Alicia Sykes
Posts
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- ├ SvelteKit 1.0 - Building a Blog that fetches from RSS 🦄
- ├ 20 Amazing Collections for Self-Taught Developers 🎓
- ├ CLI tools you can't live without 🔧
- ├ 20 Git Commands you (probably) didn't know 🧙♂️
- ├ Super Useful CSS Resources 🌈
- ├ Generate Pretty Code / App Screenshots 📸
- ├ 50+ Awesome Dev Tool Tips 🔥
- ├ Fun with console.log() 💿
- ├ GitHub Markdown Tricks 🐙
- ├ Comparison of Private / Secure Emai Providers 📬
- ├ One-Line Web Server 🖥️
- ├ NPM Dependency Security Best Practices 📦
- ├ Dashy - A Self-Hosted Home Lab Dashboard 🚀
- ├ Using Espanso to boost Efficiency 🚤
- ├ My Life in Months 🗓️
- ├ Errors and Solutions 🤬➡️🥳
- ├ Quick How-To Guides 💫
- ├ SSH Tarpit with EndleSsh 🪤🕳️
- ├ Pimping up Your DuckDuckGo Search Results 💄
- ├ My Server Setup ⚙️
- ├ Spelling Auto-Correct System ✏️❌
- ├ Top 25 Raspberry Pi Projects 🥧
- ├ My Top 50 Windows Apps 🖥
- ├ [REFERENCE] Using Variable Fonts in CSS 🔤
- ├ Try. 💯
- ├ Pi Zero Tor-Routed Access Point 📶
- ├ [HOW-TO] Mullvad VPN using WireGuard on OPNsense 👁️🗨️
- ├ Custom Styling for Listed Blog 💅
- ├ Epic Internet Stuff! ✨
- ├ Fun with Real-Time Data 🌠
- ├ [REFERENCE] InfoSec Abbreviations 🔡
- ├ [REFERENCE] Wireshark Display Filters 💻
- ├ My Top 50 Android Apps 📱
- ├ [QUICK-TIP] Git Submodules
- ├ Introduction to Digital Privacy & Security 🔐
- ├ [HOW-TO] Remove all node_modules folders 🗑️
- ├ keep-mouse-movin.sh 🖱️
- ├ [HOW-TO] Compile & Install Software on Arch 🏗️
- ├ key-mirror.ts 🪞
- ├ React Grid System ⚛️
- ├ Fave YouTube Chanels 📼
- ├ [HOW-TO] Use SSH for Server Authentication 🔓
- ├ [HOW-TO] Operate the SharkJack 🦈
- ├ My worry about the future of Keybase 😟
- ├ Expressing my Gratitude to the Universe 🌌
- ├ AHT GPG Public Key 🔑
- ├ [HOW-TO] Enable/ Disable Pi-Hole from CLI 🥧
- └ Hello World 👋
Projects
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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!11,80588276MIT323 mb - ├
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│ personal-security-checklist 🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2022 11,4348312592 mb - ├
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│ awesome-privacy 🦄 A curated list of privacy & security-focused software and services 4,22815236Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal36 mb - ├
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│ portainer-templates 🚢 400+ 1-click Portainer app templates638307MIT1 mb - ├
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│ AdGuardian-Term 🛡️ Terminal-based, real-time traffic monitoring and statistics for your AdGuard Home instance613184MIT3 mb - ├
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│ twitter-sentiment-visualisation 🌍 Sentiment analysis over real-time social media data, rendering live charts to visualise trends18269815 mb - ├
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│ dotfiles 🧰 ~ • My Đotfiles11091 mb - ├
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│ email-comparison 📬 A quick comparison of private and / or secure email providers60143MIT2 mb - ├
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│ espanso-config 🦄 My configuration files for the Espanso text expander5114 - ├
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│ awesome-selfhosted FORK 🖥️ A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers48815 mb - ├
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│ Brewfile 🍺 My Brewfile, for installing all packages required for development maching on MacOS via Homebrew4611MIT - ├
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│ Lissy93 🥳 Hello World! 43331206 mb - ├
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│ minimal-terminal-prompt 📟 A clean PS1 bash prompt, showing user, host, pathname and git status3871MIT - ├
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│ devolio ✨ A developer portfolio site for the rest of us! Aggregates all your projects, blog posts, and stats in one place3151 mb - ├
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│ hasami-shogi 🀄 2-player tactical iOS game: Based on the traditional Japanese board game, Hasami Shogi (Swift V1.0)301 mb - ├
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│ anti-theft-charge 🔋 Safely charge your phone in public places without the worry of it being stolen273MIT20 mb - ├
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│ sentiment-analysis 🎈 A Node.js AFINN-111 based sentiment analysis module277239 mb - ├
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│ md-cv-maker 🎓 A highly customisable template for a single-page material design CV website25614 mb - ├
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│ all-the-countries 🌎 Just a quick app, for learning the countries, their capital cities, flags and other info203MIT2 mb - └
quick-example-of-testing-in-nodejs
🛡 An example TDD project in Node.js, with unit tests, coverage tests, a stubbed API, continuous integration, code quality reviews and automated dependency checking
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Contact
About
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.
Tech Stack
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
backend
frontend
mobile
other
devOps
cloud
databases
testing
security
