GitHub Repos that you should check out

Github is a very useful source of a lot of open source projects. If you find any repo of your interest from the list below, fork it and go through the code. Reverse engineering is a good way to learn. This process will give you a lot of questions, which in the process of understanding and answering will help you expand your knowledge.

Mother of all demo apps
https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

Build your own (insert technology here)
https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

List of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally.
https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

Face detection library in 200 lines of JS
https://github.com/tehnokv/picojs/

Watch matches in a terminal 
https://github.com/cedricblondeau/world-cup-2018-cli-dashboard?ref=producthunt

“Backblaze B2 provides the cheapest cloud object storage and transfer available on the internet. Comparatively, AWS S3 is 320% more expensive to store and 400% more expensive to transfer to the internet.”
https://github.com/sibblegp/b2blaze

A tool to encrypt files on git, and you can maintain an oss project without giving up your keys.
https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt

Rasa NLU – Turn Natural Language into structured data:
https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa_nlu

Useful resource for Tamil machine learning applications.
https://github.com/Ezhil-Language-Foundation/open-tamil

Tamil text to speech
https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install

YouTube downloader
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

A personal terminal-based dashboard utility, designed for displaying infrequently-needed, but very important, daily data
https://github.com/senorprogrammer/wtf

An interesting decentralized alternative to Slack.
https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork

YouTube Downloader
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Whatsapp Web bot:
https://github.com/bruno222/whatsapp-web-bot

The only cheat sheet you need
https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh

A list of SWAG opportunities
https://github.com/swapagarwal/swag-for-dev

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