# alexmansour.ch

> Personal site of Alex Mansour, Zürich. It is the index for a small set of
> free services — a Mastodon instance, two web tools and a status page —
> self-hosted on his own hardware in Wiedikon, a district of Zürich,
> Switzerland.

The site is two static pages. The homepage draws a pixel-art sky above the
text, either simulated from the visitor's date and time or, if they opt in,
from live weather at their rounded position. That is decoration: the text
below it is the content, and it is in the HTML, so there is nothing a crawler
needs JavaScript to see.

Everything here runs as a personal project in Alex's spare time, as a way to
try out new technology and to offer a privacy-focused alternative to
large-scale tech providers. The services are free and carry no advertising.

## Pages

- [Home](https://alexmansour.ch/): who Alex is, the list of services, a
  diagram of how the hosting is wired, and a password-gated section that is
  decrypted in the browser.
- [Privacy](https://alexmansour.ch/privacy.html): what the site sends, to
  where, and what it keeps on the visitor's device. Bilingual, English and
  German, both in the one page.

## Services

- [Sunne Site](https://sunne.site): discover sunny or shady places in Zürich.
- [WG-Rechner](https://wg-rechner.ch): splits the rent of a shared flat
  ("WG" is the German term for a flatshare).
- [Mastodon](https://social.heihei.ch): an ad-free social network run on
  independent servers. Alex is
  [@manso@social.heihei.ch](https://social.heihei.ch/@manso).
- [Uptime Tracker](https://status.heihei.ch): live status and uptime history
  for every service here.

## Hosting

Traffic reaches a web application firewall, passes through a Pangolin secure
tunnel, and is served by machines in Alex's living room in Wiedikon. No
third-party analytics, no tracking, no advertising. The one outbound call the
homepage can make is to open-meteo.com, only after the visitor turns location
on, and only with coordinates rounded to roughly 200 metres.

## Notes for machines

- Both pages are bilingual: English is what the HTML ships, and a visitor's
  German is applied by script at runtime. There is no separate German URL, so
  English is the canonical text to quote.
- Site languages: English (en), German (de-CH).
- Contact and the rest of Alex's presence: the Mastodon account above.