This is a personal site. It sells nothing, runs no advertising, and does not track you across other websites. Here is exactly what it stores and what leaves your browser — in plain terms.
Cookies#
This site sets no cookies. Not for analytics, not for advertising, not for anything. If you inspect your browser, you will not find a cookie from this domain.
What’s stored on your device (strictly necessary)#
Two small values are saved in your browser’s localStorage. They stay on your
device, are never sent anywhere, and exist only to make the site work the way you
left it:
| Key | Purpose |
|---|---|
appearance | Remembers whether you chose light or dark mode. |
a11ySettings | Remembers your accessibility preferences (reduced blur, hidden images, underlined links, larger text, zen mode). |
cookie-consent | Remembers your analytics choice below (accepted or declined) so you aren’t asked again. |
These are functional and do not require consent — without them the site would forget your own preferences every time you loaded a page.
Analytics (optional — you choose)#
To understand which writing resonates, this site can count page views using Umami, a privacy-first analytics tool. It is different from the usual trackers:
- It is cookieless and stores nothing on your device.
- It does not build a profile of you or follow you to other sites.
- It records aggregate, anonymized data: which page was viewed, the referring link, and a coarse location and device type derived from your IP address. Umami does not store your raw IP address.
Nothing analytics-related loads until you accept. On your first visit a banner asks you to Accept analytics or Decline. If you decline (or ignore it), the analytics script is never loaded and no page-view request is ever sent. If you accept, only then does the counting begin.
Umami’s own privacy documentation is at umami.is/docs.
Changing your mind#
Your choice is not permanent. Select “Cookie settings” in the footer of any page to reopen the banner and switch between accept and decline at any time. Declining takes effect immediately on the next page load.
You can also clear the cookie-consent value (and everything else above) by clearing
this site’s data in your browser settings.
No third parties beyond the above#
There is no advertising network, no social login, no comment system, no tag manager, and no embedded trackers. Fonts are self-hosted. The only outbound analytics request is the optional Umami one described above, and only after you accept.
Contact#
Questions about any of this? Email [email protected] and I’ll answer directly.
Last updated: July 2026.