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Platforms
Node.js - Async non-blocking event-driven JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
Cross-Platform - Writing cross-platform code on Node.js.
iOS - Mobile operating system for Apple phones and tablets.
Android - Mobile operating system developed by Google.
Electron - Cross-platform native desktop apps using JavaScript/HTML/CSS.
Cordova - JavaScript API for hybrid apps.
React Native - JavaScript framework for writing natively rendering mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Xamarin - Mobile app development IDE, testing, and distribution.
eBPF - Virtual machine that allows you to write more efficient and powerful tracing and monitoring for Linux systems.
Arch-based Projects - Linux distributions and projects based on Arch Linux.
AppImage - Package apps in a single file that works on various mainstream Linux distributions.
macOS - Operating system for Apple's Mac computers.
watchOS - Operating system for the Apple Watch.
IPFS - P2P hypermedia protocol.
Fuse - Mobile development tools.
Heroku - Cloud platform as a service.
Raspberry Pi - Credit card-sized computer aimed at teaching kids programming, but capable of a lot more.
Qt - Cross-platform GUI app framework.
WebExtensions - Cross-browser extension system.
Smart TV - Create apps for different TV platforms.
GNOME - Simple and distraction-free desktop environment for Linux.
KDE - A free software community dedicated to creating an open and user-friendly computing experience.
Amazon Alexa - Virtual home assistant.
DigitalOcean - Cloud computing platform designed for developers.
Flutter - Google's mobile SDK for building native iOS and Android apps from a single codebase written in Dart.
Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
IBM Cloud - Cloud platform for developers and companies.
Firebase - App development platform built on Google Cloud Platform.
Robot Operating System 2.0 - Set of software libraries and tools that help you build robot apps.
Adafruit IO - Visualize and store data from any device.
Cloudflare - CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, and security for your site.
Actions on Google - Developer platform for Google Assistant.
ESP - Low-cost microcontrollers with WiFi and broad IoT applications.
Deno - A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.
DOS - Operating system for x86-based personal computers that was popular during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Nix - Package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
Integration - Linking together different IT systems (components) to functionally cooperate as a whole.
Node-RED - A programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs, and online services.
Low Code - Allowing business professionals to address their needs on their own with little to no coding skills.
Capacitor - Cross-platform open source runtime for building Web Native apps.
ArcGIS Developer - Mapping and location analysis platform for developers.
Programming Languages
Standard Style - Style guide and linter.
Mad Science npm Packages - Impossible sounding projects that exist.
Maintenance Modules - For npm packages.
npm - Package manager.
AVA - Test runner.
ESLint - Linter.
npm scripts - Task runner.
30 Seconds of Code - Code snippets you can understand in 30 seconds.
Ponyfills - Like polyfills but without overriding native APIs.
Swift - Apple's compiled programming language that is secure, modern, programmer-friendly, and fast.
Python - General-purpose programming language designed for readability.
Asyncio - Asynchronous I/O in Python 3.
Scientific Audio - Scientific research in audio/music.
CircuitPython - A version of Python for microcontrollers.
Data Science - Data analysis and machine learning.
Typing - Optional static typing for Python.
MicroPython - A lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 for microcontrollers.
Scala Native - Optimizing ahead-of-time compiler for Scala based on LLVM.
Julia - High-level dynamic programming language designed to address the needs of high-performance numerical analysis and computational science.
C/C++ - General-purpose language with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained software.
Common Lisp - Powerful dynamic multiparadigm language that facilitates iterative and interactive development.
Frege - Haskell for the JVM.
CMake - Build, test, and package software.
ActionScript 3 - Object-oriented language targeting Adobe AIR.
Eta - Functional programming language for the JVM.
Idris - General purpose pure functional programming language with dependent types influenced by Haskell and ML.
Ada/SPARK - Modern programming language designed for large, long-lived apps where reliability and efficiency are essential.
Q# - Domain-specific programming language used for expressing quantum algorithms.
Imba - Programming language inspired by Ruby and Python and compiles to performant JavaScript.
Vala - Programming language designed to take full advantage of the GLib and GNOME ecosystems, while preserving the speed of C code.
Coq - Formal language and environment for programming and specification which facilitates interactive development of machine-checked proofs.
V - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software.
Zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Front-End Development
CSS - Style sheet language that specifies how HTML elements are displayed on screen.
React - JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
Relay - Framework for building data-driven React apps.
React Hooks - Lets you use state and other React features without writing a class.
Polymer - JavaScript library to develop Web Components.
Angular - App framework.
Backbone - App framework.
HTML5 - Markup language used for websites & web apps.
SVG - XML-based vector image format.
KnockoutJS - JavaScript library.
Dojo Toolkit - JavaScript toolkit.
Ember - App framework.
D3 - Library for producing dynamic, interactive data visualizations.
Cycle.js - Functional and reactive JavaScript framework.
Vue.js - App framework.
Marionette.js - App framework.
Aurelia - App framework.
PostCSS - CSS tool.
Draft.js - Rich text editor framework for React.
choo - App framework.
Redux - State container for JavaScript apps.
Browserify - Module bundler.
Sass - CSS preprocessor.
Ant Design - Enterprise-class UI design language.
Less - CSS preprocessor.
WebGL - JavaScript API for rendering 3D graphics.
Preact - App framework.
Next.js - Framework for server-rendered React apps.
lit - Library for building web components with a declarative template system.
JAMstack - Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt markup.
WordPress-Gatsby - Web development technology stack with WordPress as a back end and Gatsby as a front end.
Mobile Web Development - Creating a great mobile web experience.
Storybook - Development environment for UI components.
Blazor - .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly.
PageSpeed Metrics - Metrics to help understand page speed and user experience.
Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
Seed - Rust framework for creating web apps running in WebAssembly.
Web Performance Budget - Techniques to ensure certain performance metrics for a website.
Web Animation - Animations in the browser with JavaScript, CSS, SVG, etc.
Yew - Rust framework inspired by Elm and React for creating multi-threaded frontend web apps with WebAssembly.
Material-UI - Material Design React components for faster and easier web development.
Building Blocks for Web Apps - Standalone features to be integrated into web apps.
Svelte - App framework.
Design systems - Collection of reusable components, guided by rules that ensure consistency and speed.
Inertia.js - Make single-page apps without building an API.
MDBootstrap - Templates, layouts, components, and widgets to rapidly build websites.
Back-End Development
Flask - Python framework.
Vagrant - Automation virtual machine environment.
Pyramid - Python framework.
CakePHP - PHP framework.
Laravel - PHP framework.
TALL Stack - Full-stack development solution featuring libraries built by the Laravel community.
Phalcon - PHP framework.
nginx - Web server.
Dropwizard - Java framework.
Kubernetes - Open-source platform that automates Linux container operations.
Lumen - PHP micro-framework.
Serverless Framework - Serverless computing and serverless architectures.
Apache Wicket - Java web app framework.
Vert.x - Toolkit for building reactive apps on the JVM.
Terraform - Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure.
Vapor - Server-side development in Swift.
Dash - Python web app framework.
FastAPI - Python web app framework.
CDK - Open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code.
IAM - User accounts, authentication and authorization.
Slim - PHP framework.
Fiber - Web framework built on top of Fasthttp, the fastest HTTP engine for Go.
Computer Science
ML with Ruby - Learning, implementing, and applying Machine Learning using Ruby.
Core ML Models - Models for Apple's machine learning framework.
H2O - Open source distributed machine learning platform written in Java with APIs in R, Python, and Scala.
Software Engineering for Machine Learning - From experiment to production-level machine learning.
AI in Finance - Solving problems in finance with machine learning.
JAX - Automatic differentiation and XLA compilation brought together for high-performance machine learning research.
XAI - Providing insight, explanations, and interpretability to machine learning methods.
Speech and Natural Language Processing
Question Answering - The science of asking and answering in natural language with a machine.
Natural Language Generation - Generation of text used in data to text, conversational agents, and narrative generation applications.
Papers - Theory basics for using cryptography by non-cryptographers.
Deep Learning - Neural networks.
TensorFlow - Library for machine intelligence.
TensorFlow.js - WebGL-accelerated machine learning JavaScript library for training and deploying models.
TensorFlow Lite - Framework that optimizes TensorFlow models for on-device machine learning.
Papers - The most cited deep learning papers.
Empirical Software Engineering - Evidence-based research on software systems.
Information Retrieval - Learn to develop your own search engine.
Quantum Computing - Computing which utilizes quantum mechanics and qubits on quantum computers.
Theoretical Computer Science - The interplay of computer science and pure mathematics, distinguished by its emphasis on mathematical rigour and technique.
Conversational AI - Build awesome chatbots and digital assistants.
Big Data
Hadoop - Framework for distributed storage and processing of very large data sets.
Apache Spark - Unified engine for large-scale data processing.
Qlik - Business intelligence platform for data visualization, analytics, and reporting apps.
Splunk - Platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing structured and unstructured machine-generated big data in real-time.
Theory
Education - Learning and practicing.
Recursion Schemes - Traversing nested data structures.
Audit Algorithms - Algorithmic audits of algorithms.
Books
Editors
Neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
Atom - Open-source and hackable text editor.
Visual Studio Code - Cross-platform open-source text editor.
Gaming
Godot - Game engine.
Unity - Game engine.
LÖVE - Game engine.
PICO-8 - Fantasy console.
Construct 2 - Game engine.
Gideros - Game engine.
Minecraft - Sandbox video game.
Game Datasets - Materials and datasets for Artificial Intelligence in games.
Haxe Game Development - A high-level strongly typed programming language used to produce cross-platform native code.
libGDX - Java game framework.
PlayCanvas - Game engine.
Game Remakes - Actively maintained open-source game remakes.
Flame - Game engine for Flutter.
Discord Communities - Chat with friends and communities.
CHIP-8 - Virtual computer game machine from the 70s.
Games of Coding - Learn a programming language by making games.
Esports - Video games played as a sport.
Development Environment
Quick Look Plugins - For macOS.
Fish - User-friendly shell.
GitHub - Hosting service for Git repositories.
Pinned Gists - Dynamic pinned gists for your GitHub profile.
Git Add-ons - Enhance the
gitCLI.Git Hooks - Scripts for automating tasks during
gitworkflows.Hyper - Cross-platform terminal app built on web technologies.
PowerShell - Cross-platform object-oriented shell.
Alfred Workflows - Productivity app for macOS.
GitHub Actions - Create tasks to automate your workflow and share them with others on GitHub.
Entertainment
Science Fiction - Scifi.
Databases
MongoDB - NoSQL database.
TinkerPop - Graph computing framework.
PostgreSQL - Object-relational database.
CouchDB - Document-oriented NoSQL database.
HBase - Distributed, scalable, big data store.
NoSQL Guides - Help on using non-relational, distributed, open-source, and horizontally scalable databases.
Database Tools - Everything that makes working with databases easier.
TypeDB - Logical database to organize large and complex networks of data as one body of knowledge.
Cassandra - Open-source, distributed, wide column store, NoSQL database management system.
TDengine - An open-source time-series database with high-performance, scalability, and SQL support.
Media
Codeface - Text editor fonts.
GIF - Image format known for animated images.
Pixel Art - Pixel-level digital art.
FFmpeg - Cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
Icons - Downloadable SVG/PNG/font icon projects.
Audiovisual - Lighting, audio and video in professional environments.
VLC - Cross-platform media player software and streaming server.
Learn
CLI Workshoppers - Interactive tutorials.
Educational Games - Learn while playing.
CSS Learning - Mainly about CSS – the language and the modules.
Product Management - Learn how to be a better product manager.
Roadmaps - Gives you a clear route to improve your knowledge and skills.
YouTubers - Watch video tutorials from YouTubers that teach you about technology.
Cyber Security University - Free educational resources that focus on learning by doing.
Security
CTF - Capture The Flag.
Honeypots - Deception trap, designed to entice an attacker into attempting to compromise the information systems in an organization.
Web Security - Security of web apps & services.
Lockpicking - The art of unlocking a lock by manipulating its components without the key.
Cybersecurity Blue Team - Groups of individuals who identify security flaws in information technology systems.
Fuzzing - Automated software testing technique that involves feeding pseudo-randomly generated input data.
GDPR - Regulation on data protection and privacy for all individuals within EU.
Executable Packing - Packing and unpacking executable formats.
Malware Persistence - Techniques that adversaries use to keep access to systems across restarts.
EVM Security - Understanding the Ethereum Virtual Machine security ecosystem.
Content Management Systems
Refinery CMS - Ruby on Rails CMS.
Wagtail - Django CMS focused on flexibility and user experience.
Textpattern - Lightweight PHP-based CMS.
Drupal - Extensible PHP-based CMS.
Craft CMS - Content-first CMS.
Sitecore - .NET digital marketing platform that combines CMS with tools for managing multiple websites.
Silverstripe CMS - PHP MVC framework that serves as a classic or headless CMS.
Directus - A real-time API and app dashboard for managing SQL database content.
Plone - Open source Python CMS.
Hardware
Electronics - For electronic engineers and hobbyists.
Electric Guitar Specifications - Checklist for building your own electric guitar.
Plotters - Computer-controlled drawing machines and other visual art robots.
Robotic Tooling - Free and open tools for professional robotic development.
LIDAR - Sensor for measuring distances by illuminating the target with laser light.
Open Hardware - Open-source hardware projects.
Business
OKR Methodology - Goal setting & communication best practices.
Leading and Managing - Leading people and being a manager in a technology company/environment.
Indie - Independent developer businesses.
Tools of the Trade - Tools used by companies on Hacker News.
Clean Tech - Fighting climate change with technology.
Wardley Maps - Provides high situational awareness to help improve strategic planning and decision making.
Social Enterprise - Building an organization primarily focused on social impact that is at least partially self-funded.
Engineering Team Management - How to transition from software development to engineering management.
Developer-First Products - Products that target developers as the user.
Billing - Payments, invoicing, pricing, accounting, marketplace, fraud, and business intelligence.
Work
Slack - Team collaboration.
Code Review - Reviewing code.
Creative Technology - Businesses & groups that specialize in combining computing, design, art, and user experience.
Internships - CV writing guides and companies that hire interns.
Networking
Real-Time Communications - Network protocols for near simultaneous exchange of media and data.
SNMP - A protocol for collecting, modifying, and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks.
Decentralized Systems
Bitcoin - Bitcoin services and tools for software developers.
Ripple - Open source distributed settlement network.
Non-Financial Blockchain - Non-financial blockchain applications.
Mastodon - Open source decentralized microblogging network.
Ethereum - Distributed computing platform for smart contract development.
Blockchain AI - Blockchain projects for artificial intelligence and machine learning.
EOSIO - A decentralized operating system supporting industrial-scale apps.
Corda - Open source blockchain platform designed for business.
Waves - Open source blockchain platform and development toolset for Web 3.0 apps and decentralized solutions.
Substrate - Framework for writing scalable, upgradeable blockchains in Rust.
Golem - Open source peer-to-peer marketplace for computing resources.
Stacks - A smart contract platform secured by Bitcoin.
Algorand - An open-source, proof of stake blockchain and smart contract computing platform.
Higher Education
Computational Neuroscience - A multidisciplinary science which uses computational approaches to study the nervous system.
Digital History - Computer-aided scientific investigation of history.
Scientific Writing - Distraction-free scientific writing with Markdown, reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks.
Events
Creative Tech Events - Events around the globe for creative coding, tech, design, music, arts and cool stuff.
Events in Italy - Tech-related events in Italy.
Events in the Netherlands - Tech-related events in the Netherlands.
Testing
Testing - Software testing.
Visual Regression Testing - Ensures changes did not break the functionality or style.
Selenium - Open-source browser automation framework and ecosystem.
Appium - Test automation tool for apps.
TAP - Test Anything Protocol.
JMeter - Load testing and performance measurement tool.
k6 - Open-source, developer-centric performance monitoring and load testing solution.
Playwright - Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Quality Assurance Roadmap - How to start & build a career in software testing.
Gatling - Open-source load and performance testing framework based on Scala, Akka, and Netty.
Miscellaneous
CSV - A text file format that stores tabular data and uses a comma to separate values.
Awesome - Recursion illustrated.
Answers - Stack Overflow, Quora, etc.
Sketch - Design app for macOS.
Gulp - Task runner.
OpenGL - Cross-platform API for rendering 2D and 3D graphics.
Urban & Regional Planning - Concerning the built environment and communities.
Unicode - Unicode standards, quirks, packages and resources.
Citizen Science - For community-based and non-institutional scientists.
MQTT - "Internet of Things" connectivity protocol.
Vorpal - Node.js CLI framework.
Vulkan - Low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API.
LaTeX - Typesetting language.
Economics - An economist's starter kit.
Cheminformatics - Informatics techniques applied to problems in chemistry.
Colorful - Choose your next color scheme.
Steam - Digital distribution platform.
Bots - Building bots.
Empathy in Engineering - Building and promoting more compassionate engineering cultures.
DTrace - Dynamic tracing framework.
Userscripts - Enhance your browsing experience.
Pokémon - Pokémon and Pokémon GO.
ChatOps - Managing technical and business operations through a chat.
Falsehood - Falsehoods programmers believe in.
Domain-Driven Design - Software development approach for complex needs by connecting the implementation to an evolving model.
Quantified Self - Self-tracking through technology.
SaltStack - Python-based config management system.
Web Design - For digital designers.
Creative Coding - Programming something expressive instead of something functional.
No-Login Web Apps - Web apps that work without login.
Free Software - Free as in freedom.
Framer - Prototyping interactive UI designs.
Markdown - Markup language.
Dev Fun - Funny developer projects.
Healthcare - Open source healthcare software for facilities, providers, developers, policy experts, and researchers.
Magento 2 - Open Source eCommerce built with PHP.
TikZ - Graph drawing packages for TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt.
Neuroscience - Study of the nervous system and brain.
Ad-Free - Ad-free alternatives.
Esolangs - Programming languages designed for experimentation or as jokes rather than actual use.
Prometheus - Open-source monitoring system.
Homematic - Smart home devices.
Ledger - Double-entry accounting on the command-line.
Web Monetization - A free open web standard service that allows you to send money directly in your browser.
Uncopyright - Public domain works.
Crypto Currency Tools & Algorithms - Digital currency where encryption is used to regulate the generation of units and verify transfers.
Diversity - Creating a more inclusive and diverse tech community.
Open Source Supporters - Companies that offer their tools and services for free to open source projects.
Design Principles - Create better and more consistent designs and experiences.
Theravada - Teachings from the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
inspectIT - Open source Java app performance management tool.
Open Source Maintainers - The experience of being an open source maintainer.
Calculators - Calculators for every platform.
Captcha - A type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.
Jupyter - Create and share documents that contain code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.
FIRST Robotics Competition - International high school robotics championship.
Humane Technology - Open source projects that help improve society.
Speakers - Conference and meetup speakers in the programming and design community.
Board Games - Table-top gaming fun for all.
Software Patreons - Fund individual programmers or the development of open source projects.
Parasite - Parasites and host-pathogen interactions.
Food - Food-related projects on GitHub.
Mental Health - Mental health awareness and self-care in the software industry.
Bitcoin Payment Processors - Start accepting Bitcoin.
Scientific Computing - Solving complex scientific problems using computers.
Agriculture - Open source technology for farming and gardening.
Product Design - Design a product from the initial concept to production.
Prisma - Turn your database into a GraphQL API.
Software Architecture - The discipline of designing and building software.
Connectivity Data and Reports - Better understand who has access to telecommunication and internet infrastructure and on what terms.
Stacks - Tech stacks for building different apps and features.
Cytodata - Image-based profiling of biological phenotypes for computational biologists.
IRC - Open source messaging protocol.
Advertising - Advertising and programmatic media for websites.
Earth - Find ways to resolve the climate crisis.
Naming - Naming things in computer science done right.
Biomedical Information Extraction - How to extract information from unstructured biomedical data and text.
Web Archiving - An effort to preserve the Web for future generations.
WP-CLI - Command-line interface for WordPress.
Credit Modeling - Methods for classifying credit applicants into risk classes.
Ansible - A Python-based, open source IT configuration management and automation platform.
Biological Visualizations - Interactive visualization of biological data on the web.
QR Code - A type of matrix barcode that can be used to store and share a small amount of information.
Veganism - Making the plant-based lifestyle easy and accessible.
Translations - The transfer of the meaning of a text from one language to another.
Scriptable - An iOS app for automations in JavaScript.
WebXR - Enables immersive virtual reality and augmented reality content on the web.
OpenStreetMap - An open data mapping project utilized by many apps and devices.
Computational Biology - Computational approaches applied to problems in biology.
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Awesome Search - Quick search for Awesome lists.
StumbleUponAwesome - Discover random pages from the Awesome dataset using a browser extension.
Awesome CLI - A simple command-line tool to dive into Awesome lists.
Awesome Viewer - A visualizer for all of the above Awesome lists.
Track Awesome List - View the latest updates of Awesome lists.
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