Awesome List Updates on Oct 11, 2017

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1. Awesome Coins

☤ Reading Material

• r/CryptoCurrency — Official subreddit about crypto-currencies and crypto-assets.

2. Awesome Jvm

Virtual Machines

• Eclipse OpenJ9 (⭐3k) - Eclipse OpenJ9.

3. Citizen Science

Software / Publishing , Collaboration and Organization

• RapidPro (⭐831) - An open-source platform for building scalable applications that users can interact with via SMS.

Literature / Citizen Science Practice

• Spectrophotometric Determination of Lead - Another simple DIY lead testing procedure.

4. Awesome Ruby

Database Tools

• connection_pool (⭐1.6k) - Generic connection pooling for Ruby, that can be used with anything, e.g. Redis, Dalli, etc.

5. Awesome Bigdata

Applications

• AthenaX (⭐1.2k) - a streaming analytics platform that enables users to run production-quality, large scale streaming analytics using Structured Query Language (SQL).

6. Rbooks

Advanced Books

R for Data Science [Online] Free

Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible.

7. Awesome Mastodon

Tools

• Last - Aggregate toots on a web page providing Atom feed and an epub (Perl).

8. Awesome Speaking

Blog Posts

• How To Get Speaking Engagements - by Sam Jarman

9. Awesome Regression Testing

Slideshows, talks and videos

• Visual Regression Testing with Shoov - How to setup shoov and get your first test written.

• Visual Regression Testing with PhantomCSS - Talk by Jon Bellah on how to use PhantomCSS during wordpress development.

• Visual Regression Testing: Sanity Checks With BackstopJS - Screencast with code demo and best practices.

• Screenster Tutorial - Tutorial on how to create visual automated tests with Screenster.

• Look-alike - visual regression testing tool - Demo what the Look-alike Chrome extension is, how it works and how and why it was build.

• Screencast on CSS critic - a lightweight testing framework for CSS - How to write your first CSS test with CSS critic, make it pass, break it, and make it pass again.

10. Awesome Vehicle Security

Presentations

• A Survey of Remote Automotive Attack Surfaces - Black Hat talk By Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek. Automotive security concerns have gone from the fringe to the mainstream with security researchers showing the susceptibility of the modern vehicle to local and remote attacks. Discussion of vehicle attack surfaces. 2014.

11. Awesome Creative Coding

Visual Programming Languages

• XOD [Cross-platform] - Open source visual programming language and environment for microcontroller-based projects.

12. Awesome Remote Job

Tools / Communication

• Rocket.Chat — The Ultimate Open Source WebChat Platform.

13. Awesome Hacking Locations

Portugal 🇵🇹 / Lisbon

Confeitaria Lisboa

Well lit, great croissants.

Webpage: http://4sq.com/1JRQG4q

Royale Café

Quiet and friendly staff. A bit on the pricey $$ side though.

Webpage: http://www.royalecafe.com

United States 🇺🇸 / Illinois

Refinery

Great coffee and usually has available seating. Wifi is bad.

Webpage: http://the-refinery.cafes-city.com/

United States 🇺🇸 / Massachusetts

Diesel Cafe

Same good food as Bloc 11 and Forge, larger, more industrial, busy but always a space, standing desks at back, lots of resident coders. Acid coffee.

Webpage: http://www.diesel-cafe.com/

Notes:

• Contact @richlitt for wifi password if needed.
• You get 45m of free wifi per day. More if you know what you're doing ;) (but $14/mo for wifi is worth it if you hack there often)
• Using IPFS will get you kicked off their network in ~2hr (FYI).

14. Awesome Open Source Supporters

Dependency Management

• Greenkeeper - Automated dependency management for NPM packages (on GitHub).

15. Toolsforactivism

Browsers:

• Tor Browser (⭐450) - Free software for enabling anonymous communication. It prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

16. Awesome Dotnet Core

Community / Workflow

• Slack

17. Awesome Dotnet

Misc

• SystemWrapper (⭐170) - SystemWrapper is .NET library for easier testing of system APIs.

18. Awesome Ava

Articles

• Effortless unit testing with AVA

Videos

• Testing React components with AVA

19. Awesome Electron

Closed Source / Other

• Twitch - Official Twitch app.

Books / Other

• Cross-Platform Desktop Applications 💲

20. Awesome Vulkan

Books

• Introduction to Computer Graphics and the Vulkan API by Kenwright - Introduce the reader to the exciting topic of computer graphics from a grounds-up practical perspective with the Vulkan API.

21. Awesome Security

Endpoint / Mobile / Android / iOS

• OSX Security Awesome (⭐686) - A collection of OSX and iOS security resources

Usability / Development

• Usable Security Course - Usable Security course at coursera. Quite good for those looking for how security and usability intersects.

22. Awesome4girls

Events/Meetups / Javascript

• JsLadies BR - Loc: - Lang: PT-BR only

  A group for women interested in web development and javascript with open and free meetings, workshops and talks.

General / UX

• Ada Lovelace Day

  Ada Lovelace Day, a yearly holiday held on the second Tuesday in the month of October, is an international holiday to celebrate women in STEM fields. It is a day to celebrate contributions made in STEM fields by women, and to encourage other women to pursue those fields by raising awareness of those contributions. There is a main event, held in London, England, but anyone can celebrate ALD by organizing an event or sharing their own story online.

23. Awesome Ssh

Apps / SSH agent

• sshecret (⭐58) - Automatically create and manage multiple agents for multiple keys.

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