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Getting On

colinmcqueen.home.blog · a site they built themselves

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

Getting On publishes writing at colinmcqueen.home.blog, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

1,002 pages in their archive63 dated posts since 20181 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksDecember 2018 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20182018-12: 120192019-07: 12019-08: 120252025-08: 12025-09: 62025-10: 52025-11: 42025-12: 720262026-03: 42026-04: 62026-05: 42026-06: 82026-07: 92026-08: 6
fewermorepeak: 9 in July 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

1201822019232025372026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 8

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 8, 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
1 captured, of 1,002 the sitemap lists1 section found
Front page
227 KB, 36 scripts, 15 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
present
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 3 other sites, 2 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, by following another writer's link

The lag

2019archived2026the almanac

The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2019. The big engines have never ranked it. The almanac found it in August 2026, by following another writer's link.

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

subversion10mcqueen8subversive18beginner77spittoon1sideway28colin64analogue11humour131communism16crucifixion8muriel27harry192said764

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

Fish in the Trees5 sites outside the indexGetting On
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · 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.

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