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Matthew Kressel

www.matthewkressel.net · a site they built themselves

Read them at www.matthewkressel.net → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Matthew Kressel publishes essays and short stories about fantasy & SF and technology at www.matthewkressel.net, a site they built themselves. Last published August 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.

21 dated posts since 20251 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJune 2025 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20252025-06: 120262026-02: 22026-03: 52026-04: 22026-05: 12026-06: 52026-07: 22026-08: 3
fewermorepeak: 5 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

12025202026

2026 is January to October.

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
13 captured
Front page
112 KB, 36 scripts, 63 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
10 other writers in the index, 74 other sites, 9 platforms
Found
2026-09-06, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

rainseeker1assessment53podcast546threat141lightspeed31magazine755clarkesworld33trucker3science941static90fiction2217analog61espie1droger1

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

Prime BooksAlethea KontisAlex Shvartsman's Booklife NowEllen Datlow83 sites outside the indexMatthew Kressel
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Alethea Kontis, Alex Shvartsman's Speculative Fiction, Booklife Now, Ellen Datlow, Functional Nerds, Fantastic Fiction at KGB and 4 more.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · no optimization at all · 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 copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • No description written for search engines and no schema. Nothing on the page was built to be found.

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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