Awesome List Updates on Oct 28, 2026
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1. Awesome Testing
Software / AI & LLM Testing
- geokit-cli (โญ0) - Open-source CLI for automated AI search engine readiness testing,
/llms.txtvalidation, and crawler access audits.
Software / Visual Testing
- Frostbyte Screenshot Action - GitHub Action for automated website screenshots in CI/CD pipelines. Supports multiple viewports, full-page capture, and dark mode emulation.
Software / Test Data Management
- MockJutsu - Algorithmic open-source mock data engine generating 390+ format-valid types (IBAN, TCKN, Luhn, VIN, NHS, SWIFT, MRZ and more). CLI + REST API + Python package + JMeter plugin. 6 locales.
- MockHero - REST API for generating synthetic test data. 156 field types, 22 locales, relational data, sub-50ms. Free tier available.
- Fake Data Generator - Browser-based generator for realistic mock/test data. Custom schema or presets, export as JSON, CSV, or SQL INSERT.
- JsonFabrica - API-first service for realistic synthetic JSON test data from reusable templates: relational batches with referential integrity, seed-reproducible output, and an MCP server for AI agents.
Books / A/B Testing
- Fifty quick ideas to improve your Tests - Great illustrative examples on how to improve tests and why you should do them. Great as evidence for winning arguments!
- The Domain Testing Workbook - An in-depth look at the most common test technique, Domain Testing (also called Boundary Analysis and Equivalence Class partitioning) in use today with lots of examples to become better.
- Chaos Engineering - A book that teaches you to design and execute controlled experiments that uncover hidden problems.
Training (Includes developer training for automation testers) / A/B Testing
- The Dojo - Courses and talks directly from the testing community.
Blogs / A/B Testing
2. Awesome D
GUI Applications / Status page
- hackerscad - Parametric CAD where the model is code. Written in D, it uses a small subset of D itself as its scripting language.
3. Awesome Deno
Modules / Validation
- is-kit (โญ139) - Build small, composable type guards with natural TypeScript narrowing and zero dependencies.
4. Awesome Mac
Design and Product / Screenshot Tools
- Glint (โญ1) - Open-source screenshot tool that finds and pixelates emails, IBANs, card numbers, and API keys on-device before you share.
Finance / Audio Record and Process
- HTS for Mac (โญ0) - Read-only Korean and US stock workspace in the style of Windows HTS apps, with a 10-level order book, four-chart layouts, watchlists and saved workspaces; live quotes need your own Kiwoom REST API key.
Utilities / Menu Bar Tools
- Stash (โญ6) - Open-source menu bar icon hider for macOS 27 that collapses status items behind a single arrow.
5. ALL About RSS
universally from / software release tracking
- What's New : follows the changelogs of over a thousand software products. One feed per product, one for everything, with the release notes carried in content:encoded
Aggregators of Indieblogs / Crypto or Blockchain relevant
- I โฅ RSS: a member directory of RSS lovers, exportable as OPML
Podcast Feed Customization / Crypto or Blockchain relevant
- ZeroAds: Ad-free versions of your podcasts as private RSS feeds; works with any podcast app.
6. Awesome Dataviz
Machine Learning tools / Misc
- LightlyStudio (โญ899) - Interactive embedding plot and sample grid to explore image and video datasets, with annotation overlays.
Markup-based tools / Text visualization
- Pele (โญ3.7k) - Small, dependency-free renderer that turns Mermaid diagrams into SVG, from Obsidian.
Other tools / Text visualization
- Datavzrd (โญ681) - Turns CSV, TSV, JSON or Parquet tables into interactive, self-contained HTML reports, configured with a short YAML file.
7. Magictools
Graphics / Assets/Placeholders
- ๐ 2D Cartoon Mobile Game UI Pack - cartoon user interface asset pack. It comes as a layered psd file.
- ๐ 420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs - Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use.
- ๐ธ CGTextures - A large collection of textures.
- ๐ Games-Icons Set - free icons for your games.
- ๐ Iconmonstr - Another free icons resource for your games.
- ๐ธ Kenney Assets - Royalty free assets
- ๐ Liberated Pixel Cup assets - Free graphic assets of the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) held by the OpenGameArt forums
- ๐ OpenGameArt - a media repository intended for use with free software game projects.
- ๐ฐ Oryx Design Lab - Cheap high quality royalty free sprites
- ๐ธ PlainTextures - Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos
- ๐ Reiner's Tilesets - A blog with free 2D and 3D graphics.
- ๐ SpriteLib - a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).
- ๐ StickyPNG - Free transparent PNG images.
- ๐ TextureKing - Free material stock textures
- ๐ธ Vecteezy - Free Vector Art.
Graphics / Bitmap Compression
- ๐ ImageAlpha โ Mac OS X GUI for pngquant and other tools
- ๐ PNGGauntlet - Smash PNGs for faster sites
- ๐ Pngyu - simple PNG image file compression tool.
Graphics / Texture Tools
- ๐ฐ PixPlant - PixPlant is a smart 3D texturing tool that creates high quality normal, displacement, specular maps and seamless textures from photos.
Graphics / Tile/Level Editors
- ๐ฐ AutoTileGen - AutoTileGen is an automatic tileset generator for 2D game terrains.
- ๐ Tiled - free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor.
Graphics / Animation
- ๐ LWF - Lightweight SWF. LWF is an animation engine which can play animation data converted from FLASH contents in HTML5, Unity, Cocos2d-x, iOS UIKit, and more.
- ๐ฐ Spine - Spine is dedicated to 2D animation, providing an efficient workflow both for creating amazing animation and for integrating it into your games.
Graphics / Vector/Image Editor
- ๐ธ Aseprite - animated sprite editor & pixel art tool.
- ๐ Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
- ๐ Multipaint - A cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) image editor/painter which covers the color limitations of 8-bit machines (like C64, ZX Spectrum etc.)
- ๐ธ Paint.NET - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.
- ๐ PiskelApp - Free Online Pixel Art and Animated Sprite Tool.
- ๐ฐ Pixelmator - Full-featured image editing app for the Mac
- ๐ฐ PyxelEdit - Pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations.
- ๐ Spritemate - Online Editor for Commodore 64 Sprites
- ๐ Timanthes - A pixel art editor for the Commodore 64 computer running on Windows
Graphics / Modeling
- ๐ฐ 3ds Max
- ๐ Blender - The free software and open-source 3D grate of the world
- ๐ฐ Maya
Graphics / Terrain Generators
- ๐ฐ World Machine - Procedural terrain creation, simulations of nature, and interactive editing
Graphics / Voxel Editors
- ๐ Sproxel
Engines and Frameworks / Voxel Editors
- ๐ Allegro - Allegro 4 & 5 are cross-platform, open source, game programming libraries, primarily for C and C++ developers.
- ๐ amulet - A free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.
- ๐ธ Blend4Web - A Javascript framework for creating and displaying interactive 3D computer graphics in web browsers.
- ๐ Box2D - A 2D Physics Engine for Games.
- ๐ Bullet (โญ15k) - Real-time physics simulation.
- ๐ Chipmunk2D (โญ2.4k) - A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.
- ๐ Cocos2d-x - a C++ OpenGL 2D and 3D game engine. Uses C++ but has JS and Lua bindings. Target all the major mobile platforms and operating systems. Additional tools CocoStudio and Cocos Code IDE.
- ๐ธ CopperCube - CopperCube is an all-in-one 3D game engine.Very easy to use.
- ๐ Defold - Free 2D Game Engine for Cross-Platform Publishing
- ๐ E.B.U.R.P - The Eight-Bit Universal Role Playing Engine
- ๐ Ejecta - A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas & Audio Implementation for iOS.
- ๐ ggez - A Rust library to create Good Games Easily.
- ๐ Gideros - A Cross-Platform framework to create Mobile Apps and games for iOS, Android using Lua programming language.
- ๐ Godot - An advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open-source game engine.
- ๐ HaxeFlixel - Create cross-platform games easier and free.
- ๐ Horde3D (โญ1.6k) - small open source 3D rendering engine.
- ๐ ImpactJS - Impact is a JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning HTML5 Games for desktop and mobile browsers.
- ๐ Inform7 - A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
- ๐ Ink - Scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
- ๐ Irrlicht - open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++.
- ๐ jMonkeyEngine 3 - a 3D open-source game engine for adventurous Java developers.
- ๐ Kivy - Cross platform Python framework for creating apps and games for Linux, Windows, OS X, Android and iOS
- ๐ KogGE - Modern Multiplatform Game Engine for Kotlin. Write games for the JVM, JavaScript, Android and iOS in no time using Kotlin.
- ๐ LimeJS - HTML5 game framework for building fast, native-experience games for all modern touchscreens and
- ๐ LITIengine - 2D Java Game Engine. It provides all the infrastructure to create tile based 2D games with plain java
- ๐ LรVE - Lua 2D Game Engine.
- ๐ Magnum - a lightweight and modular 2D/3D graphics/game engine written in C++11
- ๐ Matter.js - a 2D physics engine for the web.
- ๐ MelonJS - open source light-weight HTML5 game engine.
- ๐ Monogame - Open Source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.
- ๐ ODE - ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics.
- ๐ Ogre3D - is a scene-oriented, real-time, flexible 3D rendering engine (as opposed to a game engine) written in C++.
- ๐ OpenFL - Open Source Haxe Engine for making multi-platform games.
- ๐ OpenRA - OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy Game Engine.
- ๐ p2.js - JavaScript 2D physics library
- ๐ Phaser - free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
- ๐ฐ PICO-8 - A fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.
- ๐ Piston - a modular open source game engine written in Rust.
- ๐ PixiJS - is a newcomer HTML5 game renderer - first released in early 2013. A main appeal of the engine is its use of WebGL for faster performance. If WebGL isn't supported, the engine falls back to standard canvas.
- ๐ Planck.js - 2D JavaScript physics engine for cross-platform HTML5 game development.
- ๐ PuzzleScript - open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine.
- ๐ Ren'Py - An open-source visual novel engine using the Python language in simplified form. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.
- ๐ Rpgboss (โญ328) - A 2d rpg game engine and editor based on scala and libgdx. Ease of use, with no programming knowledge.
- ๐ฐ RPGMaker - series of programs for the development of role-playing games.
- ๐ SDL - SDL is a cross-platform library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.
- ๐ SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library.
- ๐ Spring - A powerful free cross-platform RTS engine.
- ๐ Stage.js - Lightweight and fast 2D HTML5 rendering and layout engine for cross-platform game development.
- ๐ Starling - The GPU powered 2D Flash API
- ๐ธ Stencyl - a game creation platform that allows users to create 2D video games for computers, mobile devices, and the web.
- ๐ Supernova Engine (โญ896) - Cross-platform game engine for 2D and 3D projects with entity component system (ECS) and data-oriented design in C++ and Lua.
- ๐ Three.js - Javascript 3D Library.
- ๐ Turbulenz - Turbulenz offers the ability to build, publish, iterate and monetise high-quality games that react like no others, with immersive 3D effects and real-time physics that open up a whole new world of unprecedented and extraordinary web content.
- ๐ Twine - Downloadable or browser-based game development platform that allows users to create linked story paths. Not just text-based, Twine supports music, images, and sound effects. Very little coding knowledge required for basic text adventure games.
- ๐ธ Unity 3D - A development engine for the creation of 2D and 3D games and interactive content.
- ๐ Urho3D - Cross-platform rendering and game engine.
- ๐ Vassal - Vassal is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. Play live on the Internet or by email. Vassal runs on all platforms, and is free, open-source software.
- ๐ Wave - Cross-platform engine written in C#.
- ๐ Wolf RPG Editor English - open source editor for RPG Maker style gamesl
Collections / Voxel Editors
- ๐ Freesound - collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.
- ๐ PacDV - royalty free sounds collection.
- ๐ SoundBible.com - Royalty-free, searchable archive of sound effects under various licenses.
Music and Audio Editors / Voxel Editors
- ๐ Audacity - open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
- ๐ Audiosauna - transforms your web browser into a fast and flexible music production studio with built in synthesizers and live effects.
- ๐ Audiotool - Online music producer.
- ๐ Bosca Ceoil - Online (and also desktop) music producer made by Terry Cavanagh. Simple, intuitive, has a distinctive retro-ish sound.
- ๐ ChipTone - Online sound effect generator
- ๐ jfxr - A JavaScript port of the Bfxr sound effect generator.
- ๐ MadTracker - a powerful and efficient approach to making music. Versatility and compatibility are guaranteed due to full VSTโข, ASIOโข and ReWireโข support.
- ๐ musagi - open source, fairly large and sophisticated music editor and synthesizer
- ๐ฐ Resemble - Resemble's voice cloning engine within Unity
- ๐ SunVox - a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker).
Board Games / Voxel Editors
- ๐ Iterary - Board Game Design Tool.
- ๐ RPTools - a brand of open-source programs designed to enhance traditional pen-and-paper role playing games.
Blogs and Portals / Voxel Editors
Books / Voxel Editors
- ๐ฐ Flow
- ๐ฐ Game Coding Complete
- ๐ธ Game Programming Patterns - Free to read online; paid print/ebook editions also available.
- ๐ฐ Level Up!
- ๐ Making Games with Python & Pygame - Free to read online under a Creative Commons license; print copies also available.
- ๐ธ Nature of Code - Free to read online; paid print editions also available.
- ๐ฐ Real-Time Rendering
- ๐ฐ Rules of Play
- ๐ฐ The Visual Story
- ๐ฐ Theory of Fun
Magazines / Voxel Editors
Videos/Podcasts / Voxel Editors
- Twitch GameDev - Twitch GameDev Streams
Game Jams / Voxel Editors
- Indie Game Jams - Listing of game jams
- Ludum Dare - very popular game jam
- One Hour Game Jam - Weekly 1 hour game jam
Project Management / Voxel Editors
- ๐ธ HacknPlan - Project management for game developers
Complete Game Sources / Voxel Editors
Communities / Voxel Editors
- IndieGuild - Free hub where indie devs post roles and find composers, artists, programmers and other creators.
Ads / Voxel Editors
- ๐ AdColony - Mobile video Ads service.
- ๐ Appodeal - A programmatic ad mediation solution for mobile apps.
General Game Development / Voxel Editors
8. Tools
Image compression
- ImgFlow - Compress and convert images (PNG/JPG/HEIC/WebP/AVIF) in the browser; core processing stays on-device
Tools collection
- UGCLive free tools - Free browser tools for creators: best time to post, engagement rate calculator, hook and caption generators, teleprompter, no sign-up.
9. Awesome Neovim
Split and Window / Tmux
- minhyeoky/tmux-oil.nvim (โญ10) - Edit tmux sessions and windows as lines in a buffer, like
oil.nvim.
10. Awesome Machine Learning
Swift / Speech Recognition
- Voz - On-device speech recognition for iOS and macOS (SPM) with word timestamps, running on the Neural Engine. Source-available.
11. Awesome Datascience
Tutorials
- AgentFEM Simulation-to-Surrogate Mini-Lab - Compare raw and physics-informed features in a NumPy regression exercise using ten finite-element cases and a held-out split.
12. Free Programming Books (English, By Programming Language)
Graphs / Neo4J
- Knowledge Graphs: Data in Context for Responsive Businesses - Jesรบs Barrasa, Amy E. Hodler, Jim Webber (PDF) (email requested) ( ๐๏ธ archived)
Lean / TeX
- Functional Programming in Lean - David Thrane Christiansen (HTML) (CC BY)
SQL Server / Play Scala
- The Redgate Guide to SQL Server Team-based Development - Phil Factor, Grant Fritchey, Alex Kuznetsov, Mladen Prajdiฤ (PDF)
13. Awesome Rails
Platforms / Other external resources
- Light Cloud - PaaS that deploys Rails apps from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or a Dockerfile, with scale to zero and managed Postgres/MySQL on paid plans
- Next: Oct 27, 2026