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:

• Three Holiday Cards (2026-04-02)
• Site-Map-ish (2026-04-02)
• 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)

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 5 (2026)
• CSSBattle for APRIL 4 (2026)
• CSSBattle for APRIL 3 (2026)
• CSSBattle for APRIL 2 (2026)
• CSSBattle for APRIL 1 (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 will fake it until I make it. #affirmations

  (2026-04-05)

• It wasn’t your fault #affirmations

  (2026-04-04)

• I can express my anger openly, honestly & appropriately. #affirmations

  (2026-04-04)

• Today I will do what is right for me. #affirmations

  (2026-04-03)

• I am willing, because this is the key to recovery. #affirmations

  (2026-04-02)

• I am happy. #affirmations

  (2026-04-02)

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 in 1 day, 20 hours
• 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

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.

• I spent some time this morning adding a category of "social verb" to #IndieWeb wiki entries for things which are about social interactions on personal websites and silos alike. https://indieweb.org/Category:social_verb

  (2026-04-05)

• Everything is Copilot. https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html

  (2026-04-05)

• I wanna publish zines and rage against machines

  (2026-04-03)

• Always be removing fascists from power.

  (2026-04-03)

• I made a more straightforward sitemap for my site. https://artlung.com/sitemap/ - inspired by @anthony who has an elegant one he shared at #IndieWeb Pacific.

  (2026-04-02)

• Next #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club will be today at 6pm Pacific Daylight Time - come kvetch about and work on and write on and create on your website with us (on Zoom)! https://events.indieweb.org/2026/04/homebrew-website-club-pacific-J2F3dbpSaYOL

  (2026-04-01)

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.

• (2026-04-04)

• (2026-04-03)

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: Homebrew Website Club Curitiba: Meetings 2 through 7 by Daniel Kossmann (2026-04-05)
• Joe Crawford liked: Caw 01 by Jeremy Cherfas (2026-04-03)
• Joe Crawford liked: Charlie Day, Who Plays Luigi In The Mario Movies, Shouts Out Alleged United Healthcare CEO Killer Luigi Mangione by Nathan Grayson (2026-04-03)
• Joe Crawford liked: IndieWeb Carnival 2026 - Adventure by Pablo Morales (2026-04-02)
• Joe Crawford liked: Arrival: IndieWeb Movie Club by gRegor Love (2026-04-02)
• Joe Crawford liked: Test Permalink! by Rex Young (2026-04-01)

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 tyfromtheinternet.com/posts - Ty talks type, travel, and photos.

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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