07.02.2026
Redirecting YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md to /YYYY/MM/DD/slug with Nginx
Earlier this week a reader pointed out that posts listed on my date archive pages were linking to the wrong URLs. For example, the link for /2026/01/25/kind-software would instead be /2026-01-25-kind-software.md. This was caused by my static site generator using the markdown...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
HWC Loops! (San Diego Edition)
In 2024 I wrote about loathing and fearing web video (Unfrozen Caveman Web Video). And while video does often cause me unhappiness, I do enjoy playing with it. I’ve got videos of bodysurfing and my reels. It’s got me using stuff like ffmpeg and Procreate Dreams to do fun stuff. This short animated AVIF file...
06.02.2026
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Friday Music
And the end of this video of the band Blusher coverings Kesha’s “Your Love is my Drug” they start to cover ABBA’s “S.O.S.” and I find myself really wanting to hear more of that. I’ll be seeking out other work by Blusher. Triple J is Australian public radio of a sort and does fine work....
Reducing Artemis’ deployment downtime with blue-green deployments
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, runs as a systemd process. When I want to update the software, I deploy the new code to the server and then restart the systemd process. This has a significant downside: while the Artemis process is restarting, the software is unavail...
Does your website run on green energy?
A few weeks ago I did a day-long training Carbon Literacy Project training course through my university. When I was taking the course and considering ways I can reduce my carbon footprint, I started thinking about technology. I don’t know much about calculating emissions fro...
Background technology
A while ago, I purchased an Aranet 4 indoor CO2 monitor. The device has sat on my desk ever since. I started thinking about the Aranet monitor this week because I noticed that, for the first time, the battery was low and needed to be changed.
The Aranet is a useful device. ...
Calendars and web readers
For the last few weeks I have been thinking about the intersection of calendars and web readers.
Author's note: You can skip the next paragraph if you're not interested in the technical aside.
What started this thinking was a technical interest. With h-feed, you can publis...
The expanse of web weaving
Last year, one of my goals was to learn more about design. I wanted to apply what I learned to making web pages. The Non-Designer’s Design Book was an influential resource toward the end of the year. While not specifically about web design, the principles within the book – c...
Build the web you want to see
The Autumn/Winter 2025 edition of the good internet magazine is out! I contributed a piece, Build the web you want to see, in which I reflect on the last five years of James' Coffee Blog and some of what I have learned in that time.
I have been thinking about the question "how do we make the web better?" for the last few months, and perhaps the best answer I have right now is for us all to keep building the web we want to see. It is perhaps because of this that, when I asked Joe yesterday "How can we achieve a web renaissance?", he replied "I think we're already in it."
Thank you to Xandra for all of the work that she puts into making the good internet magazine happen. I am delighted that this project exists and, especially after reading StartingAMagazine.psd, am more aware than ever that projects like this don't just happen: we make them happen.
05.02.2026
04.02.2026
Software Design Meetup [Feb. 11th]
On Wednesday, February 11th at 7pm - 8:30pm UK time I am hosting an event I’m calling the “Software Design Meetup” online.
This meetup is for anyone interested in the design of software and technology. In particular, if you are fascinated by the question "How do we design b...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Warm today. Swell diminishing.
03.02.2026
tabitha.computer
• tabitha
words
I was and still am obsessed with words. They can sting and brighten, soothe and choke in the same instance. The same word said in a different tone can feel like the world is crushing under someone’s feet, at sea; A parting that divides context and literacy. As a kid, around 5th grade, I couldn’t […]
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• Joe Crawford
Waves were hitting the bottom of the pier this morning. Fun to be among giants.
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• Joe Crawford
Homebrew San Diego 2026
I am sitting in LeStat’s on Park in San Diego drinking an iced Vietnamese coffee. It’s delicious. At one time I ran a mailing list called WebSanDiego. It was a OneList list, then it was an eGroups list, then it was a Yahoo!Groups list. But it was always a mailing list. It was what passed...
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• Joe Crawford