Awesome List Updates on Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2020

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1. Awesome Discord Communities

Other Sciences

Biological Sciences
Notable Channels: #biology, #questions, #resources, #molecular-biology, #microbiology, #anatomy-and-physiology, #bioengineering, #bioinformatics, #ecology, #medical-sciences
Language: English

Chemistry
Notable Channels: #highschool-chemistry, #general-chemistry, #introductory-organic, #tech, #laboratory, #physical-chemistry, #inorganic-chemistry, #organic-chemistry, #biochemistry
Language: English

Climate Science
Notable Channels: #general, #climate-questions, #resources, #climate-activism, #environmental-science, #environmental-policy
Language: English

Homework Help
Notable Channels: #challenges, #math, #post-calculus #biology, #chemistry, #physics, #english, #social-science, #history, #computer-science, #studio-art, so much more
Language: English

Science and Technology
Notable Channels: #astronomy, #biology, #chemistry #engineering, #environment, #mathematics, #geometry, #calculus, #physics, #psychology, #technology, so much more
Language: English

Discussions on bare-bones circuit boards, microprocessors, and bleeding edge hardware.

2. Awesome Crypto Papers

Online crypto challenges / Post-quantum cryptography

• CryptoHack

3. Awesome Selenium

Tools / Javascript

• CodeceptJS - Modern Era Acceptance Testing Framework for NodeJS.

Web Scraping / Mining / Desktop GUI Automation (non-browser-centric)

• Scrapy - Python, mainly a scraper/miner - fast, well documented and, can be linked with Django Dynamic Scraper for nice mining deployments, or Scrapy Cloud for PaaS (server-less) deployment, works in terminal or an server stand-alone process, can be used with Celery, built on top of Twisted.

Specifications / Desktop GUI Automation (non-browser-centric)

• WebDriver - This specification defines the WebDriver API, a platform and language-neutral interface and associated wire protocol that allows programs or scripts to introspect into, and control the behavior of, a web browser.

4. Awesome Java

Data Structures / Text-Based User Interfaces

• RoaringBitmap (⭐3.3k) - Fast and efficient compressed bitmap.

Distribution / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Getdown (⭐493) - System for deploying Java applications to end-user computers and keeping them up to date. Developed as an alternative to Java Web Start.

• JavaPackager (⭐906) - Maven and Gradle plugin which provides an easy way to package Java applications in native Windows, macOS or GNU/Linux executables, and generate installers for them.

Document Processing / Text-Based User Interfaces

• fastexcel (⭐581) - High performance library to read and write large Excel (XLSX) worksheets.

HTTP Clients / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Google HTTP Client (⭐1.4k) - Pluggable HTTP transport abstraction with support for java.net.HttpURLConnection, Apache HTTP Client, Android, Google App Engine, XML, Gson, Jackson and Protobuf.

5. Awesome Rust

Applications / Blockchain

• Phala-Network/phala-blockchain (⭐328) — Confidential smart contract blockchain based on Intel SGX and Substrate

6. Awesome R Learning Resources

Topic Areas / Uncategorized

• R - discoRd server - Dedicated discoRd server with the following topic-based channels: R-Main for more general discussions, R-Share for showing off your data visuals, General R Help for asking questions and sharing learning resources, and Topical Help/Discussion for issues dealing with statistics, dbi, tidymodels, shiny, natural-science, social-science, bayesians, gis, and finance.

• The ultimate R data.table cheat sheet - Find code for dozens of data tasks in this searchable cheat sheet of R data.table and Tidyverse code. Author: Sharon Machlis.

YouTube / Uncategorized

• IDG TECHtalk - Do More with R playlist includes tutorials on shiny, data.table, getting API data, using Git and Github with R, writing your own packages, run Python in R code, RStudio addins and keyboard shortcuts, dashboards and flexdashboards.

• Shiny Developer Series - The goals of the Shiny Developer Series are to showcase the innovative applications and packages in the ever-growing Shiny ecosystem, as well as the brilliant developers behind them!

7. Awesome Datascience

Books / Visualization Tools

• A Comprehensive Guide to Machine Learning

8. Awesome Raspberry Pi

Projects

• Lomorage (⭐183) - Private photo cloud host on Raspberry Pi, with Android/iOS/Web client.

9. Terminals Are Sexy

Tools and Plugins

• zoxide (⭐8k) - cd anywhere without typing in long paths.

10. Awesome Kotlin

Libraries/Frameworks / API Clients

• JetBrains/space-kotlin-sdk (⭐46) - Kotlin client for JetBrains Space HTTP API

11. Awesome Video

Learning / Books

• Communicating Pictures - 2014-06-20 (1st Edition). Bull, David.

• Data Broadcasting: Understanding the ATSC Data Broadcast Standard - 2001-04-16 (1st Edition). Chernock, Richard; Crinon, Regis; Mick, John.

• Digital Television: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Principles of the DVB System - 1997-07-11. Benoit, Herve.

• Digital Television: Technology and Standards - 2007-09-17. Arnold, John; Frater, Michael; Pickering, Mark.

• Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces - 2012-02-07 (2nd Edition). Poynton, Charles.

• High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC): Algorithms and Architectures (Integrated Circuits and Systems) - 2014-09-03. Budagavi, Madhukar; Sze, Vivienne; Sullivan, Gary.

• High Efficiency Video Coding: Coding Tools and Specification (Signals and Communication Technology) - 2014-10-08. Wien, Mathias.

• Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards - 2002-12-31. Bosi, Marina; Goldberg, Richard.

• Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery - 2013-04-01. Ozer, Jan.

• The MPEG Handbook - 2004-11-15 (2nd Edition). Watkinson, John.

• The MPEG-4 Book - 2002-07-20. Ebrahimi, Touradj; Pereira, Fernando.

• Transporting Compressed Digital Video - 2002-03-31. Chen, Xuemin.

• Video Compression Handbook - 2018-07-03 (2nd Edition). Beach, Andy; Owen, Aaron.

• Video Encoding by the Numbers: Eliminate the Guesswork from your Streaming Video - 2016-12-28. Ozer, Jan.

12. Awesome Electron

Open Source / Other

• Graviton Editor (⭐1.1k) - Cross-platform code editor.

13. Awesome Credit Modeling

Introduction

• Fintech and big tech credit: a new database - This Working Paper by the Bank of International Settlements, while not as focused on credit risk, maps the conditions for and niches occupied by alternative credit, be it provided by fintechs or big tech companies.

14. Awesome Vehicle Security

Presentations

• TR19: Automotive Penetration Testing with Scapy - Overview on how Scapy can be used for automotive penetration testing at Troopers Conference 2019.

15. Awesome R

High Performance

• cpp11 (⭐188) - cpp11 is a header-only R package that helps R package developers handle R objects with C++ code. It's similar to Rcpp but with different design trade-offs and features.

16. Awesome List

Decentralized Systems

• Substrate (⭐706) - Framework for writing scalable, upgradeable blockchains in Rust.

17. Awesome React Native

Frameworks / Navigation Demos

• OsmiCSX ★48 (⭐208) - An utility React Native style framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.

18. Awesome Roslyn

Source Generators

• Generator.Equals (⭐58) - Automatically implements equality and hashing for classes and records. Supports different comparison strategies. Offers similar functionality like IL weaving-based Equals.Fody (⭐107).

19. Awesome Security

EBooks / Online resources

• The Art of Network Penetration Testing - Book that is a hands-on guide to running your own penetration test on an enterprise network. (early access, published continuously, final release December 2020)

20. Awesome Jupyter

Domain-Specific Projects

• Jupylet (⭐217) - Create 2D and 3D games, graphics, live music and sound interactively in a Jupyter notebook.

21. Magictools

Books / Voxel Editors

• Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences

22. Awesome Wagtail

Apps / Misc

• Wagtail Trash (⭐35) - Will place pages in a trash can from where they can be restored instead of being permanently deleted.

23. Awesome Iot

Articles / JavaScript on Things: Hardware for Web Developers (2018 - est.) by Lyza Danger Gardner [early access book]

• How to begin with the Amazon Timestream - A step-by-step guide to AWS Timestream - a time series database to collect IoT data over-time.

24. Awesome Bioinformatics

Pipelines

• Bactopia (⭐211) - A flexible pipeline, built with Nextflow, for the complete analysis of bacterial genomes. [ web ]

25. Awesome Kubernetes

Featured On

• Bootstrapping Microservices by Ashley Davis

26. PlacesToPostYourStartup

Websites

• Alternative.me - https://alternative.me/

• eBool - https://www.ebool.com/submit

• Oye Startups - https://oyestartups.com/contact

• Project Hatch - https://www.projecthatch.co/your-story/

27. Awesome Jamstack

API / E-commerce

• CartQL - GraphQL Shopping Cart and Checkout API built for the Jamstack and to work with any framework and inventory.

28. Awesome Seml

Deployment and Operation

• Underspecification Presents Challenges for Credibility in Modern Machine Learning 🎓

Governance

• An Architectural Risk Analysis Of Machine Learning Systems

29. Awesome Angular

Experts on Twitter

• @maciejtreder

Schematics / Components

• Threejs (⭐214): New three.js starter app

30. Awesome Vulkan

Tools

• Qualcomm Adreno GPU Tools - samples, Adreno recommendation layer, best practice docs for Adreno GPU.

• Qualcomm Snapdragon Profiler - includes Vulkan traces and frame captures for Adreno GPU.

31. Public Apis

Books

• API: Open Library

  Description: Books, book covers and related data

  Auth: No

  HTTPS: Yes

  CORS: No

Calendar

• API: Czech Namedays Calendar

  Description: Lookup for a name and returns nameday date

  Auth: No

  HTTPS: No

  CORS: Unknown

Development

• API: IBM Text to Speech

  Description: Convert text to speech

  Auth: apiKey

  HTTPS: Yes

  CORS: Yes

Geocoding

• API: Cartes.io (⭐101)

  Description: Create maps and markers for anything

  Auth: No

  HTTPS: Yes

  CORS: Unknown

Health

• API: Covid-19 (⭐401)

  Description: Covid 19 cases, deaths and recovery per country

  Auth: No

  HTTPS: Yes

  CORS: Yes

• API: Covid-19 Government Response

  Description: Government measures tracker to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic

  Auth: No

  HTTPS: Yes

  CORS: Yes

News

• API: Spaceflight News

  Description: Spaceflight related news 🚀

  Auth: No

  HTTPS: Yes

  CORS: Yes

32. Awesome Composer

Composer

• Issues (⭐27k)

• Source (⭐27k)

• Getting Started Guide and Installation Instructions

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Symlinker (⭐18) - Enables you to load packages from different directories (instead of loading them from /vendor).

• Composer-Compile-Plugin (⭐11) - Allow PHP libraries to define simple, freeform compilation tasks. Support post-install hooks in any package.

33. Awesome Humane Tech

Social networks / Wear our badge

• Barinsta - A libre, alternative, and lightweight Instagram client for Android.

Health / Wear our badge

• OpenTracks - A sport tracking application that completely respects your privacy.

• gammastep - Linux tool to adjust the color temperature of your screen to your surroundings.

34. Awesome Flutter

UI / Effect

• Clay Containers (⭐416) - Neumorphic widget primitives to serve as the foundation of your own designs by Michael Charles.

Charts / Image Picker

• Graphic (⭐1.3k) - Data visualization library based on the Grammar of Graphics by LIN Chen

35. Webcomponents the Right Way

Podcasts

• Real Talk JavaScript, episode 101: Back to Basics with Native HTML and LitElement

36. Awesome Bigdata

Machine Learning

• PyTorch Geometric Temporal (⭐2.1k) - a temporal extension library for PyTorch Geometric .

37. Awesome Ddd

Sample Projects / JVM languages

• DDDSample (⭐4.7k) - Sample DDD project using Spring Boot (originally hosted in http://dddsample.sourceforge.net/)

38. Awesome Ros2

Packages / Driver layer

• Blickfeld Cube 1 & Cube Range - ROS2 drivers for Blickfeld Cube 1 & Cube Range.

Companies / Robotics Capture the Flag (RCTF)

• FARobot - Swarm Robot System, a ROS 2/DDS based Fleet Management System.

39. Awesome Talks

Software Development

• Feature Branching Considered Evil by Thierry de Pauw [49:38]

Web Development

• Introduction to Node.js by Ryan Dahl [58:19]

Test-Driven Development

• Does TDD Really Lead to Good Design? by Sandro Mancuso [57:59]

40. Awesome Osint

Phone Number Research / Telegram

• PhoneInfoga (⭐12k) - Advanced information gathering & OSINT framework for phone numbers

41. Vertx Awesome

Build tools

• Vert.x Codegen Gradle plugin (⭐9) - A Gradle plugin to facilitate the codegen usage for Vert.x Java projects.

Middleware

• API Framework (⭐9) - Vert.x and Glue based microservice framework removing distinction between standalone and serveless application. All services can run in standalone server, but, if required, same codebase can be used to run any service as serverless application.

Dependency Injection

• Glue (⭐1) - Proven and opinionated programming, and configuration model for Java and Vert.x based applications. Inspired from ATG Nucleus, provides powerful layer base configuration management using simple properties file.

42. Awesome Cpp

Articles

• CppCon 2020 Presentation Materials (⭐1.6k) - CppCon 2020 Presentation Materials.

43. Awesome Cakephp

Migration

• 🍰 Upgrade app (extended) (⭐23) - An extended upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and some 5.x snippets.

Development Environment

• NetBeans (⭐46) - This package provides support for CakePHP in NetBeans 8.1+.

44. Awesome Aws

Open Source Repos / Lambda

• apex/apex (⭐27) - Minimal AWS Lambda function manager with Go support.

45. Awesome Analytics

Endpoints

• RudderStack - The warehouse-first customer data platform (CDP) that builds your CDP on your data warehouse for you. RudderStack makes it easy to collect, unify, transform, and store your customer data as well as route it securely to a wide range of common, popular marketing, sales, and product tools (open-source alternative to Segment et al.). (Source Code (⭐3.3k)) AGPL-3.0 Go

46. Free for Dev

Major Cloud Providers

• Amazon Web Services
  • CloudFront - 1TB egress per month and 2M Function invocations per month
  • Cloudwatch - 10 custom metrics and ten alarms
  • CodeBuild - 100min of build time per month
  • CodeCommit - 5 active users,50GB storage, and 10000 requests per month
  • CodePipeline - 1 active pipeline per month
  • DynamoDB - 25GB NoSQL DB
  • EC2 - 750 hours per month of t2.micro or t3.micro(12mo). 100GB egress per month
  • EBS - 30GB per month of General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic(12mo)
  • Elastic Load Balancing - 750 hours per month(12mo)
  • RDS - 750 hours per month of db.t2.micro, db.t3.micro, or db.t4g.micro, 20GB of General Purpose (SSD) storage, 20GB of storage backups
  • Glacier - 10GB long-term object storage
  • Lambda - 1 million requests per month
  • SNS - 1 million publishes per month
  • SES - 3.000 messages per month (12mo)
  • SQS - 1 million messaging queue requests
  • Full, detailed list - https://aws.amazon.com/free/

APIs, Data, and ML

• Collect2 — Create an API endpoint to test, automate, and connect webhooks. The free plan allows for two datasets, 2000 records, one forwarder, and one alert.

Crash and Exception Handling

• exceptionless — Real-time error, feature, log reporting, and more. Free for 3k events per month/1 user. Open source and easy to self-host for unlimited use.

Email

• mailsac.com - Free API for temporary email testing, free public email hosting, outbound capture, email-to-slack/websocket/webhook (1,500 monthly API limit)

Managed Data Services

• FaunaDB — Serverless cloud database with native GraphQL, multi-model access, and daily free tiers up to 100 MB

47. Awesome Tmux

Plugins

• tmux-bitwarden (⭐30) Access your Bitwarden login items in a tmux pane.

48. Awesome Robotic Tooling

Development Environment / Code and Run

• Gitpod (⭐11k) - An open source developer platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments.

Sensor Processing / Machine Learning

• nnstreamer-ros (⭐13) - A set of Gstreamer plugins and ROS examples that allow Gstreamer developers to adopt neural network models easily and efficiently and neural network developers to manage neural network pipelines and their filters easily and efficiently.

Sensor Processing / Lidar and Point Cloud Processing

• kaolin (⭐3.7k) - A PyTorch Library for Accelerating 3D Deep Learning Research.

Planning and Control / Vector Map

• se2_navigation (⭐289) - Pure pursuit controller and Reeds-Shepp sampling based planner for navigation in SE(2) space.

Network and Middleware / Sensor and Acuator Interfaces

• blickfeld-scanner-lib (⭐17) - Cross-platform library to communicate with LiDAR devices of the Blickfeld GmbH.

49. Awesome Php

Table of Contents / Testing

• Faker (⭐3.3k) - A fake data generator library.

50. Awesome Vue

Components & Libraries / UI Components

• vue-schedule-board (⭐19) - A easy-to-use component to show somebody's schedule list to help interview arrangement or visit arrangement.

• x5-gmaps (⭐105) - lightweight Google Maps plugin for Vue 2.x

Components & Libraries / UI Utilities

• vue-middleware (⭐8) - Middleware for Vue.

• vue-svg-sprite (⭐58) - A plugin, component or directive to simply use SVG sprite (vue 3.x, vue 2.x).

• v-visible (⭐2) - Vue.js directive for setting visibility of an element.

51. Awesome Fonts

JavaScript libs / Programming fonts with ligatures

• Beatrix (⭐33) - A tool to chop off useless fonts glyphs and convert TTF/OTF into WOFF & WOFF2

52. Awesome Blazor

CMS

• JHipster.NET (⭐298) JHipster is a well-known platform for generating modern application in java world. JHipster provides a blueprints system that allows to override the default behavior of the generator. JHipster.NET is a blueprint that overrides the back-end part, originally generated in spring boot, by back-end in asp.net core. For the front-end all the common language can be used (angular, react), including Blazor.

• RapidCMS (⭐292) - A code-first, extensible Blazor app that generates a CMS for your own database.

Games

• AsteroidsWasm (⭐144) - Collection of .NET 5 C# applications consuming a single .NET Standard project running in: Blazor Client (WebAssembly), Blazor Server, Electron (via Blazor Server), WPF, WinForms, Xamarin. Demo.

Tools & Utilities / Others

• BlazorGoogleMaps (⭐266) - Blazor interop for GoogleMap library.

• BlazorRouter (⭐59) - BlazorRouter is an awesome router inspired by react-router, providing declarative routing for Blazor.

• DataJuggler.Blazor.FileUpload (⭐28) - Wrapper for Steve Sanderson's BlazorFileInput component.

53. Awesome Wpo

Image Optimizers / Meetups

• Optimizt (⭐869) - CLI image optimization tool. It can compress PNG, JPEG, GIF and SVG lossy and lossless and create WebP versions for raster images.

54. Awesome Elixir

Domain-specific language

• absinthe_gen (⭐28) - Scaffold generator for Absithne.

55. Machine Learning with Ruby

✨ Tutorials

• Ruby neural networks

56. Awesome Lidar

Manufacturers

• SICK - Sensor and automation manufacturer, the headquarter is located in Waldkirch, Germany.
  • YouTube channel 🔴
  • GitHub organization 🐙

• Pioneer - LIDAR manufacturer, specializing in MEMS mirror-based raster scanning LiDARs (3D-LiDAR). Pioneer is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • YouTube channel 🔴

• Quanenergy - Quanenergy Systems / solid-state and mechanical LIDAR sensors / offers End-to-End solutions in Mapping, Industrial Automation, Transportation and Security. The headquarter is located in Sunnyvale, California, USA.
  • YouTube channel 🔴

• Blickfeld - Blickfeld is a solid-state LIDAR manufacturer for autonomous mobility and IoT, based in München, Germany.
  • YouTube channel 🔴
  • GitHub organization 🐙

• Neuvition - Neuvition is a solid-state LIDAR manufacturer based in Wujiang, China.
  • YouTube channel 🔴

Others / Object detection and object tracking

• Pointcloudprinter 🐙 (⭐143) - A tool to turn point cloud data from aerial lidar scans into solid meshes for 3D printing.

57. Awesome Digital History

Archives and primary sources / Europe

• Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv - An interactive portal on the history of women's movements in Germany.

• Docupedia - Terms, methods, and debates in contemporary history research.

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Internet Archive - Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

• Marxist Internet Archive - Everything you ever wanted to know about Marx (and other important socialists).

• WayBackMachine - Explore more than 486 billion web pages saved over time.

Archives and primary sources / Great Britain

• NLS - Data collections from the National Library of Scotland.

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey - London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913.

Archives and primary sources / Netherlands

• Delpher - Dutch newspapers, books and magazines.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Online collection of scanned maps.

• Women Working 1800-1930 - An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Archives Online - Archival search engine for Switzerland.

• e-newspaperarchives.ch - Swiss newspapers.

• E-Periodica - Swiss journals.

• e-rara - The platform for digitised rare books from Swiss libraries.

• Historical Encyclopedia of Switzerland - Encyclopedia on Swiss history.

• impresso - Historical newspaper collections of the Swiss National Library, the National Library of Luxembourg, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Temps, the Valais State Archives and the Swiss Economic Archives.

• infoclio.ch Edition projects - A database containing current historical edition projects in Switzerland.

• Le Temps - Archive of Gazette de Lausanne et du Journal de Genève.

• map.geo.admin.ch - Journey through time via maps of Switzerland.

• MEMOBASE - Provides access to audiovisual documents from Swiss memory institutions.

Learning / Switzerland

• Local Linkages - Professional development curriculum to introduce to historical research methods and digital history skills.

• The Programming Historian - Novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching.

• We think History - News about and innovations from digital history.

More Awesome / Switzerland

• Computer History (⭐2.5k) - An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore.

• Data Visualization (⭐3.5k) - A curated list of awesome open-source data visualizations frameworks, libraries and software.

• Research Tools (⭐1.9k) - A list of tools for research.

• Scientific Writing (⭐642) - Scientific writing can extend beyond LaTeX, made possible by formats, such as Markdown (and its many flavours), reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks.

58. Awesome Static Website Services

Forms / Normal Forms

• Formcarry - Hassle-free HTML form endpoints for your form, powerful dashboard, reliable spam blocking, attachment uploads and Zapier integrations.

• FormSite - Form builder with payments and form management.

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