- [#] May 15, 2025
- hifi folks now have a story section as well! I am working on getting one of my newer stories in the proper format for posting. Keep an eye out. I promise there is more on the way.
- [#] May 14, 2025
- Lots and lots of site things grinding away in the background, but lofi friends, you now have a stories section! I have nearly completed the convoluted DocBook build system for synchronizing my stories across the three site versions. hifi's will be complete tomorrow. Then? I really should get back to actually writing, make use of all this technology I've stapled together...
- [#] May 4, 2025
- mari_v1 theme for hifi! This was the very first site design I ever had on somnolescent.net, and it wasn't far off from my last Neocities site design too. I remember strata hated the scrolling window thing, so I named it after him. Funny to think I probably hated all these designs at some point and now I'm not only fond of them again, I'm making my new site viewable through their lenses.
- (Minor thing, but there's also now favicons on the site. Took me long enough. nofi and lofi will get the older browser-relevant ones too.)
- [#] May 3, 2025
- Seeing as I now have tons of time thanks to being Unemployed, been getting around to all the things I've said for ages I was gonna do and never did. New hifi theme! This one's based off mariteaux Online, the fake 90s site I made shortly before I left Neocities, if you remember that. (And if you do, you're OLD.) Surprisingly only took like two hours to build. I'm easily amused.
- [#] April 5, 2025
- hifi now has album reviews! I meant to get the game reviews over tonight as well, but I worked a ten hour shift and my eyes hurt. nofi and lofi also link to hifi and have proper canonical URLs now. There's still lots of post launch work to be done, but words can't describe how happy I am with how it's all come out now that it's all wired up. I have spent so much time just clicking around my own site in the past day or so.
- [#] April 4, 2025
- Still gotta bring some pages over, but come visit the new mariteaux.somnolescent.net!
- [#] February 11, 2025
- Pages are still getting moved over, things are in progress. All the modding stuff is done now, just gotta get the music and writing pages sorted (and build more themes, of course). hifi will be live by the end of this month. It will be real. And you're gonna like it.
- [#] February 3, 2025
- Theme switcher is fully implemented! It took a little bit to figure out the cookie check and optimizing it, but it's working lovely now and I couldn't be happier with it. With it comes a second theme, based on mari_nc1, my very first Neocities site. If you want to pretend the platypus years never ended, soon will be your chance! (It is legitimately surreal to see my modern art and projects alongside the old VMB banners and in this layout and color scheme. I wrote up a journal post if you want to read more about it.)
- [#] January 31, 2025
- Happy first site update of the new year! Well, less a site update and more a note here to say that hifi is finally being built! I've translated the old mari_v3 design (which will be the default hifi theme) to grid and flex and it is working very nicely on my phone. Porting the pages over from lofi will not take long at all. Somnolians, you know where to find the build on my home server if you wanna check it out early!
- [#] November 20, 2024
- My site started to feel a little isolated, and I had to add Connor's new button anyway, so there are plenty more 88x31s at the bottom of every page now! Some of these are friends' sites, some are sites I like quite a bit, some are musicians and bands who I'm a big fan of, and in nya's case, it's long overdue for him using my button on his site. I'm sure there's lots more I could add, but we'll start with these, yeah? (Careful browsing these on retro machines, as a lot of them are not retro-optimized—some are, but not all!)
- [#] November 13, 2024
- Ack, I forgot about this changelog. I've been making improvements to the album reviews as always! From October, browsing by year and browsing by score are now much nicer, and there's a (still unimplemented on the front end) "Cammy's pick" function for my favorite record from a particular artist. From just last night, I have converted all reviews over to a ten-point scoring system because my old five-point one felt a little too limited and lacking nuance for as many reviews as I've got now. I have many, many mentions of Eh, Good, and Great scores in the reviews themselves to edit now, but that'll have to wait until I get back from jury duty.
- More reviews coming every week! Now that I've finished mailing up all the Last Summer stuff, I can get back to relaxing and doing little stupid simple projects like these. I much prefer it. Winter vacation!
- [#] August 29, 2024
- My first Quake deathmatch level has finally been officially released! I've had this one sitting around in need of making the page for since I polished it up back in June. I still really like how this one came out, and I'm psyched to do more mapping for small little Somnol Quake skirmishes when I have the time, energy, and momentum. I've also updated my little art sampler with some of the highlights from this year's past Art Fight, given how much I challenged myself with it and how nice some of those drawings came out.
- [#] August 22, 2024
- Cammy reporting in after a long bit of silence! I've recently taken on a much more physically intensive (but much better paying) job, and I'm just not able to be as active creatively as I'd like to be. Most nights, I fall asleep before I'd like to, let alone get busy with something. As a result, I have deferred building hifi, which was meant to be the shiny modern version of this site located at mariteaux.somnolescent.net proper, until, I dunno, sometime in 2025. I'd like to take the holidays this year off to just save up money and play video games. I haven't done that in years.
- nofi and hifi still work in newer browsers and two sites is already a lot of work, so I'm not too disappointed. At the moment, all links to mariteaux.somnolescent.net redirect to lofi. When hifi is eventually built, these will continue to work, as all three versions have the same link structure. I've also done a round of miscellaneous bugfixing across nofi, which it's needed basically all summer.
- [#] July 19, 2024
- Man, it's been over a month without a changelog update! Life is a blur and I'm still in the middle of the Art Fight-and-work grind. In fairness to my last update, I did get lofi mostly done within the week, it was just a few things keeping it from being content-complete (and now only Kevin and Theo remains). lofi definitely is turning out to be my favorite of the three sites, and perhaps period. If you're not following the album recommendations RSS feed, do that—I just hit 100 albums in the database and put out a call for requests and got a bunch of cool ones back! Beyond that, I'll be back to build hifi in August. Thanks for bearing with me.
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