Awesome List Updates on Sep 14, 2020

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1. Awesome Engineering Team Management

Remote Work / Technical Debt

• The Surprising Traits of Good Remote Leaders - “the confidence, intelligence and extroversion that have long propelled ambitious workers into the executive suite are not enough online because they simply don't translate into virtual leadership. (…) Instead, workers who are organized, dependable and productive take the reins of virtual teams.” As the source paper say it best: “virtually, the emphasis shifts from saying to doing.”

2. Awesome Dotnet

Template Engine / GUI - other

• Scriban (⭐3.5k) - A fast, powerful, safe and lightweight text templating language and engine for .NET

UI Automation / GUI - other

• PuppeteerSharp (⭐3.7k) - Puppeteer Sharp is a .NET port of the official Node.JS Puppeteer API.

• PuppeteerSharp.Contrib (⭐82) - Contributions to Puppeteer Sharp that provides a convenient way to write readable and robust browser tests.

Parser Library / GUI - other

• CSLY (⭐395) - A light embedded C# lexer/parser generator.

3. Awesome Flutter

Utilities / Game Engine resources

• FlutterGen (⭐1.6k) - Assets code generator for your images, fonts, colors, etc — Get rid of String-based APIs.

4. Awesome Robotic Tooling

Network and Middleware / Real-Time Kernel

• ocpp (⭐202) - The Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) is a network protocol for communication between electric vehicle chargers and a central backoffice system.

5. Awesome Actions

Utility / Docker Container Actions

• Paths Filter (⭐2.6k) - Conditionally run actions based on files modified by PR, feature branch or pushed commits.

6. Awesome Cl

APL

• April (⭐627) - The APL programming language (a subset thereof) compiling to Common Lisp. Replace hundreds of lines of number-crunching code with a single line of APL. Apache2.

Iteration

• snakes (⭐46) - Python style generators for Common Lisp. Includes a port of itertools. Apache2.

Job processing / Third-party APIs

• one-more-re-nightmare (⭐154) - a fast-ish regular expression compiler in Common Lisp. BSD_2Clause.

Shells, shells interfaces / Third-party APIs

• Clesh (⭐72) - extends Common Lisp to embed shell code in a manner similar to perl's backtick. FreeBSD.

Apps / Third-party APIs

• cl-yacc (⭐57) - a LALR(1) parser generator. MIT.

• cl-shlex (⭐9) - simple lexical analyzer for shell-like syntaxes. MIT.

• smug (⭐107) - parser combinators for Common Lisp. SMUG makes it simple to create quick extensible recursive descent parsers without funky syntax or impenetrable macrology. MIT.

i18n / Third-party APIs

• gettext (⭐13) - a port of the gettext runtime to Common Lisp. GPL3.

7. Awesome Earth

Carbon Reduction

• Climworks - Climeworks Direct Air Capture technology captures CO₂ from air, mixes the CO₂ with water used by a geothermal energy plant, then pumps it deep underground. Through natural processes, the CO₂ reacts with the basaltic rock – and turns into stone within a few years, permanently and safely. Iceland is one of several locations around the world that provide ideal conditions for our pioneering process. Subscribe monthly to offset a little bit of your footprint, and support the growth of this early stage technology.

• Possible - Combining individual and local actions with larger systemic change, we face our climate dread with a can-do attitude and sense of fun. Possible are tackling the climate crisis by inspiring people to act in 5 key areas - eat & buy, travel, energy, nature and talking.

• The National Grid ESO - Monitor the generation types that make up your electricity supply and see when the cleanest time to use electricity will be. See the carbon impact level of electricity generation, how your region compares to others in the UK and be notified when a record towards decarbonisation breaks.

Reforestation

• Ecologi - Help the planet from your sofa, for less than a cheap bottle of wine per month. Watch your own forest come to life and offset your entire footprint for $6.50/€6 per-month. Then get your friends, family, business, and even your dog signed up!

• EcoTree - Support the European forests and reap the benefits. Plant trees as an original and meaningful gift. Building complex, resistant, and multifunctional forests to promote resilience. For every tree harvested, three new ones are planted.

• Land Life Company - Using drones and automated planting, they plant at scale in urban environments using a fraction of the water. Their mission is to reforest the world’s 2 billion hectares of degraded land.

• Tree-Nation - With Tree-Nation you can plant trees everywhere, even in the most remote locations. You will know who is planting your trees, where they are located and how they are being planted.

• Treeware - Loads of open-source developers have a "Buy me a coffee" button on their software. Now you can have "Buy me a tree!" on your GitHub repository. Get the same "Yay somebody cares about my work" AND lessen the existential dread all in one. Powered by Offset Earth.

Finance

• Trine - Solar Crowd-investing - Invest in solar projects bringing clean energy to emerging markets. Local solar partners will distribute and manage the solar products on the ground. If the loan is successful you will receive your investment and interest in return.

• Abundance Investment - Abundance offer a crowdfunding marketplace for socially and environmentally beneficial projects. Make direct investments in a range of businesses that share your values, through an ISA or a pension.

• Amalgamated Bank - Personal and business banking from a Certified B Corporation. They're fossil fuel free in our lending, powered by 100% renewable energy and have a long, proud history of providing affordable access to banking and being a champion of immigrants’ and workers’ rights. NOT a FDIC member, but part of GABV (the Global Alliance of Banking on Values).

• Beneficial State Bank - From fairly priced checking accounts for individuals and families that help you stay on track, to business and nonprofit financial tools that assist you in growing your organization. This bank is a B Corp, a FDIC member, and part of GABV (the Global Alliance of Banking on Values). Recommended by Stop The Money Pipeline.

• Betterment - Socially Responsible Investing - Super reliable, tax efficient, Traditional and Roth IRA / 401(k), and they now offer checking too. Betterment is not socially responsible by default, you need to select the SRI portfolio for each and every goal (account) you set up with them. They have divested from oil, but you should review their SRI strategy to see if you think it's good enough.

• Climate-KIC Marketplace - Marketplace full of investment opportunities into early-stage startups. The dealflow stems from EIT Climate-KIC’s Accelerator programme, the largest climate-focused acceleration programme in the world.

• Corner Card - Discover Switzerland's first climate-friendly credit card: with every card you make an active contribution to the compensation of CO2 emissions - without any additional costs for you. Complete climate compensation Whether a flight ticket, a new shirt or an overnight stay in a hotel - goods and services paid for with the Climate Credit Card are 100% CO2 compensated.

• Ditch Dirty Banks - Anyone with a Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank account could do the world a favour by cutting that card in half. Customers of any of the fossil fuel funding banks in this list could. Phone up, tell them to cancel your account because they're funding still funding coal and fracking, and put another little ding in their bottom line. Find an ethical bank, they've usually got better fees and more friendly support staff anyway.

• EQ Investors - Impact investing is an exciting and rapidly growing industry powered by investors who are determined to generate social and environmental impact as well as financial returns.

• Ecology Building Society - Need a savings account or a mortgage, but don't want the money being used for the usual awful stuff banks fund? Ecology are dedicated to improving the environment by supporting and promoting ecological building practices and sustainable communities. They'll even give mortgage to folks trying to buy woodlands, or to buy fields and create woodland!

• Global Alliance for Banking on Values - The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) is a network of banking leaders from around the world committed to advancing positive change in the banking sector. Their goal is to change the banking system so that it is more transparent, supports economic, social and environmental sustainability, and is composed of a diverse range of banking institutions serving the real economy.

• Good Money Week - Helping you find sustainable and ethical options for banking, pensions, savings and investments.

• Hargreaves Lansdown Responsible Investment - Hargreaves Lansdown are a big name in finance, offering savings accounts and pensions. They will let you invest in pretty much anything, but they've put together a list of "responsible investment" funds to help you defer some of the thinking to the finance brains. The term 'responsible investment' is often used as a catch-all to describe funds managed with social, environmental, or other responsible criteria in mind, so maybe sift through this list to find ones that sound good to you, whether you use HL or not.

• Market Forces AU: Sustainable Banks - Find out which banks do and don’t have a record of funding fossil fuels. Each institution is sorted into categories clearly defining those that fund fossil fuels and those with no current record of funding the industry. Importantly, you can take action and contact every single bank, credit union and building society listed.

• NextEnergy Solar Fund - NextEnergy Solar Fund is a specialist investment company that invests in operating solar power plants in the UK and Italy, with the objective of securing attractive shareholder returns through RPI-linked dividends. The Company achieves this by acquiring solar power plants on agricultural, industrial and commercial sites. Invest through an ISA or SIPP on usual UK trading platforms like HL/Fidelity/etc.

• Stop the Money Pipeline - Banks, insurance companies, and asset managers are funding, insuring and investing in the climate crisis. Stopping this money pipeline is one of the most important ways we can address the climate emergency.

• Thrive Renewables - Thrive Renewables connects people to sustainable energy. We offer accessible opportunities for individuals and businesses to invest in clean energy projects that deliver financial, environmental and social rewards. With over 25 years in the industry, we have a wide network of professional contacts and are constantly on the look out for new projects which enhance our portfolio, match our investment criteria and have the potential to generate financial, environmental and social returns.

• Tomorrow One Bank - German bank which considers the future of our planet to be more important than access to VIP lounges at airports. Skip extra insurance products and fuel discounts, and get a premium account that focuses on climate protection.

• Triodos Bank - Modern financial and banking services for savers, investors, and organisations who want to change the world for the better. Current accounts, personal savings, ISAs, business lending, and all sorts of other options for individuals, businesses, and charities.

• Triodos Crowdfunding - Invest directly in pioneering organisations delivering positive change, such as community solar schemes, renewable energy projects, ethical food supermarkets.

Clothing

• Allbirds - Our shoes are made with merino wool, tencel made from rainfall-fed FSC-certified eucalyptus forests, recycled plastic bottles (for laces), 'Sweetfoam' soles made from castor bean oil and ProForest-protected sugarcane. At 7.6 kg per pair for our wool runners, our process uses 60% less energy than materials used in typical synthetic shoes. We offset the rest, making Allbirds a carbon-neutral business.

• Bam - Bamboo Clothing - Bamboo clothing company that are entirely dedicated to sustainability beyond purely carbon emissions, they're aiming for zero chemical pollution, zero waste to landfill, zero deforestation in their suppliers (and their suppliers, and their suppliers...) and zero water wasted. They've got active wear, casual wear, underwear, gift cards for birthdays, the whole thing.

• Boody Eco Wear Essentials - Everyday essentials made from hypoallergenic and breathable FSC-certified bamboo viscose yarn, OEKO-TEX 100 certified organic by Ecocert.

• Knowledge Cotton Apparel - Clothing made from certified organic cotton, recycled PET, linen, wool, tencel, and recycled nylon sent via certified carbon neutral shipping in recyclable packaging.

• Kushel - Our bathrobes and towels are made from reforested beech wood and organic cotton, made in Portugal. Sourced from FSC-certified reforested forestry operations in Europe without irrigation. This mix needs 90% less water and emits 44% less CO2. By planting 2 trees for each towel and by compensating the carbon emissions and blue-water usage, we are a climate & resource positive textile brand, and the first certified B corporation in Germany.

• Vesica Piscis Shoes - Hand made stylish shoes made from recycled materials. Recycled cotton, recycled polyester fabric picking from plastic bottles, X-ray plates, fishing nets, etc. They use virgin natural rubber, bamboo, and a small amount of organic cotton.

• Vinted Used Clothes Marketplace - Your community for pre-loved fashion. Buy and sell quality used apparel.

Consumer Products

• Katadyn Water Filters - Katadyn develops and manufactures durable and portable water filters, desalinators and chemical disinfectants for daily use, camping, trekking, or global journeys. The vast product line ranges from water filters and Micropur tablets to the smallest manual desalinator for marine applications. Aid organizations as well as the military rely on them.

• TomatoInk - TomatoInk is an eco-friendly, low-cost provider of ink and toner. By packaging ink in remanufactured cartridges, we pass along substantial savings both financial and environmental to you. “Our factory collects high-quality used cartridges. There, they are professionally cleaned and inspected and any defective parts get replaced. The cartridges then get filled with high-quality ink comparable to that used in name-brand cartridges. And finally, every single cartridge is inspected and test printed.”

Documentaries

• Biggest Little Farm - The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chesters unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination. Featuring breathtaking cinematography, captivating animals, and an urgent message to heed Mother Nature's call, The Biggest Little Farm provides us all a vital blueprint for better living and a healthier planet.

Food

• Farm Drop - Next day delivery in London for groceries and household products from local and independent producers.

Waste

• The Rotten Fruit Box - 100% Natural Freeze-Dried Fruit Snacks from Spain and Portugal shipped to you. The fruit you’re enjoying would have otherwise gone unused and rotted away on the ground. We also think that the name "Rotten" helps bring attention to the serious issue of food waste. Delicious, healthy, 100% natural, with a long shelf life, our freeze dried fruit snack pouches are ideal for home, work, office, to take to school, camping or just about anywhere. Help reduce food waste. Help small local farmers. 100% compostable packaging, ships with your local postal service because it is the lowest carbon footprint option.

• EU: Right to Repair - Cracked screens, weak batteries, broken charging ports... We’d like to fix them, but instead we end up buying a new smartphone because repairs are too expensive, difficult or impossible. Reducing the lifespan of a product may drive sales, but this comes at the expense of consumers, workers and the planet. Ask the European Union to give people the Right to Repair by requiring manufacturers to design repairable smartphones and provide spare parts and repair information to all repairers and consumers.

• Original Unverpackt - Zero packaging supermarket in Berlin. Original Unverpackt hat sich als erster Supermarkt weltweit dem Zero-Waste-Lifestyle gewidmet.

Footprint Calculators

• Eco Passenger - More than a quarter of worldwide greenhouse gases emissions come from the transportation sector, and more important, it is the sector where we have seen the highest growth in these emissions the last decades and it is not stopping. To help, EcoPassenger is a calculator to compare the energy consumption, CO2 and exhaust atmospheric emissions for planes, cars, and trains, for passenger transport.

• Joro - Effortlessly track your personal carbon footprint by securely connecting your credit and debit cards. Joro combines financial data and academic datasets to develop real-time carbon footprint estimates. The bank integration uses Plaid, and is US only for now, but has plans to roll out to Europe. Sign up to the newsletter to find out.

• Zellar - Get an energy profile for your company to understand your energy consumption, and how much CO2 is being generated to power your business. We’ll then let you compare your profile to other local businesses or similar businesses across the UK, then track performance over time. Get advice and even unlock funds to finance any investments you may need to make on your journey to zero carbon.

Home Improvements

• Ecobee - Improve how people consume energy to create a more sustainable future. Live in harmony with a thermostat and sensor that learn and adapt to your schedule. Lower the manufacturing footprint by buying one of their refurbished products.

• Lancey - An efficient radiator to control your electricity consumption while improving comfort, with a connected thermostat to adapt to your needs and the characteristics of your home. A built-in battery stores electricity during off-peak hours, allowing you to automatically use cheaper and cleaner energy.

• Mist Showers - The emissions of a typical shower equal 3.5 – 7 km of driving. The mist shower, a satisfying but forgotten technology which uses very little water and energy, could be a solution. You can DIY convert almost any shower into a mist shower. The five-nozzle mist shower offers significant water and energy savings compared to a “normal” shower and does so without sacrificing comfort.

• PowerX - A plug-and-play smart-controller for water and gas headers. It learns what water temperatures you like and heats only as much water as you need. It will also detect the ideal time to heat your water, as prices change every 15 minutes, so you can save money with no impact on hot water levels. Save hundreds of dollars, reduce carbon emissions equivalent to 10 fully grown trees – every year!

• Rigo Paint - Made From Flax - Decorating your house? Check out RigoStep water-based paints, and oil paints depend on locally grown flax, which is heated and pressed by traditional windmills to extract the oil. Once mixed with other solvents, this forms the liquid base for the paint.

Renewable Energy

• Project Sunroof - Find out if you could save money switching to solar panels. This Google project uses Google Earth imagery to analyze your roof shape and local weather patterns to create a personalized solar plan. Adjust your electric bill to fine-tune your savings estimate and the recommended number of solar panels for your home, then compare loan, lease, and purchase options for your solar panels based on your results.

• UK Carbon Intensity - This officially backed open API from Oxford University and the National Grid ESO gives a snapshot of how much carbon each unit of electricity consumed in the UK emits for every half hour. Also carries forecasts, regional breakdowns with some great charts and re-useable widgets. They also have an app.

Hygiene

• Ocean Savers Cleaning Supplies - "Pre-mixed" cleaning sprays that you will find in the supermarket are over 90% water, with the active ingredient (the part that actually does the cleaning) making up a fraction of the total liquid. Oceansaver provide just the active ingredients, so people can reuse plastic bottles, reducing the consumption of single-use plastic.

• Smol - Zero plastic dishwasher and laundry tablet subscription. Contains child lock, they're FSC certified, half the price of traditional brands, and animal cruelty free.

Podcasts

• People Fixing the World - BBC World Service - Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.

• TIL Climate Podcast - This MIT podcast breaks down the science, technologies, and policies behind climate change, how it’s impacting us, and what we can do about it. Each quick episode gives you the what, why, and how on climate change -- from real scientists -- to help us make informed decisions for our future.

• Talking Headways: A Book Club for the Future of Transportation - We explore the intersection of sustainable transportation, urban planning, city living, economic development, and anything else that piques our interest. A staple and almost an obligatory source of information on the latest trends in urban mobility and urban planning.

• The Climate Fix - We shine a spotlight on people and organisations working on sustainable solutions, help connect them to talent & investment as well as give people hope that there are climate solutions as well as climate problems.

• The Energy Transition Show - Straight talk about the world’s transition from fossil fuels to renewables with energy expert Chris Nelder.

Transportation

• Commute on Electric Motorbikes - Electric cars are still priced beyond the reach of many, but swapping a car for an electric motorbike will leave plenty of cash in your pocket. The average used car sells for $20,840 in the USA, and you can get a lot of electric motorbike for $3,000. Finding a used electric motorbike will get that manufacturing footprint off your conscience too.

• DHL GoGreen - GoGreen Solutions include both standardized products and customized solutions to help customers develop their own eco-friendly business models and green supply chains. With our carbon reports, climate neutral products, and green optimization, we give customers transparency, offset unavoidable emissions, and identify ways in which our customers can reduce emissions and waste. These optimization measures achieve savings potential that most companies would not be able to achieve on their own.

• Share Now - With car-sharing, you don't have to buy or lease a car. Share Now cars are available around every street corner in loads of cities around the world. Find us in 16 major cities in 8 countries in Europe and all over the US – for all your plans, big and small. Includes free parking, no need to pay for maintenance, insurance, or petrol, and loads of them are electric too! Package deals available for businesses to help employees ditch their car when active/public transportation is not an option.

• TomTom's EV Station Finder - With TomTom's EV charging infrastructure, 'eco-routing' to calculate energy efficient routes (!), in-range EV station finder, real-time availability monitoring, on-demand information, TomTom is continuing to invest in the largest electric vehicle map coverage with 330,000+ charging points in 50 countries throughout Europe, The Americas, the Middle East, and Asia.

• VanMoof - "City-proof" bikes, with electric assist, which ship fully assembled. They're baked full of anti-theft tech, and they'll hunt your bike down if it does get stolen. In some countries there is a subscription service where they'll fix things up for you if you have any trouble, but just the base bike alone is a stunning beautiful electric bike with dynamo hubs, built in lights, and sturdy mudguards, so you can ride it all day and night.

• Workhorse - Electric Delivery Vehicles - All-electric by design, with composite technology, and a 100-mile range, it's expected to be more economical than traditional delivery vans. Our current delivery vans, E-100 and E-GEN, have more than 4 million miles on them and are used by some of the premier package delivery companies in the world.

8. Awesome Powershell

Communities

• Slack PowerShell team - Large chat room dedicated to PowerShell. Bridged with #PowerShell on irc.freenode.net.

9. Awesome Vue

Resources / Podcasts

• Changelog #184 (11-27-2015)

10. Awesome Seml

Governance

• Closing the AI Accountability Gap: Defining an End-to-End Framework for Internal Algorithmic Auditing 🎓

11. Awesome Ibmcloud

Infrastructure

• cloudland (⭐75) - Cloudland, a light weight infrastructure as a service project, plus OpenShift 4 platform as a service deployment engine, is a system framework to manage VM instances, software defined networks (SDN), volumes.

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