smandava98 / awesome-random

My awesome-random!!

Welcome

A not so curated and random list of amazingly awesome awesomeness.

Building Software

• Building TypeScript Projects with Bazel - a brief introduction to what Bazel is and how we can build our TypeScript projects with it

Good Books

• https://github.com/Automation-Tools/karate-test-mojo - Generate integration tests from springboot or jersey source code.
• https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/why-performance-matters - Why performance matters
• https://pragprog.com/book/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer - Timeless patterns for thinking about designing good software.
• https://eloquentjavascript.net/ - This is a book about JavaScript, programming, and the wonders of the digital.
• https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ - Great book for Computer Systems
• https://dataintensive.net/ - Great book for designing data intensive distributed applications.
• https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/code-complete-second/0735619670/ - Best practical guides to programming
• https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/spark-the-definitive/9781491912201/ - Spark: The Definitive Guide
• https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/modern-php/9781491905173/ - Good book for new features of PHP
• https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html - Google's Book about Site Reliability Engineering
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow - Thinking, Fast and Slow

Book on Real Life Events

• http://www.tgot.org/images/1_File-PDF-MLMM.pdf - Many Lives, Many Masters - Dr. Brian Weiss - The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his patient, and past-life therapy, that changed both their lives.

Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lives

A collection of powerful books that can help at different points in life

• https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/30-books-that-everyone-should-read-least-once-their-lives.html

Deep Learning

• https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/tensorflow-without-a-phd - Tensorflow without a phD

• http://d2l.ai/ - Dive into Deep Learning, an interactive deep learning book with code, math, and discussions, based on the NumPy interface

• https://bigdatabeard.com/ultimate-list-of-tensorflow-resources-for-machine-learning-engineers/

• https://github.com/fchollet/deep-learning-with-python-notebooks

  Jupyter notebooks for the code samples of the book "Deep Learning with Python"

AWS internals

• Shuffel sharding in AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/workload-isolation-using-shuffle-sharding/?did=ba_card&trk=ba_card#What_is_shuffle_sharding.3F

Platforms

Programming Languages

• https://kotlinlang.org/ - Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference (From Wikipedia).

• jest -learn jest

• Python - Deep Dive - Best book for starters

• Go - Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software (From golang).

• https://www.scala-lang.org/ - Scala combines object-oriented and functional programming in one concise, high-level language.

• Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.

• Rust - Rust as a language is different. Not because of its fancy syntax or welcoming community, but because of the confidence one gains when writing a program in it.

• Java - Java is a Object Oriented Programming Languages

• Java Video tutorial - Java Master class on Udemy

• [C++] (https://en.cppreference.com/w/)

• C

• C#

• Esoteric Programming Languages (Good for some laughes)

• Swift

• NodeJS - Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

• NodeJS - Getting started with nodejs.

• Kotlin

• PHP - An old favorite. Not that popular today, but half of the world still runs on it.

• Scala

Front-End Development

• https://css-tricks.com/ - A front-end blog with up to date topics that release weekly
• IDS Dropdown typeahead - When users need to select from a long list of options, use the drop-down typeahead. As soon as the user starts typing, the list changes to show suggestions that should get closer to what the user wants.
• https://stateofjs.com/ - State of JS 2018
• Front End Happy Hour - A podcast featuring a panel of Software Engineers from Netflix, Evernote, Atlassian & LinkedIn talking over drinks about all things Front End development.
• VueJS Documentation - This is a new JavaScript framework and is maintained by an open sourced community!
• https://materializecss.com/ - A responsive front-end framework
• https://material.angular.io - Angular Component library for frontend development. Easy to use, has great looking scalable components and few different themes.
• http://jsonviewer.stack.hu - Quick and easy JSON object explorer
• Dwitter - Cool JavaScript demos in 140 characters or less
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web - Mozzila JavaScript documentation

Browsers

Firefox (The Superior Browser)

Firefox has a great set of first issues to start learning how to work with their codebase. Their debugger is written in javascript!

• Firefox Javascript debugger

Firefox DevEdition

The new Firefox DevTools are powerful, flexible, and best of all, hackable. This includes a best-in-class JavaScript debugger, which can target multiple browsers and is built in React and Redux.

• Firefox DevEdition

Chrome

• React Dev Tools for Chrome Adds React debugging tools to the Chrome Developer Tools.
• Eyedropper Extension - A chrome extension that allows you to select any colour on your webpage and obtain details such as its hex code and RGB values.
• Vimium An extension for chrome for those who feel at home when using vim keybindings.

Crypto

• RustCrypto - Implementation of many crypto algorithms in Rust

Hadoop Projects

AWS EMR Projects

Back-End Development

Setup a Custom Domain for Lambda & API Gateway with Serverless

Big Data

• Big Data Article - The Journal of Big Data publishes high-quality, scholarly research papers, methodologies and case studies covering a broad range of topics, from big data analytics to data-intensive computing and all applications of big data research.

• Data and userful information - This website is good for beginners who want to learn big data and machine learning.

MongoDB

• MongoDB Tutorial - The MongoDB tutorials.

Blockchain

• Blockchain definition
• Princeton bitcoin book

AI by Andrew NG

• Deep learning by Andrew ng

MACHINE LEARNING

• Coursera Open Source ML Course - A free online course that people can take to learn about Machine Learning. It is from Stanford.
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning Online Book - A free online book that includes a great theoretical introduction to neural networks.
• https://www.deeplearning.ai/machine-learning-yearning/ - A book by Andrew Ng that teaches techniques for measuring, understanding and improving performance of ML methods.
• Deep Learning vs Machine Learning
• [Machine Learning for numerical time series data] https://towardsdatascience.com/dynamic-time-warping-3933f25fcdd
• [Deep Learning book by Ian Goodfellow etc.] https://www.deeplearningbook.org/

Spring Boot

• Spring Boot by Baeldung - A free online website that people can use for learning spring boot with examples.
• Spring Professional Certification Study Guide
• Spring Boot Microservices Udemy course
• Build a Quick API with Spring Data Rest

Theory

• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic
• An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming
• Property Graph - Gremlin
• Theory Of Computation

Books

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Always bring a towel.
• Deep Learning Book
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Don't Make Me Think
• Algorithm Design Manual - Awesome collection of classic algorithms
• Code Complete, Second Edition
• Ender's Game
• Ender's Shadow
• Clean Code
• Ready Player One
• https://github.com/Automation-Tools/karate-test-mojo - Generate integration tests from springboot or jersey source code.
• https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/why-performance-matters - Why performance matters
• https://pragprog.com/book/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer - Timeless patterns for thinking about designing good software.
• http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-java/ - Think Java
• The Way of Kings
• No Exit
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
• Neuromancer - Great scifi novel involving a computer hacker, AI, and cyberspace
• Steve Jobs https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537 - book about Steve Jobs
• Effective Java
• Blindsight by Peter Watts

Editors

• Emacs
• Vim - edit text at the speed of thought ;)
• Visual Studio Code - great for front end development, Visual Studio Code Editor by Microsoft
• Neovim
• Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
• Atom - A text editor made by Github
• Notepad++ - Better than Notepad!

Gaming

• ULTIMATE GAMES WILL RELEASE PET CARE AND GUESS THE WORD FOR YOUNGER PLAYERS ON SWITCH
• Video game reviews and fun times
• CM 2001/2 - Best Game EVER!

Development Environment

• VS Code
• Intellij
• Oh My Zsh
• Git-open Zsh Plugin - ZSH plugin to open the repo's respective website.
• Eclipse
• Pycharm
• Android Studio
• JetBrains

Entertainment

• Rotten Tomatoes
• Plex
• Things to do in San Francisco

Databases

• Importing Graph data into Neo4j
• Apache TinkerPop Tutorial
• Sybase
• SQL Tutorial
• SQLite
• Google Firebase
• PostgreSQL
• Elasticsearch

Cloud Infrastructure and Kubernetes

• KAtlas - Multi-Cluster Discoverability and Auditability
• Foremast - AI/ML Infrastructure Health Monitoring
• Keiko - Enable Kubernetes at scale

Media

Learn

• Clean Code by Robert Martin - A book on good software development practices and writing clean code!
• GraphQL
• Safari Books Online
• Wes Bos: great video courses on Advanced React, GraphQL, ES6, CSS Grid, Javascript, Node, etc.
• Reactive Extensions
• Lightbot
• Eloquent Javascript - A free, thorough introduction to JavaScript, including it's quirks/features.
• Free Code Camp
• Automate the Boring Stuff With Python By Al Sweigart - A good introduction to automating simple task with Python
• Vertx - Asynchrnonous Programming for Java Developers
• Go Programming

Python

• Python Documentation
• Python Package Index
• Python Tutor An interactive website to visualize your python code

Rust

• Rust Playground
• This Week in Rust

Apigee

• Apigee 4 minutes videos 4 developers

Go

• Awesome Go
• Go Style Guide
• Project Layout

Security

• Machine Learning for Security
• Digital Identity
• How to Attack Windows 10 Machine with Metasploit on Kali Linux

Content Management Systems

Hardware

Mac

Business

• Greaterfool Blog. Canadian real estate and politics.

Work

• Intuit
• Intuit Israel

Social Media

• Intuit Facebook Page
• Intuit Twitter Handle
• Intuit LinkedIn
• [Intuit Instagram] (https://www.instagram.com/intuit/?hl=en)

Fun Customization

• A way to write things using the emojis from the intuit-slack emoji selection!
• Race to foldable phone(https://gizmodo.com/the-race-to-foldable-phone-perfection-is-on-and-its-go-1832960403?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter)

AI by Elon Musk

Networking

Decentralized Systems

Miscellaneous

• Docker-removing-containers-images
• Task Switching - An interesting write-up on why task switching is so costly for engineers

ES6

• Official site
• An overview of what’s new in ES6

React

• Official site
• Wes Bos - A great teacher on React topics

Redux

• Official site

GraphQL

• official site
• java
• TOOL
• GraphQL Error Handling Article - How best to handle errors is something the GraphQL community is struggling to define a definitive pattern on. This article explains one implementation that might work for you!
• kgraphql KGraphQL is Kotlin implementation of GraphQL. It provides rich DSL to setup GraphQL schema.

Django

• https://www.djangoproject.com/start/ - Django set up

Laptops

Design

• Design Patterns

• [Refactoring][https://refactoring.guru/refactoring]

• MacBook

• Windows

Android Things

• https://developer.android.com/things/get-started/kits
• https://firebase.google.com/

Observability

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability

Podcasts

• Anna Faris is Unqualified
• The Adventure Zone - DnD has never been so entertaining!
• Jesus & Jollof

Ted Talks

• Change your mindset, change the game | Dr. Alia Crum | TEDxTraverseCity - She explores scientific results that show the influence of the mindset on the body, and how changing the subjective mindset produced different outcomes.
• Why work doesn't happen at work | Jason Fried | TED Talk - Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. He calls out the two main offenders (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make the workplace actually work.

Tech Talks

• TDD, Where did it all go wrong? | Ian Cooper - learn how to structure your unit tests so that your code is refactorable and maintainable.

Tutorials

• https://www.educative.io - Not Free, but contains amazing tutorials
• https://www.udemy.com - Many courses are free, and you can learn technical as well as non-technical skills

Devops

• https://www.schoolofdevops.net/p/ultimate-devops-bootcamp - Free and a hands-on approach to get started
• https://www.schoolofdevops.net/p/ultimate-devops-bootcamp - Free and a hands on approach to get started

Data Visualizations

• https://www.jasondavies.com/ - Awesome interactive data visualizations
• https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery - Cool visualizations written in JS
• https://pudding.cool - Digital Publication using Visual Essays

Reinforcement Learning

Active Opensource libraries for Reinforcement Learning Research

• OpenAI's Baselines
• Google's Dopamine

Mental Health

• Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You - An incredibly helpful way to think about partitioning your life for the sake of your overall health (particularly during the pandemic)

Music

• Rolling Stone's Greatest Songs Of All Time
• Get Shwifty
• Omer Adam - Two crazy people
• Happy
• Everything is awesome
• Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like A Woman
• Dubstep - Kill the Noise - Pt 1
• The Revenge Song - The Magic Flute
• Shape of you
• Our Song
• [Old Town Road]
• SAILORWAVE 2- MACROSS 82-99
• Empire of the clouds
• Illenium - Fractures
• ROODAY's Mixtape
• Old Town Road
• King Princess - 1950
• Breathe - Pink Floyd
• Hard Place
• Changes - Charles Bradley

Pets

• Dog Rates
• Dog_Feelings

SELinux

• http://selinuxproject.org

Cool Youtube Channels

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xKdmAXFh4ACyhpiQ_3qBw
• https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nSFpj9HTCZ5t-N3Rm3-HA
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCodbH5mUeF-m_BsNueRDjcw
• https://www.youtube.com/user/CodeOrg
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
• https://www.youtube.com/user/Brackeys

Write unit tests!

Productivity

• https://github.com/helmus/Jira-Hot-Linker - Jira HotLinker, quick access to Jira metadata when hovering over ticket numbers on github or other sites!
• Notion - take quick notes

Tech Leadership

• https://softwareleadweekly.com/ - newsletter with a nice digest every week of thought-provoking articles, Tweet threads, etc. that can help take your leadership skills and team to the next level

Performance Testing

• Gatling

Useful Technical Bolgs

• MIT Technology Review - https://www.technologyreview.com/

Software Engineering

• C2 Wiki - Venerable archive of software engineering and programming pages and discussion. Has pages on every programming topic under the sun, in a much older perspective.

Recipes

• Chicken Katsu - Straight fire 🔥

Social Networks

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/
• Check out Maddy's youtube

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Random websites

• Wait But Why - [https://waitbutwhy.com/]
• The useless web - [https://theuselessweb.com/]

Random Artists

• Bad Bunny - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPK_IdHe1Yg

Best keyboard layouts

• Dvorak (there are dozens of us) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout