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Alex's Notebook

blog.alexseifert.com · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2007

Read them at blog.alexseifert.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Alex's Notebook publishes writing about technology at blog.alexseifert.com, a site they built themselves. Last published July 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2007, by their own archive. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

1,513 pages in their archive19 years at it12 dated posts since 20261 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per year

122026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 19

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 19, from their own archive. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured, of 1,513 the sitemap lists
Front page
104 KB, 9 scripts, 42 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 12 entries, the whole archive
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
present
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 5 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-24, from blogroll-org

The lag

2007writing since2009archived2026the almanac

Writing since 2007. The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2009. The big engines have never ranked it. The almanac found it in August 2026.

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

seifert2scratchbook1ashbyrn1downsizing7swift66geminis4leave1001technology525swiftnio2software244bride71macbook9comment1598serverside2

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches1 writer in the index

1 writer in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Blogroll5 sites outside the indexAlex's Notebook
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · publishing since 2007 · vouched by one other writer

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • Some tracking is present.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

Every figure on this page was measured from the site itself and says where it came from. Nothing is quoted from the writing and nothing is written by a model. Something wrong? One email corrects it: hello@longhandalmanac.com. Want out of the index? Same address, or two lines in your robots.txt (how), and this page is gone the next morning.