Alex Chesters


Projects

UKPD

As featured on the UK Police Data API website , UKPD is a simple Node.js client for the UK Police Data API .

RSS URL Parser

RSS URL Parser is a Node.js module which allows you parse an RSS feed URL and retrieve an array of JSON objects.

Vigilante

Vigilante is a minimalist web server for Node.js; I have spent a lot of time working with Express and Koa and was inspired to see if I could create something similar myself.

If you’re interested in learning more, I wrote a blog post about it.

AFK

AFK was one project that came out of a hack week I was a part of in 2017. I’d been working with AWS for a number of years at that point but I wanted to try out some of the lesser known services such as Amazon Rekognition , a deep learning-based image recognition service.

AFK is a simple Python program that detects when your have moved away from your screen and locks your system. If you’re interested in learning more, I wrote a blog post about it.