Read them at jvns.ca →
The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.
Julia Evans publishes zines at jvns.ca, a site they built themselves. Last published July 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2012, by their own archive. Vouched for by 7 other writers in the index.
768 pages in their archive14 years at it598 dated posts since 20127 writers vouch
Posts per month, from their own dated linksDecember 2019 to July 2026
fewermorepeak: 21 in January 2021
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
2026 is January to October.
Years at it, against the index
Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 14, 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 768 the sitemap lists
Front page
143 KB, 5 scripts, 0 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 20 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
1 other writer in the index, 5 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, by following another writer's link
The lag
Writing since 2012. The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2012. The big engines rank it about 55,548 among all domains. The almanac found it in August 2026, by following another writer's link.
Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does
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.
They link towizard zines. 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 · publishing since 2012 · vouched by 7 other writers
How the machine sees this site
Ranked about 55,548 in the top million domains.
A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
Counts its readers with a privacy-respecting tool and nothing else.
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.
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.