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Robin Sloan

www.robinsloan.com · a site they built themselves

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

Robin Sloan publishes essays and short stories at www.robinsloan.com, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 6 other writers in the index.

6 writers vouch

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
5 captured
Front page
40 KB, 3 scripts, 0 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 13 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-24, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

penumbra6moonbound3sourdough15annabel15scheme75lished2industrialist2homecooked3ajax5flipflop6dwayne7amulet8tion10avail10

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 vouches6 writers in the index

6 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

rachel binx ⤇ blogBlogrollCSS { In Real LifeMichael Juliussippey.comKicks Condor13 sites outside the indexRobin Sloan
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Kept on the same blogrolls: Waxy.org - Andy Baio lives here (3 of the same writers link to both).

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by 6 other writers

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 212,945 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.
  • 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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