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2000+ Goodies for Nerds

159 points by sciencenut 7y ago

mysterydip 7y ago
Nice list. This kind of thing used to just be a (personal) website. Is it on github for hosting, versioning, because it's trendy, or something else?
- galaxyLogic 7y ago
  I think GitHub is good for any shared textual resource because it is free and gives you version control for free. it also lets you use markup which is faster than coding in HTML.
- sciencenut 7y ago
  Author here. Currently, it's only on GitHub. I am planning to create a website in the future with search functionality and better categorization for everyone to go and use the resources listed there.
  - aaronax 7y ago
    I just went through this transition myself. For the past year or so I had been compiling technical content on GitHub and writing long-form content (updates on my year long vacation) for family and friends on a Facebook Page. Now a couple weeks ago I started putting all of that content into my own website and it feels great! Part technical challenge of getting my CMS set up and customized, and part a feeling that this is more "right" than putting stuff in walked gardens. One delicious irony is that I had a blog in college and had Facebook set up to automatically pull those posts into Notes using the RSS feed. Then at some point I didn't care about that server anymore and did not preserve the blog. So to fill in my old content I actually had to source that from the tool that I have sort of judged as inferior. So it is a real commitment to run your own site, on a decades timescale I would say. Or pay $5-10/month to WordPress.com (etc.) long-term, or trust WordPress free tier (etc.) to be around long-term.
    - mxuribe 7y ago
      > ...I started putting all of that content into my own website... The web needs more people like you!
    - zozbot234 7y ago
      > ... So it is a real commitment to run your own site, on a decades timescale I would say Why not pull it from the Internet Archive? That's going to be a lot more streamlined than a facebook notes page.
  - rajesh-s 7y ago
    I suggest you use Gitbooks to do this. It's seamless.
- elliekelly 7y ago
  I know of two completely non-technical people who use GitHub as a sort of personal website/wiki. They probably don't even know what git is let alone how to use it. I suppose if you're just looking to build a page that has information and aren't interested in the wix/square space bells and whistles then GitHub is probably the easiest option.
noisy_boy 7y ago
Massive Open Online Courses (https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs.md https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs.md) is returning 404 for me.
- rajesh-s 7y ago
  Try (https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs-and-courses.md https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs-and...)
- sciencenut 7y ago
  Fixed it: https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs-and-courses.md https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs-and... Thanks for pointing the error.
aaxa 7y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean by you're not using GitHub for your GitHub stars. Assuming you don't give stars to projects, but just saves the projects as bookmarks, why not use the built in system? Edit: I still appreciate and like the list you put together
sheinsheish 7y ago
Thanks !!!
wycy 7y ago
The "Coding Challenges" list could use Advent of Code[0]. [0] https://adventofcode.com/ https://adventofcode.com/
- the_duke 7y ago
  That's the beauty of a resource hosted on a code repository. You can just open a PR.
- sciencenut 7y ago
  There was another PR suggesting this source. Merged!

159 points by sciencenut 7y ago

Nice list. This kind of thing used to just be a (personal) website. Is it on github for hosting, versioning, because it's trendy, or something else?

galaxyLogic 7y ago
I think GitHub is good for any shared textual resource because it is free and gives you version control for free. it also lets you use markup which is faster than coding in HTML.
sciencenut 7y ago
Author here. Currently, it's only on GitHub. I am planning to create a website in the future with search functionality and better categorization for everyone to go and use the resources listed there.
- aaronax 7y ago
  I just went through this transition myself. For the past year or so I had been compiling technical content on GitHub and writing long-form content (updates on my year long vacation) for family and friends on a Facebook Page. Now a couple weeks ago I started putting all of that content into my own website and it feels great! Part technical challenge of getting my CMS set up and customized, and part a feeling that this is more "right" than putting stuff in walked gardens. One delicious irony is that I had a blog in college and had Facebook set up to automatically pull those posts into Notes using the RSS feed. Then at some point I didn't care about that server anymore and did not preserve the blog. So to fill in my old content I actually had to source that from the tool that I have sort of judged as inferior. So it is a real commitment to run your own site, on a decades timescale I would say. Or pay $5-10/month to WordPress.com (etc.) long-term, or trust WordPress free tier (etc.) to be around long-term.
  - mxuribe 7y ago
    > ...I started putting all of that content into my own website... The web needs more people like you!
  - zozbot234 7y ago
    > ... So it is a real commitment to run your own site, on a decades timescale I would say Why not pull it from the Internet Archive? That's going to be a lot more streamlined than a facebook notes page.
- rajesh-s 7y ago
  I suggest you use Gitbooks to do this. It's seamless.
elliekelly 7y ago
I know of two completely non-technical people who use GitHub as a sort of personal website/wiki. They probably don't even know what git is let alone how to use it. I suppose if you're just looking to build a page that has information and aren't interested in the wix/square space bells and whistles then GitHub is probably the easiest option.

noisy_boy 7y ago

Massive Open Online Courses (https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs.md https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs.md) is returning 404 for me.

rajesh-s 7y ago
Try (https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs-and-courses.md https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs-and...)
sciencenut 7y ago
Fixed it: https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs-and-courses.md https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies/blob/master/docs/moocs-and... Thanks for pointing the error.

aaxa 7y ago

I'm not quite sure what you mean by you're not using GitHub for your GitHub stars. Assuming you don't give stars to projects, but just saves the projects as bookmarks, why not use the built in system? Edit: I still appreciate and like the list you put together

sheinsheish 7y ago

Thanks !!!

wycy 7y ago

The "Coding Challenges" list could use Advent of Code[0]. [0] https://adventofcode.com/ https://adventofcode.com/

the_duke 7y ago
That's the beauty of a resource hosted on a code repository. You can just open a PR.
sciencenut 7y ago
There was another PR suggesting this source. Merged!