awesome VS public-apis

Repositories that are awesome lists or collection of resources

This has existed for 10 years:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

I managed to collect a diverse set of resources, and submit a pull request that passed all the checks in first try. But sadly, due to small community size, lack of resources, exams and abandonment of J2ME by Oracle, I was not able to completely fulfill my goal.

1. Awesome

In the days before "google it" was a synonym for "find it", we had different curated link sites, and even pyhsical magazines with hand-curated lists of links that people interested in a certain topic might find interesting. This still exists today in some forms, for example the "awesome lists" that you see for some programming topics, for example https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome .

Just like there was a time when 90%-99% of all email traffic was viagra spam, I imagine in the future most of the internet by volume will be AI-generated trash, and those in the know will still circulate lists of where the other 1% can be found.

An even brighter scenario is that someone, maybe a kid tinkering in their garage, figures out how to make a search engine that finds the good stuff, doesn't immediately die to AI bot farms' SEO efforts, and is financially viable.

2. Awesome Lists

Software Engineering Blogs

He appears to be the original creator of the “Awesome X” repo: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

Awesome React

Public APIs with 310k stars on GitHub

🌐 Project: Public APIs 💡 Why Contribute: Love APIs? This project is a massive collection of free APIs for public use. You can help by adding new APIs, categorizing existing ones, or even building sample projects using the APIs listed.

Might be helpful for some future projects I'm thinking of!

On a related note, here's a list of loads of free APIs for a huge variety of subjects.

https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Public APIs

For inspirations on what type of agents I should build, I turned to the Public APIs GitHub repository which has a curated lists of free APIs. I narrowed my search for an API that does not require sign-up or an API key and returns useful information. I ultimately decided to use the Free Currency Exchange Rates API, which seemed promising upon some basic testing.

✅ public-apis/public-apis : https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Public-Apis Github Repo — A list of free public APIs.

Interesting thread at https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/issues/3104