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 (RSS Feed), 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:

• Lovely Day (2026-03-27)
• MODOK-2026 (no. 2) (2026-03-23)
• Freelance Surf Assistant (2026-03-23)
• Making, uh, a splash. (2026-03-20)
• EOTD: “Hi Joe Crawford, let’s connect” (2026-03-18)
• Newness ~ Oldness ~ Waves (2026-03-17)
• I’ve been on YouTube for 20 years, apparently. (2026-03-17)
• Safety Warning (2026-03-16)

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 MARCH 28 (2026)
• CSSBattle for MARCH 27 (2026)
• CSSBattle for MARCH 26 (2026)
• CSSBattle for MARCH 25 (2026)
• CSSBattle for MARCH 24 (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 am a good listener. #affirmations

  (2026-03-28)

• Relax. #affirmations

  (2026-03-27)

• I’m proud of my perseverance. #affirmations

  (2026-03-27)

• I am of service to my Higher Power and the world. #affirmations

  (2026-03-26)

• It feel great to stand up for myself. #affirmations

  (2026-03-25)

• I release the need to dwell on the path. #affirmations

  (2026-03-25)

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 #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
• Front End Study Hall #045 Jan 29, 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

Social Media

I'm active on a few different platforms. Lately I'm posting more to Mastodon and Bluesky and less on Instagram. I was once a very active user of Twitter (now X), but avoid it now. More links here.

Here are a few recent posts from Mastodon.

• Any US pol in the top 10 slots of the Presidential line of succession must play a continuing ed game of Risk every quarter.

  (2026-03-28)

• Sometimes I just need to listen to Kirby Krackle's Ring Capacity ok. https://youtu.be/c8LNPeVPMIo

  (2026-03-27)

• We're so close to something better left unknown

  (2026-03-27)

• Front End Study Hall 049 will be tomorrow at 10am Pacific time - all website making, website curious, CSS mavens, and others are welcome as we get together to talk about reckoning with #Frontend #Web stuff. https://events.indieweb.org/2026/03/front-end-study-hall-049-O1LMJM2NebHy #IndieWeb

  (2026-03-25)

• It’s so useful to know that predictions can be, simply, flat wrong.

  (2026-03-24)

• “zephyr in the sky at night I wonder”

  (2026-03-23)

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.

• (2026-03-27)

• (2026-03-26)

I wrote about data and bodysurfing: Bodysurfing and Data. See 2023, 2024, and 2025 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: Let's Cook The Joke Vegetarian Food From Alison Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out For by Riley MacLeod :

  The famous lesbian comic strip satirizes politically-conscious eating with dishes that were never meant to exist--until now

  (2026-03-27)
• Joe Crawford liked: Why is it so hard to make Star Trek YA? by Charlie Jane Anders :

  Like many works created by World War II veterans, in fact, Trek is intensely anti-fascist.

  (2026-03-26)
• Joe Crawford liked: Reflecting on the Social Media Addiction Trial by Jess :

  Blogging feels like the opposite of doomscrolling. You're making something, thinking through your own ideas, instead of scrolling through a feed designed to keep you hooked. You are the one in control.

  (2026-03-26)
• Joe Crawford liked: Make a Website by James' Coffee Blog (2026-03-23)
• Joe Crawford liked: Typewriter Fonts by Richard Polt (2026-03-23)
• Joe Crawford liked: Hello World by Michael Harley :

  can someone please help me test #webmentions on my site?

  (2026-03-21)

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 insidemordecai.com - Broadcasting from Kenya, this is my personal blog where tech collides with musings on life, culture, and the occasional rabbit home..

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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