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Zach Lagden

zachlagden
United Kingdom

Hi! Thank you for considering sponsoring me—your support directly powers my open-source passion and helps me balance building tools for the community with growing my businesses like Lagden Development and DigiGrow LTD. ❤️

I'm Zach, an 18-year-old full-stack developer, technical architect, and entrepreneur based in Ascot, UK. By day, I'm freelancing custom web solutions, co-founding data-driven marketing projects, and gaining enterprise IT experience. By night (and weekends!), I'm all-in on open-source: creating practical tools that solve real problems.

Check out my work on GitHub—highlights include:

  • Pi-hole-Optimized-Blocklists (106⭐): Ready-to-use, optimized blocklists for Pi-hole, regularly updated and categorized by threat type.
  • Pi-hole-Blocklist-Optimizer (21⭐): Smart Python downloader and organizer with category management.
  • Face-Detection-API: Lightweight Flask API with web UI for facial landmark extraction—great for ML prototypes.
  • rickbot: Advanced Python framework for building complex Discord bots quickly.

My stack includes Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Flask/Django, React/Next.js, NGINX/Cloudflare, and more—always learning (currently mastering Next.js!).

Sponsorship means more time for maintaining these repos (bug fixes, new features), exploring new tools, and sharing knowledge. Even small amounts make a big difference, covering cloud credits and coffee to keep shipping. Everything goes straight to development—no fluff.

Explore more at zachlagden.uk or lagden.dev. Thanks for fueling the open-source fire—let's build something awesome together! 🚀

@zachlagden

Hitting $100/month will let me spend 8-10 hours weekly on open-source: regular updates to popular tools (e.g., Pi-hole blocklists used by hundreds), new features for rickbot and Face-Detection-API, and growing the Lagden Development collective with more public projects on lagden.dev. Your support directly funds development and keeps everything free for everyone. Thank you for helping make this sustainable! ❤️

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Featured work

  1. Lagden-Development/rickbot

    Rickbot is an advanced framework for creating complex (or simple) Discord bots quickly and efficiently using discord.py.

    Python 4
  2. zachlagden/Pi-hole-Optimized-Blocklists

    Ready-to-use, optimized blocklists for Pi-hole, regularly updated and categorized by threat type

  3. zachlagden/Pi-hole-Blocklist-Optimizer

    Smart Pi-hole blocklist downloader and organizer with category management

    Python 23

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