recent photos, 08/08 – 11/08
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I still have few drafts that are sitting around here and waiting to be finished, but I have some photos I want to show you in meantime.
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Category: HappeningsUpdates, stories, and frustrations from individual Somnolians. August 11, 2022
recent photos, 08/08 – 11/08devon![]() I still have few drafts that are sitting around here and waiting to be finished, but I have some photos I want to show you in meantime. Tags: photography,
June 20, 2022
beach reduxdevon![]() Rambling about two Pink Cats. Bonus inside. Tags: art,
May 27, 2022
Welcoming the eMachines Netbookmariteaux![]() For approaching two years now, I’ve had a big ol’ XP tower sitting under my desk. I call it the eMachines Box, a low-end eMachines W3507 from at least 2006, if not 2007. It needs a good cleaning and a ton of upgrades (RAM and a dedicated GPU being the big two), but even if it’s not ideal right now, it’s still a lot of fun to use on the occasion I bust it out. Of course, you can’t just stop at one XP computer, can you? Suddenly having a job and seeing some numbers pile up in my bank account made me want to indulge a little. Through the lockdowns, I bought nearly nothing and asked for nearly nothing. I’m allowed a cool purchase or two, and a bit of longing got me thinking back to the netbooks of my (younger) youth. I’ve now acquired one of them. Here’s my deep dive into the eMachines Netbook. Tags: technology,
April 20, 2022
The Great Somnolescent Time MachinemariteauxAs I mentioned in the final recap, one thing occupying me over the past few months has been the pursuit of classic website restoration. We already have car restoration and computer restoration, but despite websites being similarly satisfying and full of moving parts, I don’t see anyone trying to rebuild old websites and return them to their original browsable condition. With the Somnolescent Archives, I have the perfect reason to do just that. I wanna ramble about that for a bit, tell you my working methods for getting assets (from the Wayback Machine or otherwise), reassembling them, cleaning things up, and why I find it so enjoyable. Hopefully, you do as well! Tags: Somnolescent, web design,
April 17, 2022
Cool folder organization stuffdcbTraditionally, my files for school have been stored in OneDrive by (academic year)\(class)\(semester, if applicable). Whenever I made a new document, I would file it in that format immediately. This worked okay, but there was a bit of extra time spent finding the file I needed when I set to work. I also wanted to […] Tags: technology,
April 12, 2022
Angel GirlscabyCaby art and their sketches! March 27, 2022
Fun with Clip Studiodevon![]() Digital finally makes sense to me and rambling about recent pieces. Tags: art,
February 2, 2021
The Death of HTTPS (on somnolescent.net)mariteauxOne of my biggest pet peeves with being a webmaster is HTTPS. The way that HTTPS is handled on the backend is so invasive, so exclusionary, that it regularly gets in the way of some very basic things I’d like to be able to do around here. By the end of this year, with few exceptions, somnolescent.net will be going HTTP-only. I’m writing this post in the hopes of staving off any upset or confusion on behalf of you, our loyal readers (and also you, the Somnolians). January 20, 2021
Here we godevonThis is awkard, but it’s time Tags: introductions,
September 6, 2020
The Raven LTE flies againdcbA couple of years ago, I used an Alcatel Raven LTE as my main phone. It was a very cheap phone ($30 new, albeit locked to my carrier TracFone), ran Android 7 Nougat, and had an impressive 16 gigabytes of storage and 2 gigabytes of RAM; it was no slouch for the price. One day, the hard classroom floor almost got the best of it. Even after the screen got cracked, it still worked, even touch; the trouble only came from what in the world to do with a cracked $30 Android phone. It was way too cheap for a trade-in, and I don’t think many charities or repair shops would bother with it either. And so, it sat on my shelf for several months gathering dust, because I didn’t know what to do with it. Surely, it wasn’t destined for a landfill? Tags: technology,
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