Simon Collison publishes journals about film, music, place & nature and technology at colly.com, a site they built themselves. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.
1 writer vouchunfound by the big engines
Anatomy of the site
Pages
13 captured
Front page
25 KB, 1 script, 37 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 55 other sites, 1 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, from blogroll-org
Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does
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.
Blogrollblogroll.orgalmanac page →“Simon Collison Well-meaning waffle since 2003.”1 link
Their neighbourhood
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Why it ranks on Longhand Featured
ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · 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.
Counts its readers with a privacy-respecting tool and nothing else.
The copyright line names a person, not a company.
No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
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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