Awesome List Updates on Aug 26, 2026

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1. Awesome Osint

People Investigations / GitHub

• Offendersearch - Free. Search all 58 US state, territory and tribal sex-offender registries in one query; scored, de-duplicated results with a link to the official registry record behind each match. Public API + open data + MCP server.

Other Tools / GitHub

• Text Machine - Identifies an unknown encoded or enciphered string and decodes it in place when no key is needed (Base64, hex, binary, Morse, Baconian, Polybius, A1Z26, Atbash, Caesar), with frequency analysis and automatic Vigenère and substitution solvers for the rest. Runs in the browser, no signup, nothing uploaded.

2. Awesome Testing

Software / Test Automation Frameworks

• optics-framework (⭐10) - Self-healing test automation for mobile, web and Smart TV. Keyword-driven CSV/YAML tests run on Appium, Selenium and Playwright; when a locator breaks it falls back across XPath, text, OCR and image strategies, with optional AI-powered self-healing.

3. Free for Dev

Monitoring

• DeadBro - Rails APM with request-based pricing: live traces, slow SQL, N+1 detection, and error tracking. Free forever for 50k requests/month, 7-day retention, 1 app, 1 uptime check, and email alerts. No credit card required.

4. Awesome Gemini Cli

Commands & Extensions

• Punchcard (⭐1) - Architecture-level code review grounded in thirty engineering books distilled into 78 principles. Three independent passes over a working tree, branch or PR, merged into one verdict; every blocker demonstrated by running the code. Install with npx skills add Maksim-Burtsev/punchcard -a gemini-cli.

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