Doors to other resources: awesome lists, link directories and discovery tools that track rising projects. On curated lists, check the last update date — decay is fast here, and a list’s star count says nothing about how current it is.
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A list gathering everything about RSS — readers, converters, services, tutorials. Unlike a single reader it is the map of the ecosystem: from generating a feed for a site that lacks one to building a reading pipeline, it holds all the tools together.
The standard way to find an alternative to a piece of software, narrowable by licence, platform and an open-source-only filter, ranked by user votes.
A list of awesome lists, grouped by topic. Unlike the sindresorhus/awesome index it is flatter and wider, covering more niche lists.
A list of products that target developers as the user. Unlike general SaaS lists, it picks only developer-targeted products, usually API- and CLI-first.
A resource list for designing and executing engineering strategy. Unlike general management lists, it focuses on setting technical direction — writing strategy, architecture decisions, technology choices.
A resource list for transitioning from software development into management. Unlike general management books, it focuses on topics specific to engineering teams: hiring, one-on-ones, technical debt, team structure.
A resource list for building independent developer businesses. Unlike startup and VC-oriented resources, it focuses on building a small, profitable business without outside investment.
Curated list of lightweight, text-focused websites that avoid heavy JavaScript frameworks in favor of fast, low-bandwidth HTML alternatives.
A hand-sorted dump of one person’s GitHub stars — about 320 repositories filed under wikis, digital gardens, cybersecurity references, OSINT tools and directories. Unlike other “awesome” lists it is personal and unfiltered: living projects sit beside dead blogs, and its own README warns that not every link is safe. Good raw ore, but the sieving is left to you.
A list of real-time map and data-visualisation sites (aviation, space, weather, history, marine, cyber threats). Unlike general link lists, it only gathers interactive map/data experiences.
A list of editors, converters and resources for the Markdown markup language. Unlike a single editor, it brings together editors, converters and dialects such as CommonMark and GFM.
A list of guides on naming things in computer science. Unlike general style guides, it focuses only on naming — variables, functions, APIs.
Topic-grouped list of ready-made notes vaults and digital gardens for developers and learners, downloadable for offline use in Obsidian, with automated link checking. Unlike plugin lists, it distributes content (notes).
A resource list for OKR goal-setting and communication best practices. Unlike general productivity lists, it gathers guides, examples and tools specific to the OKR method.
A list of example documentation projects to inspire your own. Unlike documentation-tool lists, it shows examples rather than tools: real projects that are well put together.
A list of tools and resources for regular expressions (regex), the pattern-matching language. Unlike a single tester such as regex101, it brings together tools, libraries, flavour differences and tutorials; maintained by Steven Levithan, author of XRegExp.
A list of conference and meetup speakers in the programming community. Unlike conference sites, it gathers speakers with their topics and links in one list — for organisers.
A list of tech stacks used for building different kinds of apps.
A list of the proposals and standards (RFCs and more) that define the internet and software. Unlike searching RFCs one by one, it groups standards by area — web, networking, security, file formats.
A list of ethics resources focused on mitigating technology’s potential harms. Unlike general ethics resources, it targets software and data practice: principles, case studies, courses.
A resource list for the Unicode standard, its quirks and its tools. Unlike the standard itself, it demonstrates the quirks — invisible characters, homoglyphs, normalisation — with examples.
A list for Wardley Maps, which give situational awareness for strategic decisions.
A web-scraping list of libraries, services and manuals split by language (Python, PHP, Ruby, JS, Go, CLI). Unlike one library's docs, it lays out the whole ecosystem per language.
A list of Zsh plugins, themes and the frameworks that manage them (Oh My Zsh, antigen, zinit and others). It goes beyond Oh My Zsh's bundled plugins and categorises the ones outside it. It lists far more than the plugins Oh My Zsh bundles.
A weekly-updated, star-ranked list of about 100 digital gardens (personal wikis and note sites) whose source lives in a git repository. Unlike hand-curated garden lists, its ranking is generated and kept current automatically.
A human-curated list of independent personal blogs that are updated regularly, with no algorithm. Unlike a reader’s discovery tab it is a plain list: no ranking, no recommendations.
A directory that lists only sites which themselves host a curated collection of links — a directory of bookmark collections. Unlike general web directories it sets that one condition: to be listed, a site must offer a tidy collection of links to other sites.
A free blogging and discussion community for programmers. Unlike Medium it is developer-only, with tags as the main way to navigate; posts range from beginner tutorials to deep dives.
A list of resources, links and ideas for people who tend their public notes like a garden. Unlike tool-focused lists it weights the philosophy: it gathers essays and examples on how to think in public rather than which software to use.
A list of developer services with free tiers — hosting, CI, monitoring, email. Unlike general awesome lists it covers only free tiers and states their limits: a map for keeping a side project near zero cost.
The source repository behind the Free for Developers list. Rather than the web version, this is where you contribute or check in the git history when a service was added.
GitHub’s annual report, showing software trends with data. Unlike survey-based reports the data comes from GitHub’s own platform activity — not what people say, but what they do.
Star rankings for repositories and users, quickly showing what dominates a field. Stars measure visibility rather than quality, and should be read that way.
A showcase of Google experiments that have not become products. Unlike shipped products most of it is experimental and may be shut down; in exchange it shows early where the company is looking.
Y Combinator’s link-and-discussion board for programming, startups and technology. Unlike Reddit it is one ranked front page with short, expert-heavy comments; Lobsters is the smaller, invitation-only alternative.
A list of headless browsers and their drivers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, PhantomJS successors and more) sorted by language. It answers at a glance which tool works in which language and engine, and which have gone unmaintained. Rather than documenting one tool, it compares all of them by language and engine.
A community where founders share the revenue and strategy behind small products and side projects. Unlike general startup media it publishes the unglamorous detail: what a product actually earned and how it found its first users.
A discovery site that sends you to a random post from a personal blog at the press of a button. Unlike blog lists you do not choose, so you run into voices you would not have looked for.
A directory searching more than thirty package managers at once, showing a library’s dependencies and its dependents. Against searching npm or PyPI directly it spans ecosystems and surfaces abandonment signals.
Combines hackerspaces, fablabs and makerspaces from SpaceAPI, Fablab.io and the Hackerspaces wiki on one map, with a heatmap of open/closed status. Unlike a single network map it merges several sources.
A visualisation clustering GitHub repositories by star similarity into a browsable map. Against topic search it shows adjacency: what else the people who starred one project starred, laid out as terrain.
A small independent search engine favouring text-heavy sites that ask for no cookies or newsletters. Unlike Google it deliberately downranks SEO-inflated pages: fewer and stranger results, but often better for reading.
A list about knowledge repositories — a list of lists and personal wikis. Unlike topic lists it sits one layer up: if you are looking for examples of how people store knowledge, this is the entry point.
A categorised directory of over three hundred tools for getting things done without code. Unlike product-hunt style sites it aims at covering a category rather than surfacing the newest thing.
Shows how fast GitHub repositories gain stars. Unlike rankings by total stars it looks at momentum: total stars favour old projects, so speed reveals what is new better.
An open-source analytics platform that analyses 10B+ GitHub events in real time, comparing repositories by stars, commits and contributor health. Unlike glancing at a star count it gives deep metrics: you can measure whether a project is genuinely alive or merely popular.
A daily, community-voted ranking of newly launched products. Unlike review sites such as G2 it is about what launched today — the quickest way to see what is new, though the ranking rewards launch-day effort more than lasting quality.
A developer link collection grouped by purpose — practice, news, tools, books. Despite 76k stars it was archived on 1 November 2025 and is now read-only, so dead links no longer get pruned. Valuable as a snapshot, not as a current source.
Finds projects similar to a given GitHub repository. Against GitHub’s own suggestions it works from star overlap, so it also surfaces projects whose topic tags were filled in badly.
A curated list of public Zettelkastens, “second brains” and digital gardens. Unlike general note-taking lists it collects examples: rather than theory, you can browse the knowledge vaults people have actually published.
Curated web directory showcasing independent websites and digital products; relies on editorial selection rather than algorithmic feeds.
The annual large survey of developers’ tool, language and salary trends. Unlike reports drawn from platform activity, the data comes from asking developers directly — where the “loved” and “dreaded” technologies are measured.
Shows which tools companies and developers build their products with, one stack page per company. Unlike comparison sites it answers “what do real teams run?” rather than “which is best?”; the data is self-reported and can be out of date.
A tool that automatically generates an awesome-list from your GitHub stars, grouped by language. Unlike keeping a list by hand it updates itself: as you star, a workflow refreshes the list (the lowkenuinely-wikis source in this directory was built with it).
A Turkish software archive and discussion area. Unlike general download sites, each program sits next to Turkish user experience and hardware compatibility notes.
A programming language popularity index. Unlike the Stack Overflow survey its methodology rests on counting search-engine results — which draws fair criticism; still, it is read for long-run trends because the series has been consistent for twenty years.
A list of tools used by companies on Hacker News. Unlike one company’s stack, it compiles what many companies actually use, by category; some entries are dated.
A service that tracks 500+ awesome lists and shows what was added daily, followable by RSS. Unlike starring a list it shows the change: you see only the new entries without re-scanning the whole list.
A dashboard tracking rising open-source projects. Unlike established awesome lists it foregrounds new arrivals, surfacing projects the lists have not caught yet.
A directory of Vim and Neovim plugins, filterable by popularity, category and install method. Against searching GitHub it surfaces maintenance status and hands you the install line.