Processing this is going to achieve several goals:
Iāll archive that entire list of comments as itās own list, and stash it somewhere, probably a personal website
Turn off those mirrors; that method is not optimal for the set, so now Iāll go through and systematically turn them off
Iāll feed initial data into a new stats party Iām building, a tool for tracking āawesomeā items, a set Iām much more interested in.
Iām really happy with that initial experience, though I regret it was all snark. Hmmm, maybe not āregretā, 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 Iām gonna snark, I ought to snark on the side of usefulness. So Iām 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 calledā¦).
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. Hereās how the order was chosen:
During the voting period I did the āRelatedā and āMiscellaneousā 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.
This image makes me happy, and reminds me of a āorg character sheetā. In a Fate game with too many skills, we are crushing it in Books, Decentralized Systems, and Gaming!
mirror/free-programming-books - free-programming-books - allthe.codes - Calling this a ālistā is kinda inaccurate. It was taken over by a non-profit, and is available in 28 languages. Has a website (makes sense) hosting on MS-Git (). As for the content, it is free in the āaccessā sense, and spot checking it not very often in the free culture sense. Would be good to track down the free culture stuff, though! Also: massive.
mirror/GoBooks - GoBooks - allthe.codes -Annoys me the same way āawesome board gamesā does, layout-wise. Also, loads images from all over. But maybe good and free books on golang?
mirror/Mind-Expanding-Books - Mind-Expanding-Books - allthe.codes - I really want to be into this, but their table markdown doesnāt work in Gitea, and glancing at the source output, it just looks like a big table of titles, authors, Goodreads ratings, and years published. For reals. Why would I trust those to be awesome?
mirror/ElixirBooks - ElixirBooks - allthe.codes - If you were expecting online editions of occult manuscripts depicting alchemical formulae that controls the very designs of realityā¦ Iām sorry, some other folks decided to name their software thing Elixir, and these books are about that.
Interestingly, todayās list has only six Books lists:
mirror/awesome-ripple - awesome-ripple - allthe.codes - " A class-action lawsuit was filed against Ripple in May 2018 āalleging that it led a scheme to raise hundreds of millions of dollars through unregistered sales of its XRP tokens. [creating] billions of coins āout of thin airā and then profited by selling them to the public in āwhat is essentially a never-ending initial coin offeringā.ā[19]" Wait, thatās Wikipediaā¦ probably why this list hasnāt been updated in 10 months.
mirror/awesome-eosio - awesome-eosio - allthe.codes - āEOSIO is the most powerful infrastructure for decentralized applications and open source smart contract platform.ā With a smart contract here, and a biz logic there, E O S I O!
I originally commented:
So basically Awesome Mastodon needs to move to the misc section, and we can drop this one completely.
And itās true! āDecentralized Systemsā should be āBlockchain (and Mastodon, lulz)ā. And of course theyāve added five more blockchain lists sinceā¦
mirror/game-datasets - game-datasets - allthe.codes - Love me some datasets! While there arenāt as many sets linked to as Iād expect, and thereās a whole big-game-company-api section, I think it warrants a deeper dive.
mirror/awesome-javascript - allthe.codes - JavaScript, probably the coolest thing I hate! Also, sub-lists, because programming makes even curators go banana-pants!
mirror/awesome-python - allthe.codes - I was planning to make fun of Swift again, but this list makes me want to learn Python. And then make fun of Swift.
mirror/awesome-phalcon - allthe.codes - Phalcon, the intelligent, dimensional-jumping spaceship that houses the Guardians of Phalcon, a 5-member team of galactic superheroes.
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!
I used some fun graphics while gathering this section, which I will include here sans context for maximum effectā¦
mirror/quick-look-plugins - allthe.codes - So weird! So few plugins on an āawesomeā list, but curated by the author of the meta listā¦ also, Apple subscribers sure do have vague definitions of ādevelopment environmentāā¦
mirror/motion-ui-design - motion-ui-design - allthe.codes - Neat idea, unfortunately leans very heavily on closed tools, but I suppose that is the state. I could use some motion UI refreshers to apply to my minimalist web approach, to add cute embellishments I have plannedā¦
mirror/awesome-aurelia - awesome-aurelia - allthe.codes - āAurelia is a next gen JavaScript client framework for mobile, desktop and web that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.ā Kudos for explaining it!
mirror/awesome-tensorflow - awesome-tensorflow - allthe.codes - āThis spell creates a stream of force, 3 feet in diameter, between two unoccupied spaces you can see within range. For the duration of the spell you can computer data between the two points as a free action.ā
Well, ācomputer scienceā seems evenly split between āteach the machines to take overā and āteach the humans to teach the machines to take overā. Balanced?!
mirror/vim-galore - vim-galore - allthe.codes - Hmmm. I use nvim, and this is useful, but it isnāt quite an awesome list. I think they were short on editors, and just included this. Looks neat though!
mirror/guitarspecs - guitarspecs - allthe.codes - Well this just wins all the prizes. This section should have been called āMake an Electric Guitar, and some other vaguely tangential lists; also the horrible Bluetooth Guide to Our Wonderful Dystopia (Beacon)ā.
mirror/awesome-icons - awesome-icons - allthe.codes - A nice short list to get a massive amount of icons. I know, I thought it was gonna show all the locations of the premier fashion shop in Paragon City, but no luckā¦
mirror/awesome-talks - awesome-talks - allthe.codes - Curator watches two talks a week and curates the best for this list. Imagine obsessing over one or more topics like that and logging it for everyone to seeā¦
). As for the content, it is free in the āaccessā sense, and spot checking it not very often in the free culture sense. Would be good to track down the free culture stuff, though! Also: massive.
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