The Daily Index — Monday, December 4, 2023

Repositories, courses and useful tools

Resources & Tools

TLDR · GitHub repository

GQL - GIT QUERY LANGUAGE

GQL is a query language with a syntax similar to SQL. It executes queries on .git files without the need to create database files or convert the files into any other format. Keywords in GQL are case-insensitive, similar to SQL.

github.com

TLDR · GitHub repository

SQLSYNC

SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite designed to synchronize web application state between users, devices, and the edge. It features eventually consistent SQLite, optimistic reads and writes, reactive query subscriptions, real-time collaboration, and more. A live demo is available.

github.com

TLDR · GitHub repository

THE 500 HIGHEST PAYING COMPANIES FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS

This repository contains a very rough list of 500 companies that tend to pay a relatively high amount for software engineering-related roles. The data is based on median software engineering total compensation as it appears on levels.fyi. The analysis is not meant to be serious and it skips over many important steps.

github.com

TLDR · GitHub repository

UNSLOTH

unsloth provides 80% faster and 50% less memory local QLoRA finetuning without any change in hardware.

github.com

TLDR AI · GitHub repository

INITIALIZE A SMALL MODEL FROM A BIG ONE

Lots of work has been done in distillation and initialization such as the lottery ticket hypothesis. This work gives a simple mechanism to take a much larger model and initialize a smaller one from it. It dramatically improves smaller model performance.

github.com

TLDR AI · GitHub repository

VIDEO PANOPTIC SEGMENTATION

MaXTron is a simple yet effective unified meta-architecture for video segmentation.

github.com

TLDR AI · GitHub repository

A NEW FUSION FRAMEWORK FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION

This project introduces SAFE, a framework that combines RGB frames, event streams, and semantic labels using pre-trained vision and language models.

github.com

TLDR Web Dev · Tool

ONSITES.FYI

A website detailing onsite interview experiences with tech companies. It contains over 500 interview experiences with companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

onsites.fyi

TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

LARAVEL PULSE

Laravel Pulse is a real-time application performance monitoring tool and dashboard for your Laravel application. It allows developers to track down bottlenecks in Laravel (PHP) applications, find the most active users, and more.

github.com

TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

TYPEHERO

TypeHero is a community and platform for TypeScript developers that aims to educate and clear up confusion about the intricacies of TypeScript’s typing system. It provides challenges for developers to test their TypeScript skills.

github.com

TLDR Web Dev · Tool

LLM VISUALIZATION

Visualize different components of an LLM, such as the input embedding matrix, transformers, and more.

bbycroft.net

TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

KUBECTL-IAM4SA

kubectl-iam4sa is a command line program for debugging IAM roles for Kubernetes service accounts. The tool requires the user to have access to the Kubernetes cluster, AWS IAM, and AWS CloudTrail.

github.com

TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

OPEN-APPSEC

open-appsec builds on machine learning to provide preemptive web app & API threat protection against OWASP-Top-10 and zero-day attacks. It can be deployed as an add-on to Kubernetes Ingress, NGINX, and API Gateways.

github.com

TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

THREAT DRAGON

OWASP Threat Dragon is a free, open-source, cross-platform threat modeling application. It is used to draw threat modeling diagrams and to list threats for elements in the diagram.

github.com

TLDR Crypto · GitHub repository

ADVENT OF CRYPTO DATA

Paradigm and crypto data companies partnered up to launch the Advent of Crypto Data Calendar. Throughout Advent, each participating company will roll out a new launch or feature on one of these days. Information about each day's featured project can be found on the calendar, including links to the announcement and company info.

paradigmxyz.github.io

TLDR Design · Tool

ANIMOTION — VISUAL CSS ANIMATION BUILDER

Animotion lets you create CSS animations visually by dragging, resizing, rotating, clipping, and more. It has a keyframes editor, a collection of ready-to-use animations, and 29 built-in eases.

animotion.dev

TLDR Design · Tool

DRAW WIREFRAMES, GET DESIGNS, AND CODE

Noya combines wireframes with a design system to generate high-fidelity designs in real-time.

noya.io

TLDR Design · Tool

GET ACTIONABLE USER-VALIDATED INSIGHTS

Useberry can be integrated easily with most popular design tools to utilize various user testing methods - recruit your own testers or choose from an extensive pool of vetted and verified testers.

useberry.com