300 - Web and Application

300 - Web Technologies and Concepts

300 - Foundational Concepts

• World Wide Web - An information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet
  • Hypertext - A text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access
  • URI - A unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource
  • URL - A standard that defines URLs, domains, IP addresses, the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format, and their API
• Core Web Protocols & Languages
  • HTTP - An application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems
    • HTTP cookie - A small piece of data that a server sends to a user's web browser
  • HTML - The World Wide Web's core markup language
  • CSS - A simple mechanism for adding style (e.g., fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents
• Real-time & Messaging Protocols
  • WebSockets - A technology that makes it possible to open a two-way interactive communication session between the user's browser and a server
  • WebRTC - A free and open-source project providing web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication (RTC)
  • Server-sent events - A technology to enable servers to push data to web pages over HTTP or using dedicated server-push protocols
  • MQTT - A lightweight, publish-subscribe, machine to machine network protocol for message queue/message queuing service
  • AMQP - An open standard application layer protocol for message-oriented middleware
• Data & Event Specifications
  • JSON Merge Patch - A JSON format that describes changes to be made to a target JSON document
  • OpenAPI spec - A standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs
  • CloudEvents - A specification for describing event data in a common way
  • ActivityPub - A decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format
  • API Tooling
    • Redocly CLI - An open-source command-line tool that helps you lint, bundle, and preview OpenAPI definitions

301 - Architectural Styles & Patterns

• Web Application Architectures
  • Single-page application - A web application or website that interacts with the user by dynamically rewriting the current web page with new data from the web server
  • JAMstack - An architectural approach that decouples the web experience layer from data and business logic, improving flexibility, scalability, performance, and maintainability
• API Architectures, Styles & Patterns
  • REST - A software architectural style that was created to guide the design and development of the architecture for the World Wide Web
  • SOAP (legacy) - A messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services
  • GraphQL - A query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data
  • gRPC - A modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment
  • json-rpc - A stateless, light-weight remote procedure call (RPC) protocol
  • Webhook - A method of augmenting or altering the behavior of a web page or web application with custom callbacks

302 - Browser Technologies & Tooling

• Browsers
  • Chrome - A freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Google
  • Chromium - An open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web
  • Firefox - A free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
  • w3m - A text-based web browser as well as a pager
  • EWW - The Emacs Web Wowser, a web browser for Emacs
• Rendering Engines
  • WebKit - The framework for displaying rich, interactive web content in your apps
  • Gecko - The web browser engine developed by Mozilla
  • Blink - The rendering engine used by Chromium
  • Servo - A modern, high-performance browser engine designed for both application and embedded use
• Scripting Engines
  • V8 - Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++
  • JavaScriptCore - The JavaScript engine that powers Safari and other apps on Apple platforms
• Client Scripting APIs
  • XMLHttpRequest (XHR) - An API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server
  • Fetch Standard - A living standard that defines requests, responses, and the process that binds them: fetching
• Site Analyzers
  • Wappalyzer - A technology profiler that shows you what websites are built with

310 - Web & Network Infrastructure

311 - Web Servers

• Web Servers & Reverse Proxy Servers
  • NGINX - An open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more
  • Apache HTTP Server - A project to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows
  • Caddy - A powerful, extensible platform to serve your sites, services, and apps, written in Go
  • HAProxy - A free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications
  • traefik proxy - A leading modern open source reverse proxy and ingress controller
  • nodejs http-server - A simple static HTTP server
• GraphQL Servers
  • Apollo Server - An open-source, spec-compliant GraphQL server that's compatible with any GraphQL client

312 - Caching & Content Delivery

• Concepts
  • Web cache - An information technology for the temporary storage (caching) of web documents, such as HTML pages and images, to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag
  • Content delivery network - A geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers
    • Point of presence - An artificial demarcation point or interface point between communicating entities
• Forward Proxy Servers
  • Squid - A caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more
• CDN Providers
  • Cloudflare - A global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable
  • Amazon CloudFront - A content delivery network (CDN) service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience
    • Lambda@Edge - A feature of Amazon CloudFront that lets you run code closer to users of your application
  • Google Cloud CDN - A content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates delivery of your web and video content
  • Azure Front Door - A modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) that provides a secure and scalable entry point for fast delivery of your global web applications and content

313 - API & Application Gateways

• API Gateways
  • Kong API gateway - A lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API gateway
  • Azure API Management - A hybrid, multicloud management platform for APIs across all environments
  • Amazon API Gateway - A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale
  • Google Cloud Apigee - The platform for developing and managing API services
• Cloud Load Balancers
  • Amazon ALB - A load balancing option for the Elastic Load Balancing service that operates at the application layer

315 - Application Hosting & Compute

• Application Hosting (PaaS)
  • Azure App Service - An HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk - An easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services
  • Google Cloud App Engine - A fully managed, serverless platform for developing and hosting web applications at scale
• Static Site & JAMstack Hosting
  • GitLab Pages - A feature that allows you to publish static websites directly from a repository in GitLab
  • Cloudflare Pages - A JAMstack platform for frontend developers to collaborate and deploy websites
• Serverless Computing (FaaS) - A cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand, taking care of the servers on behalf of their customers
  • AWS Lambda - A serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers
  • Azure Functions - An event-driven, serverless compute platform that helps you develop more efficiently using the programming language of your choice
  • Google Cloud Run Functions - A serverless execution environment for building and connecting cloud services

316 - Service Mesh

• Service Mesh Servers
  • Hashicorp Consul - A service networking solution to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud
  • Istio - An open source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications
    • Kiali - The service mesh observability and configuration tool for Istio
  • envoy - An open source edge and service proxy
  • Linkerd - An ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes
  • traefik mesh - A straight-forward, easy to configure, and non-invasive service mesh

320 - Web Application Standards and Frameworks

321 - Full-stack Web Frameworks

• JS/TS Full-stack Frameworks
  • Next.js - A React framework for building full-stack web applications
  • Nuxt.js - A free and open-source framework with an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web applications and websites with Vue.js
  • Astro - The web framework for content-driven website
• Rust Full-Stack Frameworks
  • Leptos - A cutting-edge Rust framework for the modern web

322 - JS/TS/Go/Python Backend Web Frameworks

• JS/TS Backend Frameworks
  • Express.js - A minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework
  • Koa - A new web framework designed by the team behind Express
  • Nest.js - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications
  • Hono - A small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges
• API Tools
  • tRPC - A tool that allows you to easily build & consume fully typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation
• Go Backend Frameworks
  • Echo - A high performance, extensible, minimalist Go web framework
  • Gin Web Framework - A web framework written in Go
  • Gorilla web toolkit - A helpful toolkit that provides useful, composable packages for writing HTTP-based applications
  • Yokai - A simple, modular and observable Go framework for backend applications
• Python Backend Frameworks & Servers
  • WSGI - The Web Server Gateway Interface
    • Gunicorn - A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
    • Flask - A lightweight WSGI web application framework
  • ASGI - A spiritual successor to WSGI, the long-standing Python standard for compatibility between web servers, frameworks, and applications
    • Uvicorn - An ASGI web server implementation for Python
    • Hypercorn - An ASGI web server based on the sans-io hyper, h11, h2, and wsproto libraries and inspired by Gunicorn
    • FastAPI - A modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints

323 - Other Backend Web Frameworks

• Ruby Backend Frameworks & Servers
  • Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface
    • Puma - A fact, concurrent web server for Ruby & Rack
    • Sinatra - A DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort
• Perl Backend Frameworks (legacy)
  • Classic CGI
    • mod_cgi - A module for the execution of CGI scripts
    • CGI.pm - A module to handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
  • Fast CGI
    • mod_fcgid - A high performance alternative to mod_cgi or mod_cgid
    • FCGI.pm - A module for FastCGI applications
• Java Backend Frameworks
  • Jakarta EE - A set of specifications that define Java APIs for enterprise software development
    • Apache Tomcat - An open-source web server and servlet container
  • Spring - A project that makes Java simple, modern, productive, reactive, and cloud-ready
    • Spring Boot - A tool that takes an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss
• .NET Backend Frameworks
  • ASP.NET - A free, cross-platform, open source framework for building web apps and services with .NET and C#

324 - Frontend Web Frameworks

• JS/TS Frameworks for Frontend
  • Angular - A web framework that empowers developers to build fast, reliable applications
  • React - The library for web and native user interfaces
    • JSX - A syntax extension for JavaScript that lets you write HTML-like markup inside a JavaScript file
    • MDX - An authorable format that lets you seamlessly write JSX in your Markdown documents
  • Vue.js - A JavaScript framework for building user interfaces
• State Management
  • Redux - A JS library for predictable and maintainable global state management
    • React-Redux - The official React binding for Redux
  • Recoil - A state management library for React
  • XState - A library for creating, interpreting, and executing finite state machines and statecharts
• CSS Frameworks & Libraries
  • Bootstrap - The world’s most popular front-end open source toolkit
  • Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework packed with classes
  • Emotion - A library designed for writing css styles with JavaScript
  • Linaria - A zero-runtime CSS in JS library
• Frontend Build Tools
  • Sass language - A stylesheet language that's compiled to CSS
  • Parcel - The zero configuration build tool
  • Vite - A build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects
  • webpack - A static module bundler for modern JavaScript applications
  • babel - A JavaScript compiler
  • Rspack - A high performance JavaScript bundler written in Rust
  • JSMin - A minification tool that removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files

325 - UI Libraries

• Tailwind Component Libraries
  • daisyUI - The most popular component library for Tailwind CSS
• React Component Libraries
  • Material UI - An open-source React component library that implements Google's Material Design
  • Chakra UI - A component system for building products with speed
• Vue UI Libraries
  • Vuetify - A no design skills required Open Source UI Library with beautifully handcrafted Vue Components
• Framework-agnostic Libraries
  • Tabulator - An easy to use, simple to code, fully featured, interactive JavaScript library for creating tables and data grids
  • Chart.js - A simple yet flexible JavaScript charting library for designers & developers
  • Swiper.js - The most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions and amazing native behavior

330 - Web Automation and Test Tools

331 - Web/HTTP Clients

• CLIs
  • cURL - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs
  • Wget - A free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS
  • curlie - The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie
  • hurl - A command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format
  • httpie cli - A simple yet powerful command-line HTTP and API testing client for the API era
  • wuzz - An interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection
  • httptap - View the HTTP and HTTPS requests made by any linux program
• Libraries
  • Ruby module Net - A collection of classes that implement client-side internet protocols
  • Python Requests - An elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings
  • JS Axios - A promise-based HTTP Client for node.js and the browser
  • Go Resty - A simple HTTP and REST client library for Go
  • Go FastHTTP - A fast HTTP package for Go
  • Rust reqwest - An ergonomic, async HTTP client
• GraphQL Libraries
  • URQL - The highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client for React, Svelte, Vue, or plain JavaScript
• API Testing Platforms
  • Bruno - A Git-integrated, fully offline, and open-source API client
  • Postman/Newman - An API platform for building and using APIs
• Classic Web Automation
  • Mechanize - A module that helps you automate interaction with a website
  • Mechanize (Ruby) - A ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy

332 - Browser Automation

• Browser Automation & Testing
  • Puppeteer - A Node.js library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol
  • Playwright - A framework for Web Testing and Automation
  • WebDriver - A remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents
    • Selenium WebDriver - A tool that drives a browser natively, as a user would, either locally or on a remote machine
    • WebDriver BiDi - The BiDirectional WebDriver Protocol, a mechanism for remote control of user agents
  • Selenium IDE - An open source record and playback test automation for the web
  • Karma - A test runner that fits all our needs
  • Dependencies
    • Chrome for Testing - A new flavor of Chrome that specifically targets web app testing and automation use cases
• Web Scraping
  • Crawlee - A web scraping and browser automation library
  • BeautifulSoup - A Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping
  • Scrapy - An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites
  • Colly - A Golang framework for building web scrapers
  • Katana - A next-generation crawling and spidering framework

335 - Web Debugging Tools

• Web Debugging
  • Chrome DevTools - A set of web developer tools built directly into the Google Chrome browser
  • Fiddler - A free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform

340 - CLI/TUI App Development

341 - Bash/Perl/Python/Ruby

• Bash
  • built-in getopts etc. - A set of commands that are part of the shell itself
  • tput - A command to initialize a terminal or query the terminfo database
  • dialog - A program that can be used to create nice user interfaces for shell scripts
  • Gum - A tool for glamorous shell scripts
  • FIGlet - A program for making large letters out of ordinary text
  • lolcat - A program that concatenates files, or standard input, to standard output and adds rainbow coloring
  • cfonts - A tool to print sexy fonts in your console
• Perl
  • Getopt::Long - A module that implements an extended getopt function called GetOptions()
  • Term::ANSIColor - A module to colorize text using ANSI escape sequences
  • Text::ANSITable - A module to create a formatted table using ASCII characters and ANSI colors
• Python
  • argparse - The module for parsing command-line arguments
  • getopt - The C-style parser for command line options
  • click - A Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way with as little code as necessary
  • Colorama - A simple cross-platform API for printing colored terminal text from Python
  • Typer - A library for building CLI applications that users will love using and developers will love creating
  • Asciimatics - A package that provides a cross-platform, full-screen terminal API for building text-based user interfaces
  • Python Prompt Toolkit - A library for building powerful interactive command line and terminal applications in Python
  • Urwid - A console user interface library for Python
  • Textual - A Rapid Application Development framework for Python, built by Textualize.io
    • Rich - A Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal
• Ruby
  • OptionParser - A class for command-line option analysis
  • colorize - A gem for colorizing text using ANSI escape sequences
  • TTY - A suite of gems that provide a wide range of tools for building interactive command-line applications

342 - JS/Go/Rust/C

• Javascript
  • yargs - A library for building interactive command line tools by parsing arguments and generating an elegant user interface
  • minimist - A tool to parse argument options
  • chalk - A terminal string styling tool
  • cli-progress - An easy to use progress-bar for command-line/terminal applications
  • FIGLet.js - A FIG Driver written in JavaScript which aims to fully implement the FIGfont spec
  • gradient-string - A library for creating beautiful gradients in terminal output
• Go
  • Fang - The CLI starter kit. A small, experimental library for batteries-included Cobra applications
  • Bubble Tea - A powerful little TUI framework
  • Huh - A simple, powerful, and elegant TUI library for building terminal forms and prompts
  • pflag - A drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags
  • color - A package for Go that lets you use colorized outputs in terms of ANSI escape sequences
  • Cobra - A framework for creating powerful modern CLI applications
  • cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
  • viper - A complete configuration solution for Go applications
• Rust
  • clap - A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust
  • Ratatui - A Rust library for cooking up delicious terminal user interfaces
  • R3BL - A suite of libraries for building modern terminal apps with Rust
  • Ansic - A modern, efficient and compile time ansi macro and utilities crate for Rust
• C
  • ncurses - A programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner

350 - Binary and Media Processing

350 - General Binary Tools

• Serialization Formats
  • Protobuf - A language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data
  • MessagePack - An efficient binary serialization format
• File Formats
  • ELF format - A common standard file format for executable files, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps
• Tools
  • file (command) - A file type guesser
  • hexdump - A filter which displays the specified files, or the standard input, in a user specified format
  • xxd - The well-known hex-dump-type utility
  • bed - A binary editor written in Go
  • fq - A tool inspired by jq that lets you poke at binary formats

351 - Image & Media Processing

• Formats
  • JPEG - A commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images
  • PNG - A raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression
  • Webp - A raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats
  • MPEG-4 - A method of defining compression of audio and visual digital data
• Tools
  • exiftool - A command-line application and Perl library for reading and writing meta information in files
  • ImageMagick - A free, open-source software suite, used for editing and manipulating digital images
  • FFmpeg - A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
• Libraries
  • Native WebP for Go - A native WebP encoder written entirely in Go, with no dependencies on libwebp or other external libraries

352 - Compression & Archiving

• Tools
  • GNU Gzip - A popular data compression program
  • GNU tar - A program that provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation
  • Info-Zip - A set of open-source software for handling ZIP archives
  • P7ZIP - A port of 7za.exe for POSIX systems
• Libraries
  • Python Data Compression and Archiving libs - The modules that support data compression and the creation and reading of archives
  • Go compress libs - A package that defines a common interface to compression and decompression algorithms
  • Go archive libs - A package that defines a common interface for accessing archived file formats
  • JSZip - A javascript library for creating, reading and editing .zip files
  • Ruby module Zlib - A module that contains classes for compressing and decompressing streams, and for working with gzip-format files
  • zlib - A free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system
  • zlib-rs - A safer zlib
  • snappy - A compression/decompression library that aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression

353 - PDF Document Processing

• Formats
  • PDF - A file format developed by Adobe to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems
• Tools
  • Ghostscript - A suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format page description languages
  • qpdf - A command-line tool and C++ library that performs content-preserving transformations on PDF files
  • pdftk server - A command-line tool for working with PDFs
  • pdfcpu - A PDF processor written in Go
  • MinerU - A high-quality tool for convert PDF to Markdown and JSON
• Libraries
  • PDF.js - A general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs
  • pypdf - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
  • Prawn PDF - A fast, nimble PDF generator for Ruby

354 - Office Document Processing

• Formats
  • Office Open XML - A zip-based XML-based file format for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents
  • OpenDocument - A zip-compressed, XML-based file format for spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word-processing documents
• Tools
  • libreoffice cli - The command-line interface for the LibreOffice office suite
  • markitdown - A lightweight Python utility for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines
  • xlsx2csv - A fast and easy way to convert XLSX files to CSV
  • docx2txt - A pure python-based command line tool to extract text from docx files
  • pptx2md - A simple tool for converting pptx to markdown
• Libraries
  • Excelize - A Go library for reading and writing XLSX/XLSM/XLTM files

360 - Mobile & Desktop App Development

360 - Platforms & Native SDKs

• Android - A mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software
  • Android Studio - The official integrated development environment for Google's Android operating system
• iOS - A mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware

361 - Cross-Platform Frameworks

• For Mobile & Desktop (using web tech)
  • React Native - A framework for building native apps with React
    • Expo - A production-grade React Native Framework
• For Desktop (using web tech)
  • Electron - A framework for building desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
  • Tauri - A toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms

362 - GUI Toolkits & Libraries

• Toolkits
  • Tk - A graphical user interface toolkit
    • tkinter - The standard Python interface to the Tcl/Tk GUI toolkit
  • GTK - A free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces
    • pygobject - A set of Python bindings for the GLib, GObject, GIO and GTK object-oriented C libraries
  • Gio - A library for writing cross-platform immediate mode GUI-s in Go
  • Fyne - An easy to learn toolkit for creating graphical apps for desktop, mobile and web
  • Slint - A declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps

363 - Application Services & Features

• Notifications
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging - A cross-platform messaging solution that lets you reliably send messages at no cost
  • Apple Push Notification service - The service for propagating push notifications from a developer’s server to their apps on Apple devices
• Device Hardware/OS Integration
  • GPS - A satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force
  • QR code - A type of matrix barcode invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso Wave
    • libqrencode - A fast and compact QR Code encoding library
    • Pure python QR Code generator - A library that provides a simple way to create QR codes in Python
    • QR code payment - A contactless payment method where a payment is performed by scanning a QR code from a mobile app

370 - Others

371 - Development Environment & OS Tooling

• Linux Desktop Environment
  • Debian-based
    • Ubuntu desktop - The Linux-based operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things
    • BunsenLabs Linux - A distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktop
  • Arch-based
    • Manjaro Linux - A user-friendly Linux distribution based on the independently developed Arch operating system
    • Mabox Linux - Fast, lightweight and functional Linux Desktop “relaxed” rolling-release, Manjaro based with Openbox Window Manager
• GUI systems
  • Display Servers
    • X.org - An open source implementation of the X Window System
    • Wayland - A replacement for the X11 window system protocol and architecture
  • Desktop Environments
    • GNOME - An easy and elegant way to use your computer, designed to put you in control and get things done
    • Xfce - A lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems
  • Window Managers
    • openbox - A highly configurable, next generation window manager
• Windows Environment
  • Package Management & Administration
    • Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows
    • Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows
    • gsudo - A Sudo for Windows, with a similar user-experience to the original Sudo
  • Productivity & Automation
    • AutoHotKey - A free, open-source scripting language for Windows that allows users to easily create small to complex scripts
    • Clavier+ - Allows to trigger actions with keyboard shortcuts
    • WinSSHTerm - A tabbed SSH solution for Windows, combining PuTTY, WinSCP and VcXsrv
• Android on Linux
  • Waydroid - A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on regular GNU/Linux systems running Wayland based desktop environments

372 - Internet of Things (WIP)

• Concepts
  • Internet of things (IoT) - The network of physical objects—'things'—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the Internet
  • Edge computing - A distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data
  • Machine to machine - The direct communication between devices using any communications channel, including wired and wireless
  • Firmware - A specific class of computer software that provides the low-level control for a device's specific hardware
  • Over-the-air update - The wireless delivery of new software, firmware, or other data to mobile devices
• Communication Standards
  • Wi-Fi - A family of wireless network protocols, based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access
  • Bluetooth LE - A wireless personal area network technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group aimed at novel applications in the healthcare, fitness, beacons, security, and home entertainment industries
  • Zigbee - An IEEE 802.15.4-based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios
• Devices
  • Raspberry Pi - A small, affordable computer for you to use and learn with
• PaaS
  • Azure IoT Hub - A managed cloud-based service that serves as a central message hub for communication between an IoT application and its connected devices