The Daily Index — Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Repositories, courses and useful tools

Resources & Tools

TLDR · GitHub repository

OPENTF

OpenTF is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. It can manage popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. OpenTF features Infrastructure as Code, execution plans, resource graphs, and change automation. It enables developers to declaratively manage cloud infrastructure.

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TLDR · GitHub repository

PUCK

puck is a self-hosted drag-and-drop editor for React.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

BATCH LORAS ON THE SAME GPU

LoRAs are small parameter adapters that change the behavior of the underlying model by plugging into certain layers. You can batch generation for the base model to improve performance. Additionally, you can batch LoRA-modified versions of the model and serve models with different performance to different users.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

MAKING AI BOTS BETTER AT REAL-LIFE CONVERSATIONS

Many AI chatbots struggle with having natural wide-ranging chats like humans do, so this project introduced 'Topical-Chat', a new dataset from human conversations on 8 big topics, to teach AI how to talk more like us without fixed roles.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

SAM.CPP

Segment anything from Meta running in pure C++ powered by GGML.

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TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

WATLINGS

This is a repository to help you learn WebAssembly by writing small programs. The goal is to learn by doing. Each file outlines a task to complete.

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TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

STRATUS-RED-TEAM

Stratus-red-team is a tool for emulating offensive attack techniques in a controlled manner on cloud environments for the purpose of testing detection and response. Attacks are organized by cloud provider and category of attack. Each attack has a comprehensive wiki page with a MITRE ATT&CK mapping, description, and example detections. The recently released v2.9.0 includes new techniques for ransomware simulation.

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TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

CALDERA-OT

A collection of plugins that extend Caldera (adversary emulation platform) to the Operational Technology (OT) environment.

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TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

MERCATOR

Mercator is an Open Source web application to manage the mapping of an information system as described in the Mapping The Information System Guide of the ANSSI.

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TLDR Design · Tool

SETTING UP A DESIGN SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH

This interactive guide covers everything relevant to building design systems. It includes design audit, structure, design tokens, collaboration, and metrics. A playbook completes the package, outlining all the questions you should ask when creating a product foundation.

thedesignsystem.guide

TLDR Design · Tool

THE MACOS APP ICON BOOK

A Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund an illustrated book about macOS iconography. The book features hundreds of icons designers and developers created over a decade.

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TLDR Design · Tool

MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR THE COLORBLIND

More than 300 million people are colorblind. Covering this audience is a precious skill. This website brings several tools and resources to ensure designers are paying attention to them.

wearecolorblind.com

TLDR Design · Tool

OPEN SOURCE COLLECTION OF DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND METHODS

Solid design principles are usually a common trait among good products. Check out more than a thousand design principles based on the best real-life examples.

principles.design