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1. Awesome Geojson

editors & viewers

• gjv (⭐75): electron app enables viewing GeoJSON locally and hack on it with turf; works offline

data

• metro-extracts: regional OpenStreetMap data as GeoJSON

2. Awesome Vue

Resources / Tutorials

• Create a GitHub File Explorer Using Vue.js on Scotch.io

• Vue.js Tutorial on Vegibit

3. Awesome Music

MIDI Tools & Libraries

• Midifile - C++ library for parsing Standard MIDI Files.

4. Awesome Cpp

Scripting

• ChakraCore (⭐9.1k) -A JavaScript engine by Microsoft that can be embedded into nodejs. [MIT]

Compiler

• Clang - A C compiler for LLVM. Supports C++11/14/1z C11. Developed by LLVM Team. [NCSA]

• GCC - GNU Compiler Collection. Supports C++11/14/1z C11 and OpenMP. [GNU GPL3]

5. Awesome Charting

Commercial Libraries

• amCharts - Three libraries for traditional charts, stock, and maps. Features a hand-drawn style theme option.

• CanvasJS - A tight set of chart types in a library with a small file size. Different looking default theme than other commercial libraries.

• FusionCharts - Charting library with a strong maps component.

• Highcharts - A series of charting libraries for a variety of uses. Can be compatible back to IE6.

• ZingChart - Built to render large data sets other libraries can't handle. Super customizable styling and new features added often. Everything in one modular library.

Free and Open Source Libraries

• Chart.js - Tiny library (11kb!) including core chart types.

• D3.js - Allows the user to manipulate documents based on data to render charts in SVG.

• dygraphs (⭐3k) - Interactive zoomable time series charts.

• Plottable (⭐2.9k) - Library with OOP style syntax to build charts.

• rgraph - 2D/3D javascript charts with google sheets import capabilites.

Free Libraries

• Google Charts - Maps are dialed in (of course) and some cool animation options. Extensive docs and use community (forum).

Framework-Specific Libraries / Angular

• n3-charts (⭐1.2k) - Easy to use library written with AngularJS, rendering charts with D3.

Framework-Specific Libraries / Ember

• Ember Charts - Five basic chart types ready to go in Ember.js projects.

Framework-Specific Libraries / jQuery

• Flot - A JavaScript charting library for jQuery. Contains useful chart types but looks like it may no longer be in active development.

Framework-Specific Libraries / React

• react-d3 (⭐1.8k) - Charting library that relies on React for generating SVG markup and d3 to calculate path values.

Data Visualization Resources / React

• Dataviz Catalogue - A place to go when you're wondering which chart type is best. A project by Severino Ribecca.

• Evergreen Data - Information and opinions on presenting data more effectively.

• Flowing Data - A resource on maps, visualizations, stats, and design by Nathan Yau, formerly of the New York Times.

• Junk Charts - Dataviz critic (and Columbia professor) Kaiser Fung breaks down data visualizations to identify what is wrong and recommends ways to make them better.

• Visualizing Data - Dataviz consultant Andy Kirk compiles examples, resources, and reference materials on the subject of charting and visualization.

• Well Formed Data - Thought pieces on information visualization and design by Moritz Stefaner previously of the World Economic Forum.

6. Awesome Dropwizard

Tutorials / Deployment

• Getting Started

• Official docs

• Dropwizard Modules Directory

7. Awesome Influxdb

Projects / Non-dedicated

• Riemann (⭐4.1k) - A network event stream processing system, in Clojure

8. Awesome Shell

Command-Line Productivity

• k (⭐1.8k) - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates

9. Awesome Canvas

Libraries / To draw using canvas

• Origami.js (⭐767) - JS Lib to redesign canvas API interface

10. Awesome Dotnet

API

• ServiceStack (⭐5.4k) - Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all

Scheduling

• FluentScheduler (⭐2.7k) - Task scheduler with fluent interface that runs automated jobs from your application

• NCrontab (⭐887) - Class library for parsing & formatting crontab expressions as well as calculating occurrences of time based on a crontab schedule

11. Learn to Program

Beginner

Vertabelo Academy

Free SQL courses with interactive exercises and quizzes
(SQL, database concepts)

12. Awesome Fonts

General

• Typewolf

Programming fonts / Fonts

• Fantasque Sans Mono (⭐6.4k)

Programming fonts / Programming fonts with ligatures

• Hasklig (⭐5.4k)

JavaScript libs / Event listeners for fonts loading on a web page

• Font Face Observer (⭐4.1k)

• Web Font Loader (⭐9.1k)

13. Awesome Swift

Transition / Barcode

• BubbleTransition (⭐3.3k) - Bubble transition in an easy way.

14. Awesome Microservices

Messaging / Scala

• Aeron (⭐7.2k) - Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport.

Data Formats / Scala

• SBE (⭐251) - Simple Binary Encoding (SBE).

15. Awesome Html5

Game development / WebRTC

• HTML 5 game development video series by Mozilla

16. Awesome Relay

Overviews

• Joseph Savona - Relay: An Application Framework For React - Conceptual overview of Relay from the Facebook team.

• Relay: Seamless Syncing For React - An overview of what Relay is, and some discussion of experience using it in production.

Libraries & Packages

• react-router-relay - react-router bindings for Relay. Greatly simplifies many local state UI uses cases.
  • Relay and Routing - A well-articulated walk through of react-router-relay, and the problems that it solves.
  • relay-nested-routes - Generate nested routes that reflect nested data. Helpful for managing deep data.
  • isomorphic-relay-router - Server side rendering support for react-router-relay.

• babel-plugin-flow-relay-query - Convert Flow types into Relay fragments.

• sequelize-relay - Make Relay compatible with sequelize.

• relay-mongodb-connection - Create Relay connections from MongoDB cursors.

Scala / Rails

• Writing Simple Unit Tests with Relay - An early first look at testing Relay.

17. Awesome Neo4j

REST API / PHP

• Spider (⭐24) - A simple, flexible, and beautiful graph-data abstraction for php.

18. Awesome Transit

Software for Creating APIs

• OpenTripPlanner - An open source platform for multi-modal and multi-agency journey planning, as well as returning information about a multi-modal graph (using data sources such as GTFS and OpenStreetMap).

19. Awesome Micro Npm Packages

Modules / Date & Time

• periods (⭐1) - Defined time-periods constants for Javascript, in milliseconds.

Modules / Object

• is-empty-object (⭐11) - Check if an object is empty.

Modules / Semver

• semver-first-satisfied (⭐2) - Find minimum in an array of version that satisfies a semver range.

Modules / CLI

• abbrev (⭐158) - Calculate the set of unique abbreviations for a given set of strings.

• glob (⭐8.1k) - Glob functionality for node.js.

Modules / Module management

• pkg-conf (⭐113) - Get namespaced config from the closest package.json.

• normalize-pkg (⭐18) - Normalize values in package.json to improve compatibility, programmatic readability and usefulness with third party libs.

20. Awesome Competitive Programming

Community / Quora

• Competitive Programmers: Miguel Oliveira (mogers)

  : Egor Suvorov (yeputons)

  : Michal Danilák (Mimino)

• Competitive Programmers: Bohdan Pryshchenko (I_love_Tanya_Romanova)

  : Vladimir Novakovski (vnovakovski)

  : Nick Wu (xiaowuc1)

• Competitive Programmers: Cosmin Negruseri

  : Lalit Kundu (darkshadows)

  : Ashish Kedia (ashish1294)

21. Awesome Vulkan

Hardware Support

• gpuinfo - Vulkan Hardware Database by Sascha Willems

• Qualcomm

SDK

• For Windows & Linux

• For Android

Samples

• vkcube (⭐115) - 'vkcube' sample from krh, works under X, wayland and VT console with drm/kms.

22. Awesome Geek Podcasts

In English

• Open Source System Podcast - Latest open source projects and news!

23. Awesome Jvm

Memory and concurrency

• Apache Arrow - A high-performance cross-system data layer for columnar in-memory analytics.

Metaprogramming

• derive4j (⭐543) - Algebraic data types constructors, pattern-matching, morphisms, optics and typeclasses.

• Sulong (⭐627) - LLVM IR interpreter written in Java using Truffle and Graal.

• Truffle (⭐18k) - Framework for implementing languages as simple interpreters.

24. Awesome Bitcoin

JavaScript Libraries

• Awesome CryptoCoinJS (⭐58)

25. Awesome Laravel

Videos / Third-party Service Integration

• Amitav Roy

26. Awesome AutoIt

Automation

• AutoItMonkey (⭐16) - The AutoItMonkey is an UDF that runs on your Android emulator or device and generates pseudo-random streams of user events such as clicks, touches, or gestures, as well as a number of system-level events.

Misc / OpenOffice

• AutoItAppveyor (by KyleChamberlin) (⭐0) - This library contains functions for integrating your AutoIt scripts and programs with Appveyor CI.

• Micro Unit Testing Framework (by KyleChamberlin) (⭐5) - Micro is a xUnit style testing framework design for use with AutoIt.

27. Awesome Courses

Courses / Misc

• CS 108 Object Oriented System Design Stanford
  • Software design and construction in the context of large OOP libraries. Taught in Java. Topics: OOP design, design patterns, testing, graphical user interface (GUI) OOP libraries, software engineering strategies, approaches to programming in teams.

28. Awesome Python

Science

• NIPY - A collection of neuroimaging toolkits.

29. Awesome Aws

Open Source Repos / S3

• mumrah/s3-multipart 🔥 (⭐162) - Parallel upload/download to S3 via Python.

30. Awesome Unity

Tips and Tricks

• Unity Tips - Short videos showing some handy tips when using Unity.

31. Awesome Json

Libraries

• JSON-java (⭐4.5k) - A reference implementation.

• PL/JSON (⭐440) - A generic JSON object written in PL/SQL.

JSON Schema Frontend components

• angular-schema-form (⭐2.5k) - Generate forms. (AngularJS)

32. Awesome Elixir

Authentication

• goth (⭐283) - OAuth 2.0 library for server to server applications via Google Cloud APIs.

Examples and funny stuff

• kaisuu (⭐67) - Watch Japan's Kanji Usage on Twitter in Realtime.

Third Party APIs

• stripity_stripe (⭐954) - An Elixir Library for Stripe.

Editors

• atom-iex (⭐15) - Run an IEx session in Atom.

33. Awesome Security

Network / Fast Packet Processing

• PFQ (⭐523) - PFQ is a functional networking framework designed for the Linux operating system that allows efficient packets capture/transmission (10G and beyond), in-kernel functional processing and packets steering across sockets/end-points.

• PF_RING - PF_RING is a new type of network socket that dramatically improves the packet capture speed.

• netmap - netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. Together with its companion VALE software switch, it is implemented as a single kernel module and available for FreeBSD, Linux and now also Windows.

34. Awesome Machine Learning

Rust / General-Purpose Machine Learning

• rusty-machine (⭐1.3k) - a pure-rust machine learning library.

35. Awesome Robotics

Competitions

• RobotChallenge

• DARPA Robotics Challenge

• RoboCup

36. Awesome Rxjava

Utilities

• RxPartialApplication (⭐30) - Simple partial application for FuncN and ActionN on RxJava.

• RxCurrying (⭐38) - Simple currying for FuncN and ActionN on RxJava.

• RxEither (⭐91) - Either type for RxJava.

37. Awesome Alfred Workflows

Communication

• Adium - Adium workflow to chat with people on your list.

Developer

• caniuse (⭐405) - Caniuse.com workflow to query HTML / CSS support.

• CDN (⭐66) - Check which CDNs a package is hosted on.

• Colors - Convert color formats & access the OS X color panel.

• Font Awesome (⭐809) - Quickly look up font awesome icons and add the desired one to your clipboard.

• Package Managers (⭐700) - Package Repo Search.

• VagrantUP (⭐40) - List and control Vagrant environments with Alfred2.

System

• Copy Paths to Clipboard (⭐95) - Copy Current File Paths to Clipboard as POSIX, HFS, or File URLs.

• Network Info - Display ip addresses or mac addresses for all network interfaces.

Other Lists

• Packal - The biggest place to find Workflows.

38. Awesome Ruby

ORM/ODM

• Redis-Objects (⭐2.1k) - Redis Objects provides a Rubyish interface to Redis, by mapping Redis data types to Ruby objects, via a thin layer over the redis gem.

Spreadsheets and Documents

• Docsplit - Gem to convert Microsoft Word (and other) documents into images, pdf, pages or text.

39. Awesome Nodejs

Packages / Data validation

• property-validator (⭐158) - Easy property validation for Express.

40. Amas

Ask these people anything!

• Rob Thomas (⭐0) - VoIP Developer, IPv6 and Security Evangelist, DevOps proponent. Currently at Sangoma.

Ask these organizations anything!

• HackCU - A collegiate hackathon at the University of Colorado that operates a free bi-annual event for students to learn coding or push their skills building things.

41. Awesome Pyramid

Caching & Session

• pyramid_redis_sessions (⭐44) - Pyramid web framework session factory backed by Redis.

Debugging

• pyramid_debugtoolbar_dogpile (⭐2) - dogpile caching support for pyramid_debugtoolbar

42. Awesome Lumen

Essentials

• Lumen Homepage

• Documentation - Lumen 5

• GitHub Repository (⭐7.6k)

Written

• Building a Micro Markdown API app with Lumen

• Lumen by Laravel - First tutorial

• Developing a web application with lumen and Mysql

• Getting Started with Lumen

• Building a web app with Lumen Web Api and Oauth2 Authentication

• Build an API with Lumen and Fractal

• Developing a microservice with Lumen

Videos

• Introducing Lumen by Taylor Otwell

• Zero to API with Lumen

• Building a Bookings API with Lumen

• Lumen 5.1 and Homestead of Laravel: Create a RESTful API

• Building APIs with Lumen by Oz Brignoni

• Lumen Restful API and Homestead

Packages and Middleware

• Lumen Cors (⭐46) - A simple lumen CORS

• Alternative Lumen Cors (⭐103) - CORS Middleware for Lumen micro-framework

• Phpspec Lumen (⭐0) - Test your Lumen app with phpspec

• Understand Lumen (⭐6) - Laravel Lumen service provider for Understand.io

• Badge Poser (⭐6) - Lumen Badge Generator

• Cors Illuminate (⭐48) - CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) support for Laravel and Lumen

• Jwt Artisan (⭐142) - JWT auth for Laravel and Lumen

• Facebook SDK (⭐698) - Facebook SDK for Laravel and Lumen

• Lumen Generators (⭐349) - A collection of generators for Lumen and Laravel 5.

• Dingo API (⭐9.3k) - A RESTful API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks.

• Lumen Tinker (⭐112) - An interactive shell to Lumen framework

• Lumen Maintenance Mode (⭐24) - Define Lumen Application Maintenance Mode

• Lumen Vendor Publish (⭐208) - Vendor publish command for Lumen framework.

• Lumen Make (⭐22) - Ports most of the make commands from Laravel to Lumen.

• Lumen File Manager (⭐40) - File manager module for the Lumen PHP framework.

Made With Lumen

• Slack Invitator (⭐56) - A Slack Invitator made with Lumen Framework

• Email Microservice (⭐74) - Microservice for sending emails with Lumen

• Lissandra (⭐15) - API for Laracasts Feed built with Lumen.

• Lumen Solder (⭐3) - An implementation of Solder in Laravel's Lumen Framework.

Books

• Writing APIs with Lumen

Community

• StackOverflow

Tips

• Contribute some ;)

Contributing / Guidelines

• Make sure what you are adding is not already on the list

• Make a separate pull request for each addition

• Use the format: * [Name](Link) - Description if needed

• Add it to the bottom of the section, not top or middle

• Check your spelling and grammar

• Feel free to create or improve a category

• Make sure there is no trailing whitespace

• Last, Make sure it is awesome!

43. Engineering Blogs

Companies / A companies

• Asana https://blog.asana.com/category/eng/

Companies / H companies

• Hashrocket https://hashrocket.com/blog

Companies / I companies

• Instacart https://tech.instacart.com/

Companies / J companies

• Jane Street https://blogs.janestreet.com/category/ocaml/

Companies / O companies

• OmniTI https://omniti.com/seeds/stop-collaborate-and-listen-notify

Companies / P companies

• Postmark https://postmarkapp.com/blog

Companies / Q companies

• Quora https://engineering.quora.com/

Companies / S companies

• Sky Betting & Gaming http://engineering.skybettingandgaming.com/

• Stitch Fix http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/

Companies / T companies

• TrueCar https://www.drivenbycode.com/

Companies / W companies

• WyeWorks https://wyeworks.com/blog/

Individuals/Group Contributors / A individuals

• Addy Osmani https://addyosmani.com/blog/

Individuals/Group Contributors / B individuals

• Blundell's Android Tutorials http://blog.blundellapps.co.uk

Individuals/Group Contributors / H individuals

• High Scalability http://highscalability.com/

Individuals/Group Contributors / J individuals

• Josh Sherman https://joshtronic.com/

Individuals/Group Contributors / R individuals

• Robin Ward https://eviltrout.com/

• Ruslan Spivak https://ruslanspivak.com/

Individuals/Group Contributors / S individuals

• Sam Saffron https://samsaffron.com/

Individuals/Group Contributors / Z individuals

• Zach Holman https://zachholman.com/

Products/Technologies / R technologies

• RocksDB http://rocksdb.org/blog

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