Privacy

A personal site, run by one person on his own server. Here is everything it knows about you, in plain language.

What the server writes down

Like every web server, mine keeps an access log. Each request records your IP address, the time, the page you asked for, the page you came from, and the browser string your software sends. I use it for exactly two things: figuring out why something broke, and noticing when a bot is hammering the site. It isn't analysed, profiled, or handed to anyone, and old logs get cleared out as they age.

Separately, when a link points at a page that doesn't exist, the site records the missing address, where the link came from, and how many times it's been hit — so I can go fix it. That record contains no IP address and nothing about you.

Your email address

The only thing you can hand over here is your email address, and only if you type it into the letter form yourself. If you do, it's used for one thing: sending you the letter. It lives on my own server, it is never sold, shared, rented, or handed to a mailing platform, and the unsubscribe link sits at the top of every email rather than buried at the bottom. Ask me to delete it and it's gone — no form to fill in, just say so.

Cookies and your browser's storage

This site sets no cookies of its own. It does use your browser's local storage for two small flags — whether you've already seen the subscribe prompt, and whether you've already signed up — purely so the prompt stops bothering you. Those values never leave your browser and never reach my server. Clearing your site data removes them.

Other people's servers

A few files load from elsewhere: the typefaces come from Google Fonts, the CSS and JavaScript framework from the jsDelivr CDN, and the login panel from my own panel.ihomepage.net. When your browser fetches those files, those servers see your IP address and browser string, the same as any request. I don't control their logs.

Beyond that: no analytics, no advertising networks, no tracking pixels, no social buttons, no A/B testing, no session recording, no fingerprinting. Nothing on this site is trying to work out who you are.

Advertising

There is none, and there won't be. I don't take ads or sponsored posts. If you've built something interesting and want me to look at it, write to me — I'm glad to try it and share what I find, and I don't charge for that.

Asking me about any of this

Write to [email protected]. I read it myself and answer within a few days. If you want to know what I hold about you, or want it gone, that's the same address.

A letter, every other week

When something new goes up here, I send it out with a short note about what I was actually thinking while writing it. That's the whole thing — no digest, no round-up, no course at the end of it. Leave whenever you like; the unsubscribe link is at the top of every email, not buried at the bottom.

I never sell or share the list — it lives on my own server.