It’s June! And it’s gloom.
I am well.
To the extent that the world is, besides me being fine, not fine.
The world is not okay but the world soldiers on.
But my spirits are good. But then, when I, as a wee lad, lived in the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos I was also relatively happy.
I didn’t like the way authoritarianism warped how people talked back in 1978 among my expatriate (immigrant? temporary immigrant? student visa-holders?) community at the time. And I don’t like it now.
So let’s talk about some stuff I made.
I’m rather proud of the post: “📣 YOUTUBE REMOVED YOUR CONTENT” (A GOOGLE MYSTERY)
- I added a number of links to the Lab including: Ventcheck Bot, Kanban board in CSS, Kanban board in CSS, Part 2 (dynamic with PHP and SCSS),
Rudy’s Background Colour Picker, and the
Bookmarklets were updated. - I made my Blogroll dynamic! I’ve also been updating
my Likes page. I have more changes to roll out there eventually. That problem of DISCOVERY of interesting stuff that we currently rely on doomscrolling for BUMS ME THE HELL OUT. - In CSS ad HTML development news: I made a stopwatch in CSS, it works well.
Also on CodePen is a simulated lined green and white printer paper.
And so I will keep making things and trying to write things.
My CSS Battles Page has code to watch the videos on the page (the videos remain on YouTube and I’m to quite ready (if I ever will be) to self-host them). I also updated the page with my bodysurfing videos on it with some popover work. Those videos are short short short. I am getting better at it. I keep being compelled by video since it seems it’s the main we communicate effectively.
Though I still can’t stand Tik Tok. But sometimes one goes where the audience is.
I remain convinced that controlling the means of production of our own words and photos on our own websites is IMPORTANT.
So let’s keep doing that.
And let’s work against authoritarianism, too.
Also I might try Yoga. I keep pushing at the limits of what my body–overweight as it is–can do. And maybe I need to learn to stretch.
Thanks for reading.
Courage, people.
Also! I made some headers:
In May:
In June:
ArtLung
since 1999 this has been the personal website, blog, archive, message in a bottle, calling card, digital garden, rough draft, and curriculum vitae of me, joe crawford. hi.
Oh, and I’ll be hosting the HWC for Europe/London on Wednesday this week. If websites interest you feel free to join the Zoom.
Maybe I’ll add to this post again? Or perhaps not.
Onward.