Privacy policy

Last updated: October 19, 2026

This page tells you what data twopoint.dev collects, why it collects the data, and how long it keeps the data.

Who runs the site

twopoint.dev is a technical blog. For a question about this policy or about your data, send an email to matt@twopoint.dev.

Analytics

The site uses Pulse to count visits. Pulse records the pages that you visit and the links that you click. Pulse runs in its cookieless mode:

• Pulse sets no cookies.
• Pulse keeps no raw IP address, no full user agent, and no city.
• Pulse counts a visitor with a hash. The hash uses a salt that changes each day, so Pulse cannot recognize a visitor across days.
• Pulse masks email addresses and long runs of digits in page paths, page titles, and click text.
• Pulse does not read form fields.
• Pulse keeps raw visit detail for up to 180 days. After 180 days, Pulse keeps only aggregate summaries.

You can block Pulse with a content blocker in your browser. The site works the same without Pulse.

Subscriptions

When you subscribe, the site stores your email address. If you give a name, the site stores your name too. The site uses this data only to send the newsletter.

Azure Communication Services sends the welcome email and each newsletter. Each email has an unsubscribe link. When you unsubscribe, the site makes your subscription inactive and sends you no more email.

The site keeps an inactive subscription until you ask for deletion. To delete your subscription, send an email to matt@twopoint.dev.

Comments

When you comment, the site stores a commenter record. The record contains your email address, your name if you give one, the date of your first comment, and a moderation status.

Your name shows publicly with each of your comments. Your email address stays private. The site sends a validation email to your address before it accepts comments from you.

The site keeps your commenter record and your comments until you ask for deletion. To delete them, send an email to matt@twopoint.dev.

Embedded videos

A post can embed a YouTube video. The site embeds each video from youtube-nocookie.com, the privacy-enhanced mode of YouTube. When a video comes near the visible part of the page, your browser loads the YouTube player from Google. Google then gets your IP address, the video ID, and the address of the site, but not the address of the page. In this mode, YouTube does not use cookies to track the videos that you watch. When the player loads, Google can store data in your browser. When you play a video, Google can collect data about the view. The Google privacy policy applies to this data. A page with no video loads nothing from YouTube.

Browser storage

The site uses no cookies. It keeps these values in the localStorage of your browser:

• commenterValidations: a map from each email address that you comment with to its commenter validation ID. With this value, you do not have to validate your email address again on each visit.
• theme: your choice of light or dark mode.
• pulse_ignore: the opt-out flag of Pulse. When this flag is set, Pulse counts no visits from your browser.

You can clear these values in the settings of your browser.

Processors

These companies process data for the site:

• GitHub hosts the site with GitHub Pages. Its server logs include IP addresses.
• Pulse counts visits.
• Microsoft Azure runs the backend. Azure Table Storage stores subscriptions and comments, Azure Functions runs the code, and Azure Communication Services sends each email.

The data is stored in the United States.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, or delete your data. Send an email to matt@twopoint.dev.