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Smart People I Know

smartpeopleiknow.com · a site they built themselves

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Smart People I Know publishes art and short stories at smartpeopleiknow.com, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

61 dated posts since 20091 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksAugust 2017 to September 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20172017-10: 120202020-03: 220212021-03: 120222022-04: 12022-11: 120232023-04: 22023-05: 320242024-04: 120252025-03: 22025-05: 12025-07: 12025-08: 12025-12: 120262026-03: 12026-05: 32026-06: 142026-07: 122026-08: 102026-09: 2
fewermorepeak: 14 in June 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

12017220201202122022520231202462025422026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 19

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 19, 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 captured1 section found
Front page
382 KB, 39 scripts, 44 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
present
Links out
1 other writer in the index, 141 other sites, 14 platforms
Found
2026-09-07, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

beaujolais2midtown9agentic10york564august1369posted674mamdani4fredkin1openai16chatbot26june1184july1236piece822runner75

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

BlogrollMakerPulse155 sites outside the indexSmart People I Know
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to MakerPulse.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · 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 navigation carries a commercial page or two.
  • Some tracking is present.

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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