This is a collection of interesting links and resources I came across in September 2018, covering topics like Kotlin, Python, Markdown, note-taking apps, web development, Linux, and more.

Kotlin

• Kotlin vs. Scala vs. Java
• What should I choose instead of Java?
• Super Kotlin Tutorial
• SQL with Kotlin Exposed
• Kotlin Playground

Python

• Map, Reduce, Filter

Some notetaking apps you should give a try. At least Notion is very promising (yet you have to pay).

• Notetaking Apps Comparison
• Notion is a superb alternative to Evernote (yet does not have Markdown).
• Boostnote is pretty promising, yet has some bugs.
• VNote is said to be also very good for developers.
• Joplin is an alternative to Evernote.

Note: In the end, I go with Visual Studio Code and its Markdown Editors. Boostnote was the best free application (yet with bugs). Notion is the best paid app matching for my requirements ;)

Web UX

• Vue.js Tutorial
• Google Flutter Cross-Platform Mobile App Framework

Markdown WYSIWYM editors

• Typora
• HyperMD
• PEN

Linux

• ASSH - Go wrapper around SSH with automated hops and gateways.
• USB Power Saving (Thinkpad)
• List of Linux Monitoring Tools
• Tracktion7
• OS Query - use to query system resources by Facebook.

Productivity

• CodeStream - make working on source code collaborative (intelligent and live comments ;).

Web Scraping and Acceptance Testing

• Puppeteer by Google, built around the Chrome DevTools protocol.
• Nightmare is built on top of Electron and uses JSDOM directly. It’s said to be about 3-4x faster than Puppeteer or Selenium/WebDriverIO and about 2x faster than phantomjs.
• DayDream Macro Recorder for puppeteer and nightmare
• CodeCeption JavaScript Acceptance Testing can use several drivers.
• Scraping infinite scrolling with puppeteer
• Niffy Perceptual Testing on top of Nightmare.
• WebDriverIO

Forget PhantomJS or Selenium! Nightmare is the way to go if you want to quickly scrape data or need a background browser. Of course, Acceptance Testing should be done with WebDriveIO.

Android Apps

• Google Podcast - nice try Google!
• CastFM is my default podcast app (yet the UI could be simpler).
• Doninn Audio Editor

Other

• IssueHunt by Boostnote - sponsor features or bugfixes of OSS software with money ;)
• Facebook Build System
• Overview of Facebook DevOps
• Pandoc universal document convertor in Haskell
• Awesome lists
• Awesome SRE
• Zenkit Task Organisation