About

Author

My name is Chris Jones and I’m a former Upper Canadian kid living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada since early 2007. You should visit sometime. I grew up in Markham, ON and have lived in Ottawa, ON; Lindsay, ON; and Prince George, BC. Yes, I’ve driven across the country twice.

I’m a web developer during the day. I’ve been known to listen to music, take photographs, and read books. I love to hike and travel. It has been said that I don’t give myself enough credit. It has also been said that I like my privacy and as such am difficult to get to know. According to Myers-Briggs, I am an INFJ, if you believe in those things.

I also collect bookmarks to interesting websites and articles and have now and uses pages.

You can send me a message on the contact page.

Elsewhere

Everything is always published here first, but there are other places I push my stuff to.

• Subscribe to site updates on the Feeds page
• Visit my LinkedIn profile
• I have a Mastodon account on indieweb.social

Photographs

Most of my photographs are recorded on film with the odd digital shot. Both black and white and colour film is developed at home, where I also print the black and white in my makeshift darkroom. For the web, I scan the negatives. For the wall, I make wet chemistry silver-gelatin prints.

Most of the photographs that accompany articles are made with a digital camera.

Many of the fine photographs found here are available for purchase. Inquiries can be sent to me on the contact page with the name of the photograph and I’ll get back to you with size, format and cost details.

Site

chrisjones.io is hosted on a Digital Ocean VPS (referral link) and is managed with my custom-made CMS. I’ve also whipped up a REST API for the whole thing.

In 2016 this site celebrated 20 years of clogging up the web. chrisjones.io is merely the latest incarnation of this site. In 1996 it was available as areaeleven.com. After that, in a bout of Canadian patriotism it became known as areaeleven.ca. That lasted for a while and there are many who remember that site as the one true Chris Jones website. Then it became betterleftunsaid.ca, the name coming from lyrics of a song by Sarah Harmer. Finally, it has became chrisjones.io where it shall remain until I get bored or change my name.

Tracking

For statistics/analytics I use a tiny little script I wrote. The only information I collect is what pages are visited. I do not collect any information on browsers, devices, screen resolutions, OS, or anything else. Don’t need it, don’t want it. Visited page information helps me make better decisions about what content visitors are interested in. None of this information is sent or shared to third parties, I keep it all to myself. None of the information collected is personally identifiable.

Why did I make my own analytics script and not use Google Analytics? Because companies like Google make money, lots and lots of money, by tracking you and selling your information to anyone and everyone that shows up with a pile of cash. They use it to target you with ads and manipulate your experience on the web. They use it to track you from site to site, across the web. I think that’s gross and creepy and I won’t be a part of the surveillance capitalism business model.

You can use Blacklight, a real-time website privacy inspector, to verify that I’m not tracking you.