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1. Awesome Laravel

Popular Packages / Developer Tools

• Laravel 5 Extended Generators (⭐2.4k) - Extends built-in file generators

Popular Packages / Testing & Debugging

• Mail Preview (⭐1k) - Preview sent mail in a web browser or mail client

Popular Packages / Authentication & Authorization

• Laravel Permission (⭐11k) - Associate users with roles and permissions

• Defender (⭐435) - Roles & Permissions

Popular Packages / Integration with Javascript

• PHP Vars to JavaScript Transformer (⭐2.2k) - Pass server-side string/array/collection/whatever to JavaScript

Popular Packages / Localization

• Laravel Date (⭐1.8k) - A library to help you work with dates in multiple languages, based on Carbon

2. Awesome Audio Visualization

Videos

• Mathieu 'p01' Henri: Making Realtime Audio-Visuals - JSConf.Asia 2015

3. Awesome Draft Js

Blog Posts & Articles

• How Draft.js Represents Rich Text Data

4. Awesome Mqtt

Broker

• VerneMQ - an Apache2 licensed distributed MQTT broker, developed in Erlang.

5. Awesome Jquery

Tables / Paid Books

• Bootgrid (⭐978) - A grid control especially designed for bootstrap.

Looking for more lists like this? / Paid Books

• Translations:
  • Chinese (⭐11) - Chinese translation of Awesome jQuery.

6. Awesome Python

Third-party APIs

• facebook-sdk (⭐2.7k) - Facebook Platform Python SDK.

7. Awesome Swift

Images / Barcode

• UIImageColors (⭐3.2k) - iTunes style color fetcher for UIImage.

8. Awesome Machine Learning

Python / General-Purpose Machine Learning

• TFLearn (⭐9.6k) - Deep learning library featuring a higher-level API for TensorFlow.

9. Awesome R

Natural Language Processing

• text2vec (⭐836) - Fast Text Mining Framework for Vectorization and Word Embeddings.

• quanteda (⭐815) - R functions for Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data.

10. Awesome Research

GTD-Task Manager / Enterprise Git Service

• Evernote (Cloud,Mac,Win,Android,iOS,Win Store): Not so lightweight but still very good for managing life especially since it has got a lot of integrations from a lot of other services.

Writing / Social Sciences

• Statistical Physics (⭐42)

• Neutrino Physics (⭐6)

Hosting / Social Sciences

• Surge: One command upload your static website to make it live. Surge also integrates GitHub hooks.

Static Site Generator / Social Sciences

• Jekyll (Written in Ruby)(Markdown): Jekyll is the most widely used one. The best part about Jekyll is that one just deploy to GitHub Pages by pushing the source to GitHub.

• Octopress (Written in Ruby)(Markdown): Octopress is easier to use compared with Jekyll while being somewhat compatible with Jekyll.

• Hexo (Written in Node.js)(Markdown): "A fast, simple & powerful blog framework" as they say on their website. It supports GFM.

• Nikola (Written in Python)(reStructuredText,Markdown,IPython Notebook/Jupyter,PHP, etc): It takes in multiple input formats including reStructuredText and many others.

• Hugo(Written in Go)(Markdown): Easy to use and really fast. It also supports more input formats through plugins.

Editors / Markdown

• CMD markdown(Cloud): CMD is a Markdown editor with math (MathJax) support. What is special is that it keeps edit history. (Chinese UI.)

• Penflip(Cloud): Penflip is designed to be a GitHub for writers. It is Markdown-based and git like without math support.

• Pandoc Markdown(Cloud): Just another Markdown editor with math (MathJax) support.

• Marxico(Cloud,Mac,Win,Chrome): Markdown editor that integrates with Evernote, generates pdf and works offline. 马克飞象(Cloud,Mac,Win,Chrome) is the Chinese version。

• Madoko (Cloud): LaTeX × Markdown ²

• typora(Mac,Win): Beautiful UI and in-situ live preview.

• Haroopad(Mac,Win,Linux): A powerful github flavored markdown editor with useful extensions. Math (mathjax) is supported.

• jbt/markdown-editor(Cloud): Just another online Markdown editor without math support.

• MarkdownPad (Win): If you have no bad feelings about .NET, this is pretty good.

• ReText (⭐1.7k) (Mac,Win,Linux): ReText one of the best, even on Linux. It also supports reStructuredText input.

Editors / LaTeX

• JaxEdit(Cloud): JaxEdit doesn't provide full LaTeX support but is good enough for simple LaTeX documents and slides.

IPython Notebook / LaTeX

• Scientific Python Lectures (⭐3.4k)

• Reproduced Papers

• More (⭐16k): For more IPython notebook on GitHub please read this enormous list.

The Power of SVG / HTML+CSS+JS

• Inkscape(Mac,Win,Linux)

• GIMP(Mac,Win,Linux)

Pacifier / HTML+CSS+JS

• Coffitivity(iOS, Android, Web, Mac): a rather simple but useful coffee shop noise library; premium has more three more soundtracks; elegant UI; scientific research powered

• focus@will(iOS, Android, Web): music to boost your brain; paid services now

• Rany by simply noise: just rain.

Graph Making / HTML+CSS+JS

• GeoGebra(Cloud,Mac,Win,Linux,Android,iOS,Win Store): Geogebra is a very cool tool to make math graphs both 2D and 3D.

• LaTeXDraw (⭐404)(Linux): "A vector drawing editor for LaTeX."

• TikZ(LaTeX)

More / HTML+CSS+JS

• TitleCap: Not sure which word to capitalize in the title? TitleCap is right for you.

11. Awesome Malware Analysis

Open Source Threat Intelligence / Other Resources

• FireHOL IP Lists - Analytics for 350+ IP lists with a focus on attacks, malware and abuse. Evolution, Changes History, Country Maps, Age of IPs listed, Retention Policy, Overlaps.

Network / Other Resources

• Laika BOSS (⭐701) - Laika BOSS is a file-centric malware analysis and intrusion detection system.

12. Awesome Economics

Studying / Courses

• edX Economics - Introductory topics, few prerequisites.

• Khan Academy: Economics - Elementary topics.

Studying / Useful Materials

• Foundational Equations of Economics - These equations show principles behind "thinking like an economist". Graduate textbooks put these equiations in context.

Research / Portals

• RePEc - Web services for economic researchers: bibliography, blog aggregator, new working papers, software.

• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Web Services - A list of helpful services.

Research / Articles and Working Papers

• SSRN Economics - Working papers, no journal publications.

Research / Data

• FRED2 - 380,000 (macro) time series from 80 sources. Supports plugins for importing data into Excel, Stata, R, and others. Has a mobile app.

• World Bank Data - International macro time series. Has data import plugins.

• Quandl - Aggregate financial and economic data from multiple sources. Some data vendors sell their data via this service. Good integration with statistical software.

• International Open Government Dataset Search - Over 1,000,000 government datasets. When works, this service looks like this. Otherwise, you'll see a 403 error.

• Dataset Search Engine - Google-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google search operators here.

• StackExchange Open Data - If you haven't found the data you were looking for, you can ask it here.

• Reddit /r/datasets - One more place to request datasets.

Research / Software

• LaTeX - Economists write in LaTeX because it handles mathematics and references better than Word or LibreOffice. If you write regularly, LaTeX is worth learning.
  • Beamer - A LaTeX class for presentations.
  • TikZ - An extension for drawing graphs. A how-to and a manual.

• LyX - A free and simple editor for LaTeX.

• Zotero - Bibliography management. Also install (a) Zotero browser plugin to import papers from RePEc to your library; (b) Zotero-LyX plugin to cite literature easily.

• Mathematica - Symbolic computations. Free alternative
  • Sage

• GitHub - A repository for code and data. Publishing research here is not a common practice, but it's more convenient that alternatives (university home page, DropBox, etc.).
  • GitHub Pages - Simple static websites.
  • GitHub LFS - Large file storage.

• IPython Notebooks - An interactive alternative to LaTeX and Word. See examples how notebooks look like in data-science-ipython-notebooks (⭐25k) and the gallery (⭐16k).

• Most common programs used by Economists - A community-managed list of common software.

• Software for Researchers: New Data and Applications - Covers software mentioned above and some more.

Research / Useful Materials

• How to efficiently manage a statistical analysis project?

• RePEc Rankings by citations
  • Top Authors
  • Economic Institutions
  • Research Items
  • Software Items

Discussions / Useful Materials

• Blogs - The most popular form of self-expression among economists. The major blog aggregators:
  • EconAcademics.org
  • Economist's View - Mark Thoma
  • Grasping Reality - Brad DeLong
  • Marginal Revolution - Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
  • VOX CEPR - Members of CEPR

• Economics Blog Search - A Google-based search service for aforementioned blogs.

• StackExchange Economics - A Q&A website where you can ask and answer questions.

• Reddit - A popular news aggregator. Has many economics-related sections, for example:
  • /r/GoodEconomics/ - Selected pieces on economic issues.
  • /r/EconPapers/ - Discussing economic papers.

Career / Undergraduate

• University rankings - May help in choosing a college.
  • QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 - Economics & Econometrics
  • Academic Ranking of World Universities in Economics / Business

Career / Faculty

• Economics Job Market Rumors - List of job openings for economists. Informal.

Economics on GitHub / Economists

• jesusfv

• robertdkirkby

Economics on GitHub / Projects

• quantecon_nyu_2016 (⭐112) - Topics in Computational Economics

13. Awesome Rxjava

Utilities

• rxlint - An Android lint rule for RxJava code.

14. Awesome Npm

Registry

• nrm (⭐2.7k) - Registry manager.

Other

• ntl (⭐896) - Interactive CLI menu to list & run npm tasks.

15. Awesome PICO 8

Contents / Tools

• p8 responsive webplayer transform (⭐14) - Python script that makes your HTML export page responsive.

16. Awesome Elm

Articles / Outdated articles (Not relevant for current Elm architecture)

• Getting Started with Elm - Series of Elm education tutorials.

17. Awesome Ruby

Machine Learning

• weka (⭐65) - Machine learning and data mining algorithms for JRuby.

18. Awesome Promises

Resources, Blogs, and Books / Deep Dive

• We have a problem with promises - "Many of us are using promises without really understanding them."

Promises/A+ Implementations (ES6/ES2015 compatible) / Strict Implementations

• es6-promise (⭐7.3k) - Opt-in polyfill. A strict-spec subset of rsvp.js.

Convenience Utilities / Others

• promise-semaphore (⭐29) - Push a set of work to be done in a configurable serial fashion

19. Awesome Vue

Resources / Tutorials

• Vue.js Introduction Turkish Language on oguzhan.in

• Vue.js VideoTutoral Series in Spanish (3-8-2016) on YouTube by Juan Andrés Núñez

20. Awesome Javascript

Bundlers

• Rollup (⭐24k) - Next-generation ES6 module bundler.

Editors / Runner

• bootstrap-wysihtml5 (⭐4.1k) - Simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

• wysihtml5 (⭐6.5k) - Open source rich text editor based on HTML5 and the progressive-enhancement approach. Uses a sophisticated security concept and aims to generate fully valid HTML5 markup by preventing unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles.

• raptor-editor (⭐531) - Raptor, an HTML5 WYSIWYG content editor!

Date / Runner

• countdown.js (⭐402) - Super simple countdowns.

Loading Status / Runner

• css-loaders (⭐7k) - A collection of loading spinners animated with CSS

Sliders / Runner

• Strut (⭐1.7k) - Strut - An Impress.js and Bespoke.js Presentation Editor

Tips / Other

• toolbar (⭐2.3k) - A tooltip style toolbar jQuery plugin

• hint.css (⭐8.4k) - A tooltip library in CSS for your lovely websites.

Modals and Popups / Other

• baguetteBox.js (⭐2.4k) - Simple and easy to use lightbox script written in pure JavaScript.

• colorbox (⭐4.8k) - A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery.

• fancyBox (⭐7.3k) - A tool that offers a nice and elegant way to add zooming functionality for images, html content and multi-media on your webpages.

• swipebox (⭐2k) - A touchable jQuery lightbox

• jBox (⭐1.4k) - jBox is a powerful and flexible jQuery plugin, taking care of all your popup windows, tooltips, notices and more.

Boilerplates / Other

• html5-boilerplate (⭐56k) - A professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites.

• mobile-boilerplate (⭐3.9k) - A front-end template that helps you build fast, modern mobile web apps.

• webplate (⭐559) - An awesome front-end framework that lets you stay focused on building your site or app while remaining really easy to use.

• Cerberus (⭐4.9k) - A few simple, but solid patterns for responsive HTML emails. Even in Outlook.

• Fluid-Squares (⭐32) - A fluid grid of square units.

Video/Audio / Other

• FitVids.js (⭐4.8k) - A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.

Typography / Other

• FlowType.JS (⭐4.6k) - Web typography at its finest: font-size and line-height based on element width.

• BigText (⭐886) - jQuery plugin, calculates the font-size and word-spacing needed to match a line of text to a specific width.

• novacancy.js (⭐185) - Text Neon Golden effect jQuery plug-in.

• jquery-responsive-text (⭐124) - Make your text sizing responsive!

Animations / Other

• the-cube (⭐10) - The Cube is an experiment with CSS3 transitions.

• animate.css (⭐79k) - A cross-browser library of CSS animations. As easy to use as an easy thing.

Misc / Other

• spoiler-alert (⭐472) - SPOILER ALERT! A happy little jquery plugin to hide spoilers on your site.

• jquery.vibrate.js (⭐144) - Vibration API Wrappers

• jquery-match-height (⭐3.1k) - a responsive equal heights plugin for jQuery.

• sotayamashita/awesome-css (⭐4.8k)

21. Awesome Android Ui

Progress

• Name: ArcProgressStackView (⭐249)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

Menu

• Name: android-snake-menu (⭐587)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

• Name: BoomMenu (⭐5.8k)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

Other

• Name: StatusBarUtil (⭐8.8k)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

• Name: Horizon - Simple visual equaliser for Android (⭐2.2k)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

22. Awesome Rust

Development tools / FFI

• Objective-C
  • SSheldon/rust-objc (⭐376) — Objective-C Runtime bindings and wrapper for Rust

Libraries / Virtualization

• saurvs/hypervisor-rs (⭐59) — Hardware-accelerated virtualization on OS X

23. Tips

Count unpacked number of objects and their disk consumption.

git count-objects --human-readable

Prune all unreachable objects from the object database.

git gc --prune=now --aggressive

Instantly browse your working repository in gitweb.

git instaweb [--local] [--httpd=<httpd>] [--port=<port>] [--browser=<browser>]

24. Awesome Android

Database / ORM

• SimpleNoSQL (⭐389) - A simple NoSQL client for Android. Meant as a document store using key/value pairs and some rudimentary querying. Useful for avoiding the hassle of SQL code.

• RxSimpleNoSQL (⭐37) - Reactive extensions for SimpleNoSQL. Manipulate entities using Observables.

25. Awesome Dotnet

Tools

• ShareX (⭐27k) - ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to over 80 supported destinations you can choose from.

26. Awesome Elixir

Bittorrent

• bento (⭐92) - An incredibly fast, correct, pure-Elixir Bencoding library.

Email

• bamboo (⭐1.9k) - Composable, testable and adapter based email library. Out of the box support for rendering with Phoenix and a plug for previewing sent emails in dev.

Geolocation

• ip2location (⭐19) - An Elixir library for IP2Location database.

Queue

• verk (⭐719) - Verk is a job processing system backed by Redis. It uses the same job definition of Sidekiq/Resque.

Editors

• Alchemist.vim (⭐652) - Elixir Tooling Integration Into Vim.

Websites

• Elixir Recipes - Collection of patterns & solutions to common problems in Elixir.

27. Awesome Bigdata

Distributed Programming

• Netflix PigPen (⭐547) - map-reduce for Clojure which compiles to Apache Pig.

• Streamdrill - useful for counting activities of event streams over different time windows and finding the most active one.

28. Awesome Artificial Intelligence

Videos

• A tutorial on Deep Learning

• Basics of Computational Reinforcement Learning

• Deep Reinforcement Learning

29. Awesome Electron

Open Source / Other

• Catify (⭐64) - Utility for Spotify.

30. Amas

Ask these people anything!

• Unbug Lee (⭐0) - Author of MIHTool and Codelf.

• Tibor Simon (⭐0) - Electrical engineer, software geek, DSP, iOS, vimmer, guitarist, biker, runner, tiborsimon.io.

31. Awesome Deep Vision

Image and Language / Question Answering

• POSTECH [Paper] [Project Page]
  • Hyeonwoo Noh, Paul Hongsuck Seo, and Bohyung Han, Image Question Answering using Convolutional Neural Network with Dynamic Parameter Prediction, arXiv:1511.05765

• CMU / Microsoft Research [Paper]
  • Yang, Z., He, X., Gao, J., Deng, L., & Smola, A. (2015). Stacked Attention Networks for Image Question Answering. arXiv:1511.02274.

• MetaMind [Paper]
  • Xiong, Caiming, Stephen Merity, and Richard Socher. "Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering." arXiv:1603.01417 (2016).

32. Awesome Php

Table of Contents / Task Runners

• Jobby (⭐1k) - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.

Table of Contents / Event

• Prooph Event Store (⭐548) - An event source component to persist event messages

33. Awesome Opengl

Related lists

• awesome-vulkan (⭐2.9k) - A curated list of awesome Vulkan projects and ecosystem.

34. Awesome Opensource Apps

Laravel

• Name: Koel (⭐15k)

  Description: A personal music streaming server that works

  Link: http://koel.phanan.net

• Name: Laravel Tricks (⭐974)

  Description: Laravel Tips and Tricks

  Link: http://laravel-tricks.com

• Name: Larasites

  Description: Showcasing the best websites made with Laravel & Lumen

  Link: https://www.larasites.com

• Name: Flarum (⭐14k)

  Description: Delightfully simple forum software

  Link: http://flarum.org

• Name: LavaliteCMS (⭐2.6k)

  Description: CMS built on Laravel 5.2

  Link: http://www.lavalite.org

• Name: AsgardCMS (⭐781)

  Description: A modular multilingual CMS built with Laravel 5

  Link: http://asgardcms.com

• Name: KodiCMS (⭐162)

  Description: The CMS built on Laravel 5.2

  Link: http://laravel.kodicms.ru

• Name: BoostrapCMS (⭐2.5k)

  Description: A PHP CMS powered by Laravel 5 and Sentry

  Link:

• Name: Quarx (⭐496)

  Description: A CMS for Laravel Apps

  Link:

• Name: Oez (⭐32)

  Description: Lightweight Blogging CMS

  Link:

• Name: Deployer (⭐896)

  Description: A free and open source deployment tool

  Link: http://phpdeployment.org

• Name: PHPhub (⭐1.8k)

  Description: Chinese PHP Community

  Link: http://phphub.org

• Name: Techademia (⭐16)

  Description: Organize Your Youtube Videos to Learn

  Link: http://techademia.herokuapp.com

• Name: Laravel.com (⭐502)

  Description: Official Website and Documentation of Laravel

  Link: https://laravel.com

Rails

• Name: SprintApp (⭐301)

  Description: Time tracking and Project Management App

  Link: http://www.sprintapp.com

Meteor

• Name: Rocket.Chat (⭐36k)

  Description: A web chat platform

  Link: https://rocket.chat

• Name: ColourCode

  Description: An online colour code app

  Link: http://www.colourco.de

• Name: ReactionCommerce (⭐12k)

  Description: A JavaScript Ecommerce App

  Link: https://reactioncommerce.com

• Name: CoderMania (⭐49)

  Description: An E-Learning Platform

  Link: http://www.codermania.com

• Name: Telescope (⭐174)

  Description: Lauch Sites Easily

  Link: http://www.telescopeapp.org

• Name: Loop Pulse (⭐9)

  Description: Data Analysis Platform

  Link: http://www.looppulse.com

35. Awesome Micro Npm Packages

Articles

• Small modules: it’s not quite that simple

• In Defense of Hyper Modular JavaScript

Modules / Array

• unordered-array-remove (⭐117) - Efficiently remove an element from an unordered array without doing a splice.

Modules / Object

• sorted-object (⭐35) - Returns a copy of an object with its keys sorted.

36. Awesome Ava

Packages

• redux-test-recorder (⭐492) - Generate AVA tests for Redux reducers in a React app.

37. Awesome Stock Resources

Photography / CC0-license

• Crow the Stone - Free photos to use any way you want.

38. Awesome Unity

Tutorials

• Unity Virtual Reality - Unity's official documentation on developing virtual reality applications.

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