[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":68},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post-\u002Fblog\u002Fprivate-by-design":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":59,"description":60,"extension":61,"meta":62,"navigation":63,"path":64,"seo":65,"stem":66,"__hash__":67},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fprivate-by-design.md","Private by design",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":53},"minimark",[9,13,16,21,24,32,36,44],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Most software wants to be seen using. It counts your friends, surfaces your\nactivity, nudges you to share. A journal that did any of that would quietly stop\nbeing a journal, because the moment you imagine a reader, you start writing for\nthem.",[10,14,15],{},"So the absence of those features is the product.",[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"what-is-not-here","What is not here",[10,22,23],{},"There is no feed. No followers, no likes, no comments. Nothing you write is ever\nshown to anyone else, and there is no mechanism by which it could be. There are\nno notifications competing for the part of your attention you came here to spend\non yourself.",[10,25,26,27,31],{},"There is not even much of an audience of ",[28,29,30],"em",{},"one",": the stats are deliberately\nquiet — a word count, a streak, a calendar — feedback that rewards showing up\nwithout turning the practice into a scoreboard.",[17,33,35],{"id":34},"what-that-costs-and-what-it-buys","What that costs, and what it buys",[10,37,38,39,43],{},"Entries are ",[40,41,42],"strong",{},"encrypted at rest",", so the words are readable by you and not by a\ndatabase dump. The trade-off is honest: encryption protects the page against\ntheft of the data, not against a server you have handed your key to. We think\nthat is the right line for a journal, and we say so plainly rather than implying\nmore.",[10,45,46,47,52],{},"What you get for all these absences is the one thing the practice actually needs:\na page that stays yours. You can ",[48,49,51],"a",{"href":50},"\u002Fproducts","export everything"," and leave whenever\nyou like. Nothing here is trying to keep you — which, oddly, is the reason to\nstay.",{"title":54,"searchDepth":55,"depth":55,"links":56},"",2,[57,58],{"id":19,"depth":55,"text":20},{"id":34,"depth":55,"text":35},"2026-07-03","Why a journal with no audience, no sharing and no analytics is a feature list, not an omission.","md",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fprivate-by-design",{"title":5,"description":60},"blog\u002Fprivate-by-design","HUoBAt05p8qHNMaP_tBwdfWfaL_b4pilG0SjEUr3h5I",1784109390982]