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These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of this website (the “Site”), a personal blog operated by its owner. By reading, linking to, or otherwise interacting with the Site you agree to these Terms. If you disagree with any part, please close the tab — no hard feelings.

Effective date: 21 April 2026
Last updated: 21 April 2026

Short version: enjoy the reading, quote short passages with credit, link freely, don’t scrape aggressively, don’t republish whole posts, and remember there are no warranties — this is a hobby project, not a commercial service.

1. Acceptance & scope

These Terms form a binding agreement between you (the reader) and the Site’s operator (the “Author”). They apply to:

  • the public pages of the Site (home page, blog posts, tag archives, /about, search, /privacy, /terms, and any other /page/<slug>);
  • the RSS / sitemap / robots endpoints (/sitemap.xml, /robots.txt) if they are ever enabled;
  • any content you access directly, for example via a direct link to a media file under /media/….

They do not apply to third-party sites the Site links out to. Each of those has its own terms — follow them when you visit.

The password-protected /admin area is used only by the Author and is outside the scope of these Terms.

2. What the Site is — and is not

The Site is a personal blog where the Author publishes writing, tutorials, and commentary, mostly on software engineering, digital experience platforms, and AI. It is provided as-is, for free, with no expectation of uptime, accuracy, currency, or completeness.

The Site is not any of the following:

  • a commercial product or paid service;
  • professional, legal, medical, financial, investment, or architectural advice — anything you read here is the Author’s opinion, not a recommendation tailored to your situation;
  • an endorsement of any product, company, or employer the Author mentions;
  • a source of truth about anything except the Author’s own thinking at the time of writing.

If you’re about to make a decision whose downside matters — technical, legal, financial, or otherwise — please consult a qualified professional rather than relying on a blog post.

3. License to read the Site

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, the Author grants you a personal, non-transferable, revocable, non-exclusive licence to:

  • access and read the Site through a standard web browser or feed reader;
  • temporarily cache pages and static assets in your browser as required by normal web operation;
  • save individual pages for offline reading on devices you personally control;
  • print pages for personal non-commercial reference;
  • link to any public page of the Site (no permission required).

This licence ends automatically if you breach these Terms or use the Site in a way it was not intended for.

4. Intellectual property

4.1 Blog text & original editorial content

Unless clearly attributed to someone else, everything written on the Site — the prose in blog posts, the editorial copy on the home page, the /about body, section headings, and these Terms — is © Ashish Kapoor, all rights reserved except as explicitly permitted below.

You may:

  • Quote short excerpts (a paragraph or two) in your own writing, with a visible attribution and a link back to the specific post.
  • Share links to any public page on social media, in Slack, in newsletters, in presentations — no permission needed.
  • Reference the Site in academic citations, bibliographies, and similar scholarly contexts.

You may not, without prior written permission:

  • republish whole posts (yours or the Author’s) on another site, medium, or platform — this includes “content aggregators” and AI-generated summary sites;
  • use the Site’s editorial content to train machine-learning models (the Site’s robots.txt may also signal this directly to crawlers);
  • translate and publish substantial excerpts in another language;
  • reformat the Site’s content into a book, ebook, course, or paid product;
  • strip the Author’s name or byline from quoted material.

For any of the above, write to career.ashish.kapoor@gmail.com first. Honest, non-commercial requests are usually granted quickly.

4.2 Images, diagrams, and media

Photographs, screenshots, and diagrams on the Site may be Author-created, licensed from a stock source, or licensed from a third party. Unless a specific image carries its own licence note, treat all media as © Ashish Kapoor — all rights reserved. Do not hotlink to media files at /media/… from other sites.

4.3 Code samples & snippets

Except where a post explicitly says otherwise, any code samples embedded in blog posts (<pre> / <code> blocks) are released under the MIT License so readers can use them in their own projects without asking. The MIT text itself is preserved at choosealicense.com/licenses/mit. If a post explicitly pins a different licence (e.g. Apache 2.0, GPL) that specific licence wins for that specific snippet.

Code is provided as-is. See §8 and §9 — the “no warranty” and “limitation of liability” clauses apply to code samples just as much as to prose.

4.4 Trademarks

Names and logos of third-party companies, products, or technologies referenced on the Site (e.g. Sitecore, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI) are trademarks of their respective owners. Reference on the Site does not imply endorsement by or affiliation with those owners.

5. User-submitted content

The Site does not currently accept public comments, forum posts, reviews, ratings, or any other form of user-generated content (per the Site’s “Non-Goals” design philosophy).

If you email the Author unsolicited, you’re welcome to — but please understand that anything you send may be quoted in a blog post in anonymised form if the Author judges it genuinely useful to other readers. Mark your email off the record in the subject or body if you want it treated as private.

6. Prohibited uses

You agree that you will not:

  • attempt to compromise the Site’s security (port-scan the server, probe for vulnerabilities, try to inject code, abuse the rate limiter, etc.) — vulnerability reports are welcome via the contact in §15;
  • scrape the Site at a rate higher than a normal reader would (a reasonable ceiling is one request per second per IP); commercial scraping and AI-training crawls are especially not permitted;
  • train, fine-tune, embed, or otherwise use the Site’s editorial content to improve any machine-learning model;
  • use the Site to distribute malware, spam, or misinformation;
  • impersonate the Author or imply endorsement by the Author;
  • remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, attribution, or legal notice on the Site;
  • bypass any access control (for example, the admin login);
  • use the Site in a way that violates any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right.

The Author reserves the right to block IPs, networks, or user-agents that violate this section.

Blog posts, the /about page, these Terms, and the Privacy Policy link out to third-party websites (open-source project repositories, documentation, articles, social profiles, dependency licence texts, and so on). Those links are provided as convenience — the Author does not control, endorse, or take responsibility for the content, privacy practices, availability, or accuracy of any external site. Follow them at your own risk, and read each destination’s own terms and privacy policy.

8. No warranties

THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, OR CURRENCY OF INFORMATION. YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

In plainer words: the Author writes in good faith but makes no promise that any post is accurate, up to date, complete, suitable for your situation, or free of bugs. Technology changes quickly; what works today may be deprecated tomorrow. Verify anything important against primary sources before acting on it.

9. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM (a) YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE, THE SITE; (b) ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY LINKED FROM THE SITE; OR (c) UNAUTHORISED ACCESS, USE, OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT.

Some jurisdictions don’t allow the exclusion of implied warranties or the limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so portions of the above may not apply to you. Where local law grants you more than this clause allows, that law wins.

10. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold the Author harmless from any claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) your misuse of the Site, or (c) your violation of any law or third-party right. This section survives termination of these Terms.

11. Accessibility

The Site aims for WCAG 2.1 AA conformance: semantic HTML, sufficient colour contrast, keyboard navigation, alt text on every image, visible focus indicators, and respect for the prefers-reduced-motion media query. No accessibility statement is perfect; if you hit a barrier, email career.ashish.kapoor@gmail.com and it will be treated as a bug, not a feature request.

12. Availability & changes to the Site

The Author may add, remove, reorganise, or retire content on the Site at any time, without notice. URLs of published blog posts are intentionally stable; where a URL must change, a 301 redirect from the old URL will be created so existing links keep working (see the Site’s redirect table). This stability commitment does not apply to drafts, preview pages, or unlisted content.

The Site may be unavailable for maintenance, hosting outages, or reasons beyond the Author’s control. No service-level agreement is offered.

13. Changes to these Terms

These Terms may be updated as the Site evolves. When that happens the Last updated date at the top of this page changes. Material changes — for example, a new restriction on content reuse — will be summarised in a short blog post on the home page rather than quietly pushed. Continued use of the Site after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

14. Governing law & dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Site will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the United Kingdom, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-law provisions of your country of residence.

Before filing anything formal, please email career.ashish.kapoor@gmail.com — most issues can be resolved with a short conversation.

15. Miscellaneous

  • Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions stay in force.
  • No waiver. The Author’s failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
  • Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy together make up the entire agreement between you and the Author regarding the Site, and supersede any prior agreement on that subject.
  • No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship.
  • Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms without the Author’s written consent. The Author may assign these Terms freely (for example, if the Site is moved to a different operator in the future).

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms, permission requests to reuse content, copyright notices, or vulnerability reports:

17. Open-source & source code

The Site is a personal, open project. Where practical, the code that runs it — and the open-source libraries it depends on — are linked publicly so you can verify how it works rather than taking it on trust. This mirrors the Transparency & source code section of the Privacy Policy.

Licences of the above are preserved in each project’s own repository. If you spot a mismatch between these Terms and what the Site’s source code actually does, report it via the contact channel in §16.

These Terms are written in plain English rather than legalese where possible. They are not a substitute for legal advice. Where local consumer-protection law grants you more than these Terms promise, that law wins.