These are the tools, technologies, designs and blogs that I follow.
| Name | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Analyzo | Like StackShare and Alternativeto had a baby. Compare tools and apps for your startup. | Website |
| AWS Icons | Icons from AWS for your diagrams. Available in a lot of formats. | Design |
| Canva | Make great flyers, one-pagers, business cards, presentations and more. Free cloud-based with a ton of templates to use. | Design |
| CodePen | Need some front-end ideas for your web app? Want to show off your skills? | Website |
| DARPA Open Catalog | Ever want to play around and use some of DARPA's software? Here's a list of all of their open sourced projects. | Website |
| Data Viz | A collection of data visualization tools. | Data |
| Data-Driven Documents | D3.js is ubiquitous with making great look visualizations. However, it's a lot more complicated then Plotly. | Data |
| Datamatic | Hosted data visualizations for your website. Free tier and additional pricing options. | Utility |
| DC/OS | Data Center / Operating System built on Apache Mesos used for managing microservices, big data and containers. It abstracts server hardware management from application. This is the solution you want if you are hosting on bare-metal. | DevOps |
| DC/OS Universe | Universe is the package manager for DC/OS. Single click install applications like Cassandra. | DevOps |
| ElasticStack | The power of Elasticsearch combined with LogStash and Beats for data transport, and Kibana for visualization. Incredibly powerful and flexible tool for business intelligence applications. | Data |
| Flarum | The self-described next generation of forums. | App |
| Flat Icon | Make your apps and presentations look professional by using vector icons that are responsive. | Design |
| Flat UI Colors | Make your apps and presentations look great by picking the right color. | Design |
| Gitlab | Self-hosted or hosted Github competitor. This is a great solution for your enterprise needs. Has a lot of features you know and love. | Utility |
| Gitlab Kanban | Put a kanban board on top of your Gitlab issues. | Utility |
| Gogs | Do you need something really lightweight for your team to host code? Gogs may be the solution you need. | App |
| Hacker News | Stay up to date with the latest in tech news and information. | Website |
| Hue | Hadoop User Experience by Cloudera is business intelligence for your Hadoop cluster. | Big Data |
| Import | Web scrapping tool to generate test data or set up scheduled jobs for machine learning. | Utility |
| Leaflet Map Layers | Some fun map layers. | App |
| Leaftlet | Want to build an amazing map on your application? This is the library you want. Works awesome with MapBox. | Javascript |
| Lunr | Light-weight javascript search tool similar to Solr | Javascript |
| Mapbox | A mapping platform. You can use the open source layers with Leaflet. | App |
| MongoDB | The document store that changed everything. If you are looking to store documents, this is the standard. Even includes field-level restrictions to further protect information. | App |
| Neo4j | The best graph database out there. A great companion to Postgres. These two together will have any app cooking. | Database |
| Pachyderm | Containerized data warehouse. It's version control for your data! | App |
| Pandoc | Universal document converter. This was a great when I used it to convert a Github Wiki into training material. | Utility |
| Pentaho | Open source business intelligence tool. | Data |
| Plotly | This commercial turned open source product is your go to charting and graphing library. | Javascript |
| PopstgreSQL | The best RDBMS period with lots of extensions for JSON and GIS. Easily migrate from Oracle with a simple command line tool. | Database |
| RockChat | The best open source communication tool ever. Persistent chat that will revolutionize your team and company. Basically an open source version of Slack. | Utility |
| Sheetsee | Javascript library for visualizing Google spreadsheets. | Javascript |
| StackShare | The CTO homepage. Discover tools and technologies that are being used by leading companies. Ideal for keeping up with changing technology landscape. | Website |
| StockSnap | Great repository for free stock photos to use. | Design |
| Talend | Open source ETL tool that's very mature. | Data |
| The Stocks | A free stock photo repository. | Design |
| UberConference | The absolutely best tele/video conferencing tool on the market. And great hold music. | Utility |
| Vagrant | Sharing VMs? Use vagrant. | App |
| VisuAlgo | A neat little training website that lets you visualize algorithms. You can learn about binary search trees and realize they aren't complicated at all. | Website |
| Waffle | A kanban board built on your Github issues. The absolute best requirements tracking / backlog management tool ever. So much better than JIRA and TFS it's not funny. Enterprise versions available or use the free hosted version. | Utility |
| Yan Data | Mock data generator. Simple way to get 10,000 rows of test data for your new app. | Utility |
| Redfin | One of the most popular websites on the internet with incredible technology. They even open source some of it on their Github page. | Website |
| React | Incredibly powerful, mature and hugely adopted framework from Facebook. Ever wonder why your apps are so fast and clean? Tons of resources on the internet, icons and extensions available. | Javascript |
| Facebook Code | Learn what the arguably most powerful company on the internet is doing behind the scenes. They also open source a lot of their technology like big database Cassandra. | Website |
| Netflix Open Source Center |
Last updated: February 20, 2017