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Composite

bookmaniac.org · a site they built themselves

Read them at bookmaniac.org → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Composite publishes poems about books & reading, fantasy & SF, film, games, grief & illness, horror & the uncanny, music, mystery & crime, place & nature, politics & justice and technology at bookmaniac.org, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 6 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

1 pages in their archive819 dated posts since 19966 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJune 2019 to September 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20192019-01: 122019-02: 122019-03: 122019-04: 112019-05: 102019-06: 42019-07: 82019-08: 42019-09: 22019-10: 12019-11: 32019-12: 120202020-01: 52020-03: 52020-04: 32020-05: 12020-06: 12020-09: 12020-10: 12020-12: 520212021-01: 42021-03: 32021-05: 12021-07: 12021-09: 42021-10: 12021-11: 120222022-01: 12022-02: 12022-03: 22022-04: 22022-06: 12022-07: 22022-09: 32022-10: 22022-11: 52022-12: 120232023-01: 12023-02: 22023-03: 12023-08: 32023-09: 22023-10: 12023-11: 120242024-01: 22024-03: 12024-04: 32024-05: 12024-07: 12024-08: 52024-09: 62024-10: 22024-11: 112024-12: 520252025-01: 22025-02: 22025-03: 52025-05: 42025-06: 62025-08: 32025-09: 12025-10: 32025-11: 62025-12: 220262026-01: 122026-02: 52026-03: 62026-04: 22026-05: 22026-08: 22026-09: 2
fewermorepeak: 12 in January 2026

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

802019222020152021202022112023372024342025312026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 30

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 30, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
304 captured, of 1 the sitemap lists1 section found
Front page
121 KB, 8 scripts, 7 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 20 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
36 other writers in the index, 1394 other sites, 187 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, from blogroll-org

The lag

2009archived2026the almanac

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

henry187unsexist1mending15eldering1sexist18toast49january978repairing13diary265general667elder88oddly42february964settle77

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 vouches2 writers in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

BlogrollOblomovkaAlison Bergblom JoBeyond VictorianaHacking for ChristLumen1,581 sites outside the indexComposite
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Alison Bergblom Johnson, Beyond Victoriana, Hacking for Christ, Lumen, Cory Doctorow's craphound.com, Digger by Ursula Vernon and 30 more.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · no optimization at all · vouched by 6 other writers

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.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • No description written for search engines and no schema. Nothing on the page was built to be found.

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.

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