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Joe Crawford

@artlung.com

Website fixer · IndieWebber · Comics maker · Bodysurfer · Blogger · Toy robot collector · CSS Battler · San Diego · Peace, love, resistance https://artlung.com/

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I am eggs of all kinds. I am the Chrome Dinette. And you are my sofa.

07.03.2026 04:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I used to hit Thornhill Broome periodically when I lived in Simi Valley and Moorpark.

07.03.2026 04:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I like piers — though the most famous bodysurfing is the jetty at The Wedge. But anywhere can be great.

07.03.2026 04:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Panorama from the Ocean Beach pier to the jetties; the sky is clear blue, and a handful of people and dogs on the sand as waves break. Main lifeguard tower is visible on one side, and in the distance portable tower 2 is visible.

Panorama from the Ocean Beach pier to the jetties; the sky is clear blue, and a handful of people and dogs on the sand as waves break. Main lifeguard tower is visible on one side, and in the distance portable tower 2 is visible.

A bit of new swell came in and I had a great time bodysurfing this morning at Ocean Beach. #SanDiego #Beach #panorama

07.03.2026 03:36 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

i only like when these posts come out because it shines a brighter light on how even pre-ai, developers are conditioned to cut corners and make lazy mistakes under the corporate speak of ”efficiency” and “automation” which is funny because of how punk rock a lot of them think they are

06.03.2026 22:44 👍 42 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Front of 1966 Batman card. Batman on left facing a huge hawklike bird creature coming in with talons out. By batman, inside bat logo reads WINGED GIANT. I'm not sure who the artist is unfortunately.

Front of 1966 Batman card. Batman on left facing a huge hawklike bird creature coming in with talons out. By batman, inside bat logo reads WINGED GIANT. I'm not sure who the artist is unfortunately.

Back of same card. Has a description about Batman having to capture some huge birds created by a mad scientist. Copyright, patent info stuff in fine print.

Back of same card. Has a description about Batman having to capture some huge birds created by a mad scientist. Copyright, patent info stuff in fine print.

1966 Topps Batman card I got a few years back.
#fbf #comics #art

14.02.2025 18:03 👍 64 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0

Tired: paperclip maximizer problem
Wired: datacenter maximizer problem

06.03.2026 21:57 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1

Inspired: human rights maximizer problem

06.03.2026 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Frequently Asked Questions

Added a FAQ to my website. artlung.com/faq/

06.03.2026 21:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Panorama of Pacific Beach with a few folks on the beach, Crystal Pier is prominent and shown in full, under a sunny sky

Panorama of Pacific Beach with a few folks on the beach, Crystal Pier is prominent and shown in full, under a sunny sky

I had a good time at Pacific Beach today. A truly lovely day. #SanDiego #Beach #Panorama

06.03.2026 03:52 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

This is an article about a topic near and dear to my heart, the fact that there are basically no archives for a lot of the important music magazines and it drives me crazy

05.03.2026 17:21 👍 408 🔁 60 💬 9 📌 6
Panorama of Pacific Beach with a few folks on the beach, Crystal Pier is prominent and shown in full, under a sunny sky

Panorama of Pacific Beach with a few folks on the beach, Crystal Pier is prominent and shown in full, under a sunny sky

I had a good time at Pacific Beach today. A truly lovely day. #SanDiego #Beach #Panorama

06.03.2026 03:52 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Years ago I wrote about naive cynicism, which is the posture of being sophisticated, knowing, and worldweary often worn by those who don't actually have a firm grasp on what's going on but have surrendered to what they claim to oppose and are trying to convince others to do the same.

05.03.2026 17:10 👍 113 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2
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ArtLung: My Favorite Cosplay ~ 04 Mar 2026

I traded potential blog post titles with Sara Jakša and wrote a post.
"My favorite cosplay": artlung.com/blog/2026/03...

05.03.2026 16:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ArtLung: EOTD: “This is a legitimate arrangement—no risk to you.” ~ 04 Mar 2026

Here's what I was writing about. artlung.com/blog/2026/03...

05.03.2026 15:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My ex swore by this. It's not my thing but I get it.

Fried potatoes are, well, fried--and a fried starch with salt, can carry or accompany almost any flavor.

05.03.2026 15:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.03.2026 16:30 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
xkcd: npm edition

i saw the interactive xkcd on hackernews and decided to make it render a real npm graph

it uses webcontainers to `npm i {pkg}`, then renders the bricks based on the dep tree scaled by disk size

04.03.2026 16:17 👍 94 🔁 16 💬 8 📌 6

THE BLOGGING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

(and probs after too)

05.03.2026 00:04 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
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Two Museum Memories This month the topic for the IndieWeb Blog Carnival is "Museum Memories." I decided to take a cue from Joe Crawford and share about two museum memories, one from the Design Museum of Barcelona and the...

Thanks for inspiring me. Two experiences came to my mind right away as I read your post.

jeffbridgforth.com/two-museum-m...

05.03.2026 01:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Two Museum Memories This month the topic for the IndieWeb Blog Carnival is "Museum Memories." I decided to take a cue from Joe Crawford and share about two museum memories, one from the Design Museum of Barcelona and the...

For the March #IndieWeb blogging carnival, the topic is "Museum memories." I took a cue from @artlung.com and reflected on two different museum experiences that came to my mind this morning. It was also a fun exercise to list different museums I have visited.

jeffbridgforth.com/two-museum-m...

05.03.2026 01:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

THE BLOGGING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

(and probs after too)

05.03.2026 00:04 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

You may not need that “AI” voice thing that reads your web pages aloud to users. It comes free in the browser:

• Edge’s Read Aloud (Ctrl + Shift + U),
• Firefox’s and Chrome’s reader mode text-to-speech,
• Safari’s Speech feature.

Stop adding trackers to your sites. Don’t add WCAG risk.

04.03.2026 17:14 👍 26 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0
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ArtLung: Two Museum Memories ~ 03 Mar 2026

For the March #IndieWeb blogging carnival, the topic is "Museum memories" which I didn't suspect would be an inspirational topic for me! artlung.com/blog/2026/03...

04.03.2026 16:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Your email proffer to suggest I commit fraud is unwelcome. Also, the sentence "This is a legitimate arrangement—no risk to you." is not as reassuring as you imagine.

04.03.2026 15:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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03.03.2026 16:42 👍 647 🔁 85 💬 10 📌 17

Every time I am near that spot there I think "gosh this is a lot nicer than I think of it as being!"

02.03.2026 23:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Time in Canada - Wikipedia

Time in Canada, like many places, has a lot of asterisks! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...

02.03.2026 22:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We watched the 70s episode ("Fade in to Murder") of Columbo featuring William Shatner as Ward Fowler last night and I had heard before that a pencil drawing of James T. Kirk is seen in Fowler's mansion. So here he is, Captain Kirk on Columbo in all the shots where the drawing is seen. :-)

02.03.2026 19:00 👍 151 🔁 39 💬 11 📌 4