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 MAY 17 (2025)
• CSSBattle for MAY 16 (2025)
• CSSBattle for MAY 15 (2025)
• CSSBattle for MAY 14 (2025)
• CSSBattle for MAY 13 (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 am no longer running the show. #affirmation

  (2025-05-17)

• I have a keen interest in my fellow man. #affirmation

  (2025-05-16)

• I am free to feel and express all of my feelings. #affirmation

  (2025-05-15)

• I am rigorously honest with myself. #affirmation

  (2025-05-14)

• I am kind, loving and gentle to me for me. #affirmation

  (2025-05-13)

• I comprehend serenity. #affirmation

  (2025-05-12)

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 #028 in 2 days
• Front End Study Hall #027 May 8, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #026 Apr 24, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #025 Apr 8, 2025
• Front End Study Hall #024 Mar 27, 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.

• 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.

• Tuesday! Front End Study Hall! Come learn a thing or two about websites: #HTML & #CSS and the beautiful soup they produce. An #IndieWeb event. https://events.indieweb.org/2025/05/front-end-study-hall-028-FnCziY2O2Fd9

  (2025-05-17)

• “slapdash” is a useful word.

  (2025-05-16)

• “Painting with the Web” is a terrific wide-ranging talk from @matthiasott at BT which I highly recommend for anyone curious for an overview of what’s terrific about the web in general but HTML and CSS. #WEBDEV #CSS https://youtu.be/1Pq7VqNrtk4

  (2025-05-16)

• “Safari Mailto to Webmail” #ArtLungLab https://lab.artlung.com/safari-mailto-webmail/ I've been bothered by web page mailto: links not being able to be sent to Gmail for a long time. Today I wrote a bookmarklet to address it.

  (2025-05-15)

• Pa Kent bringing the wisdom.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox8ZLF6cGM0

  (2025-05-14)

• Congressional hearings ought to have air horns in the face of respondents for when they don’t start their answers with “yes or no” questions with “yes” or “no.” Have a 12 person jury of middle schoolers in charge of it so it’s fair. Or maybe hire people from the Jeopardy tv show.

  (2025-05-14)

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)

smorgasborg.artlung.com

Likes

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

• Joe Crawford liked: May 2025 IndieWeb Carnival: Small Web Communities by Chris (2025-05-17)
• Joe Crawford liked: Seconding the Call to Blog More Often by Justin Vollmer (2025-05-17)
• Joe Crawford liked: How a Shredder Brought Me Joy by Ruslan Osipov (2025-05-16)
• Joe Crawford liked: Motivation in an Absurd System by Lloyd Atkinson (2025-05-16)
• Joe Crawford liked: Down the IndieWeb Rabbit Hole by Helen Dawe (2025-05-15)
• Joe Crawford liked: People Can Change by Annie Mueller (2025-05-15)

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:

• A Landscape of Things To Read (2025-05-13)
• On Sensible Shoes (2025-05-13)
• 110 Hours of CSS Battle (2025-05-06)
• Go listen to some Jill Sobule. (2025-05-02)
• On “NSFW” (2025-05-01)
• Reboot, Renewal (2025-04-30)
• Study Hall Reflections (2025-04-25)

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 .