About

Somewhere along the way, "normal life" started to mean tracked life — every purchase logged, every click sold, every convenience quietly billed to your privacy and your independence. The Untracked Life is my small rebellion against that.

There's a double meaning hiding in the name, and it's the whole point. A track is the thing that follows you around and records where you've been. It's also the worn, crowded path everyone's expected to walk without ever asking why. This site is about stepping off both: the road less traveled and the one nobody's monitoring.

What you'll find here#

Practical, unglamorous skills for a freer and more resilient life:

• Privacy — digital and in the physical world
• Homesteading — growing, making, and mending your own
• Self-sufficiency — leaning on yourself instead of the grid
• Prepping — the level-headed kind, no bunker required

No fear-mongering, no doom for clicks. Just honest, hands-on guidance in plain language, aimed at anyone quietly wondering what's down the other path.

You also won't find my face anywhere on here — and I won't pretend that's an accident. I'm a private person by temperament, and it always struck me as a little hypocritical to build a privacy project on a foundation of my own oversharing. So it's just my voice, some hard-won practical knowledge, and enough humor to keep it human.

The site practices what it preaches#

It would be pretty strange to write about staying untracked on a website that quietly tracked you. So this one doesn't.

The Untracked Life runs on pbcssg, a privacy-first website generator I built myself — partly out of principle, partly out of stubbornness. Everything you see comes straight from this site's own server: no third-party fonts, no CDNs, no analytics, nothing phoning home while you read. Videos don't load until you choose to play them. Photos have their hidden location data and metadata stripped before they're ever published. The site honors Global Privacy Control out of the box. And there is simply nothing here quietly assembling a profile of you.

It's free and open source, and I'll be telling its story properly in some of the earliest posts. If you like to look under the hood, the code lives on GitHub:

Get in touch#

Questions, corrections, a good idea, or just want to say hello? I read everything — even if a reply takes me a while.

The road less traveled is quieter, harder, and a lot more yours. Thanks for wandering off the path to get here.