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Drew DeVault's blog

drewdevault.com · a site they built themselves

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

Drew DeVault's blog publishes short stories at drewdevault.com, a site they built themselves. Last published July 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 6 other writers in the index.

6 writers vouch

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 16

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 16, 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
Front page
113 KB, 0 scripts, 1 imageindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 8 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

status341hare31update877linux81foss11software244fosdem1sway18wlroot1wayland5helio4sourcehut6january978programming158

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 vouches5 writers in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

Tom BrandisBlogrollPlanetAnthony Avinaopguides.info8 sites outside the indexDrew DeVault's blog
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Kept on the same blogrolls: Pluralistic (3 of the same writers link to both).

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

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

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 114,888 in the top million domains.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • 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.

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.