meta process the meta awesome list

https://talkgroup.xyz/t/process-the-meta-awesome-list/3786?u=maiki

At the time I began, I went through the awesome lists at GitHub - sindresorhus/awesome: šŸ˜Ž Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics. I also went through and mirror’d all the repos, at https://allthe.codes/mirror.

Processing this is going to achieve several goals:

  • I’ll archive that entire list of comments as it’s own list, and stash it somewhere, probably a personal website
  • Turn off those mirrors; that method is not optimal for the set, so now I’ll go through and systematically turn them off
  • I’ll feed initial data into a new stats party I’m building, a tool for tracking ā€œawesomeā€ items, a set I’m much more interested in. :slight_smile:

I’m really happy with that initial experience, though I regret it was all snark. Hmmm, maybe not ā€œregretā€, but rather at the end of the day (today) I have a list of informed impressions of each item I read, as well as snarky comments, and only one of them currently exists in the world. If I’m gonna snark, I ought to snark on the side of usefulness. So I’m doing that.

The story behind this topic was to have folks vote for the sections and go through and have a cursory look at each list linked in the Awesome Awesome list (or whatever it is called…).

I took 20 headings (the maximum allowed for a Discourse poll) from the list and put them up for a vote, each person having 7 votes. Here’s how the order was chosen:

During the voting period I did the ā€œRelatedā€ and ā€œMiscellaneousā€ sections, the latter of which was very long, so when I process those comments it will be a large section.

This happened from July to December of 2019, and I believe there have been some efforts at standardizing the Awesome Lists, and therefore the meta list may have changed since I last delved in.

A post was split to a new topic: awesome awesome related

This image makes me happy, and reminds me of a ā€œorg character sheetā€. In a Fate game with too many skills, we are crushing it in Books, Decentralized Systems, and Gaming! :sunglasses:

A post was split to a new topic: awesome awesome miscellaneous

Books


Interestingly, today’s list has only six Books lists:

The Software Quality list was converted to a Github wiki resource: Home Ā· ligurio/software-quality-wiki Wiki Ā· GitHub.

Decentralized Systems


I originally commented:

So basically Awesome Mastodon needs to move to the misc section, and we can drop this one completely.

And it’s true! ā€œDecentralized Systemsā€ should be ā€œBlockchain (and Mastodon, lulz)ā€. And of course they’ve added five more blockchain lists since… :roll_eyes:

Gaming

Learn

Programming Languages


Whoa! So many languages! Once day there will be as many programming languages as spoken languages, and then after that there will be spoken programming languages!

:exploding_head:

I used some fun graphics while gathering this section, which I will include here sans context for maximum effect…

Oh yeah, I also had this fun thing I wrote, something for ā€œAwesomeListWorldā€:

End of Session

When you reach the end of a session answer these three questions as a group:

  • Did we learn something new and important about the lists?
  • Did we overcome a prejudice or popular understanding?
  • Did we uncover a memorable treasure?

For each ā€œyesā€ answer everyone marks XP.

Development Environments

Front End Development

Computer Science

Let’s see which sciences use computers these days…


Well, ā€œcomputer scienceā€ seems evenly split between ā€œteach the machines to take overā€ and ā€œteach the humans to teach the machines to take overā€. Balanced?! :face_with_monocle:

Databases

Editors


And done. Did we learn anything? Besides they changed the commercial at the top of the meta-awesome list. :roll_eyes:

Hardware

Media

Theory

Big Data