I write about technology, art, culture, and community. Sometimes I write creatively. Sometimes I serve as a source for other writers. Everything fascinates me.
IndieWeb, Technology & Culture
- We are in a web renaissance now. Don’t like. Don’t subscribe. Go make a web page. (February 2026)
- Return to Mashups (July 2025)
- WML, WAP, & Microformats Demo! I enjoy retrocomputing markup languages (June 2025)
- GIFs, Seriously. The Graphics Interchange Format is a worthy topic for reflection and connection (June 2025)
- Study Hall Reflections What I learned proctoring Front End Study Hall for a year (April 2025)
- Transparent Images Musing on the history and uses of transparent images (October 2025)
- DEPRECATED: On HTML ISO/IEC 15445:2000 Musing upon the ISO/IEC 15445:2000 HTML standard, and why it still works just fine decades later (October 2025)
- lab.artlung.com and a return to a World Wide Web (December 2024)
- The Web Is Better. (May 2024)
- The Web is Better, Part 2 (November 2024)
- Owning my own bookmarks over 20 years (October 2024)
- History Rhyming (Flickr, Chumby, BarCamp…) (October 2024)
- Post-XOXO Ramble on Websites and Freedom: Everybody Comes To Ricks (August 2024)
- Mistrust-Based Technology Choices (February 2024)
Programming
- Programming Graphics on the TI-99/4a Combining graphic design, PHP programming, and generating antique TI-BASIC code (April 2023)
- Spielberg's Films by "Year of Release" versus "Year Set" Creating a timeline with Google Charts (January 2022)
Comics & Literary Journals
- Californio: autobiographical comic (Crawford, J. (2020). Californio. Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, 5(1), 118-119. doi:10.2979/chiricu.5.1.10)
- Sundays Quarterly: “Gemini” (August)
- Sundays Quarterly: “Silence” (October)
- Sundays Quarterly: “Myth” (December) Burn All Books' Riso-printed anthology art zine, 1-page comics, see Comics
Web Posts (2003-2010)
- Migrating a Blogger Blog to WordPress (March 2010)
- Brief Introduction to the Yahoo User Interface Library Presentation at BarCamp Los Angeles 5
- Blogosphere Part 1: From San Diego to Los Angeles
- Blogosphere Part 2: Musings/Blogosphere
- “The Flash Mind Reader” - How It Works Explanation of an internet meme
- Misc: Ben Forta Speaks Macromedia from the point of view of their Product Evangelist
- Lindows, the Pitch. Michael Robertson, Lindows, and the Future
- The State of Web Work, November 2001 Thoughts on web design and development
- What's the Internet For? A meditation
- My Nostalgia For AOL 2.7
- Accessibility Presentation to CNET Builder Live!
- Vision for WebSanDiego.org A speech
- Linux: Why here? Why now? Why at all? Thoughts on Linux from 1999. With George Edw. Seymour
- WebStandards.org Alpha Baseline Proposal Groundbreaking? Judge for yourself
- What is a Web Integrator? Defining myself from the height of the Internet Bubble
- TI-99, Amigas and PowerMacs, oh my! Essay on platform agnosticism
Poetry & Creative Writing
- This page will last 67½ seconds. Poetry (October 2025)
- Two Ships — Poetry
- Never Enough — Poetry
- Becoming: A Meditation On Your Divorce Day — Poetry
- I am a Frank Zappa Fan An appreciation
- Some Poems (Mostly for Molly) — Poetry
Radio Appearances
- “These Days” “The Future of Web Design.” (KPBS Radio, February 2003)
- “The Lounge” "Blogs". (KPBS Radio, July 2002)
Newspaper, Blog, Magazine Mentions
- Build the web you want to see My lab.artlung.com project is mentioned (Good Internet Magazine, February 2026)
- The Trouble with Trash Lamb I am quoted as to why I donated to Trash Lamb Gallery (San Diego Magazine, 2024)
- 1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo I get a mention for some code sleuthing (Richard MacManus, 2021)
- Time to de-Flash your site? (Computerworld, 2010)
- My Twitter card on local television when Twitter was young (2010)
- A penny for your blogs: Internet journaling puts your thoughts at anyone's disposal (San Diego Union-Tribune 2003) My San Diego Bloggers site was mentioned prominently.
- Lindows.com says ruling is first win in Microsoft battle - (San Diego Daily Transcript 2002)
- Web page design a blue-ribbon category at fair - (San Diego Union-Tribune 2001)
- Intern(al) Concerns - Career Opportunities (Douglas E. Welch, 2001)
- Life on the mailing list - Career Opportunities (Douglas E. Welch, 2000)
Interviews
- Host Interview: IndieWeb Book Club (November 2025)
- Over/Under #27 with Joe Crawford (2025)
- pixelview: behind the screen with independent designers, developers and others: Joe Crawford (2002)
Book Appearances
- CSS in 24 Hours by Kynn Bartlett Technical review; mention in the acknowledgements
- GoLive 5 Bible by Deborah Shadovitz
- Flash 2 Web Animation Book by Ken Milburn Two-page color spread of my work