artlung

Hi! I'm Joe.

Welcome. This site has tens of thousands of pages. Try the Newcomer? or About pages to get started.

Everybody's carrying around a web browser in their pocket. Go make a web page!

The Now page is pretty good. You might be interested in my slash pages, not to be confused with prior splash pages. Or play with some Toys which I program with HTML and CSS and JavaScript and probably PHP too. Oh, and I can be hired to do work; here;s my CV.

I'm on various social media silos too. But my website comes first and will outlast most of them. See Elsewhere for the full list past and present.

Contact me if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.

ART, TOYS, PROJECTS

Projects of mine: artlung.com/projects

Clicky fun toy interactive things: artlung.com/toys and the Weird Web October 2025 collection is where some of those came from. You ought to go make a web page!

Art I've put into the world to show people: artlung.com/art

I have a Now page to encapsulate what's new and now and present tense.

I've updated my resume/CV: artlung.com/cv

My statement on how I use or don't use "AI"

How is this site made? See the colophon

Blogging

I'm a blogger. artlung.com/blog (Follow my feeds), I appreciate the power of a blog. Blogging has inspired books and movies. Blogging has brought people tv careers, political power. Blogging got me on the radio, twice. It also has connected me with people who became life-long friends.

Some recent posts:

• I write. (2026-04-17)
• Another sketchy opportunity (2026-04-15)
• Zoomies (2026-04-15)
• Sketchy email of the day (2026-04-13)
• The Lost Art of the Amusing WiFi Hotspot Name, indeed (2026-04-10)
• Wednesday Updates (2026-04-08)
• Hello, human.json? (2026-04-08)
• Front page of the Comic-Con website; Approachability (2026-04-07)

CSS Battles on YouTube

Want to watch me write code to do the daily targets on CSSBattle.dev ? You are in luck. And I wrote about it: 110 Hours of CSS Battle.

Here are the latest battles I've recorded.

• CSSBattle for APRIL 18 (2026)
• CSSBattle for APRIL 17 (2026)
• CSSBattle for APRIL 16 (2026) Three ways: 1 element + box shadows; 6 elements flex; 27 gradients
• CSSBattle for APRIL 15 (2026)
• CSSBattle for APRIL 14 (2026)

artlung.com/cssbattles/

Affirmations Bot

I've experimented with several social media bots over the years. The latest is Affirmations Bot and it sends out affirmations daily to Mastodon (RSS Feed) and Bluesky. I've collected many over the years from support groups, books, and some I've written myself.

Recently posted affirmations:

• I release the need to punish myself with guilt for decisions I made in the past. #affirmations

  (2026-04-18)

• I will be truthful with myself today. #affirmations

  (2026-04-17)

• I am on the Broad Highway walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe. #affirmations

  (2026-04-16)

• Today I will love myself more. #affirmations

  (2026-04-16)

• I be honest with myself about both my wins and losses. #affirmations

  (2026-04-15)

• I will trust my own thoughts and emotions. #affirmations

  (2026-04-14)

The IndieWeb blog carnival I hosted on the theme of affirmations in February 2025 had excellent participation. Read more blogs!

Comics

I've always drawn, but I've only been making comics for the web for a few years. I find it really satisfying to start with an idea and follow it through to completion.

• “USE IT.” (2025-01-24)
• I hate billionaire Nazis. (2025-01-22)
• “spite swimming | sanity swimming” (one-sheet) (2024-11-25)
• “Our Lady of the Cloud” (2024-11-19)
• “Once upon a time… in Aztlán” (2024-11-15)
• “SILENCE” (2024-11-13)
• “ALTERNATIVE FUTURES” (2024-11-13)
• Surrounded. Diary #webcomic (2023-07-31)
• “GEMINI” (2023-06-21)
• spite swimming | sanity swimming (2022 – 2023) (2023-06-17)

artlung.com/comics/

Front End Study Hall

I host an open forum for learning CSS & HTML called Front End Study Hall under the aegis of the IndieWeb. If CSS and HTML are of interest to you, and you like to explore and learn and experiment, you are welcome to join us. Meetings are held on Zoom.

• Front End Study Hall #050 Apr 7, 2026
• Front End Study Hall #049 Mar 26, 2026
• Front End Study Hall #048 Mar 12, 2026
• Front End Study Hall #047 Feb 24, 2026
• Front End Study Hall #046 Feb 12, 2026

View my IndieWeb profile which is mirrored here.

ArtLung Lab

The Lab started as a part of this website. I post experiments in web programming there. Here are the latest.

Ever since I've had a web page I have tinkered with HTML. The Lab lab.artlung.com (RSS Feed) collects experiments and explainers I've made over the years. The source code for the site is available on GitHub: artlung/lab.artlung.com. When I learn something new or find some interesting oddity about the web, I will create a page for it on the lab. I left it fallow for many years but returned to it with a passion in 2024.

• Bookmarklet Pattern (2025-10-26)
• Upside Down Web Page Bookmarklet (2025-10-13)
• Squish Stretch Bookmarklet (2025-10-05)
• IndieWeb.org Webmention Bookmarklet (2025-09-26)
• Slideorama Pinwheels (2025-07-17)
• WML, WAP, & Microformats Demo (2025-06-18)
• Kanban Task Board in CSS Grid (2025-06-04)
• Ventcheck, a Twitter bot (2025-05-16)

lab.artlung.com

Bodysurfing

I love the water. I try to ride waves as daily as possible year round. Some weeks it's six sessions, and some weeks two.

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• (2026-04-12)

I wrote about data and bodysurfing: Bodysurfing and Data. See 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 swim photos show posts in and around the water. And a few of my comics were inspired by the ocean. Follow my blog or my posts and stories on Instagram to catch more of my bodysurfing adventures. You can also connect with me on Strava: Strava.com/athletes/artlung.

Smorgasborg

This is similar to the Lab, but for stranger, goofier, and (mostly) non-technical items which I have found useful on the internet.

• Following URLs for Silos (2026-02-11)
• Feed Patterns for URLs for a few sites (2026-01-21)
• HWC 2025-09-10 EU by Various Artists (2025-09-10)
• Maarva Andor Has A Posse (2025-04-26)
• IndieWeb Sickos (2025-04-10)
• Guru Meditation (2025-03-15)
• This Man Wants To Clean Your Clothes (Velvet Touch Dry Cleaners & Laundry) Pacific Beach, San Diego California (2025-02-23)
• Illinois State of the State Address, 2025 by Governor J.B. Pritzker (2025-02-19)

smorgasborg.artlung.com

Likes

Links which I Like, recently (RSS). Many of which I have sent webmentions to.

• Joe Crawford liked: Trip log: Coast Starlight train from Seattle to Los Angeles by Tracy Durnell (2026-04-18)
• Joe Crawford liked: Sealioning and More by Love, Joolz (2026-04-11)
• Joe Crawford liked: Prepping for the endgame of the open web by Jay Hoffman :

  This isn’t a technology problem and it can’t be solved by better tech. It’s a people problem that can be solved by better citizens of the web.

  (2026-04-10)
• Joe Crawford liked: One Week of Analog April by Miquela Davis (2026-04-10)
• Joe Crawford liked: Specification vs. implementation by fluffy (2026-04-09)
• Joe Crawford liked: Turkey City Lexicon – A Primer for SF Workshops by Edited by Lewis Shiner; Second Edition by Bruce Sterling (2026-04-08)

artlung.com/likes/

Blog of the .Day

Blog of the .Day was created by James. I am now its steward. Every day, a different user-submitted blog is highlighted at random.

Do you have a blog? Blog of the day is on GitHub: artlung/blogofthe.day. If GitHub pull requests and editing JSON intimidate you, know that there are other ways to submit your indie blog.

The blog of the day is stefanbohacek.com/blog - Stefan Bohacek's personal blog, covering topics such as web APIs, accessibility, fediverse, data visualization, and creative automation..

The site maintained with Eleventy and hosted on Netlify.

Tilde Club & HTML 2.0

tilde.club/~artlung/ is "retro." It is a single page site. I assure that the code validates to the HTML 2.0 DOCTYPE. That means CLASS or ID attributes are not allowed. That deprecated 1990s version of HTML still allows for a readable, fairly attractive page. That code is available on GitHub: artlung/artlung-tilde-club .

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