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joelonsoftware.com

I'm your host, Joel Spolsky, a software developer in New York City.

Can I trust this site?

Sourced website trust answer

Website report: review the evidence and ownership status

The live checks and dated facts below help you evaluate this website. If you own it, claiming it free turns this into an owner-controlled record.

Facts, not verdicts. AboutUs shows sourced signals and the next owner action; it is not a scam label.

Caution — review the findings below

1 live trust check needs a look before relying on this site.

Source freshness: 106 days old

Authority

67/100

Safety

90/100

No known risk flags

Known risk signals, not a check pass rate

3 of 4 safety checks passed (Oct 3, 2026).

Blacklist / threat feeds
Threat-feed coverage is not attached for this domain yet.

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Evidence and details

The Authority/Safety methodology, live trust checks, and infrastructure context behind the answer above.

Trust checks

Current public signals checked for this report.

DNSgood

2 records

The domain resolves through public DNS.

Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup

HTTPSgood

Reachable

The website responded over HTTPS. Checked HTTPS host: www.joelonsoftware.com.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

HTTPS destinationunknown

www.joelonsoftware.com

HTTPS request for joelonsoftware.com ended at www.joelonsoftware.com. This host is within the profile domain. This records the response destination, not an HTML canonical declaration or a configuration diagnosis.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatagood

Joel on Software

A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Security headerswatch

1/3 present

Checks for HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options headers.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Breach historygood

No breaches on record

Have I Been Pwned has no catalogued breaches for this domain. Absence of a record is not a guarantee that no breach occurred.

Source: Have I Been Pwned

How this report is built— Authority/Safety methodology, Open PageRank attribution, confidence

Authority and safety snapshot

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

This report combines public evidence source, live checks, freshness, and ownership status so readers can evaluate the website without treating the score as a popularity rank.

Authority 67/100ClearCoverage shown; confidence not calibrated

Authority basis: Strong profile signal; Legacy AboutUs archive import; crawler quality is 87/100. Current model authority score is 67/100 from report-derived and stored evidence inputs. External evidence used: Tranco rank, Open PageRank, RDAP age, DMARC, MX. Missing external inputs: Threat feed.
Safety band: Clear · Safety 90/100; 1 live trust signal need review. Model band: Clear. New or unclaimed status is not treated as unsafe by itself.

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Report score

89/100

Strong website report

Launch state

Search eligible

Eligible for launch indexing

Owner status

Claimable

No owner has verified domain control for this profile yet. Crawler and archive evidence remain visible, and official facts should be submitted through review.

Search visibility

Indexable public profile

This crawler-backed profile passed the public publication gate.

Report summary

Owner improvements available

Moderate report issues can be improved with verified owner facts, fresh crawler evidence, or corrected profile details.

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What should improve before this profile becomes a stronger launch or owner asset.

mediumOwner must doNo verified owner controls this profile
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mediumAboutUs can doProfile data may be stale
The last stored crawl or profile update was 106 days ago.
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Owner roadmap

The recommended path from public report to verified owner value.

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Trust checks

Current public signals checked for this report.

DNSgood

2 records

The domain resolves through public DNS.

Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup

HTTPSgood

Reachable

The website responded over HTTPS. Checked HTTPS host: www.joelonsoftware.com.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

HTTPS destinationunknown

www.joelonsoftware.com

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatagood

Joel on Software

A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Security headerswatch

1/3 present

Checks for HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options headers.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Breach historygood

No breaches on record

Have I Been Pwned has no catalogued breaches for this domain. Absence of a record is not a guarantee that no breach occurred.

Source: Have I Been Pwned

joelonsoftware.com

Website report: review the evidence and ownership status

Evidence and details

Trust checks

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

Owner improvements available

Report findings

Owner roadmap

Website report: review the evidence and ownership status

Trust checks

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

Owner improvements available

Report findings

Owner roadmap

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