// About
About this site
How iServeData is built, hosted and looked after, what it does with your visit, and who to thank for the fonts.
Pier lights · Photo by Louis Burgueno
This website
iServeData is my technology journal, project portfolio and photo archive. If you’d like to know about me, my biography tells that story; this page is about the site itself.
Every page starts as a plain Markdown file. Hugo turns those files into a static site, and Nginx serves it from my own Ubuntu Linux server. Changes go to a private prototype copy of the site first, and only go live once I’ve checked them there.
AI-assisted development
I design, build, test and run this site, from the server and its security settings to the pages you’re reading. Perplexity Computer is an AI-assisted development tool I use alongside that work, for help with code, troubleshooting and technical documentation.
Using it doesn’t mean the site’s code, writing, testing or day-to-day running is AI-generated or automated. The decisions, and the checks before anything goes live, stay with me.
Privacy
- There are no analytics, ads, trackers or tracking cookies.
- Nothing loads from anyone else: the fonts, images and scripts all come from iservedata.com, and the site’s security settings block outside requests.
- If you pick a light or dark theme, that choice is saved in your own browser and never sent anywhere.
- Like most web servers, mine keeps standard access logs (address, page and time) for troubleshooting and security. They aren’t shared or used to profile anyone.
- The contact form sends your message to my inbox as a single email. The form’s service stores nothing; its log keeps only a request number, the outcome and how long it took, not your name, address or message. To stop floods, it counts sends using a scrambled form of your IP address, held in memory and cleared within a day.
Credits
The photography is all mine. Everything else that came from someone else is listed here.
| Item | Used for | Source | Terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photography | Every photo on this site, including heroes and the Signal section | Louis Burgueno | © Louis Burgueno. All rights reserved. |
| Diagrams | Article diagrams, such as the HAD TT logic diagrams | Made for this site | © Louis Burgueno |
| Chakra Petch | Headings and the iServeData wordmark | The Chakra Petch Project Authors (opens in a new tab) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Geist | Body text | The Geist Project Authors (Vercel) (opens in a new tab) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| JetBrains Mono | Code, labels and the terminal on the home page | The JetBrains Mono Project Authors (opens in a new tab) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| GitHub and LinkedIn logos | Links to those sites in the footer | GitHub, Inc. and LinkedIn Corporation | Trademarks of their owners, used only to link to them |
| Hugo | Builds the pages from Markdown | The Hugo authors (opens in a new tab) | Apache License 2.0 |
Corrections and contact
Found a broken link, a mistake in an article, a missing credit, or something that’s hard to use with a keyboard or screen reader? Send me a message and I’ll fix it.
