Having five years worth of somnolescent.net backups really does pay dividends sometimes, especially when I'm trying to resurrect things for archives. Rather than relying on spotty Wayback grabs, I simply pull from the copy of each site I made five years ago, patch the links (each archives site has links across the site network changed to the contemporary version on archives, so Cammy site in 2019 goes to Caby site in 2019 and not the live caby.somnol), and upload to its own directory on Read more
(Brief aside before we start: Happy six years of us talking, Caby—8/18/18 <3) One of the less-exciting and less-visible aspects of the archives overhaul is that I'm trying to reorganize the subdomain some in the background. I made it in 2020 with purposes slightly different than what I have in mind now, and as a result, things that shouldn't be on there are on there, things are in places I prefer them not to be in, and my methodology for storing what is staying on there has changed a bit as Read more
Got a lot of really exciting real world stuff that's gonna make me a lot of money going on, but I'll save that for another post. Let's talk my August creative plans! I meant to make this post a week ago, but then I spent it playing Gran Turismo 2, watching that boxset of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! I got from the library sale back in June, and recuperating instead. I need to shut off more—2025 will absolutely have more of that. So back in May of last year now, I picked up a grey cat adopt from Read more
I gotta fuckin' write something, this Art Fight stuff is a grind. Conveniently for the journal, to give us two whole posts this month, I have something to ramble about! Let's talk album reviews, because I recently hit a really special milestone with them: 100 entire albums in the database! To review or not to review When I was putting together the brand new mari.somnol on Macintosh Garden, bringing back my album reviews (and game reviews from cammy_v1—we'll do more of those next year, promise) Read more
I've been meaning to write this post for literally a week now! I'm just...really busy at this point. And likely to fall asleep the moment I get out of work. I haven't talked much about my job on here because I think everyone around me is a little sick of the "Cammy doesn't like his job" carousel even though this one probably legitimately deserves the complaints. At my last two jobs, I was at fault, really—a lot of me being a baby for no reason, a lot of issues with customers and other employees Read more
I'm in one of those dry spells with the journal right now where I'm not particularly into updating it. I should get back into it; lots has been going on. I guess it's the pileup that makes it overwhelming. Let's do a roundup quick with the last two hours of the month. nofi nofi is complete! I just need to draw a bunch more Alexis for it and it'll be finished. As of right now, though, all the pages are in place and they work great on Netscape 3.0. Your favorite retro browser will love it too. Read more
Lots more work on nofi.mari.somnol has occurred since my last blog post! We're getting fairly close to having everything moved over from the old site—only the modding section really remains. Even better is that, with the stories and, in a bit, music sections implemented, this is actually not just more fully featured than mari@macintosh.garden was, it's actually everything I wanted on mari.somnol implemented. Like, that's it. I was pondering some kind of Web design gallery, showing off some of Read more
So as I move further into getting nofi.mari.somnol filled out, I realize that I've been putting off a story section. Stories used to be a huge part of the mari.somnol stew, but it's been so long since I've written anything now that bringing stuff that old back feels a bit unflattering. I was still growing as a person and also just plain gaining confidence in my work. When you're scared of failing, you don't do things to the greatest extent you could have. You don't sing loud, you don't draw Read more
Hello, journal people! I haven't really been updating this because there's kinda been a dearth of coherent Cammy updates. I can say I'm definitely doing better than my low point last month. No buts! Definitely feeling a lot better. It just hasn't resulted in a ton of stuff rolling off the line that I feel the urge to talk about. Now, though, I have some. I return to my kingdom of webshit to discuss the thing that has reinvigorated my interest in making websites, and that's PHP. I fuckin' love Read more
If that wasn't the longest pause on journal entries yet, it's probably close. I'm so out of practice with these! For a bit, it was because I genuinely didn't feel like updating it, and now I have a bit of a pileup of stuff to cover, so let's not let that put me off further. I'll split them up into sections. Let's go! Protoweb! I've already posted this literally everywhere, but my first Protoweb restoration has been accepted! I restored imax.com, circa 1998. It was in incredibly good shape for a Read more
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