Awesome Tools

A curated list of awesome tools for dev, design, and life.

Inspired by awesome-python.

• Awesome Tools
  • Language
    • German
      • Grammar Checker
    • Korean
    • Ancient Greek
    • Latin
      • Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latina per se illustrata series
    • Old Persian
    • Design
    • Figma
  • Branding
  • Machine Learning
    • Open Training Data
    • Llama
    • Awesome Papers on Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Knowledge Graph
  • LaTeX
  • Software Architecture
  • Frontend Dev
    • UI Performance
    • Mock Backend
  • Backend Dev
    • IntelliJ
    • Java
    • GraphQL
    • Database
      • Database Management
  • DevOps
    • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
• Contributing
• License

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Language

• Duolingo

German

• Fraktur Typeface Cheatsheet

Grammar Checker

• Duden Mentor
• rechtschreibpruefung24.de
• Sapling
• QuillBot
• LanguageTool

Korean

• 延世大学韩国语教材全套(1-6册)
• 李思皎韩语
• Papago - The best Korean dictionary. Make sure to download their mobile APP

Ancient Greek

• Resources on Learning Ancient Greek from LSJ
• Ancient Greek Language resources on Reddit

Latin

Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latina per se illustrata series

• Lingua Latina: Pars I: Familia Romana audios
• Lingua Latina: Colloquia Personarum audios

Old Persian

• TITUS Old Persian Corpus
• Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions
• Old Persian Fonts
• Old Persian Fonts on FontSpace
• Old Persian Fonts, Esnaashari & Sarhadi's Old Persian Unicode Font (Zip)

Design

• Vectorian ornaments
• SVG/LOGO
  • SVG Repo
  • Worldvectorlogo
  • Brandfetch
• API Stylebook Design Guidelines
• Ubuntu Design

Tiger I Tanks 3D Printing

• Cults
• Thingiverse

Lego Pieces 3D Printing

• GrabCAD

GrabCAD

• Tiger Tank
• Panzer VI Tiger E solidworks step
• Panzer VI Tiger 1:35
• Tank Tiger 1 (Toy)
• Tiger 1
• Panzerkampfwagen Tiger

Figma

• Select Similar - Completely screwed on a file after duplicating 300 objects? Instead of going one by one this plugin single handedly came in clutch.

Branding

• HashiCorp
• Elastic Brand Guide
• TypeScript
• Golang
• Docker
• GraphQL
• Jupyter

Machine Learning

• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Sutton and Barto - is the introductory book on RL. It covers very basics and build up from there. Does not cover deep RL.
• Deep Learning Tutorial

Open Training Data

When we are learning about Machine Learning it is best to actually experiment with real-world data, not just artificial datasets. Fortunately, there are thousands of open datasets to choose from, ranging across all sorts of domains. Here are a few places we can look to get data:

• Project Gutenberg - Free books for read and data analytics
• UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository
• Wikipedia's list of Machine Learning datasets
• WikiSQL - NL to SQL
• Knowledge Graph entities
• University of Oregon RouteViews Project
• Datasets subreddit
• Kaggle datasets
• Amazon's AWS datasets
• AWS Data Exchange
• Data Portals - A Comprehensive List of Open Data Portals from Around the World
• Nasdaq Data Link
• University of Oregon RouteViews Project
• OpenConcepts - Entity API

Llama

• Downloading converted and quantized Llama models
  • LLaMA 2 7B base
  • LLaMA 2 13B base
  • LLaMA 2 70B base
  • LLaMA 2 7B chat
  • LLaMA 2 13B chat
  • LLaMA 2 70B chat
• Downloading Llama models
• A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally
• Ollama
• llama-2-7b-hf - Converted model weights for Llama-2-7B in Huggingface format

Awesome Papers on Natural Language Processing (NLP)

• Attention is All you Need

Knowledge Graph

• arrows.app
• Neo4j Desktop Graph Apps Gallery - Plugin apps for Neo4j Desktop that provide new capabilities, like Monitoring, Import, Analysis, Running Graph Algorithms, Visualization and much more

LaTeX

• LaTeX math equation online editor
• QuickLaTeX.com - Instant math equation syntax checker and sharing via image online
• MacTeX - LaTeX comes with various installation packges, some are minimized versions. The comprehensive package is MacTeX
• CTAN - The "Maven Central" for LaTeX
• texlive package manager - Installing a LaTeX package. e.g. sudo tlmgr update --self && sudo tlmgr install pgfornament
• LaTeX showcase
• Cool Text Highlighting in LaTeX

Software Architecture

• Software architecture tools
• UML Boundary Object v.s. Control Object

Frontend Dev

• Nodesource - Universal node & npm installer
• npm trends
• Defensive CSS
• The Modern JavaScript Tutorial

UI Performance

• Lighthouse
• Lighthouse CI - Maintained by Google, GitHub App install required, UI report hosting requires dedicated server
• Lighthouse CI Action - Maintained by third party, no GitHub App install required, no dedicated UI report hosting server required
• PageSpeed Insights
• Performance Budget Calculator
• Request Map Generator
• Third Party Web

Mock Backend

• json-server - Quick back-end for prototyping and mocking
• lowdb - Simple to use type-safe local JSON database
• json-graphql-server

Backend Dev

• get.docker.com - Installing Docker on Linux with an automated script
• JSON to JSON Schema converter online
• API Platform (also checkout this interesting startup)
• Generate SQL DB Schema Diagram
• Cloudcraft - Visualize cloud architecture like a Pro by creating smart AWS diagrams

IntelliJ

• String Manipulation plugin - With a simple Alt/Option + M you get case switching, sorting, filtering, incrementing, aligning to columns, grepping, escaping, encoding, and more
• Intellij Ubuntu Light Theme - an Idea theme plugin whose color scheme follows the famous Ubuntu Color Palette

Java

• Java Generics FAQs
• Defensive Copy
• Learning Java via Jenkov
• VisualVM
• jConsole
• Java Decompiler
• Diagnostic Tools
  • The jps Utility
  • The jstat Utility
  • The jinfo Utility
  • The jmap Utility
  • The jhat Utility
  • The jstack Utility

GraphQL

• GraphiQL online
• gqt - Build and execute GraphQL queries in the terminal

Database

• MySQL Tutorial
• Oracle Tutorial
• Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on Mac

Database Management

• DBeaver
• pgAdmin (PostgreSQL)
• pgweb (PostgreSQL)

DevOps

• Go Playground
• Docker Registry UI

OpenStack

• Swift Docker

Miscellaneous

• local-jwks-server - a tool for mocking JWT authentication with JWKS
• OpenID Connect explained
• Refactoring.Guru
• Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
• git-crypt
• whatismyip.com
• Online JSON formatter
• command-not-found.com - Dealing with "command not found" Error
• Convert curl command to programming language code
• Convert JSON to YAML
• smee.io - Receives payloads then sends them to your locally running application
• Escape/Unescape Tool
• Unix Time Stamp - Epoch Converter
• URL Decoder/Encoder
• Greasy Fork - A nice browser per-website customization such as de-流氓 script by Bilibili
• Random String Generator
• Online Self-Signed SSL Certificate Generator Tool for Website
• martinfowler.com
• Tree: An online tree-like utility for generating ASCII folder structure diagrams. Written in TypeScript and React.

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first.

I will keep some pull requests open if I'm not sure whether those libraries are awesome, you could vote for them by adding 👍 to them. Pull requests will be merged when their votes reach 20.

License

The use and distribution terms for awesome-tools are covered by the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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If you have any question about this opinionated list, do not hesitate to contact me or open an issue on GitHub.