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CSS { In Real Life }

css-irl.info · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2016

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CSS { In Real Life } publishes writing at css-irl.info, a site they built themselves. Last published December 2025, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2016, 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.

10 years at it1 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 10

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 10, 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
Front page
22 KB, 1 script, 0 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 268 entries, the whole archive
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
1 other writer in the index, 10 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-25, by following another writer's link

The lag

2016writing since2019archived2026the almanac

Writing since 2016. 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

sustainability44geojson1masonry4wholegrain1layout180markdown33debating14creating380shortcode3topic403syntax42barker42merit45report851

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

Link PantryRobin Sloan10 sites outside the indexCSS { In Real Life }
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Robin Sloan.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · publishing since 2016 · 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.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • The navigation carries a commercial page or two.

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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