

Windows-based defenses

Active Directory

Active Directory Control Pathsstars531 - Visualize and graph Active Directory permission configs ("control relations") to audit questions such as "Who can read the CEO's email?" and similar.

PingCastle - Active Directory vulnerability detection and reporting tool.

PlumHoundstars571 - More effectively use BloodHoundAD in continual security life-cycles by utilizing its pathfinding engine to identify Active Directory security vulnerabilities.

Themes

owistars0 - Minimalist theme with git status decorations.

simple (tourcoder)stars0 - Minimalist prompt, includes git status decorations.

Articles

How to write three times fewer lines of code when doing load testing

Load Testing. k6 + TypeScript + Azure DevOps

Videos

From Grafana ObservabilityCON: Intro to using k6 load testing with the Grafana observability stack

From Grafana ObservabilityCON: Building performance tests into your CI pipeline with k6 and Grafana, w/ Matthew Churcher, QA Engineer at Vonage

EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Load Performance Testing with k6

CI

k6 for Buddy CI/CD

Editors

Neovimstars2.7k - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.

Public Data Resources

Politics

MIT Election Lab - Election Lab is a clearinghouse for data sets that can fuel studies on elections and how they're conducted. Find election data and research tools produced by us and others.

Applications

System tools

b23r0/yaftpstars123 — A lightweight file transfer CLI tool support with resume broken transfer & reverse mode & largefile.

Public Data Resources

Politics

OpenPrecincts - OpenPrecincts is a data and software resource to open the redistricting process to all citizens and ensure that district boundaries are fair for all voters.

Books

Effective Software Testing - A hands-on guide for developers on how to create high quality tests in a systematic and effective way.

Plugins

🎨🧬 Themeablestars8 - Adds multiple themes support for Tailwind CSS.

Plugins

sealionstars6 - Allows you to set reminders that will appear in your terminal when your prompt is refreshed.

Themes

almelstars7 - Inspired by agnosterstars3.3k, written in Rust. Includes git status, [email protected], last command exit status and working directory decorations

Design and UI

LottieFiles - The world’s largest online platform for the world’s smallest animation format for designers, developers, and more. Access Lottie animation tools and plugins for Android, iOS, and Web.

APIs, Data and ML

GoodData - Data as a Service - Create interactive and insightful dashboards. Free tier comes with 5 workspaces and 100 MB/workspace.

Storage and Media Processing

twicpics.com - Responsive images as a service. It provides an image CDN, a media processing API and frontend library to automate image optimization. The service is free up to 3GB trafic/month.

Tools

Web

Openbase - Compare open-source packages with powerful metrics and user reviews.

Frameworks

CircuitPython extension for VS Code - A full featured extension for VS Code that downloads the latest CircuitPython bundle automatically, includes access to the serial console, and auto complete.

Talks

More Fun with Hardware and CircuitPython -- IoT, Wearables, and More! - Nina Zakharenko at PyCon 2021.

Changing Lives through Open Source, Passion and Mentoring - Changing Lives through Open Source, Passion and Mentoring, Keynote by Kattni Rembor at Pyohio 2019.

CircuitPython: Python on hardware - CircuitPython: Python on hardware by Dave Astels at PyCon Canada.

Embedded Programming for everyone using MicroPython and CircuitPython - Embedded Programming for everyone using MicroPython and CircuitPython by Ayan Pahwa at FOSSASIA Summit.

Extending MicroPython: Using C for good - A look at how MicroPython can be extended to add features and improve performance. By Matt Trentini at PyCon Australia.

Events

PyCon 2022 - Salt Lake City, Utah USA April 27 - May 5, 2022.

Vendor Data Resources

Urban Observation

curbFlow - Computer vision based services to quantify events occuring in the built environment affordably and quickly.

StreetSimplified - Deploys temporary cameras utilizing computer vision to examine various transportation behaviors such as speeding, crossing rule compliance, and red-light running.

Sample Projects

CMS

Umbraco9 & Blazor WASM Starter Sitestars3 - A simple starter site for Umbraco v9, making use of Blazor WebAssembly with Tailwind CSS/UI. A project that I use to play around and experiment with Umbraco 9, Blazor WebAssembly, TailwindCSS, the Block List Editor, and several other concepts.

Articles

Umbraco 9 & Blazor WebAssembly Starterkit on GitHub - November 24, 2021 - A simple starter site for Umbraco v9, making use of Blazor WebAssembly with Tailwind CSS/UI. A project that I use to play around and experiment with Umbraco 9, Blazor WebAssembly, TailwindCSS, the Block List Editor, and several other concepts. Source codestars3 .

Videos

Learn Live - Build a web app with Blazor - November 22, 2021 - Learn how to set up your development environment and build your first web app with Blazor, Visual Studio Code, and C#.

Java

Lightningstars17 - Lightweight and lightning fast WebDriver client.

Cloud Services

Moon Cloud - Your dedicated Selenium cluster in public cloud platform with per-minute billing and unlimited number of browsers.

Utilities

Window Management

rcmd - Use the ⌘ Right Command key to switch applications based on their name.

Plugin

(requires Neovim 0.5)

ldelossa/calltree.nvimstars109 - Neovim's missing call-hierarchy UI.

Vim

Vimawesome - Showcases various plugins for vim and has a neovim tag for other plugins targeting Neovim.

awesome-vimstars1.4k - Short list of vim plugins and helpful guides.

Plugins

💼🧬 Radixstars74 - Adds utilities and variants for styling Radix UI state.

Plugins

namelinkstars0 - Provides an automatically synchronized mapping of filesystem entries (typically symbolic links) in a set of directories to their counterparts in the named directory hash.

Themes

normaniusstars0 - Derived from bira.

prontostars0 - Simple and fast theme with git decorations and timing information.

omsztstars2 - Minimalist theme with git decorations.

Examples

ajeetdsouza/zoxidestars4.3k - Badges, project GIF, concise description, quick links, stepwise installation instructions.

Beginner

📹 Common Lisp Programming: from novice to effective developer - A learning video series on the Udemy platform (full content under paid access). Teaches the language basics, explains the ecosystem and shows real-world examples. By an active lisper and community contributor (@vindarel).

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Manuals and Ephemera

Manuals

Panasonic RK-P400C 4-Color Graphic Penwriter Manual

Tools

Online Analyzers

Oversecured - Enterprise vulnerability scanner for Android and iOS apps, it offers app owners and developers the ability to secure each new version of a mobile app by integrating Oversecured into the development process. Not free.

Tools

Vulnerable Applications for practice

Oversecured Vulnerable Android App (OVAA)stars261