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September 09, 2023
(Conversation fear.) Let's do a site content update, because it's been a bit. I finished up that Setter and I'm starting to get my photo galleries online! I've got two for you so far, shots from some of my local parks and scenes from the West End Fair, which is a week-long gathering in my area for produce, animals, crafts, history, and lots of fried desserts. You'll wanna see the rabbits especially. I do have more galleries I wanna put together—one for the zoo trip I took back during cammy_v1, Read more
I'm almost ready to post the trip diary. The pages are all done, and the group's already seen it. We're about three-and-a-half months past my departure, but all that's left is for me to finish up some BunnySetter drawings I'm doing for it (two more to do, one finished, one currently being lined right now) and everyone can come see it. This has been a far bigger project than anyone could've imagined. 22 days, nearly a whole month, catalogued thoroughly with logs, doodles, lots of photos, project Read more
Long time no see, journal readers—life's been good lately. My job is panning out nicely so far, though I'm by no means in any sort of comfortable groove with it yet. In fact, my body was screaming in agony last night after clearing two u-boats at the end of four days straight of standing all day working. I'll adapt, no worries. I got trapped in my bathroom today! That was a lot of fun. It's been so heavy and humid lately that the door actually got stuck and I couldn't open it from either side. Read more
Still all over the place, but a little notice that you should be watching my Macintosh Garden temp site if you want to see new work from me! I'll still be working on cammy.somnol content and drawings (mood permitting), but that's been the thing I've been spending the most time on lately. I just got the majority of my old Neocities album reviews ported over and rewritten and sorted by artist to be much nicer to browse, and new ones are starting to trickle out. I've also collected a ton of my old Read more
I've been seriously all over the place lately. I've just decided to start doing absolutely everything that comes to mind, y'know, be an impulsive little shit about making stuff like I'm always tempted to do, and here's how that's going. I've got two First Draft posts scheduled to the blog! First Draft was a series I was writing for Letters about early and alternate versions of albums, the first one having dropped back in February on the Dandy Warhols' Come Down predecessor, The Black Album. I Read more
Of course, right as I switch to using a journal engine that can be automatically posted to the group chat through a bot, we start toying with another chat service where our resident chat bot doesn't quite work right... oh well! I was warming up with my own tablet again drawing a Setter last night, and he wound up becoming a site graphic for a page I made before I left, a behind-the-scenes look at how I make cammy.somnol and some of the aesthetic choices for why I've made it the way I have. I'm Read more
I mentioned the other day I was looking at a flat-file, low-overhead PHP blogging platform called HTMLy as a way to automate a bunch of shit for this journal. We're on it, baby. Lemme explain in slightly less hurried, delirious detail why I've chosen to do so. So before now, all journal posts were written as raw HTML directly into Notepad++. No AutoSite, no automation at all, just what I wrote is what you see. That worked fine, but it became a gradually bigger pain in the ass month after month. Read more
Welcome to a weird future! RetroZilla didn't know how to handle the admin panel, but Firefox ESR 52.9.0 on XP can do it just fine. This makes it a fairly viable solution for blogging on XP and Vista, and possibly even 2000. Writing themes, as far as I can tell, is as simple as WordPress; there's a PHP "loop" for post formatting, and I think you can do custom HTML per post type (which there's basically every post type that Tumblr has, which is nostalgic). I suppose this would've been really good Read more
One thing I was mulling over while I was in Wales was alternatives to WordPress for this journal. Typing raw HTML is liberating, but man, it gives me a good excuse to put off updating this thing. "Cameron, you already had the Scratchpad and you gave that up because it was too much work. Why are you going back to blogging software?" Well, pointed question asker, I like to fiddle with shit is why. But really, part of the reason I gave up the Scratchpad was also the reason proper alternatives have Read more
For those of you who have access to the testing version of this site, I've gotten all the old scorekeeping pages back up in the underground section and updated (rewritten the text, added the new scores where relevant). I'll link them here for those folks. (I'm still really fond of that Minesweeper page, that's a classic.) Header images are the holdup for the rest of you. I'll get back to drawing tonight, maybe. Honestly, save for the photo galleries and the little Nobody's Watching tribute (and Read more
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