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Waxy.org - Andy Baio lives here

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Waxy.org - Andy Baio lives here publishes art at waxy.org, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 5 other writers in the index.

26 dated posts since 20125 writers vouch

Posts per year

12012252026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 14

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 14, 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
80 KB, 12 scripts, 8 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, 38 other sites, 2 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, by following another writer's link

The lag

2001archived2026the almanac

The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2001. The big engines rank it about 79,997 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

supercut1refresh67sorrow89playfic1koenig2obscure83plagiarism21wholesale23word1555continue712redesigned10proximity29metafilter3generated254

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.

Their neighbourhood

Open Indiesippey.comBlogrollInternet Phone BooKicks Condor40 sites outside the indexWaxy.org - Andy Baio liv
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Kept on the same blogrolls: Robin Sloan (3 of the same writers link to both).

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: still publishing · vouched by 5 other writers

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 79,997 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.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • The page tells search engines it is an organization.
  • 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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