Neil Alexander

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I live in the North East of England and I am a Software Developer working on NATS at Synadia . I have a keen interest in security, privacy, decentralised systems and computer networking. I also have experience in end-user compute and enterprise-scale systems architecture.

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Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV

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Successful contributions to open source projects are a kind of currency. GitHub in particular encourages this in a number of ways: by showing avatars of contributors on repository pages, by showing your contributions to your followers via the activity feed and by signalling contributions per day on the activity graph…