Longhand Almanac

Josh Withers

joshwithers.blog · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2008

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

Josh Withers publishes writing at joshwithers.blog, a site they built themselves. Last published June 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2008, 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.

6,353 pages in their archive18 years at it50 dated posts since 20251 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksMarch 2025 to June 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20252025-03: 102025-04: 52025-05: 12025-06: 720262026-02: 212026-03: 22026-04: 22026-05: 12026-06: 1
fewermorepeak: 21 in February 2026

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

232025272026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 18

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 18, 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, of 6,353 the sitemap lists
Front page
49 KB, 7 scripts, 18 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 50 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 9 other sites, 1 platforms
Found
2026-08-25, by following another writer's link

The lag

2008writing since2026the almanac

Writing since 2008. 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

wither20qanta1charging24charger7flight229wedding192claude69status341kyle30brisbane12tasmania13cool391gold273astro17

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

Blogroll10 sites outside the indexJosh Withers
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · publishing since 2008 · 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.

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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