Awesome List Updates on May 15, 2026
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1. Awesome Osint
Domain and IP Research / GitHub
- Domain Intelligence - Aggregate DNS, WHOIS/RDAP, SSL, subdomains (CT logs + DNS bruteforce), and SPF/DMARC posture in one call. Free tier; MIT.
Other Tools / GitHub
- PassiveRecon (⭐0) - Passive asset discovery tool for mapping external IT perimeters. Aggregates Shodan, Crt.sh and public APIs.
Threat Intelligence / GitHub
- Taranis AI (⭐1.1k) - Open-source OSINT platform for collecting, enriching, analyzing, and publishing intelligence from web, RSS, email, and other sources with AI/NLP-assisted workflows.
2. Awesome Testing
Software / API Testing
- Bruno (⭐43k) - Open-source API client for exploring and testing APIs.
3. Awesome Go
Third-party APIs
- colony-sdk-go (⭐0) - Go client library for The Colony — a public social network whose users are AI agents.
4. Awesome Rust
Development tools / Workflow Automation
- reflex-search/reflex (⭐51) [reflex-search] - Local-first, full-text code search engine for AI coding agents. Trigram-indexed, sub-100ms queries, MCP server mode, 18 languages via tree-sitter.
5. Awesome Home Assistant
🤝 Official Communities
- Home Assistant Discord - The main chat, most of us are there.
🌍 In your language
- 🇨🇳 Hassbian Forum - Chinese-language forum for smart home enthusiasts.
- 🇨🇿 Home Assistant CZ - Czech-language forum with an active user base.
- 🇩🇰 Dansk Home Assistant gruppe - Danish-language Facebook group.
- 🇫🇮 Home Assistant Suomi - Finnish-language Facebook group.
- 🇫🇷 HACF Discord - French-language Discord run by the HACF community.
- 🇩🇪 simon42 Community Forum - German-language forum for smart home topics.
- 🇬🇷 Home Assistant GR - Greek-language Facebook group.
- 🇮🇱 Home-Assistant.io Israel - Hebrew-language Facebook group.
- 🇭🇺 Home Assistant Hungary - Hungarian-language Facebook group.
- 🇮🇹 HassioHelp - Italian-language Telegram group for troubleshooting and support.
- 🇯🇵 Home Assistant Japan - Japanese-language Facebook group.
- 🇰🇷 HomeAssistant Cafe - Korean-language community on Naver.
- 🇳🇴 Home Assistant Norge - Norwegian-language Facebook group.
- 🇵🇱 Home Assistant Polska - Polish-language Facebook group.
- 🇵🇹 CPHA Forum - Portuguese-language forum by the Comunidade Portuguesa de Home Assistant.
- 🇷🇴 Home Assistant Romania - Romanian-language Facebook group.
- 🇪🇸 Domotica en casa - Spanish-language forum for home automation enthusiasts.
- 🇸🇪 Svenska Home Assistant-gruppen - Swedish-language Facebook group.
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan Home Assistant - Traditional Chinese Facebook group.
- 🇹🇭 Home Assistant Thailand - Thai-language Facebook group.
💬 Other community spaces
- r/homeautomation - The largest platform-agnostic home automation subreddit, covering all hubs, protocols, and project ideas.
- r/smarthome - Product-focused smart home subreddit with buying advice, reviews, and setup questions.
- r/selfhosted - Subreddit for self-hosted software, with a large crossover into home automation and local control.
- Home Assistant on Lemmy - Fediverse alternative to the subreddit for privacy-minded users.
- Home Automation on Lemmy - General home automation community on the Fediverse.
- Everything Smart Home Discord - General smart home discussion server run by Lewis Barclay.
- Home Operations Discord - For people managing their smart home infrastructure with GitOps and Kubernetes.
- #Home-Assistant on Matrix - Matrix room for real-time chat on the open, federated protocol.
- CocoonTech - One of the oldest home automation forums on the web, covering all platforms for over 20 years.
📱 Social / Official
- Home Assistant (X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
- Open Home Foundation (X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram) - Protecting privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.
- Nabu Casa (X) - The company behind the cloud service.
📱 Social / Community
- Franck Nijhof (X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn) - Lead of the project and creator of this Awesome list.
- Everything Smart Home (X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads) - Smart-home and tech reviews, guides, and DIY projects by Lewis Barclay.
📱 Social / 🌍 In other languages
- 🇩🇪 simon42 (Instagram, Facebook) - Beginner-friendly smart-home guides and automations by Simon Müller.
- 🇫🇷 HACF (X) - French-speaking community sharing tutorials and resources.
- 🇵🇹 CPHA (Facebook) - Portuguese community for home automation enthusiasts.
Alternative Home Automation Software / 🌍 In other languages
- Homebridge (⭐25k) - Lightweight Node.js server that bridges non-HomeKit devices into Apple Home, with a large plugin ecosystem (25,329★).
- Node-RED (⭐23k) - Flow-based visual programming tool for wiring together devices, APIs, and services, backed by the OpenJS Foundation (23,130★).
- ioBroker (⭐1.4k) - Integration platform for IoT with hundreds of adapters and strong European protocol support for KNX and HomeMatic (1,366★).
- FHEM - Perl-based server with 430+ modules and deep support for European protocols like KNX, EnOcean, and HomeMatic.
- Jeedom (⭐414) - French-origin, cloudless platform with a plugin marketplace, running on any Linux system (413★).
- Hubitat - Commercial local-first hub supporting Z-Wave, Zigbee, and Matter with all automations running on the device.
- HomeSeer - Commercial platform with 25+ years of development, strong Z-Wave support, and an extensive plugin ecosystem.
6. Awesome Naming
Data Structures and Algorithms
- Sieve of Eratosthenes - An ancient algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to a given limit. Non-primes are methodically sifted out, like unwanted material filtered through a sieve.
- Simulated annealing - An optimization algorithm inspired by the metallurgical process of annealing, where slowly cooling a heated material allows it to settle into a low-energy, globally optimal state.
Design Patterns and Anti-Patterns
- Decorator - Adds new responsibilities to an object by wrapping it in a layer of additional behavior, just as you can decorate a room without changing its walls.
- God object - An anti-pattern where a single object knows too much or does too much. Like a god, it is omniscient and omnipotent.
IT Security
- Canary - A secret value placed on the stack to detect buffer overflow attacks. If it has been altered, danger is near — just like a canary in a coal mine that warns miners of toxic gas.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Attention - A mechanism allowing models to selectively focus on the most relevant parts of their input, just as humans direct their attention to what matters most.
- Dropout - Randomly disabling neurons during training to prevent overfitting. Like a sports team that improves by practicing with random members absent.
User Interface Design
- Toast notification - A small message that briefly pops up at the edge of the screen and then disappears on its own, just like toast from a toaster.
Other
- Heartbeat - A periodic signal a system sends to confirm it is still alive and functioning, just like a pulse.
- Technical debt - The implied future cost of shortcuts taken today, which accumulates like financial debt and must eventually be paid back — often with interest.
7. Awesome Digital History
Archives and primary sources / Austria
- Archiv der Salzburger Festspiele - Online collection of the Salzburg Festival Archives.
- Kulturpool - Digitized collections from GLAM institutions across Austria.
8. Awesome Neovim
Colorscheme / Assembly
- 54L1M/Oshen.nvim (⭐17) -
[TS][LSP][Lua]Dark colorscheme inspired by deep ocean water at night, derived entirely from five source colors.
9. Awesome Data Engineering
Data Ingestion
- CARQ (⭐1) - Context-Aware RAG Processing Queue for high availability and adaptive rate-limiting.
Datasets / Data Dumps
- The Quiet-Broke Index - A 30-metro composite of US household cost burdens (housing, taxes, childcare, healthcare, transport) aggregated from Census ACS, BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey, and HUD Fair Market Rents. Open methodology, free, no email gate.
Testing / Data Profiler
- Fixzi - JSON/XML validation and API contract monitoring tool for debugging and testing structured data.
- Next: May 14, 2026