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1. Awesome Testing

Software / Service Virtualization

• MockServer (⭐4.9k) - Mocking, debugging proxy and chaos engineering tool for multiple protocols (HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL, LLM, MCP, Kafka, TCP and more); mock any dependency, record/replay and inspect traffic, verify requests, and inject faults. Docker, JAR, Helm, multi-language clients.

Software / UI & End-to-End Testing

• tapflow - Self-hosted mobile QA tool that streams iOS simulators and Android emulators to the browser for team-wide testing without local setup.

2. Awesome Cl

Tree-sitter grammars

• tree-sitter-commonlisp (⭐64) - Common Lisp grammar for tree-sitter. MIT.
  • still Work In Progress.

• tree-sitter-cl-syntax - another WIP grammar, ocused specifically on the syntax of the language.
  • with a grammar for format directives.

3. Awesome Creative Coding

Books

• Synthèse d'images avec OpenGL (ES) - Book in french, which covers OpenGL, OpenGL ES and WebGL.

Online Books

• 3D Game Shaders For Beginners - Step-by-step guide to real-time shading techniques.

Courses

• Interactive 3D Graphics - Udacity course that teach you the principles of 3D computer graphics.

Frameworks • Libraries • Ecosystems

• C4 (⭐974) [iOS] - Open-source creative coding framework for iOS.

• Unity [Mac, Win] - Game engine, but useful for creative coding and installations.

Visual Programming Languages

• vvvv [Win] - Hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development.

• TouchDesigner [Mac, Win] - Visual development platform to create realtime projects.

• Quartz Composer [Mac] - Development tool for processing and rendering graphical data.

• Max [Mac, Win] - Visual programming language for media.

• TiXL [Win] - Open source tool for creating interactive 3d content and animations.

Sound Programming Languages

• Melrōse (⭐209) - A MIDI producing environment for creating (live) music.

Web Programming • Libraries

• Paper.js - The swiss army knife of vector graphics scripting.

• Pixi.js - HTML 5 2D rendering engine that uses webGL with canvas fallback.

• JSCAD - Programmatic 3D modeling in JavaScript.

• twgl.js (⭐3k) - A tiny WebGL helper library.

• luma.gl (⭐2.5k) - WebGL2 Components for Data Visualization.

• textmode.js - JavaScript canvas library for real-time ASCII and textmode graphics.

Projection Mapping • VJing

• MadMapper [Mac] - Video mapping projections and Light mapping.

• VDMX [Mac] - Realtime multimedia performance application.

• Modul8 [Mac] - Real time video mixing and compositing.

• Millumin [Mac] - A software to create and perform interactive audiovisual shows.

• Smode [Win] - A real-time 2D/3D creation, compositing and video-mapping engine.

• Veejay [Linux] - A live performance tool featuring simple non-linear editing and mixing from multiple sources (files, devices, streams...).

Online

• Shadershop (⭐919) - Interface for programming GPU shaders.

• LiveCodeLab - Run-as-you-type tool for VJs, musicians, teachers, students, kids.

• editor.textmode.art - Online web editor for textmode.js.

• synth.textmode.art - Online live coding environment for textmode.js.

Hardware

• BeagleBoard - Low-power open source single-board computers.

• Makey Makey - Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet.

• Leap Motion - Sensor device that supports hand and finger motions as input.

Other

• Structure Synth [Cross-platform] - Application for generating 3D structures by specifying a design grammar.

• F3 [Mac] - Powerful 3D design app that enables you to live code 3D form.

• ShaderTool [Win] - Modern shader IDE for programmers and FX artists.

• KodeLife - Real-time GPU shader editor, live-code performance tool and graphics prototyping sketchpad.

• ISF - GLSL shaders for use in interactive applications.

• glslViewer - Live-coding console tool that renders GLSL Shaders.

• DrawBot [Mac] - Education oriented 2d graphics programming environment based on Python.

Talks

• How We Do This Shit - Talk on how tech-based artists do this financially.

• Making WebGL Dance - How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Linear Algebra.

• The Pixel Factory - Talk about WebGL, GPUs and Math by Steven Wittens.

Articles • Tutorials / Shaders • OpenGL • WebGL

• Shaders: A primer - A primer on shaders.

• Shaders: Second stage - The second part to the previous.

• WebGL Lessons — Fragment Shaders (⭐308) - A brief introduction to fragment shaders.

• WebGL Lessons — ThreeJS Shaders (⭐365) - Using custom vertex and fragment shaders in ThreeJS.

• ThreeJS post-process example (⭐26) - Example of post-processing effects in ThreeJS.

• Introduction to Ray Tracing - A simple method for creating 3D images.

• Ray Marching and Signed Distance Functions - Introduction to ray marching and signed distance functions.

• An intro to modern OpenGL - First part of an introduction to modern OpenGL.

• Smooth minimum - Article about the smooth based primitive union.

• Modeling with distance functions - Collection of distance functions in one centralized place.

• On ray casting, ray tracing, ray marching and the like - The title says it all. Introduction by Adok.

• Writing a small software renderer - Really good introduction to how basic software rendering works.

• WebGL Workshop - Short and sweet online introduction to WebGL.

• Particle Effects via Billboards - How to create a particle effects with billboarding and WebGL.

• WebGL Quest - A tutorial and a list of useful resources to use WebGL raymarching and distance functions easily.

• Exploring bump mapping with WebGL - Introduction to different bump mapping techniques.

• OpenGL/GLSL Shader Programming - Deck on OpenGL/GLSL shader programming.

• What Every Coder Should Know About Gamma - Deep dive into the importance of gamma.

Articles • Tutorials / Canvas

• HTML Canvas Deep Dive - Profound introduction to the canvas API.

Articles • Tutorials / Other

• Cat Like Coding - In depth tutorials on math, algorithms and Unity.

• Fun Programming - Learn creative coding writing simple programs.

• Creative-coding on iOS with C4 - Introduction to C4 published on Creative Applications.

• COSMOS - An end-to-end tutorial on the design, programming and launch of an app using C4.

• Adventures in Game Development World - Easy to understand collection of articles on game development, but relevant to creative coding as well.

• Tips to Improve Your Generative Artwork - Tips to make your art look better.

• Working With Color in Generative Art - Tips on how to get color right.

Interactive / Other

• Fragment-foundry - Interactive fragment shader tutorial.

• Bubble Breakdown - Shader breakdown by Perlin.

Quick References • Cheat Sheets / Other

• 3D Maths Cheat Sheet - Math cheatsheet by Anton Gerdelan, from his OpenGL book.

• docs.GL - Improvement of the official OpenGL documentation.

• OpenGL Shading Language - Khronos Group GLSL wiki.

• Easings - Interactive easing functions cheatsheet.

Slack / Other

• Creative Coding Club - Creative Coding Club Slack.

Other / Other

• The Creative Coding Podcast - Iain and Seb discuss the ins and outs of creative coding.

• Data Stories - Podcast on data visualization.

• 3D Programming Weekly Articles - Great collection of shader and math related resources.

Math / Other

• Math as code (⭐15k) - Cheat-sheet for mathematical notation in code form.

• Image Kernels - Interactive and visual introduction to image kernels.

• Sine and Cosine - Interactive explanation of sine and cosine.

• Sketching with Math and Quasi Physics - Beautiful and visual introduction to math and quasi physics.

• Gene Kogan: Perlin Noise - introduction to 2D and 3D perlin noise.

• Mathematical Symbols - List of all mathematical symbols and signs.

• The magnificent 2d matrix - Interactive tool to better understand transformation matrices.

• Game Dev Movement cheatsheet with examples - JavaScript math snippets for movement.

Machine Learning • Computer Vision • AI / Other

• Google ML - Cloud machine learning by Google.

• ConvNetJS - Deep Learning in your browser.

• Wekinator - Allows anyone to use machine learning.

• Teachable Machine - Explore how machine learning works, live in the browser.

• TensorFlow.js - JavaScript library for training and deploying ML models in the browser and on Node.js.

• Runway - AI-powered tools for video and content creation.

Inspiration / Other

• Chrome Experiments - Showcase of web experiments written by the creative coding community.

• For your Processing - Projects and tutorials about Processing.

• Art From Code - Code sketches by Keith Peters.

• P5Art - Really good collection of experiments in Processing.

• Echophon - Tumblr with visual inspiration.

• Folds2d - Tumblr with curves, surfaces, scalar and vector fields.

Events / Other

• OFFF Festival - Digital design festival (Online Flash Film Festival).

• Gray Area Festival - Creative coding, art and technology festival.

• Signal Festival - Showcase of light art and emerging technologies in Prague, the Czech Republic.

• Mutek - Organization dedicated to digital creativity in sound, music, and audio-visual art.

• Digital Design Days - 3 day event offering conferences, workshops, digital showcases & installations.

• CODAME ART+TECH - Projects and nonprofit events, to inspire through experience.

Museums • Galleries / Other

• Digital Art Museum - Berlin/Germany - Digital Art Museum is an online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art.

Schools • Workshops / Other

• Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design - Hosts a range of educational initiatives, most notably, the Interaction Design Programme and the CIID Summer School.

Blogs • Websites / Other

• CreativeApplications.Net [CAN] - Famous digital art blog.

• ibreakdownshaders - Explore the math behind shaders.

• madebyevan.com - WebGL experiments and articles by Evan Wallace.

Related / Other

• Awesome livecoding (⭐3.2k) - Curated list of livecoding languages and tools.

• Awesome public datasets (⭐76k) - Curated list of public available datasets, mostly free resources.

• Link collection of ray marching on the GPU - Curated list from 2013.

4. Free for Dev

Security and PKI

• Guardfos Scanner - Free online WordPress security scanner. No credit card or account required. Results are available instantly.

Payment and Billing Integration

• AllRatesToday - Real-time mid-market exchange rates for 150+ currencies with official JavaScript, Python, and PHP SDKs. Free tier includes 300 requests/month over HTTPS.

• Exchange Rate API - Real-time currency rates for 160+ currencies with 60-second updates and official SDKs. Free tier includes 300 requests/month.

5. Awesome Game Engine Dev

Game Engines / Awesome Collections

• 📚 Awesome Game Engines (⭐117) - List of game engines.

Libraries / C#

• C#: Graphics - 2D
  • 🎉 ImageSharp (⭐8k) - Modern, cross-platform, 2D graphics library for .NET.

Tools / Software / 2D Game Dev

• 🆓 Sprite Fusion - Free, web-based 2D tilemap editor with export to Unity, Godot, and more.

6. Awesome Mongodb

Tools / Desktop

• DocKit (⭐1.1k) - Open-source MongoDB GUI client with built-in Data AI Agent for natural language queries, collection management, and import/export. Cross-platform (Tauri + Vue 3).

7. Nginx Resources

Understanding Nginx

• Understanding Nginx versioning

• Interview with Igor Sysoev, author of Apache's competitor NGINX

• Nginx Optimization: understanding sendfile, tcp_nodelay and tcp_nopush

Architecture

• Nginx Internals

• Inside NGINX: How We Designed for Performance & Scale

• Thread Pools in NGINX

Configuration

• Useful Rewrites for Nginx

• Avoiding the Top 10 NGINX Configuration Mistakes

Tutorials

• Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus ([Part 2])https://www.f5.com/company/blog/nginx/load-balancing-with-nginx-plus-part-2))

• NGINX as a WebSockets Proxy

• HTTP Keepalive Connections and Web Performance

• Performing A/B Testing with NGINX and NGINX Plus

• Improving NGINX Performance with Kernel TLS and SSL_sendfile()

APIs

• GIN - JSON-API framework

• Kong - Management Layer for Microservices and APIs (⭐44k)

Tips

• Things you didn't know Nginx could do

Nginx + njs

• Make your nginx config even more modular and reusable with njs 0.7.7

• Diagnostic logging with the NGINX JavaScript module

• Using NGINX as an Object Storage Gateway via njs

OpenResty

• Ceryx - A dynamic reverse proxy

• An Introduction To OpenResty

8. Awesome Gemini Cli

MCP Servers

• TWZRD Agent Intel - Trust scoring and identity verification for AI agent wallets on Solana. Verify agent identity before x402 micropayments or agent-initiated operations. Free: score_agent, preflight_check. Paid (x402): get_trust_receipt. Works with any MCP client including Gemini CLI.

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