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Lucky Sevens: Five More Neat Things From the Somnolescent Archives

Posted on December 2, 2025 by bulb

Never ask me to estimate things. I don’t know how much that would cost, I can’t wager how heavy it is, and I certainly can’t imagine distances. I don’t know why, but my sense of scale is the wonkiest thing on the planet.

Somnolescent is no different! One of our recent new casual friends who’s been sitting in on mine and Savannah’s streams remarked that somnolescent.net is like a gigantic maze, and I really hadn’t thought about it because I’ve been working on it for seven years now and have zero perspective on it. Even though it’s as organized as it can possibly be, there’s still so much to see that I can’t imagine how it looks to anyone who isn’t me. Must be intimidating.

I did a roundup of neat things I found on archives back in May 2023, when I really started to push on turning it into a Web museum of restored, vintage sites and pure Somnolescent history, but one post of five things (technically ten things) only scratches the surface, and I’ve added a lot to it since then. Given it’s warm, fuzzy, rememberberries season, I bring to you another batch of neat shit we all worked on that you should go and check out.

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7/29 – Giving Up the Gun

Posted on July 29, 2020 by bulb

Last month’s recap was a bit of a laugh and an admission that we just didn’t have too much desire to interact with the outside world. The world of MSN Messenger and IRC and chunky CRTs and old websites was more appealing to us, and I was on a self-imposed tech timeout after spending much of May fighting with Linux. (It still fucking sucks as a desktop OS and you know it.)

Not that we weren’t active, of course; things were drawn, sites were built, I write once more–all the good stuff you expect from us. I’ll try not to ramble, there’s much to get through. Continue reading →

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The Somnolescent Retablening is Complete!

Posted on July 8, 2020 by mariteaux

The era of Firefox 2.0 on somnolescent.net begins again. Continue reading →

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2/28 – Everybody Knows Everybody

Posted on February 28, 2020 by bulb

We skipped January as, frankly, we were all a little hungover. What can I say, things start slow sometimes. Nevertheless, we’ve got enough happenings for February’s, plus whispers of plans for spring. Come! Off into the recap we go! Continue reading →

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A Year Under the Bulb: Our Upgrade Plans

Posted on December 28, 2019 by mariteaux

The first official year of Somnolescent has had me figuring out little webmaster things I’d previously had no experience with. So far, it’s been really good, no doubt helped by our excellent hosting and a little bit of common sense on the part of all the Somnolians.

Nevertheless, we’re really only just getting started here. As the world continues to churn around our collective, I’ve a few major upgrades I’d like to perform on our internal and external server infrastructure going forward. I’ll explain more under the cut. Continue reading →

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A Year Under the Bulb: 2019 in Review

Posted on December 25, 2019 by bulb

And so, 1998+1 has come and gone. The first official year of Somnolescent. The first year out on our own, our own hosting, in our own group. People came, people left, projects were started, and love blossomed.

2019 was a year of change, of growth, and of optimistic unease. It was the start of us as Somnolians realizing what we had and what we didn’t need. It was the year of itemizing fears and coming to terms with realities. (You might say it sounds dramatic and pretentious, but so is life.)

Don’t worry, though. We got a lot done that people outside the group can enjoy too. If you missed anything, it’s more than likely here. Continue reading →

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Emergency WordPress Migration Completed!

Posted on December 9, 2019 by mariteaux

Like the 24-hour flu, Letters from Somnolescent recently underwent its own 24-hour bit of chaos and peril after Nucleus (our old CMS) decided to test my patience. I planned to migrate us to WordPress next year, but given the circumstances, I couldn’t risk people not being able to log in.

If you’re reading this, it’s already complete. We’re on WordPress. Continue reading →

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11/30 – Inspiration (or Self-Defeat)

Posted on November 30, 2019 by bulb

It’s been slower around here leading up to the holidays, but still worth getting a small recap out the door before the rush of blog posts lined up in December. Oh, and we gotta talk about that… Continue reading →

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