Innovation Weekly

Contents

• 🌐 Online Services
• ☁️ Cloud
• ⚙️ Serverless
• 📜 Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• 📦 Containers
  • ☸️ Kubernetes
• 🚀 GitOps
• 🛠️ Productivity
• 🔒 Security
• 🌐 Networking
• 💻 Development
• 🎨 Design
• 🔧 Git
• 📈 Operations
• 🧪 Testing
• 🛠️ Build Systems
• 📦 Package Managers
• 🎙️ Talks
• 🍏 macOS Tools
• 📝 Articles
• 🎓 Educational Resources

🌐 Online Services

• remove.bg - Remove image backgrounds automatically.
• ipinfo.io - Pinpoint user locations to customize experiences or prevent fraud.
• explainshell.com - See help text for each argument of a command line input.
• asciinema.org - Record and share terminal sessions.
• glitch.com - A friendly community for web development.
• LoremFlickr - Free placeholder images.
• Short GCP News - Weekly news about Google Cloud Platform.
• uptime.is - Calculate SLA uptime easily.
• shields.io - Generate badges for your projects.
• Whats.new - Use .new domain extension for quick online actions.
• hackmd.io - Collaborate on Markdown documents.
• seashells.io - Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real-time.
• SheetBest - Convert spreadsheets into APIs.
• readme.so - Simple editor for creating README files.
• Tango - Create step-by-step documentation with screenshots quickly.
• http.cat - HTTP status codes represented with cats.
• wttr.in - Curl weather information right from the terminal.
• typelit - Practice typing using literature.
• miro - A collaborative online whiteboard platform.
• prose.sh - A blogging platform for developers.

☁️ Cloud

• Atlantis - Terraform pull request automation.
• GCP Instances Overview - GCP instance pricing and availability details.
• Karpenter - Node provisioning for Kubernetes to optimize efficiency and costs.
• Viddy - Modern watch command with enhanced capabilities.

⚙️ Serverless

• OpenFaaS - Serverless functions made simple.
• Serverless DNS - A serverless DNS implementation for Cloudflare Workers and other platforms.

📜 Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Terraform Switcher - Easily manage multiple versions of Terraform.

📦 Containers

• Hadolint - A Dockerfile linter written in Haskell.
• Colima - Docker for Mac replacement with M1 support.
• Syft - Generate a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems.
• Dive - Analyze Docker image layers to optimize their size.

☸️ Kubernetes

• Tilt - Stress-free local Kubernetes development.
• Skaffold - Easy and repeatable Kubernetes development.
• k9s - Manage Kubernetes clusters from the terminal.
• kubefwd - Bulk port-forward Kubernetes services for development.
• Flagger - Kubernetes progressive delivery operator.
• Kubernetes Debug Guide - A visual guide for debugging Kubernetes deployments.
• k3d - Create containerized k3s clusters.
• Argo CD - Declarative GitOps CD for Kubernetes.
• kubectl-view-secret - Decode Kubernetes secrets easily.

🚀 GitOps

• Crossplane - Kubernetes add-on for infrastructure assembly and API exposure.
• Keda - Kubernetes event-driven autoscaling.

🛠️ Productivity

• Boostnote - Improve happiness, productivity, and creativity.
• bat - A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
• peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool for the command line.
• Glow - Render Markdown on the command line beautifully.
• rmlint - Find space waste and broken things on your filesystem.
• age - Simple and secure file encryption.
• pipet - a swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers

🔒 Security

• h2t - HTTP hardening tool that suggests security headers.
• httpx - A fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit.
• subfinder - Discover valid subdomains for websites.
• Grype - A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems.
• ScoutSuite - Multi-cloud security auditing tool.

🌐 Networking

• NetBox - Infrastructure resource modeling tool for network automation.
• ngrok - Secure URLs for localhost servers.
• traefik - Cloud-native ingress for HTTP and reverse proxy.
• Termshark - A terminal-based UI for tshark.

💻 Development

• flipt.io - Feature flag solution for your infrastructure.
• VSCodium - Free, open-source binaries of VSCode.
• Gum - A tool for glamorous shell scripts.
• httpie - An intuitive and modern command-line HTTP client.
• jo – A small utility to create JSON objects.
• nats.io - Connective technology for adaptive edge & distributed systems.
• quickwit - Cloud-native search engine for log management & analytics.

🎨 Design

• Calico - A color-aware replacement for cat.
• colorhunt - Curated color palettes for designers.
• Fontjoy - Generate font combinations with deep learning.

🔧 Git

• gitleaks - Audit git repos for secrets.
• Commit Messages Guide - Multilingual guide on writing commit messages effectively.
• Git with Multiple Email Addresses - Use multiple email addresses with Git easily.

📈 Operations

• M3 - Open-source metrics platform built on M3DB.
• Netdata - Real-time performance monitoring.
• GoAccess - Open-source web log analyzer with terminal viewer.
• Caddy - Enterprise-ready web server with automatic HTTPS.

🧪 Testing

• Polly.JS - Record, replay, and stub HTTP interactions for JavaScript.
• KitchenCI - Infrastructure code deserves tests too.
• Puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node.js API.
• Mailtrap - Email sandbox service to capture SMTP traffic from staging and development.

🛠️ Build Systems

• Task - A task runner and build tool aiming to be simpler than GNU Make.

📦 Package Managers

• Allaman/werkzeugkasten - Download command-line tools easily.
• eget - Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.
• Huber - Simplify package management from GitHub projects with live updates.
• asdf - Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool.

🎙️ Talks

• Continuous Delivery Best Practices with Jenkins and GKE (Cloud Next '18) - Continuous Delivery best practices.
• Wat - Lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt on programming quirks.

🍏 macOS Tools

• macOS Wi-Fi Location Changer - Automatically change location when macOS changes Wi-Fi.
• m-cli - macOS command line tool to interact with system utilities.
• MonitorControl - Control display brightness & volume on macOS.

📝 Articles

• Is Vim Really Not For You? A Beginner Guide - Vim, a beginner's guide.
• Google Cloud Solutions Architecture Reference - Overview of GCP services.
• How to Reduce Your Prometheus Cost - Cost-saving tips for Prometheus.
• howtheysre - Public resources on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• awesome-scalability - Patterns for scalable, reliable, and performant systems.

🎓 Educational Resources

• GameShell - A "game" to teach the Unix shell.