Colophon

Impressum, sort of

I do not, in fact, operate out of Germany. It is my understanding that I have no further obligations under the TMG. Feel free to contact me by email if you are or can provide a German lawyer to correct me on this point, so that I can ... host my public-facing websites out of France or Canada instead?

Privacy policy

No Europeans or Dogs.

This site is compliant with every privacy regulation I'm aware of, on the basis of simply collecting no personal data, personally identifiable information, &c. to speak of, except insofar as your jurisdiction may consider IP addresses personal data per se, in which case your jurisdiction is wrong and dumb.

I do keep access logs as necessary to monitor the security and health of my systems, assess viewer interest in my content, and/or purely personal or household amusement (and watch this space in case I collect more data or find more reasons), and retain them indefinitely.

Nevertheless, in the interest of making political statements nobody asked for: I am offering no goods or services to data subjects in the European Union, nor do I monitor their (or anyone's, for that matter) behaviour. If you feel that I am offering you goods or services, you should leave immediately and without accepting them. I won't insist that you take them.

Under no circumstances should you expect invoking GDPR article 17 to cause me to actually erase any personal data, first of all because I don't have any personal data, and second of all because all the data I do collect, which is not personal data, is processed under conditions such that the processing of the data, which is not personal data, would be lawful even without consent, even if it were personal data, which it isn't, and also incidentally because the right to erasure was a bad idea to begin with.

If you have a compelling case that I'm in violation of your jurisdiction's laws or regulations in this regard, either help me figure out the most expedient way to bring the site into compliance (spoiler: it's probably "make a best-effort attempt at blocking your entire jurisdiction and especially you") or lobby your legislators to not hallucinate up stupid rights into law, but in either case you should go away.

Also, you are not welcome here if you're a dog.

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This site ain't powered by shit, and that's the only reason I can write content instead of mucking with page generation scripts. With a few obvious exceptions, it's a pile of static files and I write them by hand. There's no particular compile step (gzip &c. aside), nor any templating beyond copy-paste; the source you get is the source my editor wrote to disk, more or less.

This took some sacrifices; every bit of shared mutable content that could normally have been plain HTML (i.e. the menus) has to instead be injected client-side by JavaScript, and for this I can only profusely apologize. But the upshot is that the source code you can view is honest-to-God "preferred form of the work for making modifications" Source Code Form.

For my part, I consider learning to make web pages from looking at other people's source code to be something of a formative experience, so consider this a contribution to making the web just a bit more accessible in an era of gratuitously rising barriers to entry.