All topics
15 hand-curated topic categories, 143 real GitHub repos pulled live from the GitHub Search API. Snapshot 2026-08-10.
How these 15 categories are balanced
The 15 categories average 9.5 lists each across 143 repos, and10 of them are capped at 10, which is the per-topic ceiling this snapshot collects. That ceiling is why the busiest categories look level with each other rather than reflecting their true depth on GitHub.
Design Resources, DevOps & Cloud, Go, Rust & Systems sit at the ceiling. The thinner end,Python (8) and Data Science (8) and Self-Hosting & DevOps (9), is genuinely thinner: fewer awesome-lists exist for those subjects, or fewer meet the star and recency bar used when this set was curated. A thin category is usually a sign the topic is either very new or well served by official documentation instead.
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