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Matt Lakeman

mattlakeman.org · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2020

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

Matt Lakeman publishes novels at mattlakeman.org, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2020, 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.

61 pages in their archive6 years at it51 dated posts since 20201 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJanuary 2020 to March 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20202020-01: 122020-03: 12020-04: 22020-05: 22020-06: 22020-07: 12020-08: 12020-09: 22020-10: 12020-11: 12020-12: 120212021-06: 22021-07: 12021-08: 12021-11: 120222022-03: 12022-05: 12022-07: 12022-11: 120232023-05: 12023-06: 12023-07: 12023-08: 12023-10: 12023-11: 120242024-01: 22024-03: 12024-06: 12024-11: 12024-12: 120252025-03: 12025-05: 120262026-01: 12026-03: 1
fewermorepeak: 12 in January 2020

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

262020520214202262023620242202522026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 6

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 6, 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 61 the sitemap lists1 section found
Front page
141 KB, 25 scripts, 14 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 9 other sites, 2 platforms
Found
2026-08-25, by following another writer's link

The lag

2020writing since2026the almanac

Writing since 2020. 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

note1040afghanistan20ivory23salvador20conquest30jest18inca5guyana7trinidad13tobago9tunisia27tajikistan6coast176miscellaneous93

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

Blogroll11 sites outside the indexMatt Lakeman
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · publishing since 2020 · 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.
  • 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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