Helpful Utils and Resources

Read Books

Pay for them if they are good…

• Libgen.rs
• Standard Ebooks
• z-lib
• Project Gutenberg
• How to design programs
• The Eye EU
• FreeComputerBooks.com

All The Things – Unblockit

• Unblockit.cat

Make Visual Novels

• Ren’Py is a python visual novel engine

Browser

• Firefox docs and utilities

EPUB

• Sigil-Ebook

Email

• Learn DMARC

Maps

• Open Source Geocoding with Openstreetmaps

Video capture / Streaming

• OBS Open Broadcaster Software

Operating Systems and Packages

• Command not found – finds package for commands
• repology – analyses packages between operating systems
• Systemd by example
• Brendan Gregg Linux Performance

DNS

• PowerDNS
• Home network domain

Version Control

• Git

Authentication, Oauth, IAM and Single Sign-On

• Keycloak

JSON

• JSON.org
• JSON Schema

Central Automation

• AWX / Ansible Tower

Networking

• IP Address Lookup TUTORIAL
• Routing, switching, transit, peering

To Be Analysed

These are tools that still need to be tested more thoroughly to make a choice

Load Testing

• Locust – Scalabale user load testing written in python
• Hey – Go application that sends load to applications
• predator.dev
• Rally – Load Testing Elasticsearch

Load Balancing, Edge Router and API Gateway

• HAProxy – The reliable High performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
• Envoy – C++ Cloud-native high performance edge/middle/service proxy
• Traefik – Go writtenCloud-native edge router
• Kong – Cloud-native API gateway

Network Automation

• Trigger
• Napalm
• Nornir
• PyEZ – Juniper
• Netmiko

Lightweight Kubernetes

• k3s

Security

• vulnerablecontainers.org

Helpful Things

• Hiring: Github profile does not help you when hiring
• HATEOAS – an alternate explanation

Git Help

• Ohshitgit.com
• git flight rules

Python

• Dive into Python 3
• Pypi stats

Python packages

• Parse: Easier regular expressions
• CLI Argument parser an alternative for argparse

General Utilities

• Add quotes and comma seperate – an awesome utility to make your life easier. Created by this king: Adam Diehm

Github Good Repos

Git Most Wanted – Find cool Github Repos

Linux Programming

Advanced Linux Programming – An ebook about building GNU/Linux applications

Database

• MySQL Tuner – A script that checks your configuration of MySQL for performance and security vulnerabilities. Also gives suggestions on how to fix these issues.
• pgtuner – A web application advising on correct settings given the context for Postgres Tuning

Fun with SQL

• Learn SQL while solving crimes – costs $20 after a while
• SQL Murder Mystery

Communication

• XMPPP

Security Scans

Owasp Secure coding practices
WPScan – A wordpress scanner that checks for vulnerabilities and tells you how to fix them. Very helpful as wordpress is one of the top targets for bot scans. ### Django Models Django models vs SQL ### Python Cheatsheets GTO76 Python Cheatsheet * Pythonsheets

Git