I Curated 1,000+ Developer Tools Across 10 Awesome Lists — Here's What I Learned

Over the past two weeks, I built 10 awesome-lists on GitHub covering everything from web scraping to data engineering, cybersecurity to free APIs. Total: 1,000+ tools curated, categorized, and cross-linked. Here's what surprised me. The Lists List Tools Topic Awesome Web Scraping 2026 250+ Scrapers, proxies, browsers, anti-detection Awesome Free APIs 2026 150+ APIs that work without auth keys Awesome Data Engineering 2026 150+ ETL, orchestration, streaming, warehousing Awesome Security Tools 2026 150+ Pentesting, OSINT, forensics, network Awesome MCP Tools 2026 130+ AI Model Context Protocol servers Awesome AI Tools 2026 100+ LLMs, agents, vector DBs Awesome DevOps 2026 120+ CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, containers Awesome Python DevTools 2026 80+ Linters, testing, typing, profiling Awesome CLI Tools 2026 50+ Terminal productivity tools Awesome Developer Tools 2026 100+ General dev tools 5 Things I Learned Curating 1,000+ Tools 1. Rust Is Eating the Data Stack This was the biggest surprise.