Awesome List Updates on Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2019

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1. Free for Dev

APIs, Data, and ML

• Calendarific - Enterprise-grade Public holiday API service for over 200 countries. The free plan includes 1,000 calls per month.

2. Awesome Phalcon

SEO

• Phalcon meta tags (⭐12) - Tools for work with meta tags.

3. Awesome React

React Tutorials

• Cheatsheets for experienced React developers getting started with TypeScript (⭐43k)

React Awesome Components

• react-archer (⭐1k) - Draw arrows between React elements

React Real Apps

• kibana (⭐19k) - Your window into the Elastic Stack

• overreacted (⭐6.9k) - Personal blog by Dan Abramov

4. Awesome Music

Music Notation

• Digital Music Stand (⭐30) - a free web app for displaying sheet music.

5. Awesome Wordpress Gatsby

WordPress / Other helpful Plugins

• Advanced Custom Fields - ACF PRO

• Polylang

6. Awesome Artificial Intelligence

Courses

• Essential Natural Language Processing - A hands-on guide to NLP with practical techniques, numerous Python-based examples and real-world case studies.

7. Awesome Bigdata

Data Visualization / Graph Based approach

• Monte Carlo Tree Search Papers awesome-monte-carlo-tree-search-papers (⭐532).

8. Awesome Cl

Miscellaneous

• IUP (⭐130) - CFFI bindings to the IUP Portable User Interface library (pre-ALPHA).
  • IUP is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, with new Android, iOs, Cocoa and Web Assembly drivers), has many widgets, has a small api and is actively developed.
  • has a web view.

Mobile

• rutils (⭐239) - radical yet reasonable syntactic utilities for Common Lisp. MIT.

9. Awesome Mqtt

Broker

• EMQ X (⭐11k) - Scalable and Reliable Real-time MQTT Messaging Engine for IoT in 5G Era.

Tools

• MQTT.fx - MQTT.fx is a MQTT Client written in Java based on Eclipse Paho. Supports scripting.

• MQTTX (⭐2.2k) - MQTTX is a cross-platform MQTT desktop client open sourced by EMQ, which supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Makers

• Basecamp (⭐251) - An Arduino library to ease the use of the ESP32 in IoT projects. See c't Magazin 2'2018 (German).

Logging / Firmwares for ESP based Devices

• mqtt-firebase - A CLI tool for subscribing to MQTT topics and dumping them to a firebase firestore DB.

Smart Home Integration Software / Firmwares for ESP based Devices

• Domoticz - Domoticz beta supports MQTT.

Smart Metering / Firmwares for ESP based Devices

• bcontrol2mqtt (⭐3) - Publish measurements from TQ Energy Manager / Busch-Jäger Energy Monitor to MQTT.

Misc / Firmwares for ESP based Devices

• MQTT2ETCD (⭐2) - MQTT-ETCD gateway: PUT keys on ETCD through MQTT, and watch ETCD key changes on MQTT topics

Visualization, Dashboards / Firmwares for ESP based Devices

• Crouton (⭐286) - A dashboard that taps into your IOT network, using only MQTT and JSON.

10. Alternative Internet

Hosting and media

• Peertube is a distributed and self-hosted video player and platform that uses WebTorrent and ActivityPub.

• YunoHost is a server operating system aiming to make self-hosting accessible to everyone.

Dead

• CloudBank (⭐28) First ever POWWT (Proof of work with time) consensus algorithm crypto currency with python without fee all miners share constant reward between them.

11. Awesome Css Learning

Layout / Flexbox

• What the Flexbox? - A simple, free 20 video course that will help you master CSS Flexbox!

Layout / Grid

• Designing with Grid - Talk about the new layout possibilities CSS Grid is offering.

12. Awesome Javascript Learning

Articles & Tutorials / Single Topics

• Array operations - Covering the usefulness of Array's map, reduce, and filter methods.

Free eBooks / Single Topics

• Functional-Light JavaScript (⭐16k) - This book explores the core principles of functional programming (FP) as they are applied to JavaScript.

Interactive learning / Single Topics

• Exercism JavaScript Track - Exercism provides individual practice and mentor-based learning for free.

13. Awesome Spark

Packages / Testing

• deequ (⭐2.7k) - Deequ is a library built on top of Apache Spark for defining "unit tests for data", which measure data quality in large datasets.

14. Awesome Katas

Others

• Gilded Rose - Many languages (⭐3.3k)

• Gilded Rose Original - C# (⭐376)

15. Awesome Ddd

Sample Projects / .NET (C#/F#)

• Better code with DDD building blocks (⭐298) - solution presents usage of DDD tactical patterns to achieve better readability and expressiveness of the code. Applying DDD patterns together with ubiquitous language closes the gap between language spoken by experts and the team and language used in the code.

• Photostock CQRS-DDD Example (⭐7)

16. Awesome Jamstack

Jamstack Sites Showcase

• FbaMonthly - Hosted on Netlify, built with Jekyll, Netlify Functions and Netlify Forms.

• Jarod Peachey - Built with Gatsby + MaterialUI and hosted on Netlify

17. Awesome Blazor

Courses / Others

• Authentication and Authorization in Blazor Applications - December, 2019 - Learn how to secure your Blazor application using a variety of best practice techniques for authentication and authorization. On Pluralsight.

• Blazor: Getting Started - December, 2019 - Learn how to build your first application in a hands-on way using Blazor, Microsoft's solution to use C# to write interactive web UIs without JavaScript. On Pluralsight.

18. Awesome Splunk

Basics

• Splunk Website - Splunk's Homepage.
  • Downloads - Download page.
  • Previous Releases - Previous versions of Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Forwarders.

• Splunk Answers - Splunk's Community Questions and Answers.

• SplunkBase - Splunk and Community built apps and add-ons.

• Splunk Blogs - Blog posts on various topics.

• Splunk Dev - Develop on Splunk.
  • Free Dev License - Request a free Splunk Developer license.

• Splunk Docs - Documentation.

• Splunk Sizing Calculators
  • Storage - Web Based Storage Requirement Calculator.

Premium Apps / IT Service Intelligence

• ITSI Documentation - ITSI Documentation.

Visualisations / IT Service Intelligence

• Punchcard - Punchcard Visualisation.

• Horizon Chart - Horizon Chart Visualisation.

• Sankey Diagram - Sankey Diagram Visualisation.

Conferences, Meet-Ups and Socialising / IT Service Intelligence

• UserGroups - Find a nearby usergroup.

• .Conf - Splunk's annual conference website.
  • Past .Conf Material - Watch past presentations and download the slides from past .conf presentations.

• Splunk UserGroups Slack - Splunk's publicly accessible Slack.

• Splunk Trust - The Splunk Trust is an invite only group of Splunk Ninjas.

19. Awesome Nodejs

Packages / Testing

• nve (⭐688) - Run any command on multiple versions of Node.js locally.

20. Awesome Remote Job

Job boards aggregators

• Remote.io - Job board and aggregator for remote jobs, primarily tech.

21. Awesome List

Front-End Development

• Seed (⭐207) - Rust framework for creating web apps running in WebAssembly.

22. Awesome Video

Learning

• Adding Alternate Media to a Playlist | Apple Developer Documentation -

• Back to Basics: Encoding Definition and Adaptive Bitrate -

• Creating a Master Playlist | Apple Developer Documentation -

• HLS Authoring Specification for Apple Devices | Apple Developer Documentation -

• Live Playlist (Sliding Window) Construction | Apple Developer Documentation -

• Understanding the HTTP Live Streaming Architecture | Apple Developer Documentation -

• Video on Demand Playlist Construction | Apple Developer Documentation -

HLS / Talks Presentations Podcasts

• HLS | Bento4 -

• Protocol Extension for Low-Latency HLS (Preliminary Specification) | Apple Developer Documentation -

DASH / Talks Presentations Podcasts

• mp4dash | Bento4 -

Encoding / Talks Presentations Podcasts

• Bento4 | Fast, Modern Tools and C++ Class Library for all your MP4 and DASH media format needs -

Testing / Dolby

• HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) - Artillery.io Docs -

23. Js Must Watch

2014

• Philip Roberts: JSConf EU: What the heck is the event loop anyway? [26:52]

2019

• Maxim Koretskyi: JSConf EU: A sneak peek into super optimized code in JS frameworks [23:20]

24. Awesome React Components

Miscellaneous

• react-simple-chatbot (⭐1.7k) - demo (⭐2) - A simple chatbot component to create conversation chats.

25. Awesome Sre

Reliability

• Are you ready for production? - Slides

Service Level Agreement

• How to Include Latency in SLO-Based Alerting

26. Awesome Deep Learning

Researchers / Datasets

• National Design Repository - Over 55,000 3D CAD and solid models of (mostly) mechanical/machined engineering designs. (Formats: gif,vrml,wrl,stp,sat)

27. Awesome Dotnet Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Tools

• ICanHasDotnetCore (⭐71) - Scans uploaded packages.config files or GitHub repository and determines whether the nuget packages target .NET Standard.

28. Awesome Qa

AAAI 2020

• TANDA: Transfer and Adapt Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Answer Sentence Selection, Siddhant Garg, et al., AAAI 2020, Nov 2019.

ACL 2019

• Towards Scalable and Reliable Capsule Networks for Challenging NLP Applications, Wei Zhao, et al., ACL 2019, Jun 2019.

• Cognitive Graph for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension at Scale, Ming Ding, et al., ACL 2019, Jun 2019.

• Real-Time Open-Domain Question Answering with Dense-Sparse Phrase Index, Minjoon Seo, et al., ACL 2019, Jun 2019.

• Unsupervised Question Answering by Cloze Translation, Patrick Lewis, et al., ACL 2019, Jun 2019.

• Improving Question Answering over Incomplete KBs with Knowledge-Aware Reader, Wenhan Xiong, et al., ACL 2019, May 2019.

• Matching Article Pairs with Graphical Decomposition and Convolutions, Bang Liu, et al., ACL 2019, May 2019.

• Episodic Memory Reader: Learning what to Remember for Question Answering from Streaming Data, Moonsu Han, et al., ACL 2019, Mar 2019.

• Textbook Question Answering with Multi-modal Context Graph Understanding and Self-supervised Open-set Comprehension, Daesik Kim, et al., ACL 2019, Nov 2018.

EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019

• Language Models as Knowledge Bases?, Fabio Petron, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Sep 2019.

• LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers, Hao Tan, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Dec 2019.

• Answering Complex Open-domain Questions Through Iterative Query Generation, Peng Qi, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Oct 2019.

• KagNet: Knowledge-Aware Graph Networks for Commonsense Reasoning, Bill Yuchen Lin, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Sep 2019.

• Mixture Content Selection for Diverse Sequence Generation, Jaemin Cho, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Sep 2019.

• A Discrete Hard EM Approach for Weakly Supervised Question Answering, Sewon Min, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP, 2019, Sep 2019.

Dataset

• ELI5: Long Form Question Answering, Angela Fan, et al., ACL 2019, Jul 2019

• CODAH: An Adversarially-Authored Question Answering Dataset for Common Sense, Michael Chen, et al., RepEval 2019, Jun 2019.

Datasets / Subtypes of QA

• CODAH Dataset (⭐19)

• ELI5 (⭐261)
  • Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09190

29. Awesome Esolangs

Languages

• ZOMBIE - Inherently evil multithreaded language designed for Necromancers.

30. Awesome Piracy

Trackers / Semi-Private Trackers

• MetalArea Russian (someplaces english) tracker for obscure metal and dungeon synth.

Streaming Sites / HD Streaming

• Series9 Unique design, HD server with additional hosts

Ebooks / Third Party Hosts

• ReadAnyBook Free online reading.

31. Awesome Newsletters

Security / Svelte

• Crypto-Gram. A security-focused monthly newsletter curated by Bruce Schneier, one of the most famous security experts in the world.

• this week in security. a weekly tl;dr cybersecurity newsletter including news, the happy corner, your weekly cyber-cat, and more. It's sent every Sunday.

32. Awesome Java

CLI / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Jexer - Advanced console (and Swing) text user interface (TUI) library, with mouse-draggable windows, built-in terminal window manager, and sixel image support. Looks like Turbo Vision.

Job Scheduling / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Quartz (⭐6k) - Feature-rich, open source job scheduling library that can be integrated within virtually any Java application.

• Sundial (⭐264) - Lightweight framework to simply define jobs, define triggers and start the scheduler.

• Wisp (⭐121) - Simple library with minimal footprint and straightforward API.

• db-scheduler (⭐1.1k) - Persistent and cluster-friendly scheduler.

PDF / Text-Based User Interfaces

• OpenPDF (⭐3.1k) - Open-source iText fork. (LGPL-3.0-only & MPL-2.0)

Testing / Matchers

• Truth - Google's fluent assertion and proposition framework.

People / Twitter

• Chris Richardson - Software architect, consultant, and serial entrepreneur, Java Champion, JavaOne Rock Star, *POJOs in Action- author.

33. Awesome Ada

Math / Apache License

• mandelbrot-ascii (⭐2) - Mandelbrot renderer in "ASCII" (unicode actually, but text nonetheless).

34. Awesome Python Scientific Audio

Audio Related Packages / Read-Write

• pyAV 🐙 (⭐1.9k) - PyAV is a Pythonic binding for FFmpeg or Libav.

35. Awesome Creative Tech Events

Germany / Hamburg

• Wirefly - The first tech & arts festival of its kind in Germany ⪢ 4 days of ✓ talks ✓ music ✓ events ✓ food ✓ camping - all that and more at a unique venue on the beach! (August)

36. Awesome Icons

General

• Boxicons (⭐2.2k) - Simple vector iconset with 1000+ icons and 100+ logos. (Website)

• ICONSVG - Quick customizable SVG icons, easily customize strokes, ends, and joins of paths. (Website)

37. Awesome Cpp

Chemistry

• Reaktoro (⭐139) - A computational framework in C++ and Python for modeling chemically reactive systems. [LGPL] website

CLI

• indicators (⭐2.8k) - Activity indicators for Modern C++. [MIT]

Math

• autodiff (⭐1.5k) - A modern, fast and expressive C++ library for automatic differentiation. [MIT] website

38. Awesome Eslint

Configs / Configs by Well-Known Companies/Organizations

• React App (⭐102k) - Sharable config for React projects.

Plugins / Practices and Specific ES Features

• toplevel (⭐16) - An eslint plugin for disallow side effect at module toplevel.

39. Awesome Selfhosted

List of Licenses / Wikis

• CECILL-B - CEA CNRS INRIA Logiciel Libre

40. Awesome Vue

Projects Using Vue.js / Open Source

• CodeceptJS UI (⭐79) - Cypress-liked UI for ✔️ CodeceptJS end 2 end tests ✔️.

41. Awesome Frc

Community

• Discord Server List - List of unofficial regional, organizational, and community servers for FRC.

Repositories / Java/Kotlin

• Sertain (⭐6) - A framework which builds upon WPILib and makes programming a robot in Kotlin beautiful.

• FalconLibrary (⭐25) - A library for programming robots in Kotlin, made by Team 5190.

• Lib5K (⭐6) - A robotics library developed by team 5024

42. Awesome Emails

Tools / Misc

• Alter.email - A free tool to help you inline CSS, remove unused CSS, clean up your text, add extra attributes to tags, add URL tracking parameters, minify, and even prettify HTML email.

• Sensitive Subjects - Never send an embarrassing subject line!

• Detergent - A tool to prepare the text for pasting into HTML: removes invisible Unicode characters (like ETX which can come from PSD files), encodes special characters (like turning £ into £) and improves typography.

• EmailComb - Email-friendly unused CSS removal tool which does not parse and thus accepts mixed sources, including your ESP templating tags. Extras: CSS uglification and HTML/CSS minification (powered by HTML Crush).

• HTML Crush - Email-friendly HTML minifier: limits lines to 500 chars. (best practice), respects Outlook conditional tags and accepts mixed sources, including ESP templating tags. Optionally, can only remove indentations (not touching line breaks).

• Tabifier - Opposite of HTML Crush - a tool to beautify the indentation in HTML files. Works with mixed input sources, including your ESP templating tags.

43. Awesome Streaming

Table of Contents / Streaming Engine

• Apache Heron (incubating) (⭐3.6k) [Java] - a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter.

44. Awesome Nlg

Neural Natural Language Generation

• PPLM (⭐1.1k) - Plug and Play Language Model implementation. Allows to steer topic and attributes of GPT-2 models.

45. Awesome Cli Apps

Entertainment / Social Media

• tuir - Reddit TUI.

46. Open Source Flutter Apps

Contents / Shopping

• Rapidinho (⭐196) - Unofficial delivery app for Rapidinho made by GDG Luanda .

47. Awesome Actions

Notifications and Messages / Code Coverage

• Create an Outlook Calendar Event using Microsoft Graph (⭐10)

48. Awesome Prometheus

Blog posts and opinions

• PromQL tutorial for beginners - PromQL tutorial for beginners by Aliaksandr Valialkin.

• Prometheus storage: technical terms explained - Prometheus storage: technical terms for humans by Aliaksandr Valialkin.

High Availability / Miscellaneous

• M3DB (⭐4.6k) - Scalable long-term remote storage for Prometheus.

• VictoriaMetrics (⭐10k) - Cost-effective easy to operate remote storage for Prometheus.

49. Awesome Bitcoin

Utilities

• BitKey - Live USB for airgapped transactions and Bitcoin swiss army knife.

• Pycoin (⭐1.4k) - Python-based Bitcoin and alt-coin utility library.

• bx (⭐571) - Bitcoin Command Line Tool.

• txwatcher (⭐47) - A little Python utility that lets you monitor Bitcoin addresses through Blockchain Websocket API and perform custom callbacks.

• hellobitcoin (⭐247) - A collection of simple programs which can generate bitcoin wallets, create and sign transactions, and send transactions over the bitcoin network.

• HD Wallet Scanner (⭐20) - Find all used addresses in your Bitcoin HD wallets bypassing gap limits.

Blockchain API and Web services

• Chainradar API (⭐4) - Blockchain Explorer API for Chainradar.

Blockchain Explorers

• Bitkit - Real time transaction updates.

JavaScript Libraries

• bcoin (⭐2.9k) - Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.

Python Libraries

• btctxstore (⭐10) - Simple library to store/retrieve information in bitcoin transactions using OP_RETURN.

• pybitcointools (⭐1.3k) - Python library for Bitcoin signatures and transactions from Vitalik Buterin. Project discontinued.

• pycoin (⭐1.4k) - Python library for Bitcoin keys, signatures, transactions. Includes full VM implementation and tools for manipulating keys (ku) and transactions (tx).

Java Libraries

• XChange (⭐3.7k) - Library that provides a simple and consistent API for interacting with 50+ Bitcoin currency exchanges.

Scala libraries

• Bitcoin-S - Scala/JVM toolkit for Bitcoin applications, includes Bitcoin data structures, transaction signing, strongly typed bitcoind/Eclair RPC clients, and more.

.Net Libraries

• BitcoinLib (⭐391) - The most complete, up-to-date, battle-tested .net Library and RPC Wrapper for Bitcoin and Altcoins in C#.

Playgrounds

• Bitcoin IDE (⭐203) - Bitcoin Script for dummies.

• blockchain-demo (⭐5k) - A web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts.

• Bitcoin Script Debugger (⭐55) - Visualize Bitcoin script execution for real transactions.

Blockchain dump

• WebBTC - These are postgres database dumps of the bitcoin-ruby-blockchain database generated by webbtc.com.

• BitcoinDatabaseGenerator (⭐118) - A high performance data transfer tool that can be used to copy data from Bitcoin Core blockchain files to a SQL Server database.

• Blockparser+SQL (⭐61) - Fast, quick and dirty bitcoin blockchain parser.

• BitcoinABE (⭐966) - Abe: block browser for Bitcoin and similar currencies.

Full nodes

• Bitcoin-ruby-node (⭐25) - bitcoin node based on bitcoin-ruby-blockchain.

• Bitcore Node (⭐351) - bitcoind linked to node.js by BitPay.

• Bitcore (⭐4.7k) - Formerly just a Nodejs library, now a full node.

Read

• A Gentle Introduction to Bitcoin Core Development

• Grokking Bitcoin - An in-depth technical book with rich illustrations.

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography A Gentle Introduction.

• Bitcoin Programming with BitcoinJS and Bitcoin Core CLI (⭐157).

• Bitcoin Protocol Development Curriculum - Chaincode Labs (⭐580).

• Lightning Network Protocol Development Curriculum - Chaincode Labs (⭐344).

• btcinformation.org / Developer Documentation - Find useful resources, guides and reference material for developers.

Course

• Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency.

Additional Resources

• @lopp / Bitcoin Developers - Software developers who have experience working on Bitcoin implementations or applications.

• Practical Bitcoin Info - Google Sheets.

• A brief history of Bitcoin development...

50. Awesome Php

Table of Contents / Documentation

• PHP Documentor 2 (⭐4k) - A documentation generator.

Table of Contents / Filtering and Validation

• JSON Schema (⭐3.5k) - A JSON Schema validation library.

Table of Contents / Serverless

• Laravel Vapor - A serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS.

51. Awesome Quantum Computing

Development Tools

• Amazon Braket - Fully managed service providing a development environment to run quantum circuits on quantum simulators and computers.

52. Awesome Cmake

Other

• cmake-language-server (⭐183) - CMake Language Server Protocol Implementation. [MIT]

53. Awesome Ios

Apple TV

• Swift-GA-Tracker-for-Apple-tvOS (⭐81) - Google Analytics tracker for Apple tvOS provides an easy integration of Google Analytics’ measurement protocol for Apple TV.

Layout

• EasyAnchor (⭐454) - Declarative, extensible, powerful Auto Layout.

Push Notification Providers

• Catapush

Permissions

• SPPermissions (⭐5.5k) - Ask permissions on Swift. Available List, Dialog & Native interface. Can check state permission.

Text

• PostalCodeValidator (⭐212) - A validator for postal codes with support for 200+ regions.

UI

• DrawerKit (⭐778) - DrawerKit lets an UIViewController modally present another UIViewController in a manner similar to the way Apple's Maps app works.

Pull to Refresh

• KafkaRefresh (⭐1.2k) - Animated, customizable, and flexible pull-to-refresh framework for faster and easier iOS development.

TextField & TextView / Collection View Layout

• CocoaTextField (⭐274) - UITextField created according to the Material.IO guidelines of 2019.

Tools / Collection View Layout

• Pecker (⭐1.4k) - CodePecker is a tool to detect unused code.

• Speculid - generate Image Sets and App Icons from SVG, PNG, and JPEG files

Tutorials and Keynotes / Collection View Layout

• Swift Tutorials by Jameson Quave

54. Awesome Speakers

Asia / Lebanon 🇱🇧

Jakarta

Frans Allen
Topics: CDN, Cloud, SaaS, DNS, Web Performance & Security
https://twitter.com/fransallen

Europe / Finland 🇫🇮

Copenhagen

Mathias Buus
Topics: Peer to Peer, Node.js
https://twitter.com/mafintosh

Olga Dmitricenko
Topics: Virtual Reality, Web Image Processing
https://twitter.com/enthusiasto

Tereza Sokol
Topics: Elm, Visualizations
https://twitter.com/tereza_sokol

55. Awesome Crystal

Data Formats

• HAR (⭐22) - HAR (HTTP Archive) parser

Framework Components

• shrine.cr (⭐73) - File Attachment toolkit for Crystal applications. Heavily inspired by Shrine for Ruby

Science and Data analysis

• num.cr (⭐143) - Numerical computing library supporting N-Dimensional data

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