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swyx's site

swyx.io · a site they built themselves

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swyx's site publishes writing about technology at swyx.io, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index.

1 writer vouch

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 1

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 1, 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
36 KB, 4 scripts, 15 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 16 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-09-12, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

cognition16react63essay847devin10singapore55podcast546luck138javascript94temporal23jsconf1devtool1devrel1engineer98talk908

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.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: still publishing · vouched by one other writer

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 375,229 in the top million domains.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • The page tells search engines it belongs to a person.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • Carries a full set of search-engine tags. This site is trying to be found, and the almanac scores that against it.

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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