Collection · § 05 Tools & references

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A running list of the online tools and references I keep coming back to — for design, infrastructure, hosting, databases and the occasional spark of inspiration.

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30-seconds-of-code

Coding articles to level up your development skills

Frontend Inspiration Chalarangelo/30-seconds-of-code

8thwall

Build immersive AR and interactive 3D. Free and open.

Build tools 8thwall/8thwall

ace

Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)

Editor ajaxorg/ace

agency-agents

A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each agent is a specialized expert with personality, processes, and proven deliverables.

AI msitarzewski/agency-agents

Agent-Skills

Curated Agent Skills for Microsoft & Azure – giving AI coding assistants structured, real-time expertise from Microsoft Learn docs.

AI Hosting Infrastructure MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills

agent-skills

Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

AI Editor addyosmani/agent-skills

agent-teams-lite

Spec-Driven Development with AI Sub-Agents. An orchestrator + 9 specialized sub-agents for structured feature development. Zero dependencies. Pure Markdown. Works with Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, and more.

AI Gentleman-Programming/agent-teams-lite

agentic

An opinionated framework for building sophisticated AI Agents

AI Build tools supercog-ai/agentic

agentic-ai-prompt-research

Research into how agentic AI coding assistants work. Reconstructed prompt patterns, agent coordination, and security classification

AI Leonxlnx/agentic-ai-prompt-research

angularjs-up-and-running

All the source code for the AngularJS Up & Running Book for O'Reilly

JavaScript shyamseshadri/angularjs-up-and-running

apexcharts.js

📊 Interactive JavaScript Charts built on SVG

JavaScript apexcharts/apexcharts.js

API

Documentation and Samples for the Official HN API

HackerNews/API

atree

Just a simple Christmas tree, based on reddit story

JavaScript anvaka/atree

autoagent

autonomous harness engineering

Python kevinrgu/autoagent

awesome

😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics

Inspiration sindresorhus/awesome

awesome-ai-apps

A collection of projects showcasing RAG, agents, workflows, and other AI use cases

AI Inspiration Arindam200/awesome-ai-apps

awesome-ai-tools-for-ui

Curated list of awesome AI tools to build beautiful UI/UX.

AI Build tools Design Inspiration maxbogo/awesome-ai-tools-for-ui

awesome-design-md

A collection of DESIGN.md files analysis by popular brand design systems. Drop one into your project and let coding agents generate a matching UI.

AI Design Inspiration VoltAgent/awesome-design-md

awesome-electron

Useful resources for creating apps with Electron [SUBMISSIONS ARE TEMPORARILY PAUSED BECAUSE I'M TIRED OF REVIEWING LOW-QUALITY STUFF]

Inspiration sindresorhus/awesome-electron

Awesome-Hacking-Resources

A collection of hacking / penetration testing resources to make you better!

Inspiration Testing vitalysim/Awesome-Hacking-Resources

awesome-harness-engineering

Awesome list for AI agent harness engineering: tools, patterns, evals, memory, MCP, permissions, observability, and orchestration.

AI Inspiration ai-boost/awesome-harness-engineering

awesome-javascript

🐢 A collection of awesome browser-side JavaScript libraries, resources and shiny things.

Editor Inspiration sorrycc/awesome-javascript

awesome-llm-apps

100+ AI Agent & RAG apps you can actually run — clone, customize, ship.

AI Inspiration Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps

awesome-nodejs

:zap: Delightful Node.js packages and resources [BECAUSE OF TOO MUCH SPAM AND LOW-QUALITY SUBMISSIONS, SUBMISSIONS ARE PAUSED UNTIL JULY]

Inspiration sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs

awesome-piracy

A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links

Inspiration Igglybuff/awesome-piracy

awesome-public-datasets

A topic-centric list of HQ open datasets.

Inspiration awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets

awesome-sysadmin

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP.

Inspiration kahun/awesome-sysadmin

azure-skills

Official agent plugin providing skills and MCP server configurations for Azure scenarios.

AI Hosting microsoft/azure-skills

berryio

Web Browser based control system for the RaspberryPi

PHP NeonHorizon/berryio

bitchat

bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes

permissionlesstech/bitchat

boardgame.io

State Management and Multiplayer Networking for Turn-Based Games

Frontend boardgameio/boardgame.io

bootstrap

The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

twbs/bootstrap

brain

Neural network library

JavaScript jsdoodnauth/brain

brain

Simple feed-forward neural network in JavaScript

JavaScript harthur/brain

breach_core

A Browser written in JS. Free. Modular. Hackable.

JavaScript spolu/breach_core

browser-harness-js

Self-healing browser harness that enables LLMs to complete any task

AI browser-use/browser-harness-js

calculator

Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows

microsoft/calculator

changedetection.io

Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monitoring—all for free or enjoy our SaaS plan!

Python dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

claude-howto

A visual, example-driven guide to Claude Code — from basic concepts to advanced agents, with copy-paste templates that bring immediate value.

AI Editor luongnv89/claude-howto

claude-mem

Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions. Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini, Hermes, Copilot, OpenCode + More

AI Database thedotmack/claude-mem

compromise

modest natural-language processing

JavaScript spencermountain/compromise

cosmos

World's largest Contributor driven code dataset | Used in Quark Search Engine, @OpenGenus IQ, OpenGenus Visual Project

OpenGenus/cosmos

CrookedStyleSheets

Webpage tracking only using CSS (and no JS)

CSS jbtronics/CrookedStyleSheets

cs-video-courses

List of Computer Science courses with video lectures.

Editor Developer-Y/cs-video-courses

CSS-Guidelines

High-level guidelines for writing manageable, maintainable CSS

Editor csswizardry/CSS-Guidelines

CSV.js

A simple, blazing-fast CSV parser and encoder. Full RFC 4180 compliance.

JavaScript CyrusNuevoDia/CSV.js

design-patterns-for-humans

An ultra-simplified explanation to design patterns

Build tools nilbuild/design-patterns-for-humans

designer-skills

Designer Skills Collection: agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design — from research to systems, UI, interaction, and delivery.

AI Owl-Listener/designer-skills

dex-ui

A science fiction desktop running on Linux. Awesome.

seenaburns/dex-ui

dimos

Dimensional is the agentic operating system for physical space. Vibecode humanoids, quadrupeds, drones, and other hardware platforms in natural language and build multi-agent systems that work seamlessly with physical input (cameras, lidar, actuators).

AI Build tools dimensionalOS/dimos

ECC

The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.

AI affaan-m/ECC

edex-ui

A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.

CLI GitSquared/edex-ui

engineering-blogs

A curated list of engineering blogs

Inspiration kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

epoch

A general purpose, real-time visualization library.

epochjs/epoch

evo-nexus

The open source operating system for AI-powered businesses

AI evolution-foundation/evo-nexus

fakenames

List of names from movies, tv shows and books to be used for testing during development of an application.

Testing appointmind/fakenames

Fetching-Financial-Data

Fetching financial data for technical & fundamental analysis and algorithmic trading from a variety of python packages and sources.

rbhatia46/Fetching-Financial-Data

financial-services

AI anthropics/financial-services

flux

Official inference repo for FLUX.1 models

Python black-forest-labs/flux

free-programming-books

:books: Freely available programming books

Python EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

frontend-dev-bookmarks

Manually curated collection of resources for frontend web developers.

Inspiration dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks

gatsby

React-based framework with performance, scalability, and security built in.

Backend Frontend gatsbyjs/gatsby

Ghost

Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

JavaScript TryGhost/Ghost

GiphyAPI

Public facing API docs, notes and more

Giphy/GiphyAPI

githug

Git your game on!

CLI Gazler/githug

gladius-core

Core library for Gladius

JavaScript gladiusjs/gladius-core

HackMyResume

Generate polished résumés and CVs in HTML, Markdown, LaTeX, MS Word, PDF, plain text, JSON, XML, YAML, smoke signal, and carrier pigeon.

JavaScript hacksalot/HackMyResume

hammer.js

A javascript library for multi-touch gestures :// You can touch this

JavaScript hammerjs/hammer.js

harness

A meta-skill that designs domain-specific agent teams, defines specialized agents, and generates the skills they use.

AI revfactory/harness

hello-world

Hello world in every computer language. Thanks to everyone who contributes to this, make sure to see contributing.md for contribution instructions!

leachim6/hello-world

hem

Bundler for Node/CommonJS/Web Apps

Build tools spine/hem

heroku-wp

WordPress on Heroku

WordPress xyu/heroku-wp

how

skill for explaining architecture

poteto/how

imoss

Real-time raytraced-looking WebGL interactive Marimo moss ball

ledhieu/imoss

iptv

Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world

JavaScript iptv-org/iptv

javascript

JavaScript Style Guide

Editor airbnb/javascript

jquery-instagram

Instagram jQuery plugin

JavaScript potomak/jquery-instagram

js-must-watch

Must-watch videos about javascript

Editor Inspiration bolshchikov/js-must-watch

js-stack-from-scratch

🛠️⚡ Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack.

Build tools Editor Frontend Hosting Testing verekia/js-stack-from-scratch

jsvectormap

A lightweight JavaScript library for creating interactive maps and pretty data visualization.

JavaScript themustafaomar/jsvectormap

juggernaut

[DEPRECATED] Realtime server push with node.js, WebSockets and Comet

JavaScript maccman/juggernaut

keen

Keen Dreams on Greenlight!

keendreams/keen

KineticJS

KineticJS is an HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework that extends the 2d context by enabling canvas interactivity for desktop and mobile applications.

JavaScript ericdrowell/KineticJS

Knowledge

Random pieces of knowledge — with anecdotes and quotes

delight-im/Knowledge

konva

Konva.js is an HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework that extends the 2d context by enabling canvas interactivity for desktop and mobile applications.

JavaScript konvajs/konva

lottie-web

Render After Effects animations natively on Web, Android and iOS, and React Native. http://airbnb.io/lottie/

Frontend Hosting airbnb/lottie-web

machine-learning-for-software-engineers

A complete daily plan for studying to become a machine learning engineer.

ZuzooVn/machine-learning-for-software-engineers

maptoposter

Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.

Python originalankur/maptoposter

metabase

The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:

Database Editor metabase/metabase

meteor

Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform

Build tools Database Frontend meteor/meteor

mission-control

Self-hosted AI agent orchestration platform: dispatch tasks, run multi-agent workflows, monitor spend, and govern operations from one mission control dashboard.

AI Build tools Database Frontend builderz-labs/mission-control

mlflow

The open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLMs, and ML models. MLflow enables teams of all sizes to debug, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production-quality AI applications while controlling costs and managing access to models and data.

AI mlflow/mlflow

mojito

[archiving soon] Yahoo! Mojito Framework

JavaScript YahooArchive/mojito

mustache.js

Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript

JavaScript janl/mustache.js

nefarious

Web application for automatically downloading TV & Movies (w/ VPN)

Infrastructure lardbit/nefarious

netex

A minimal Android browser with a built-in devtools panel.

JavaScript mrdoob/netex

node_chat

simple chat demo for node

JavaScript jsdoodnauth/node_chat

node-traceroute

Wrapper around native traceroute command

JavaScript jaw187/node-traceroute

nodepad

A spatial research tool that explores using AI to augment thinking, not replace it.

JavaScript mskayyali/nodepad

odoo

Odoo. Open Source Apps To Grow Your Business.

Python odoo/odoo

open-codesign

Open-source Claude Design alternative. One-click import your Claude Code / Codex API key. Prompt → prototype / slides / PDF. Multi-model (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Kimi, GLM, Ollama). BYOK, local-first, MIT.

AI CLI Design Editor OpenCoworkAI/open-codesign

open-saas

A 100% free modern JS SaaS boilerplate (React, NodeJS, Prisma). Full-featured: Auth (email, google, github, slack, MS), Email sending, Background jobs, Landing page, Payments (Stripe, Polar.sh), Shadcn UI, S3 file upload. AI-ready with tailored AGENTS.md, skills, and Claude Code plugin. One cmd deploy. Powered by Wasp full-stack framework.

AI Database Design Frontend Hosting wasp-lang/open-saas

openmct

A web based mission control framework.

JavaScript nasa/openmct

openpencil

The world's first open-source AI-native vector design tool and the first to feature concurrent Agent Teams. Design-as-Code. Turn prompts into UI directly on the live canvas. A modern alternative to Pencil.

AI Frontend ZSeven-W/openpencil

oriDomi

🪭 Fold up DOM elements like paper

dmotz/oriDomi

PageIndex

📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

AI VectifyAI/PageIndex

paperclip

The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work

AI CLI paperclipai/paperclip

parallax-effect

💫 Parallax effect in javascript using face tracking. An immersive view in 3d with webcam.

JavaScript munrocket/parallax-effect

peercast

torrent-stream + chromecast

JavaScript mafintosh/peercast

perfect-edition

A lightweight, responsive web e-book template

robinsloan/perfect-edition

pigpio

Fast GPIO, PWM, servo control, state change notification and interrupt handling with Node.js on the Raspberry Pi

JavaScript fivdi/pigpio

PleaseJS

JavaScript Library for creating random pleasing colors and color schemes

JavaScript Fooidge/PleaseJS

popmotion

Simple animation libraries for delightful user interfaces

JavaScript Popmotion/popmotion

processing-js

A port of the Processing visualization language to JavaScript.

processing-js/processing-js

progressed.io

progressbar microservice

fehmicansaglam/progressed.io

public-apis

A collective list of free APIs

Python public-apis/public-apis

Public-APIs

📚 A public list of APIs from round the web.

n0shake/Public-APIs

quiet-js

Transmit data with sound using Web Audio -- Javascript binding for libquiet

JavaScript quiet/quiet-js

RuView

π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.

AI Editor ruvnet/RuView

self-host-n8n-on-gcr

Self-host n8n on Google Cloud without the subscription fees or server headaches - because your automation workflows shouldn't cost more than your coffee budget

AI Database Infrastructure datawranglerai/self-host-n8n-on-gcr

serverless

⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.

Build tools Hosting serverless/serverless

shaders

Zero-dependency canvas shaders that can be installed from npm or designed in Paper

Frontend paper-design/shaders

skills

Public repository for Agent Skills

AI anthropics/skills

source-code-pro

Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments

CSS adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

spec-kit

💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

Python github/spec-kit

stack-on-a-budget

A collection of services with great free tiers for developers on a budget. Sponsored by Mockoon, the best mock API tool. https://mockoon.com

255kb/stack-on-a-budget

stats.js

JavaScript Performance Monitor

JavaScript mrdoob/stats.js

stitch-sdk

Generate UI screens from text prompts and extract their HTML and screenshots programmatically.

AI google-labs-code/stitch-sdk

storybook

Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation

Build tools Design Editor Frontend Testing storybookjs/storybook

subway

ABANDONED - A web based IRC client

CLI thedjpetersen/subway

Supabase

Supabase is the Postgres development platform

Database supabase.com

superset

Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform

Editor Frontend apache/superset

switchboard

A desktop app for browsing, searching, and managing CLI coding sessions

CLI doctly/switchboard

systemjs

Dynamic ES module loader

JavaScript systemjs/systemjs

TagUI

Free RPA tool by AI Singapore

JavaScript aisingapore/TagUI

taste-skill

Taste-Skill - gives your AI good taste. stops the AI from generating boring, generic slop

AI Leonxlnx/taste-skill

tech-interview-handbook

Curated coding interview preparation materials for busy software engineers

JavaScript yangshun/tech-interview-handbook

thingsboard

Open-source IoT Platform - Device management, data collection, processing and visualization.

thingsboard/thingsboard

ToolsOfTheTrade

Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.

cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade

Torque3D

MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames

GarageGames/Torque3D

ui-ux-pro-max-skill

An AI SKILL that provide design intelligence for building professional UI/UX multiple platforms

AI Build tools Design Editor Frontend nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill

vexjoy-agent

VexJoy AI Agent with Intelligent Routing

AI notque/vexjoy-agent

viro

ViroReact is the leading library for building AR and VR experiences and applications using React Native and Expo.

Build tools Frontend ReactVision/viro

voicebox

The open-source AI voice studio. Clone, dictate, create.

JavaScript jamiepine/voicebox

Waza

🥷 Engineering habits you already know, turned into skills Claude can run.

AI tw93/Waza

web-agent

🔥 Open-source web data agent optimized for structured web research

AI firecrawl/web-agent

web-starter-kit

Web Starter Kit - a workflow for multi-device websites

google/web-starter-kit

WebGL-Fluid-Simulation

Play with fluids in your browser (works even on mobile)

JavaScript PavelDoGreat/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation

webgl-globe

WebGL Globe is a platform for visualizing latitude longitude based information using WebGL.

JavaScript dataarts/webgl-globe

webpack-dashboard

A CLI dashboard for webpack dev server

Build tools CLI FormidableLabs/webpack-dashboard

whs.js

:rocket: 🌪 Super-fast 3D framework for Web Applications 🥇 & Games 🎮. Based on Three.js

Build tools Frontend Testing WhitestormJS/whs.js

Winds

A Beautiful Open Source RSS & Podcast App Powered by Getstream.io

Backend CLI Frontend GetStream/Winds

wired-logic

Wired Logic - a pixel based logic simulator

Go martinkirsche/wired-logic

worldmonitor

Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface

Backend koala73/worldmonitor

writings

My blog posts

kimjoar/writings

wtfjs

🤪 A list of funny and tricky JavaScript examples

JavaScript denysdovhan/wtfjs

yarn

The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry

JavaScript yarnpkg/yarn

YouTube.js

A JavaScript client for YouTube's internal API, known as InnerTube.

CLI LuanRT/YouTube.js