ARTLUNG

This is and has been the personal website of Joe Crawford for several decades. Be good to yourself, be good to each other, go make a web page. Thank you for visiting!

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.

⚠️ I'm adjusting the home page

Newsletter

Emails come from newsletter@newsletter.artlung.com.

Problems? reach out. Also, there are feeds

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

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

lab.artlung.com

Reels

I'm on Instagram and TikTok too. But I'm trying to host my reels here too.

artlung.com/reels/

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.

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. I wrote about data and bodysurfing: Bodysurfing and Data.

Bodysurfing Videos

I use an app called Dawn Patrol and also Surfline to find video of my rides.

I also use Strava. artlung.com/videos/

Smorgasborg

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

smorgasborg.artlung.com

Likes

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

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 rknight.me/blog/ - A blog by Robb Knight.

The site maintained with Eleventy and hosted on Netlify.

Archaic HTML! Tilde Club! Neocities!

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 .

artlung.neocities.org is another experiment. I think Neocities is terrific. It is approachable, friendly, and fun. My page there validates to HTML 4.01.

For Weird Web October 2025, I created a page which validates to ISO HTML/IEC 15445:2000 . That specification still works terrific and the exercise reminded me that good HTML is future-proof.

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