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• Joe Crawford
Serendipity
The steam of the espresso machine — of focusing in the milk to make sure it is just right, of tapping to remove the bubbles, of preparing. Soft instrumental music plays in the background, more upbeat than the music to which I was listening earlier — easing me more into the d...
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ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
The ocean will have us all
A solid week I had. Financially I got to pay some things down which have been vexingly unmoving for quite some time. I scheduled a new instance of FrESH. I added the John Cale song Barracuda to my 2026 playlist. Dark woman in the water drowning Sinking in a funny way Black footing for a...
04.05.2026
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Near sunset sesh
Affordances of a screenless writing interface
This post was written first with my screenless writing interface, and then edited in Ghost, which I use to publish blog posts to this website. The extent of my edits were fixing typos and reworking the introduction and conclusion a little bit.
My original concern when brain...
Writing a blog post without a screen
This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup" sections were typed on my Mac as I prepared to publish the post.
This is my f...
Ideas for web readers
Every so often I have an idea for a feature that might be interesting in a web reader. I write down my ideas in my notes. Sometimes, an idea makes its way into Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. Other times, the idea stays in my notes where it can breathe, mature, and ...
A computer that's just a keyboard, no screen
Oh you mean like with audio output instead
Nope. No output at all. Just input. With the keyboard.
Why
Short answer: why not?
Long answer: James floated this idea at IWC/BTconf of a PC that's just a keyboard for taking notes; and I said that's totally doable and probably not hard at all to do, since computers that are inside a keyboard already exist. So here's me putting my money where my mouth is.
Relevant note: Since taking the video I've realized the Raspberry Pi is completely fine with a standard 5V, 2.5A phone charger. It's a bit below the specs but it's not exactly doing much here. So a standard powerbank is completely enough and it doesn't need the fancy charger that came with the PC to make loud noises :^)
Read more on the site…
Artemis changelog #9
I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below.
See, sort, rename, and delete folders
You can now view a list of the folders you have created, specify in what order folders should appear in yo...
How I use my phone
In my last two blog posts, I discussed how I use greyscale mode on my phone and night shift on my computer. These blog posts were inspired by discussions happening in the IndieWeb community about greyscale, and now, more generally, how we use our phones.
My phone, an iPhone...
Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine ...
May the Focus Be With You!
Last weekend at IndieWebCamp I noticed
James
had setup his iPhone in grayscale.
I think I first saw that on
Jeremy’s
phone years ago.
I remember trying it on my iPod Touch for a while, eventually switching back to see color photos.
This morning while chatting with Jam...
Night shift
Writing my post on how I use my phone in grayscale yesterday got me thinking about other customisations I make to the computing devices I use. The first one that came to mind is that I keep my laptop, and by extension my external display when I am using it, in night shift mo...
03.05.2026
