gwern.net · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2013
Essays publishes art, comics, essays, journals, poems and short stories about grief & illness, place & nature and technology at gwern.net, a site they built themselves. Publishing since 2013, by their own archive. Vouched for by 6 other writers in the index.
Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 13, from their own archive. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.
Writing since 2013. The big engines rank it about 28,341 among all domains. The almanac found it in August 2026, by following another writer's link.
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.
4 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.
They link to Borretti, Casual Effects, Maggie Appleton, Slate Star Codex.
ranked here because: essays, stories, or poems · publishing since 2013 · vouched by 6 other writers
Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.
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.