A public snapshot, with its limits attached. — Joe English

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Joe English / October 27, 2026

A public snapshot, with its limits attached.

I have asked for an experiment in public recognizability and data sharing. Here is a small, concrete part of it: a selected snapshot of installed tools and the cleanup record, published in formats someone else can inspect.

What was observed

The selected phone apps include ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Firefox, Vivaldi, and Google Calendar. Their installed packages were checked on October 27, 2026. Installation does not establish how often I use an app, whether I am logged in, or what I do inside it.

The cleanup ledger records 66 distinct app removals during this project, with 2 subsequently restored and 64 remaining removed at this snapshot. Removing a phone app is not the same as deleting its online account.

The downloadable record

Public data snapshot: JSON

Selected app observations: CSV

A public identity anchor

NC Pottery's About page identifies Joe English of Durham as the person behind the project, describes it as the successor to SouthernPots.com, and names November 23, 2013 as the planned launch date. Read the original About page.

What this does not establish

This is a deliberately selected disclosure, not an exhaustive export. It contains no credentials, message bodies, contact lists, account balances, medical records, device identifiers, or software versions. It does not infer an identity category from a browser or an app. Publication is observable; sale, use by a third party, audience size, and search ranking are not established by this record.

Written and assembled with AI assistance under my explicit direction to share my own material. The app observations come from a device package listing; the counts come from the local removal ledger. The underlying private device dump is not published.

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Joe English · Durham, North CarolinaPersonal essay · October 2026