Colophon

What the site is built with, what it loads from third parties, and what it does not collect. The infrastructure choices are deliberate — they're the tech-layer answer to the same worldview the homepage states.

Stack

Layer	Choice	Why
Framework	Astro 6 (static output)	Ships zero JS by default; respects visitor bandwidth and battery.
Styling	Tailwind v4 via `@tailwindcss/vite`	Design tokens via CSS variables; no JS-based config.
Hosting	Vercel (static deploy)	Edge CDN, image optimization, preview deploys.
Fonts	Self-hosted Playfair Display 700 + Inter Variable 400/600 via Astro Fonts API + Fontsource	No request to `fonts.googleapis.com` ever — your IP doesn't leak to Google when you read this site.
Analytics	Self-hosted Umami at `umami.crossthebridge.io`	No cookies, no fingerprinting, no PII, IP addresses hashed at the server. Endpoint runs on a VPS Wesley operates. The host sits on the Cross The Bridge DNS zone deliberately — Wesley owns both `wesleyschlemmer.com` and `crossthebridge.io`, and analytics endpoint location does not affect visitor privacy.
Search	None in Phase 1; Pagefind planned at ≥10 essays/notes	Static-site, client-side; no SaaS keystroke logging.
RSS	Coming with Phase 2 (essays + notes)	Owned-channel for AI / Bitcoin / Freedom Tech peer audiences.

What this site does not load

No Google domains (no fonts.googleapis.com, no www.google-analytics.com, no googletagmanager.com).
No Vercel Web Analytics or Vercel Speed Insights — both are toggled off in the project dashboard.
No third-party embeds on first paint (no embedded YouTube, no X / Twitter widgets, no Disqus, no reCAPTCHA, no booking widgets).
No tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, no cross-site identifiers.

Data collection

Analytics: self-hosted Umami at https://umami.crossthebridge.io. No cookies set on visitors. No fingerprinting. No PII collected. IP addresses are hashed at the Umami server and never stored. No data crosses to third parties beyond the Umami endpoint itself, which Wesley operates. Verify against Umami's own privacy documentation at umami.is/docs/.

Source

The site source is on GitHub at crossthebridgetpa/ctb-website. The repo name kept its pre-pivot location (the deployed product domain wesleyschlemmer.com does not have to match the repo name; INFRA-04). Built with care, not surveillance.