Joe Crawford

Asynchronous communication is beautiful and humane artlung.com/blog/2026/10... (a short blog post about replies)

Adrian has a great article on this! Whether or not they are announced as tables seems to vary according to the browser + AT! adrianroselli.com/2018/02/tabl...

“WHY DON’T YOU DANCE WITH ME?! / I’M NOT NO LIMBURGER!”

"This blog is about celebrating that friendship" with open source developers. That was our first post in Feb 2008. Today, all 1,557 posts (2008–2026) live in the Atmosphere as verified @standard.site records: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/02/welcome-to-google-open-source-blog.html

Hey Bsky! Our fantastic CBD+THC tincture will be going away at the end of November because of Republican fuckery, so here's a coupon for ten bucks off if you wanna stock up now. Just use code BSKY at checkout or click this link. milkbarn.farm/discount/BSK...

Asynchronous communication is beautiful and humane artlung.com/blog/2026/10... (a short blog post about replies)

On Thor's Day a random wonderful assortment of #FrontEnd professionals and amateurs will convene and try to make practical hay out of talking about HTML and #CSS in an #IndieWeb Zoom. Camera optional, it's always a good time for me. I always learn new stuff. events.indieweb.org/2026/10/fron...

my man MCA’s got a beard like a billy goat

Learn to value shade on a sunny day like a dog. #sploot #corgi www.instagram.com/gwenthegoblin

Learn to value shade on a sunny day like a dog. #sploot #corgi www.instagram.com/gwenthegoblin

Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

Psst... you may be interested to try the Konami Code on CSS Battle @cssbattle.dev cssbattle.dev #cssbattle

@alexandragallant.com I think I just spotted you in Zoom footage in the new Maria Bamford documentary.

Today I learned Codeberg provides the same feed url pattern for a user as GitHub: add `.atom` to the user url. I added it to smorgasborg.artlung.com/feed-patterns/

I have made my choices for 2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking. artlung.com/blog/2026/10... Love that #Frontend keeps getting better and we get to participate. And in #IndieWeb spirit, I posted them also to my own website. Next: you!

"I would like for this to not splinter the positive ecosystem indieweb principles have facilitated." I care about tools for human thriving and making common cause with others. artlung.com/blog/2026/10... #IndieWeb

Event: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern 📅 2026-10-21 18:00 – 20:00 UTC-04:00 📍 Online! Zoom!

"I would like for this to not splinter the positive ecosystem indieweb principles have facilitated." I care about tools for human thriving and making common cause with others. artlung.com/blog/2026/10... #IndieWeb

So I've been keeping an eye on why/how the most recent TME video ("CRIME HUNTER") did so much better than ...almost anything else recently, and apparently numbers were HUGE in Egypt? Don't know exactly WHY, but super grateful 🙏 شكرًا على المشاهدة، أنا مبسوط إنها عجبتك www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-50...

TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document

In October 1998 Todd Fahrner began working on the Box Acid Test (Acid1) project, which tested if web browsers supported the CSS language. The test itself is a simple web page that contains several HTML elements modified by CSS.

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Yesterday's Front End Study Hall blew my mind. @kevinmarks.com loaded an ISO of a CD he helped author decades ago into infinite Mac and it RAN. He also rendered Bryce in a browser. Also: Web Platform Feature Ranking interop-rank.fxdx.dev indieweb.org/events/2026-... #IndieWeb #CSS #Retrocomputing

More #IndieWeb Events listed at events.indieweb.org ~ all things related to the web: communicating, owning your data, integrating with social media, connecting, and more.

Front End Study Hall! Next edition of the Zoom where a group of whomever participates works at #FrontEnd, #HTML, #CSS, etc. Come on down, tomorrow. events.indieweb.org/2026/10/fron... #IndieWeb

https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/117439479231200095

Do you have old Brushes app files? Read this: artlung.com/blog/2026/10... #digitalart #iOS #BrushesApp

Based on a browser funded with public money, and made the founders multimillionaires. One went on to cofound the biggest venture firm in the world and hired a man as a partner because he choked my unarmed neighbor to death. The people who *didn't* become millionaires are still making a free browser.

“Lift that fork, eat that snail / Garçon summon up a new cocktail” tmbw.net/wiki/Lyrics:...

Do you have old Brushes app files? Read this: artlung.com/blog/2026/10... #digitalart #iOS #BrushesApp

I wrote about the feeble attempt by prominent tech punditry mainstays like John Gruber and Casey Newton to rationalize their continued use of Elon Musk's propaganda website.

1/1 - Exclusive: Don Bluth took on Disney and helped reshape the animation industry. Now, the legendary filmmaker is telling his story. Watch the first trailer for 'Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There,' ahead of its November 20 digital release. www.cartoonbrew.com/documentary-...

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

47 years ago Members of British ska groups The Selecter, Madness and The Specials on Brighton Beach at the first date of the 2 Tone Tour in October 1979. Photo by Chalkie Davies #punkrock #ska #thespecials #madness #theselecter #history #skahistory

Indigenous People's Day is a great day to post Randy Newman's The Great Nations of Europe. artlung.com/blog/2004/02...

I feel obligated (in a good way!) to share birds with @fractalkitty.com and this is a good bird. lazer-t.tumblr.com/post/8135164...

Lichtenstein’s pop art comic panels and their audience viewed comic art as a found objective. A piece of something that takes up space that Roy has elevated to art. And I am struck that this is how the average person still considers comic art. A thing that exists, for sure, but not a thing of merit.

Tolkien was right: if you're cutting down healthy trees you're the baddies.

An enjoyable morning of dog walking, coffee, tasty breakfast, mindless video, and updating my website joecrawford.com with some mildly wacky (is that a thing?) css trickery.

Kelly stumbled across the Lanterns promo on Google which has a little bird fly across the screen: I made a little CodePen using the sprite sheet. Web pages are magic. codepen.io/artlung/full...

It’s pretty damn disappointing certainly. It’s weird how often straight, white men say they don’t see any of the reasons the rest of us had to leave X. Wracking my brain, I struggle to work out why that might be. Any thoughts?

More to the point — people who stayed on the platform don't realize how inured to extremism they've become. They regularly get exposed to trending topics, and amplified content from verified accounts, that they would have recoiled from just a few years ago. I don't miss anything *not* being there.

I just think it's dishonest to say that the politics are unavoidable on other platforms, but they are on X. Its *point* is its politics; you're just saying they exist at a level you find palatable. The guys who doxed my family aren't on the other platforms; they're followed by staff members on X.