The Daily Index — Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Repositories, courses and useful tools

Resources & Tools

TLDR · GitHub repository

TYPESPEC

TypeSpec is a language for describing cloud service APIs and generating other API description languages, client and service code, documentation, and other assets. It provides highly extensible core language primitives that can describe API shapes common among REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, and other protocols. TypeSpec can create reusable patterns that establish guardrails for API designers and make it easy to follow best practices. A playground is available for trying TypeSpec without installing anything.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

NANO COLBERT

ColBERT is one of the better embedding models for retrieval. It is worth exploring and using since many are building RAG-enabled AI applications. This implementation is a simple and straightforward replication without the performance optimizations and their added complexity. It uses BERT from HuggingFace but achieves essentially identical performance to the original implementation.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

TEXT-TO-IMAGE GENERATION WITH RPG FRAMEWORK

This project introduces RPG, a new framework that uses the “Recaption, Plan, and Generate” approach to improve text-to-image generation. It cleverly breaks down complex image creation into simpler tasks, leading to more accurate and detailed images, especially when dealing with multiple objects and attributes.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

HALLUCINATION LEADERBOARD

A leaderboard comparing LLM performance at producing hallucinations when summarizing short documents.

github.com

TLDR Web Dev · Tool

ATLAS

Atlas is a browser-based tool that allows users to work with geospatial data and share their results. It enables users to build interactive maps, analyze data in the context of location, visualize trends, facilitate teamwork and information sharing among GIS professionals, and present plans and proposals in an easily understandable format.

atlas.co

TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

STALKER

Stalker is an Attack Surface Management (ASM) tool with a big focus on extendability. It streamlines and automates reconnaissance operations while giving you the flexibility to expand its functionalities. Its web interface enables easy data access and sharing with all stakeholders.

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TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

SHERLOCK

This script is designed to help expedite web application assessment by automating some of the assessment steps (e.g., running nmap, sublist3r, metasploit, etc.)

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TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

LATIO APPLICATION SECURITY TESTER

LAST (Latio Application Security Tester) uses OpenAI to scan code for security issues from the command line. The tool can be configured to scan all code, only changes, or run in a pipeline.

github.com

TLDR InfoSec · Tool

DARK VISITORS

A website that keeps a list of known AI agents. The list can be used for information or to block unwanted scrapers.

darkvisitors.com

TLDR Design · Tool

COLOR FUSE AI

Use the power of AI to generate color palettes by style from an already-picked color and use it directly in Figma, Illustrator, or Photoshop.

colorfuseai.com

TLDR Design · Tool

UX MYTHS

UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold — backed by research findings and articles by designers and researchers.

uxmyths.com

TLDR Design · Tool

HERMANMILLER IDENTITY GUIDELINES

Herman Miller’s latest version of its identity guidelines is an excellent example of a well-done style guide. It goes from abstract descriptions of the company's mission to details using color, typography, photography, illustrations, graphic elements, composition, motion, and more.

brandstandards.hermanmiller.com

TLDR Marketing · Tool

REALLY GOOD EMAILS

This website showcases and curates examples of effective email design and marketing from brands like Ray-Ban, Supergoop, and Postable. There are thousands of examples across email categories like onboarding, abandoned cart, follow-up, and loyalty/rewards. There is a 14-day free trial available.

reallygoodemails.com