ArtLung

ART, TOYS, PROJECTS

Art I've put into the world to show people: artlung.com/art

Digital toys I've made: artlung.com/toys

Projects of mine: artlung.com/projects

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 AUGUST 5 (2025)
• CSSBattle for AUGUST 4 (2025)
• CSSBattle for AUGUST 3 (2025) & HTML Day
• CSSBattle for AUGUST 2 (2025)
• CSSBattle for AUGUST 1 (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 express my feelings for me. #affirmation

  (2025-08-04)

• I am growing along spiritual lines. #affirmation

  (2025-08-03)

• I am loved. #affirmation

  (2025-08-02)

• Because of a sense of humor, I am mentally healthy. #affirmation

  (2025-08-01)

• I can give to others with no strings attached. #affirmation

  (2025-07-31)

• I am ready to let my higher power remove from me all things which I admit are objectionable. #affirmation

  (2025-07-30)

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 #034 in 7 days
• Front End Study Hall #033 Jul 31, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #032 Jul 17, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #031 Jul 1, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #030 Jun 17, 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.

• Not sure which "hit em with a..." I like shouting at the tv better. "Hit em with a brick!" from Andor or "Hit em with a boat!" from Pacific Rim.

  (2025-08-04)

• “last night a d.j. saved my life”

  (2025-08-04)

• Ocean Beach, #SanDiego this morning. Overcast start to the day and some bouncy rideable waves for me today. Here’s to a good week. #Beach #Panorama

  (2025-08-04)

• Singing along earnestly to Epitaph by King Crimson might be a negative emotional leading indicator. Will switch to New York Dolls and Gang Starr.

  (2025-08-03)

• For #HTMLDay today I made a page with a list of the HTML elements listed on MDN as of today. And it's got some silly uselessness too. https://artlung.com/html-day/

  Thanks https://html.energy/

  (2025-08-02)

• “we’re so close to something better left unknown / I can feel it in my bones”

  (2025-08-02)

Smorgasborg

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

• 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)
• All the Foods I Cannot Eat by Leoh Blooms (2025-01-08)

smorgasborg.artlung.com

Likes

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

• Joe Crawford liked: The Weird Web by Chris Ferdinandi :

  Show me the real you.

  (2025-08-04)
• Joe Crawford liked: how should we @ someone? by Tantek Çelik (2025-08-04)
• Joe Crawford liked: Coffee by gRegor Love :

  a few of my goto orders

  (2025-08-04)
• Joe Crawford liked: Happy HTML Day (I'm machine knitting Edition) by Marty McGuire (2025-08-03)
• Joe Crawford liked: True Confessions - My Life on the High Seas by Lou Plummer (2025-08-02)
• Joe Crawford liked: Curate your own newspaper with RSS by Molly White (2025-08-01)

artlung.com/likes/

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:

• HTML Day! (2025-08-04)
• California DMV Phishing Scam from +63-912-014-1106 (2025-08-04)
• A reminder: I run a bot for affirmations (2025-07-30)
• “Totems”: Trollface and Heart-hands (2025-07-29)
• Something Reagan did right: he repudiated the KKK and white nationalists (2025-07-23)
• New Toys Page (2025-07-23)
• Alas, Quote of the Day (2025-07-22)
• Spirals! Slideorama Pinwheels (2025-07-21)

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 stfn.pl - A blog about computers, tinkering, and sometimes gardening and astrophotography.

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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