There was a glorious (albeit too short) period on the web when we were mashing up APIs from various startups and tech companies to create cool stuff. Then things changed. The web grew up, became Serious Business™️, and free/public APIs got harder and harder to find. Turns out, there’s still a bunch of good ones out there!
This repo has collected them in one long, categorized list for us to reference. 👏
This repository is a collection of various materials and tools that I use every day in my work. It contains a lot of useful information gathered in one piece. It is an invaluable source of knowledge for me that I often look back on.
This repo is meant to only contain the good stuff, but holy cow there’s a LOT of stuff in here.
You’ve probably seen many of these commands hit Changelog News over the years, but now you can see them all again in one hand-curated place. Who knows, maybe one or two will be new to you. I hadn’t heard of curlie previously, which looks like a nice merging of cur and httpie.
This is an opinionated list that goes so far as to tell you what to avoid and some options to use instead. I’d love if they’d also tell you why to avoid things. For example, under the Photo Editing and Management section they say to avoid VSCO. Yeah but why?!
There are a lot of screencasts, recordings of user group gatherings and conference talks available online. I try to commit myself watching at least two new talks every week, and I’ve been doing this for quite some time now. I created this list of online talks that I really enjoyed watching. I’ll also be updating this list whenever I’ve watched another awesome talk that is worthy enough. Suggestions are always appreciated through a pull request.
This repository offers a collection of services with great free tiers for developers on a budget. Because not everyone has 20$ per month to spend on app or database hosting for every single side-project.
Nowadays, a lot of services are offering really good free tier more than enough for testing small apps and even put them in production. They are just waiting to be used by you.
I got a kick out of their FTDD acronym: Free Tier Driven Development
Oli Larkin:
This is a curated list of my favourite music DSP and audio programming resources. It was originally meant to be an official “Awesome list”, but apparently you are not meant to write in the first person, so it is now a “more awesome” list.
I’m still giving this the awesome topic, despite his first person point of view. Oli is a long-time audio programmer, so he’s well positioned to curate a list like this one.
700+ hand-selected tools across a range of categories such as writing, productivity, pixel art, and more. The headline link goes to the web interface, but you can also get at in rendered Markdown on the GitHub Repo.
Although I’ve mostly also included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools & toys that are as fun to use as they are functional.
The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens.
This is a nice, long list of landing page templates you can use for your next website. Right now it’s just a list of links, though. What would really make it useful is screengrabs of each template embedded right there in the README so you don’t have to click each link to get an idea of what it looks like. PRs welcome? 😎
Airbnb, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, Tiktok, Spotify, Trello, Whatsapp, Youtube, you get the picture. It includes links to source code and demos, the tech stack, and GitHub star count for each entry.
Hiring, management, handbooks, technologies, and a whole lot more. I like this particular list because of the opinionated bit. In other words, it’s not overly stuffed with resources.
Need I say more? 🤩
At some point in the not-so-distant future, it’ll be easier to make a list of remote-unfriendly companies in tech. Until then, bookmark this for the next time you’re on the job hunt.
And if you’re wondering what MLOps is…
With Machine Learning Model Operationalization Management (MLOps), we want to provide an end-to-end machine learning development process to design, build and manage reproducible, testable, and evolvable ML-powered software.
Whether you’re preparing for an interview or you want to design a distributed/microservice oriented application, this list will definitely help you achieve that.
a hand-picked collection of resources for solving practical marketing tasks, such as:
- finding beta testers
- growing first user base
- advertising project without a budget
- scaling marketing activities for building constant revenue streams.
If marketing your software still puts a lump in the back of your throat, this clip from Saul Pwanson might help change that.
If you’re already in to Istio, we don’t need to say anymore. If you aren’t quite sure what a service mesh is, start with the first link in the repo: Video - What is a Service Mesh?
If you pair this with Jure’s Comprehensive Linux cheatsheet and his 25 greatest songs of all time, then you’ve got yourself one awesome day of coding up new things.
We’ve logged enough awesome lists by now that you know exactly what to expect from this repo. So instead of describing what’s inside, I will say that Emma and I will be talking Fullstack D3 with Amelia Wattenberger on January 30th. Join us for the live show or subscribe to JS Party to listen when the episode ships.
If you’re concerned with the amount of data Google has on you, this list of alternative browsers, web apps, operating systems, and hardware may help you ween yourself from the company. Looking at this list, it’s amazing just how much value Google offers in trade for our data. A note from the author:
It’s a shame that Google, with their immense resources, power, and influence, don’t see the benefits of helping people secure themselves online. Instead, they force people like us to scour the web for alternatives and convince our friends and family to do the same, while they sell off our data to the highest bidder.
From typography/colors to icons/animations and everything in between. This awesome list by Shawn Wang is worth a scan/bookmark.
Self-hosting has always been cool, but I think we’re going to see its popularity continue to trend in 2020 and beyond. (Jump straight to the software development category and go digging for gems.)
Prior to Unicode, international communication was grueling- everyone had defined their separate extended character set in the upperhalf of ASCII (called Code Pages) that would conflict- Just think, German speakers coordinating with Korean speakers over which 127 character Code Page to use. Thankfully the Unicode standard caught on and unified communication.
What follows is an awesome list of Unicode “tidbits, packages, and resources”. And of course there’s a sub-section on everyone’s favorite: emojis
With 35k+ stars, I might be the last one to the party on this awesome repo.
It is the largest compilation, and it is growing every week - currently, more than 80 best practices, style guides, and architectural tips are presented. New issues and pull requests are created every day to keep this live book updated. We’d love to see you contributing here, whether that is fixing code mistakes, helping with translations, or suggesting brilliant new ideas.
freeCodeCamp aren’t the only ones trying to solve this problem. Many of these alternatives are mature and usable today.
