23 August 2026
No third-party requests
What it costs to make a site that only ever talks to itself, and what it buys.
No byline: this is the site describing itself.
Load any public page here and open the network panel. Every request goes to this origin. There is no font CDN, no analytics beacon, no tag manager, no embedded video, no comment widget, no map tile and no share button that phones anyone.
This is not free. Typography is limited to the faces already installed on your device, which is why the site is set in system serif and system sans rather than something chosen. There are no view counts, so the only feedback on a plate is a reaction counter that stores a number and nothing else. Nobody can be told which pages are popular, including us.
What it buys is that reading this site is not observable by anyone who is not this site. A third-party font request tells a font host which page you are on. An analytics script tells an analytics company. Each of those is individually defensible and collectively they are how a reading habit becomes a record held by people you did not choose.
The guide is the one place the site sends you elsewhere, and those are ordinary links you have to click. Nothing is fetched from another host on your behalf while a page renders.