Alicia Sykes

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│ dashy 🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!
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│ personal-security-checklist 🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2023 12,811
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│ awesome-privacy 🦄 A curated list of privacy & security-focused software and services 4,981
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│ portainer-templates 🚢 500+ 1-click Portainer app templates
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│ AdGuardian-Term 🛡️ Terminal-based, real-time traffic monitoring and statistics for your AdGuard Home instance
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│ twitter-sentiment-visualisation 🌍 Sentiment analysis over real-time social media data, rendering live charts to visualise trends
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│ dotfiles 🧰 ~ • My Đotfiles
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│ wapalyzer 🌐 Identify the technologies powering any website. This is a fork of the now deleted Wappalyzer project by @AliasIO and community.
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│ git-into-open-source 🫶 A roadmap and set of guides to help you get started with open source
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│ email-comparison 📬 A quick comparison of private and / or secure email providers
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│ espanso-config 🦄 My configuration files for the Espanso text expander
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│ awesome-selfhosted FORK 🖥️ A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
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│ brewfile 🍺 My list of packages to be installed on MacOS via Homebrew, for the ultimate dev setup
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│ my-website ✨ My personal homepage. A developer portfolio site that aggregates all your projects, blog posts, and stats in one place
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│ lissy93 🥳 Hello World! 53
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│ minimal-terminal-prompt 📟 A clean PS1 bash prompt, showing user, host, pathname and git status
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│ awesome-osint FORK :scream: A curated list of amazingly awesome OSINT 32
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│ anti-theft-charge 🔋 Safely charge your phone in public places without the worry of it being stolen
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│ hasami-shogi 🀄 2-player tactical iOS game: Based on the traditional Japanese board game, Hasami Shogi (Swift V1.0)
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└ sentiment-analysis 🎈 A Node.js AFINN-111 based sentiment analysis module
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Just your average dev...

I'm Alicia, a London-based software engineer.

I have a particular interest in privacy-respecting software, as well as security. I've carried out a few audits, and authored the initial versions of Personal Security Checklist and Awesome Privacy.

I enjoy going to (and sometimes winning!) hackathons. And if you're London-based, you'll probably have bumped into me at a tech meetup.

I love Linux, and (imo) have a neat dotfiles setup which I'm always tweaking. And I have a small homelab, that I'm using to learn more about system administration, and host my own services to (attempt to) escape big tech. I made dashboard app for it.

For work, I'm a principal software engineer at AND.Digital, where I work across various client projects, help to upskill and mentor junior and mid-level developers and ensure that the code we're delivering is the best it can be.

Away from the keyboard, I like sports, hanging out with friends, and going to Church.

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Usually the tools I use for the job, depend on the job. There's no one-size fits all, and as such I'm always trying out new technologies, and constantly learning.

The following technologies are the ones I'm most familiar with, and I've linked to code that I've written with each.

Hover over a technology, to see projects built using it