Longhand Almanac

Joel Hooks

joelhooks.com · a site they built themselves

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

Joel Hooks publishes writing at joelhooks.com, a site they built themselves. Last published February 2018. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

6 dated posts since 20121 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksAugust 2012 to February 2018

JFMAMJJASOND20122012-08: 120132013-06: 120142014-12: 120162016-04: 120172017-10: 120182018-02: 1
fewermorepeak: 1 in April 2016

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

120121201312014120161201712018

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 14

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 14, 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
7 KB, 3 scripts, 0 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 2 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-30, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

egghead6convertkit1evergreen29sketchnote2dslr2hook96selfpaced3sandi3metz3gawande3exporting3atul4bootstrapping5webcam8

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

jsrn - a real huma2 sites outside the indexJoel Hooks
in the indexoutside itthis writer

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.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • Counts its readers with a privacy-respecting tool and nothing else.
  • 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.

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.