Be Awesome: More Awesome Github Lists

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26 Jan 2026

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We’re back with more awesome lists you’ll find curated on GitHub.

In this previous article, we took a look at the range of Awesome GitHub lists. Providing community-curated content across a broad range of topics, the Awesome Lists can be a great way to find products and information that focus on topics within your sphere of interest.

Sometimes though, you can have too much of a good thing, and the downside of this is that there’s simply too much goodness to cover in a single article.

The good news? We get to take another look at the Awesome Lists and compile another article to help you find all the interesting things you need to up your productivity and keep you on point.

Sneaky preview. If you like free stuff, then you’ll REALLY like this one.

Free For Dev

You don’t have to work in tech to like free stuff. But if you do happen to work in tech, free for dev is worth checking out. This is a well-curated list that focuses on staying up to date with all the free stuff a dev might need, and it's fair to say that there are some bangers in there.

Covering everything from cloud resources, through to cloud storage, software, and even mapping data and security resources, you’re bound to find something to interest you on the list.

You don’t have to be a pro to reap the rewards of this one either. Even hobbyist developers will find cool tools that will help create a comfortable dev environment without blowing the budget. You know, cuz, free.

Check out freefordev

Open Hardware

You won’t have to read many articles from this writer to figure out that open source software is a passion. As such, it goes almost without saying that open source hardware is a natural extension of this.

Open hardware is a great place to start if you’re looking to build IOT or hardware-based projects. While you’ll find a full selection of helpful projects to give you some ideas on what to build, the real value comes from the Books and Podcasts that you’ll find alongside them.

This isn’t just covering hardware-based projects either. You’ll find some thought-provoking talks and discussions that shine a light on the value of open source tools and materials by looking at the pros and cons that come with such systems.

Learn all about hardware with Awesome Open Hardware.

Awesome Prompt Injection

Born in the age of Large Language Model artificial intelligence systems, learning about prompt injection comes with the allure of giving your artificial intelligence skillset a serious leg-up.

While prompt injection is typically relevant to security researchers, there are some benefits that come from learning about the concept and how it works. By taking the time to understand the prompt injection concepts, we can better understand the AI systems that we use.

Garbage in, making Garbage out has been a saying for years, and taking the time to learn how to properly prompt an LLM to do a task will reap dividends for your productivity. Plus, as a bonus, you’ll be ready to prompt inject your way out of trouble when the AI takeover begins.

Learn how to break the system with Awesome Prompt Injection.

Tools For Activists

Planning on changing the world? Perhaps you have a whistle to blow. Whatever your agenda, navigating the world of privacy can sometimes be a tough ask if you haven’t dealt with this type of thing before.

Tools for Activists aims to make this a thing of the past by providing a full repository of tools to help you change the world safely. With a mixture of simple tools, right through to complex, self-hosted web packages, there are plenty of interesting things to browse.

You don’t have to be on a list to enjoy this repository either. Privacy fans might also find certain sections interesting, as they cover relevant and current privacy issues as well.

Get all the tools you need at this link.

Awesome Free Software

We told you in FreeforDev that free stuff is cool, but in this instance, you don’t have to be a web developer to reap the rewards. The Awesome Free Stuff list has a list of tools that are distributed under various open-source licenses.

Here, you’ll find familiar names like Audacity, Signal and LibreOffice office but along with that, there are plenty of tools that you might not have heard of yet.

While social media has conditioned us to the concept of “if it's free, you’re the product”, thankfully, in the open-source community, this saying doesn't always ring true. If you’re willing to take the time to browse the available resources, you’ll often find open source alternatives to many of the products that have taken to the dreaded monthly subscription tier.

Say no to subscriptions with Awesome Free Software

A Word Of Warning

GitHub is great. Seriously, there have been far too many hours wasted looking at obscure software packages and resources that are useful for both teaching and learning.

Unfortunately, though, the modern world is a threat-rich environment, and it’s worth keeping this in the back of your head while you’re exploring.

While you shouldn’t expect hackers lurking in every shadow, the fact is that GitHub’s trust has been exploited before. So, while you’ll certainly find some interesting things there, it’s worth taking the time to do a quick check of any packages or scripts that you might be planning to install, especially if they require root permissions.

If you’re uploading your own code to share, be sure to sanitise any credentials and ensure that you haven’t left any other sensitive information in it before you upload it.

When you’re running, sharing or installing software, a little bit of proactive security usually goes a very long way.

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