ARTLUNG

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

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:

• Even small days can be good. (2025-11-30)
• Writing, Context, Cleverness (2025-11-24)
• Winter is bringing new wave opportunities. Incremental improvements continue. (2025-11-23)
• Site Updates (2025-11-19)
• Perspective: Doc Searls (2025-11-19)
• Quote of the Day (2025-11-19)
• Homebrew Website Club/Eastern at 6pm EST on Wednesday (2025-11-17)
• Email from YouTube: “Automatic Dubbing” (2025-11-17)

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 NOVEMBER 30 (2025)
• CSSBattle for NOVEMBER 29 (2025)
• CSSBattle for NOVEMBER 28 (2025)
• CSSBattle for NOVEMBER 27 (2025)
• CSSBattle for NOVEMBER 26 (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 trust that there is always a healthy pathway. #affirmations

  (2025-11-30)

• I find ways to support myself. #affirmations

  (2025-11-29)

• I release the need to punish myself with guilt for decisions I made in the past. #affirmation

  (2025-11-27)

• I will trust the positive voice inside myself. #affirmation

  (2025-11-26)

• It is ok to feel anger and it is okay to let anger go. #affirmation

  (2025-11-25)

• Today I will stay on my positive path. #affirmation

  (2025-11-24)

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/

Reels

• OB Ride
• Month of Hearts
• Robots, 2020.
• Fire Sunset, 2022.
• Drawing in Brushes.app on iPod Touch, 2011.
• California Sea Lion
• TI-994A IWC logo
• I met a Pelican

artlung.com/reels/

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 #042 in 10 days
• Front End Study Hall #041 Nov 25, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #040 Nov 13, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #039 Oct 30, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #038 Oct 14, 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.

• 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.

• November, and the #IndieWeb Book Club entry for this month "Understanding Comics" is almost over. Time enough to read the book and blog about it on your websites! https://artlung.com/understandingcomics-ibc/

  (2025-11-30)

• ( Primus, though, on https://artlung.com/mixtapes/1991-nubulizer/ )

  (2025-11-29)

• “with a Bocephus sticker on his 442 he’d light em up just for fun”

  (2025-11-29)

• Getting started with #IndieWeb Create Day and already chatted on Zoom or in etherpad or in IRC with folks having fun improving their personal websites!

  (2025-11-28)

• Today I'm thankful for music. I made some tweaks to the pages. Included are cassette mixes by 14-year old me, and annual playlists by 50-something me. I've been told some of my choices are solid. Music is the best. Share what you love. https://artlung.com/mixtapes/

  (2025-11-27)

• Follow up from #IndieWeb Front End Study Hall yesterday, I added an image of the animation of the #CSS corner-shape superelljpse from infinity to negative infinity in Chrome (based on the CodePen by Amit Merchant)
  https://indieweb.org/events/2025-11-25-front-end-study-hall https://codepen.io/amit_merchant/pen/MYyaJOX

  (2025-11-26)

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.

• (2025-11-30)

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.

• 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: Perl vs C# (vs JavaScript) by Dave (2025-11-30)
• Joe Crawford liked: Bridging and My Time of Late by David Shanske (2025-11-30)
• Joe Crawford liked: Homebrew Website Club: Writing Edition by V. H. Belvadi (2025-11-30)
• Joe Crawford liked: Announcing Validate Everything by James :

  a website that lets you type in a URL and creates links to various helpful validators

  (2025-11-30)
• Joe Crawford liked: Half Naked Literacy by Al Abut (2025-11-29)
• Joe Crawford liked: Interop and MathML Core by eri (2025-11-28)

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 blog.helenchong.omg.lol/en/ - Galaxy Garden and personal blog of an Asian queer Millennial..

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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