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CSS Battles on YouTube
Want to watch me write code to do the daily targets on CSSBattle.dev? You are in luck.
Here are the latest battles I've recorded.
| CSSBattle for JULY 28, 29, 30, 31 (2024) (RETRO-DAILY CHALLENGE) |
| CSSBattle for APRIL 19 (2025) |
| CSSBattle for JULY 13, 14, 15 (2024) (RETRO-DAILY CHALLENGE) |
| CSSBattle for JULY 10, 11, 12 (2024) (RETRO-DAILY CHALLENGE) |
| CSSBattle for APRIL 18 (2025) |
I record of myself writing the code to accomplish these daily challenges. So far I've covered 581 days out of 662 total.
Affirmations Bot
I've experimented with several social media bots over the years. The latest is 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:
| “No” is a complete sentence, and I don’t have to explain or justify my boundaries. #affirmation (2025-04-19) |
| I can do it #affirmation (2025-04-18) |
| I am forgiven and correcting behavior comes easily. #affirmation (2025-04-17) |
| I am a spiritual program in action. #affirmation (2025-04-17) |
| As I face my own victim role, I am attracted by strengths and understand weaknesses in my love and work relationships. #affirmation (2025-04-16) |
| I am aligned with my higher power's will for me. #affirmation (2025-04-15) |
The IndieWeb blog carnival I hosted on the theme of affirmations in February 2025 had excellent participation.
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) |
Front End Study Hall
I host an open forum for learning CSS & HTML called 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 #026 in 4 days |
| Front End Study Hall #025 Apr 8, 2025 |
| Front End Study Hall #024 Mar 27, 2025 |
| Front End Study Hall #023 Mar 11, 2025 |
| Front End Study Hall #022 Feb 25, 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.
| Mid-air footer (2025-03-06) |
| Gettysburg Address in HTML. Interactive. (2025-02-21) |
| Spoiler Widget (2025-02-12) |
| Keystroke to Go to Random Web Page (2024-12-23) |
| :root Color Properties Editor (Bookmarklet) (2024-12-20) |
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.
Here are a few recent posts from Mastodon.
| It is slightly alarming how much I identify with Fat Caz. I am a little too tall to properly cosplay the man and I don't think there's much call for "Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" cosplay anyway. But some of the best cosplays I've done where only a few people knew what the hell I was doing. (2025-04-18) |
| “How the hell can you run a goddamn railroad without swearing?” (This also applies to managing websites) (2025-04-18) |
| And to think, at one point a .gov TLD was once a marker of reliability and constancy, science, and data. (2025-04-18) |
| These little wooden floppy disc pins are charming. https://evermorestud.io/wood-inlay-floppy-disk-tack-pin/ Extremely lovely work @evermore! (2025-04-18) |
| I'm playing around with changes to my "home page" which is good fun. https://artlung.com (2025-04-17) |
| As a respiratory therapist I worked in Virginia in the 1990s. I provided care to men who always felt a little like they were choking or drowning. Their bodies got that way by coal mining. “Revitalizing the coal industry” means more suffering. Don’t forget that part. (2025-04-16) |
Smorgasborg
This is similar to the Lab, but for stranger, goofier, and (mostly) non-technical items which I have found useful on the internet.
| 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) |
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:
| Scam voice message from +1 (614) 756-4464 (2025-04-14) |
| Moo Cow Creamer (2025-04-14) |
| The Castle (1997) (2025-04-12) |
| 2 hours foggy (2025-04-01) |
| “I’m expressing with my full capabilities” (2025-03-31) |
| Oops! (2025-03-25) |
| Zero Injuries! (2025-03-25) |
| Hey it’s me (2025-03-24) |
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