ArtLung

ART, TOYS, PROJECTS

Clicky fun toy interactive things: artlung.com/toys

Projects of mine: artlung.com/projects

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

I'm everywhere, I'm everywhere. Or rather, artlung.com/elsewhere

There are thousands of urls on this site. More than ten thousand. artlung.com/site-index

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:

• “What need of telephones?” (2025-09-23)
• Word of the Day: Gleichschaltung (2025-09-23)
• Cousins 50 years apart. (2025-09-22)
• Don’t lose sight, baby don’t lose sight. (2025-09-21)
• Dose 6 Miscellaneous (2025-09-20)
• The Demand of Grief (2025-09-17)
• Latest Scam/Spam (Coinbase) (2025-09-16)
• Etha-Editing (2025-09-11)

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 SEPTEMBER 27 (2025)
• CSSBattle for SEPTEMBER 26 (2025) (RETRO-DAILY CHALLENGE) Using clip-path: polygon()
• CSSBattle for SEPTEMBER 25 (2025)
• CSSBattle for SEPTEMBER 24 (2025)
• CSSBattle for SEPTEMBER 23 (2025)

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 accept my strengths and weaknesses as part of my self. Whatever path I take or changes are in store, I accept myselt today. #affirmation

  (2025-09-25)

• Feelings are real but temporary. #affirmation

  (2025-09-24)

• I have time to take time for myself today. #affirmation

  (2025-09-22)

• In many ways I have all that I need. #affirmation

  (2025-09-21)

• Today I will take action on at least one goal. #affirmation

  (2025-09-20)

• I am not responsible for knowing what other people are thinking. #affirmation

  (2025-09-19)

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 #037 in 4 days
• Front End Study Hall #036 Sep 18, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #035 Aug 28, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #034 Aug 12, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #033 Jul 31, 2025

View my IndieWeb profile which is mirrored here.

WordPress

I've used WordPress since it was b2. Much of this site—but not this page—is powered by WordPress using a custom theme and plugins that I've written. In 2010 I created a plugin—Open Graph Protocol Tools—still in the WordPress plugin repository. I've enjoyed every WordPress win and suffered every WordPress indignity. I've debugged shortcodes, worked with child themes, used Multisite. Woocommerce, and created themes from scratch. I've been gratified to help people migrate from Blogger FTP to WordPress, and Import Instagram photos to WordPress. And I've tackled the nastiest malware infestations and fixed the most tedious Mojibake problems. Many people dislike WordPress. I like it. (Also, the WordPress CLI is among my favorite development tools).

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.

• 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)
• Safari Mailto Converter (2025-05-15)
• Mid-air footer (2025-03-06)
• Gettysburg Address in HTML. Interactive. (2025-02-21)
• Spoiler Widget (2025-02-12)

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.

• Dril taught me I don't gotta had it to them.

  (2025-09-25)

• Seen on a bumper sticker in San Diego (I think it read) “the despair is neverending and yet I remain silly” with an illustration of a cat in socks.

  (2025-09-25)

• I look at mixes I made 30 years ago and think "that kid had great taste!" -- and of course I *would* think that. Still, gonna play this one today. https://artlung.com/mixtapes/1993-perverse-logic

  (2025-09-24)

• Managed to take photos of some of my cassette covers. Slotted them into the certain ratio and they work okay. Setting initial rotation needs adjustment. https://codepen.io/artlung/full/XJXbGjR #music #mixtapes #css

  (2025-09-23)

• Connection: we must have it.

  https://artlung.com/blog/2025/09/23/phone-book/

  #creativity #smallweb #indieweb

  (2025-09-23)

• Yes, as a matter of fact, I am looking forward to Weird Web October. https://weirdweboctober.website

  (2025-09-23)

Smorgasborg

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

• 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)
• Good Words (2025-02-12)
• Giant Woman (2025-01-27)

smorgasborg.artlung.com

Likes

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

• Joe Crawford liked: Building, Sharing, and Owning Your Online Presence by Ana (2025-09-25)
• Joe Crawford liked: Consumed.Today (2025-09-25)
• Joe Crawford liked: Recovering Webmentions From The Fediverse Migrating To Cloudflare by Jen Chan (2025-09-25)
• Joe Crawford liked: Complexity Lenses: An Overview by Thomas Vander Wal :

  The focus of the lenses is to see clearly through the fog of complexity. Leaders, decision makers, managers, and interested parties often are frustrated that their spending on solutions don’t improve the situation. This frustration quite often is adjacent to “we are missing some understanding”.

  (2025-09-25)
• Joe Crawford liked: Buy a blog post by Shae Erisson :

  So here’s an experiment. I’ll write a list of topics I’ve been meaning to turn into blog posts, and a price, and you, oh well-funded reader, can bribe me to finish them.

  (2025-09-25)
• Joe Crawford liked: Weird Web October by jzplusplus :

  Weird Web October is a challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day.

  (2025-09-23)

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 lifeofpablo.com

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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