Usefull links and other resources

Services

• cyber-dojo — A place to practice programming
• GitHub — One of the best places to keep and share your code
• Holidays Calendar (Poland)
• PlanITpoker — Helps estimating work in IT / Agile
• Should I blame caching? — Was it me or cache?
• zombo.com — You can do anything at zombo.com
• Is It Friday? — Is it?

Status

• Atlassian Status — Check if Atlassian is working or crying
• Docker Systems Status — Check if Docker infrastructure is working or crying
• Github Status — Check if Github is working or crying
• Python infrastructure — Check if Python infrastructure is working or crying (PyPI, etc.)
• Slack Status — Check if Slack infrastructure is working or crying

Online Generators and Validators and Calculators

• crontab guru — The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
• Epoch & Unix Timestamp Conversion Tools — Timestamp
• Dan’s Epoch & Unix Timestamp Conversion Tools — Datn’s Tools for Timestamp
• genapps.pl — Generators and validators for document serial numbers
• regular expressions 101 — Test Regular expressions in few different flavours
• The QR Code Generator
• uuidgenerator.net — UUID generator (different versions)
• View non-printable unicode characters — or get it from GitHub Repository

Online Parsers

• 3v4l.org — PHP online parser
• Groovy Web Console

Books

• "Clean Code" by Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin) — How to write beautiful and maintanable code
• "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides — Solid knowledge of design patterns
• "The Pragmatic Programmer" by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt — Everything is a tool. Learn how to yous your tools as a pro
• Python for Everybody - few languages — Both printed and free digital. Translated to few languages
• refactoring.guru — It is not a book, but compiles good and solid knowledge form excelent books. Just more interactive and available even if you don’t have book with you.

References

• devhints.io — Rico’s cheatsheets (recommended collection of hints and cheats)
• Groovy language style guide — If you know Java, this will teach you how to Groovy
• HTML Entity Codes:
  • EntityCode.com
  • Wikipedia
  • w3schools — Link to the top of an iceberg
• ohshitgit.com — Git cheat sheet for emergency situations
• PDB — The Python Debugger - works in terminal
• W3Schools — Tutorials, references, and much more about FrontEnd, BackEnd and FullStack web development

Configurations

• gitkurwa — Git aliases in few languages. Additional SFW version

Stocks (free or with free option)

Listed stocks still evolves or splits into different services. Today, on listed pages, you can find photos, images, videos, sounds and music. Some pages may have links to other products with dedicated subsets or complementary services.

Recently, I spotted that their evolution increased speed.

• Unsplash
• Pexels
• Pixabay
• Freepik

Software

Software itself is big group. Therefore, it was split for better navigation.

Editors / IDE

• Atom
• Notepad++
• Sublime Text
• Visual Studio Code — VS CODE IS NOT FULL AND HEAVY IDE!!! Just Visual Studio is full and heavy IDE. VS Code is lightweight editor.

Graphic

• GIMP — Raster graphics editor
• RawTherapee — Non-destructive RAW photo processing (it also digest JPG)
• Inkscape — Vector graphics editor
• Photopea — Free online photo editor (compatible with PSD files). Today works better (faster) on WebKit browsers (Vivaldi for example).

Office

• LibreOffice — Good (if not the best) free office suite
• Texmaker — LaTeX editor
• Thunderbird — Email application

Browsers

• Firefox
• Vivaldi
• Opera — I know… Nobody use it except me. Good as a backup and for separating browsing context

Cartoons (aka Sad But True)

• Dilbert
• xkcd
• MonkeyUser.com
• CommitStrip
• Garfield
• Geek & Poke

Weather

• blitzortung.org — Real time lightning strikes all over the world
• lightningmaps.org — Real time lightning strikes with thunder sound propagation
• radar.bourky.cz — Clouds radar of Czech Republic (and neighbouring regions)
• www.radareu.cz — Clouds radar of Europe
• sat24.com — Clouds, rain and other realtime maps
• earthquakes.volcanodiscovery.com — Earthquakes and Volcano activity all over the world

Other

• Cult of the Party Parrot — Useful for expressing your emotions!