Joe Crawford

Website fixer · IndieWebber · Comics maker · Bodysurfer · Blogger · Toy and robot collector · CSS Battler · San Diego · Peace, love, resistance

Web: https://artlung.com/
Links: https://artlung.com/links/
GitHub: https://github.com/artlung
Newsletter: https://artlung.com/newsletter/

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2026-06-27 12:43:09 GMT

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I am so late to the party! I have talked about them and seen demos and even recommended them but it really is a stellar onboarding to the web.

2026-06-27 11:59:21 GMT

I have made a new website: https://artlung.neocities.org ~ and naturally I created a new IndieWeb wiki profile page https://indieweb.org/User:Artlung.neocities.org
I love that the main interface shows you your web files, and has a link to download the whole site. Nice job @neocities.org
#IndieWeb #smallweb

2026-03-02 13:40:54 GMT

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if code is law, then yes. and also, the value of people who can navigate branching, merging, code velocity ought to be increased.

2026-02-26 15:43:25 GMT

Thinking of the USA as a git repo with so many issues it’s hard to know where to even start to make it work right.

2026-01-06 02:18:06 GMT

Random book fact: Cory Doctorow’s book Enshittification has 82 holds on 15 copies in the San Diego Public Library system. @npub1fdr…lvhs

2025-11-19 15:03:55 GMT

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only way to know what it means to clean a toilet is to clean a fucking toilet. government might not be any different. "the public won't preserve what it has no means of perceiving, understanding, and evaluating" -- maybe a system we can all take a shift in -- participate -- would do that. legislative work as jury duty.

2025-11-10 22:00:09 GMT

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I missed out on this but this sure seems like it could be fun. I'll keep an eye out.

2025-11-10 15:33:50 GMT

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I just read this: https://rosipov.com/blog/ai-assisted-overconfidence/ "You ask them to evaluate your idea - they’ll spit out that it’s the best idea ever conceived. You ask for criticism, you’ll get told that it’s a terrible idea."

2025-11-07 18:54:46 GMT

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Aging does that. I am not looking forward to it. My grandmother when she was ~ 78 had a health scare and was hospitalized. That went okay. But the rehab she then was forced to inpatient at, with absolutely all context lost: no coffee in morning, no afternoon tea, no husband to help, no right-wing radio as she did chores, no morning news shows, no crossword: she was terrified; a sort of psychosis.
I hope I can always cope with dislocation but I know odds are against me.

2025-11-07 18:45:01 GMT

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Living abroad as a child turned me into a permanent expat no matter where I go. Nothing is "normal" or "default." Everything is contingent. Everything might be threatening or better than you imagine or somehow both. And home is no place.

2025-10-23 17:33:44 GMT

"The Trail of Political Consciousness" https://www.benji.dog/the-trail-of-political-consciousness
From Star Wars / ANDOR ~ formatted as a web page, and printable as a zine by @npub1dpm…yvwf ~ absolutely brilliant!

2025-10-18 02:32:17 GMT

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Github repot, maybe. Future reconciliation commission.

2025-10-07 16:11:57 GMT

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The prompt for today is Sub-optimal for #WeirdWebOctober. I took it literally. https://artlung.com/wwo/7/

2025-10-06 19:04:04 GMT

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There are a few formats, epub among them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_archiving_file_formats

2025-10-06 17:12:01 GMT

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Today for #WeirdWebOctober a page which is slightly better in "dark mode." But do it quick or you'll miss it. Thanks for reading. Once.🌹 https://artlung.com/wwo/6/

2025-10-05 15:52:28 GMT

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Today's #WeirdWebOctober prompt is "Remix." My bookmarklet injects a bit of JavaScript and CSS to cause a web page* to animate some squish and stretch. By keying in "+" or "-" you can make it go faster or slower.
https://lab.artlung.com/squish-stretch-web/
*some web pages and user preferences may resist

2025-10-04 20:25:12 GMT

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Latest #WeirdWebOctober dances and filters. Multilingually. https://artlung.com/wwo/4/

2025-10-03 16:19:41 GMT

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#Scramble in #WeirdWebOctober today. https://artlung.com/wwo/3/

2025-10-03 01:05:09 GMT

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The theme for #WeirdWebOctober today is Maps. How about a map of the heart. Or rather, a map of hearts. https://artlung.com/wwo/2/

2025-10-02 04:50:32 GMT

I spent time thinking about transparent GIFs for #WeirdWebOctober
https://artlung.com/wwo/
The prompt today is #Transparency

2025-09-13 14:55:04 GMT

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I added some additions to https://indieweb.org/Bridgetown and added it to the SSG category. Thanks! Super helpful!

2025-09-13 13:38:18 GMT

If you consider yourself a member of the #IndieWeb and use a static site generator #SSG which one(s) do you use? Doing some wiki gardening category-wise and want to document what we're missing since we get a fair number of questions about choosing and using SSGs. Thanks! https://indieweb.org/Category:SSG

2025-08-26 01:39:32 GMT

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I return periodically to Bruce Sterling's Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge (1992) on the nature of libraries. https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/bruce-sterling/free_as_knowledge/

2025-08-26 01:36:16 GMT

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I was always told that as I got older my views would become more "conservative" but these are also folks who communicated the idea of that "public good" and responsibility to "the commons" as part of public companies. It is frankly shocking, still, that capital abandoned any notion of a public good. Every extant museum and library created by century-ago robber barons shocks me given current corporate standard operating procedure.

2025-08-26 01:06:04 GMT

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The only thing ruining the idea of the site is the profit motive. We are unfortunately stuck with the profit motive. Let's try nationalizing it. It couldn't possibly be made worse.

2025-08-17 14:31:37 GMT

With endemic fascism occurring right now in the USA, I am not looking for buddies or pals or agreement on every topic. I’m looking for comrades opposing horrors. Plaudits are deserved for actions opposing tyranny. And criticism deserved for opposing justice.

2025-07-18 17:19:54 GMT

Yesterday’s #FrontEnd Study Hall was useful. I took the excuse of #SDCC coming up to study comics on the web, specifically #accessibility markup (HTML) and CSS. Started a page to explore more https://lab.artlung.com/comics-a11y/ #IndieWeb

2025-06-19 00:08:09 GMT

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There is not. `all` doesn’t include those or `unicode-bidi` or `direction`
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/all
… now, you can control inheritance by defining the custom properties with inherits: false though.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@property
…Whichmay or may not help whatever you’re trying to resolve.
In further pain points, you can’t reliably find existing custom properties with JS in Chrome. https://lab.artlung.com/root-color-properties-editor/

2025-05-09 16:58:39 GMT

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I think about that and also about how in any narrative it's the individual who *goes by their own rules* who is the hero. We have far fewer narratives about healthy systems and people operating to improve them. Instead, everyone's a fucking iconoclast.

2025-04-28 06:09:46 GMT

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I like that when I see code like this every few months it never seems like the code is any better.

2025-04-17 14:24:45 GMT

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a falling tide grounds all boats... some sort of idiomatic opposite to "rising tide lifts all boats" must exist but I'm not thinking of it. these are bad times.

2025-02-25 03:28:11 GMT

Every two weeks I proctor a Zoom where we look at #CSS and #HTML and solve #FrontEnd problems as best we can. We call it Front End Study Hall on the #IndieWeb next one? Tomorrow! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/2025/02/front-end-study-hall-022-Ml4JWHiZeiVt

2025-02-05 13:27:25 GMT

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what deleterious effects occur because it fires twice? And are any *other* of the native *Callbacks being called between the two connectedCallback events?

2025-01-27 19:52:52 GMT

Do you run an indie blog? -- https://blogofthe.day/ posts a blog every day, and welcomes submissions. Whatever your notions of small web--indieweb, (or even IndieWeb!), independent web, slow web, small web--blogs welcome!

2024-12-10 17:01:09 GMT

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People making movies have to find code somewhere. You might be interested in the classic Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/moviecode -- "Images of the computer code appearing in TV and films and what they really are."

2024-12-10 13:19:24 GMT

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That reminds me of the time someone emailed me to let me know that my URL had appeared on the tv show Bones. https://artlung.com/blog/2011/01/16/artlung-on-bones/
Pre-A.I., but same principle: You put things on the web, folks might use it somehow.

2024-09-29 03:43:34 GMT

Long time no #SanDiego #Beach #Panorama — I’m so pleased summer has moved into Autumn. PB had plenty of folks enjoying the sand and many surfers in the water.
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/218/783/699/305/773/original/3a7d0e4af1e39f57.jpeg

2024-09-26 04:13:52 GMT

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