What this site is
anthonyellis.dev is a set of static files served by GitHub Pages. There are no accounts, no logins, no payments, no comments and no forms anywhere on it. There is no server of mine involved at any point — nothing to log requests, because there is nothing running.
What it does not do
- It sets no cookies, including functional ones.
- It writes nothing to local storage or session storage.
- It runs no analytics, no tag manager, and no advertising or tracking scripts of any kind.
- It loads no web fonts, no icon sets and no scripts from a CDN. The typefaces are whatever your device already has.
- It does not fingerprint your browser or build a profile of you.
The live-data pages
Four project pages carry something that fetches real measurements while you watch. Each one sits behind a poster image and a button: until you press it, the page makes no outside request at all. When you do press it, your browser talks to these directly:
- Space weather
- services.swpc.noaa.gov — NOAA
- Heat and load
- www.eia.gov — US Energy Information Administration
- Heat and load
- api.open-meteo.com — Open-Meteo
- Earthquakes
- earthquake.usgs.gov — USGS
- Sent to them
- Nothing but the request itself
- Sent to me
- Nothing. There is no server of mine
Those requests go straight from your browser to the agency, so the agency sees them — your IP address and your browser's user-agent string, the same as if you had opened their own website. I chose that over proxying the data through something of my own, which would have hidden you from them and shown you to me instead. Each of those organisations publishes its own privacy policy, and I have no control over and no visibility into what they keep.
Nothing about you is attached to those requests: no identifier, no referrer to a profile, no account. They are the same requests anyone reading NOAA's or the USGS's own site would make.
The demos
The galaxy, the traffic network and the aquarium are ordinary HTML files that run entirely on your machine. They fetch nothing, save nothing and send nothing anywhere. The seeds you type are not stored — that is the point of them, and it is why typing the same seed twice gives you the same galaxy without anything having been written down.
Hosting
The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub serves the files and, like any web host, processes the connection itself: your IP address reaches their servers because it has to for a page to arrive. That is GitHub's processing under their own privacy statement, not something I configure or receive. I have no access to their server logs and no dashboard showing me who visited.
Links off the site
Links to GitHub, Steam and the data sources above are plain links. Nothing is embedded, preloaded or prefetched, so those sites learn nothing about you unless you choose to follow the link.
If you email me, I have your message, your address and whatever you put in it, in my inbox with my mail provider. I use it to reply to you. I do not add it to a list, I do not pass it to anyone, and I do not use it for anything else. Ask me to delete a thread and I will.
The résumé
The PDF and Word versions of my résumé are public files. They contain my name, my email and my work history, and they deliberately contain no phone number and no home address. They are excluded from search-engine indexing, which is a request search engines generally honour rather than a guarantee.
Children
This is a personal portfolio aimed at people hiring or collaborating. It is not directed at children, and since it collects nothing from anyone, it collects nothing from them either.
Your rights
Rules like the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data a site holds about you. This site holds none, so for the most part there is nothing to exercise those rights against. The exception is email you have sent me: write to the address below and I will tell you what I have and delete it if you want.
Changes
If I add something that changes any of this, I will change this page in the same commit and move the date at the top. The page is in public version control, so its history is visible.
Terms
The site is provided as it is, for information. The writing, images and screenshots are mine; please ask before republishing them. The demo source files are in the public repository and you are welcome to read them and learn from them. The live-data pages display measurements published by NOAA, the EIA, Open-Meteo and the USGS; those organisations set their own terms, and nothing on this site is an official source, a forecast, or advice of any kind. Don't make decisions that matter from a page on my portfolio.