No cookies. Not even one.

In your browser

Saved on your device for the site's small features. None of it is ever sent to me.

• Reader mode

  your browser · until you clear it

  Whether you turned reader mode on, so it stays on next time.

• Visit count

  your browser · until you clear it

  How many times you have opened the home page, for the “visit #7” line.

• Secrets found

  your browser · until you clear it

  Which of the home page's hidden secrets you found.

• Already counted

  your browser · until the tab closes

  Notes that this tab already counted your visit and each project view, so a reload does not count twice.

On my server

• Project view counts

  Upstash Redis · 24 hours

  Each project page counts its views. To count you once a day, the site keeps a scrambled code made from your IP address (a keyed hash) for 24 hours. The address itself is never stored, and the code can't be turned back into it.

• Rate limits

  Upstash Redis · 1 to 10 minutes

  The same scrambled code, counting requests for a few minutes so a script can't flood the guestbook, the counters, the error reports or the simulator.

• Guestbook notes

  Upstash Redis · until 500 newer notes

  The name and message you write, and when. They are public on the home page. The 500 newest are kept. Want yours gone? Email me and I'll remove it.

• Click tallies

  Upstash Redis · 400 days

  A count per day of a few clicks: which résumé PDF was opened, the email copied or clicked, and links out to GitHub, LinkedIn or YouTube. Only the number goes up. Nothing about who clicked is stored.

• Error reports

  Upstash Redis · until 200 newer ones

  If a page breaks in your browser, it sends me the error message, the page address and when. Same for a blocked script or style (a security policy report). No IP address, nothing about you.

• FDE simulator

  Google Gemini, Upstash Redis · 30 days

  What you type is sent to Google's Gemini to write the plan. The plan is then saved for 30 days, filed under a fingerprint of your text (not the text itself), so the same brief gets the same answer.