Tech References

References and AI Tools for Development & Learning

Backend#

Python 3 Docs

Official Python 3 documentation, from language specifications to the standard library.

Django Docs

A Python framework for rapidly developing robust and scalable web applications.

Django REST Framework

A toolkit for building powerful and flexible Web APIs with Django.

FastAPI

A modern, fast web framework based on Python 3.6+ type hints.

Flask

A lightweight and extensible Python micro web framework.

LangChain Docs

A Python framework for developing applications that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs).

Node.js Docs

Official documentation for the asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime environment.

NestJS

A Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications.

OpenAPI Specification

A standard specification for describing RESTful APIs. Rich ecosystem.

Stripe Docs

API documentation for implementing online payments and subscription management.

Frontend#

MDN Web Docs

The de facto standard for web technologies. Official reference for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.

web.dev

A collection of best practices for modern web development by Google. Performance, accessibility, etc.

Jamstack

A modern web architecture named after JavaScript, APIs, and Markup. It aims to improve performance, security, and scalability.

React

A declarative JavaScript library for building component-based UIs.

Next.js Docs

A production framework based on React. Offers a variety of rendering strategies.

TypeScript Docs

A superset of JavaScript that introduces static typing, enhancing the robustness of large-scale development.

Vite

A next-generation front-end tool featuring a fast development server and build.

Tailwind CSS

A utility-first CSS framework. Quickly build custom designs within your HTML.

Playwright

A framework for automating reliable end-to-end testing.

Can I use...

An essential tool for checking the browser support status of front-end technologies.

Cloud & Infrastructure#

Google Cloud Docs

Complete GCP documentation, including quickstarts, tutorials, and comprehensive guides.

Cloud Architecture Center

The Cloud Architecture Center provides reference architectures, design guidance, and best practices.

Cloudflare Developers

Official documentation for edge computing platform including Workers, Pages, and R2. Provides global CDN and serverless execution environment.

Docker Docs

The de facto standard for container virtualization technology. Official documentation.

Terraform Docs

Official documentation for the leading tool for achieving Infrastructure as Code.

Google Cloud Build

A managed service for running CI/CD pipelines on GCP.

GitHub Actions

A CI/CD platform integrated with GitHub. Automates workflows.

Netlify

A platform that automates building, deploying, and hosting by linking with GitHub/GitLab. It is a core component of the Jamstack architecture.

Version Control#

Git Official Docs

Official documentation for the distributed version control system Git.

GitHub Docs

Official documentation for GitHub features like code hosting, collaborative development, and Actions.

Learn Git Branching

An excellent learning tool to learn Git branching operations visually and interactively.

GitIngest

A tool that converts Git repository codebases into LLM-friendly formats.

Data#

BigQuery Docs

A serverless data warehouse that can analyze petabytes of data.

dbt Docs

The 'T' in ELT tool that helps with data transformation in a data warehouse.

SQLZoo

A site where you can learn SQL practically through interactive tutorials and exercises.

PostgreSQL Docs

Official documentation for the highly reliable and extensible open-source relational database.

Supabase Docs

An open-source BaaS built on PostgreSQL, providing authentication, storage, and auto-generated APIs.

Kubeflow Docs

A platform for deploying and managing ML workflows on Kubernetes.

Kaggle Learn

The world's largest community for data science competitions, public datasets, and learning resources.

Documentation & Diagramming#

Docusaurus

A static site generator built with React. Ideal for building documentation sites.

MDX

Format that enables JSX components within Markdown. Perfect for creating interactive documentation and blog posts.

Decap CMS

An open-source headless CMS that uses a Git repository as its backend. It provides an intuitive UI for managing Markdown content and has high affinity with static site generators.

Obsidian

A powerful knowledge base tool as a second brain, working on local Markdown files.

Markdown Guide

A comprehensive guide covering everything from the basics of Markdown syntax to extended features.

Mermaid

A library for generating diagrams and charts from text like Markdown.

PlantUML

A tool for quickly creating UML diagrams from a simple text description language.

draw.io

A powerful free diagramming tool that can be used in the browser. Supports creating all kinds of diagrams, including flowcharts, UML, and network diagrams.

Excalidraw

An online whiteboard for quickly creating hand-drawn style diagrams. Powerful collaborative editing features make it ideal for team brainstorming and design discussions.

Figma

A collaborative platform for everything from UI design to chart creation. An online tool widely used in the engineering design process.

Learning & Community#

roadmap.sh

Learning roadmaps for various technical fields for developers. Shows you what to learn next.

Hacker News

A tech news site run by Y Combinator. A place where geeky discussions from around the world gather.

Techmeme

Founded in 2005 by Gabe Rivera. A highly influential aggregator that consolidates technology industry news using a combination of humans and algorithms.

Stack Overflow

A Q&A community where developers from all over the world ask questions and share knowledge.

GeeksforGeeks

A site rich in articles, tutorials, and problems on computer science topics.

LeetCode

A collection of algorithm and data structure problems, ideal for preparing for technical interviews.

Security#

OWASP

An open community aimed at improving the security of web applications.

NIST

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Famous for its Cybersecurity Framework, etc.

CISA

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Provides threat information and alerts.

Web Security Academy

A free online learning resource on web security vulnerabilities by PortSwigger.

MIT OpenCourseWare

Provides free access to MIT lecture materials. Also rich in cybersecurity-related courses.

Hacksplaining

A site where you can learn about security vulnerabilities through interactive lessons.

Awesome Security (GitHub)

A curated list of tools, resources, libraries, etc., related to security.

Security NEXT

A specialized media that provides the latest information on cybersecurity, incidents, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures.

Papers#

arXiv

A pioneering open-access platform for free public access to pre-peer-reviewed papers in physics, mathematics, CS, etc.

Hugging Face Papers

Daily curation of trending AI/ML papers, with community upvotes, discussions, and links to related models and datasets.

IEEE Xplore

A digital library that provides academic journals, papers, and technical standards in electrical engineering and CS published by IEEE.

ACM Digital Library

Covers all journals and international conference proceedings published by the ACM, the largest academic society in computing.

Google Scholar

A search engine that allows cross-searching of papers and books in all academic fields and tracks citation counts.

Semantic Scholar

Utilizes AI to support literature searches by automatically generating paper summaries and visualizing high-impact citations.

Elicit

AI research assistant automates from paper search to summarization. Efficiently discover and analyze relevant papers for research questions.

Scispace

A platform that uses AI to assist in searching, understanding, and writing research papers, contributing to the efficiency of literature reviews.

ResearchRabbit

A literature survey tool that visually explores related papers to foster new discoveries. Also known as the 'Spotify for Papers.'

DBLP

A bibliographic information database specializing in CS, accurately tracking researchers' paper lists and co-author networks.

CiteSeerX

A search engine that automatically extracts and links citation information for papers in the computer and information science fields.

MDPI

Swiss-based multidisciplinary academic publisher. Over 390 peer-reviewed open access journals freely available under CC BY license.

medRxiv

A preprint server specializing in medicine, clinical, and health sciences. Shares the latest research findings promptly.

PubMed

World's largest database for medical and life sciences literature. Search peer-reviewed papers including MEDLINE.

MeSH

Medical Subject Headings controlled vocabulary maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Hierarchically structured terms enhance literature search efficiency in PubMed and other databases.

Thesaurus Browser

Search tool for medical controlled vocabulary and MeSH terms with direct links to related PubMed articles.

TechRxiv

A preprint server for electrical engineering and CS fields, established by IEEE.

SSRN

One of the world's largest platforms for sharing working papers and preprints, primarily in the social sciences and humanities.

DOAJ

A directory that includes only high-quality, reliable open access journals that meet quality standards.

Standards Organizations#

W3C

An international standards organization that develops technical standards for the World Wide Web.

IETF

A volunteer-based organization that develops technical standards for the Internet.

AI Tools#

ChatGPT

A versatile AI chatbot that excels at human-like text generation, answering complex questions, and supporting a wide range of writing and coding tasks.

Claude

An AI assistant that excels at reading long texts and complex reasoning, emphasizing polite and safe dialogue. Capable of processing up to 200,000 tokens in a single session.

Google Gemini

A multimodal AI deeply integrated with Google's services that can understand and process multiple data formats including text, code, and images.

Microsoft Copilot

An AI assistant capable of providing answers based on the latest web information and generating images. Enables seamless use in daily work through native integration with Windows and Office products.

Grok

An AI chatbot with direct access to real-time information from X (formerly Twitter). Features responses based on the latest social media trends and news.

GitHub Copilot

An AI pair programmer that provides code completion, suggestions, and entire function creation within developers' editors. Trained on vast amounts of code from GitHub, enabling highly accurate contextual suggestions.

Tabnine

An AI that learns team-specific code and coding conventions while prioritizing privacy to personalize code completion. Can run in local environments.

Cursor

An AI-native code editor that enables code editing, refactoring, and debugging through natural language instructions.

Sourcegraph Cody

Code search and AI completion for large-scale repositories. Supports multiple LLM selection and can batch process codebases up to 1M tokens.

Claude Code

A command-line tool that allows developers to delegate coding tasks directly to Claude from the terminal. Provides AI assistance integrated into development workflows, from code generation to debugging.

ChatGPT Codex

A cloud-based AI software engineering agent provided by OpenAI. It can asynchronously execute multiple parallel tasks such as feature implementation, bug fixes, and PR reviews, integrating with GitHub repositories and operating in isolated cloud environments.

Google AI Studio

A tool for testing Google's latest AI models (Gemini family) in the browser and developing prototypes. Features powerful prompt-to-code generation capabilities.

Anthropic Console

A developer platform for testing Anthropic's AI models (Claude family) and using them via API. Features long-text processing capabilities and safety-focused models.

OpenAI Platform

A developer platform providing API access to diverse AI models including OpenAI's GPT models, DALL-E, and Whisper. Enables rapid development with comprehensive documentation and sample code.

LangChain

A Python library that simplifies the development of applications leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). It abstracts diverse AI providers and data sources, enabling their use through a consistent interface.

Ollama

A tool for easily running open-source LLMs in local environments. Supports various models including Llama, Mistral, and Gemma, enabling AI development while maintaining privacy.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

An open standard protocol for connecting AI applications with external data sources and tools. By combining compatible MCP servers and clients, files, databases, and external APIs can be connected to AI systems through a standardized interface.

Anthropic Academy

The official learning platform by Anthropic for mastering Claude. It offers structured courses for free, covering Claude 101, Claude API implementation, and even building MCP servers.

Unsloth

An open-source library for LLM fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with maximized GPU efficiency. It achieves up to 30× speed improvements compared to Flash Attention 2 and up to 90% VRAM reduction, enabling LoRA and full fine-tuning of major models even on consumer GPUs such as Google Colab.

n8n

A tool for building complex multi-step automation workflows using a visual editor. Open source and can be run on your own servers.

Make

An automation platform that allows visual workflow creation by connecting app icons through drag-and-drop. Enables intuitive creation of complex branching and loop processing.

Zapier

An automation tool supporting over 7,000 app integrations. Features AI-powered workflow construction suggestions and serves as the standard tool for workflow automation.

OpenClaw

An open-source AI personal assistant that runs in local environments. Integrates with existing messaging tools like WhatsApp and Telegram to autonomously execute task automation and workflow management.

Perplexity AI

An AI search engine that provides accurate answers with cited web sources in response to questions. Delivers reliable, source-backed responses in a conversational format.

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