Soma Posted March 26 Posted March 26 Sooo, I'm still alive and in August, I will start on a new job and project that probably brings me back to work with the cool and great Processwire. :D 7 years ago I was forced to change job and ended in a cool new place doing front-end dev not using PW anymore. So unfortunately I didn't really use or follow PW in that time except once a year doing something tiny bits on the handful of websites I am responsible for. I'm sorry if I just disappeared "over night" and maybe left some things behind I was doing for PW, and didn't spend time looking out for them. The reason is, I also was very frustrated with a lot of things with the job and life at that time and 2019 was also when I started painting again digitally, as maybe some of you know. I went full hyper focus mode, everyday almost for 2-3 years in my spare time and since then slowed down. I was able to make a small career with it, and made a lot of new connections and experiences which was awesome. I will continue to work on making art and illustrations as I have a lot of new freedom with the new job too combine a lot of my skills. Finally I can work from home full time. A little dream come true. Thanks for still being here and keeping this small but awesome community alive! I have to catch up now! :D Cheers Soma 34 1
Peter Knight Posted March 26 Posted March 26 Hey soma. It’s wonderful to hear you’re back. I must be following you on instagram because I have seen your work regularly over the years. Quote A little dream come true. they’re the biggest wins and often take longest to happen Looking forward to seeing you more around here 😀 1
diogo Posted March 26 Posted March 26 Oh wow, Soma, glad to have you back here! My mind just went way back now 😄 1
elabx Posted March 27 Posted March 27 Awesome to see you back around 🙂 4 hours ago, Soma said: Finally I can work from home full time. A little dream come true. Game changer, so glad to hear about this! 1
Gideon So Posted March 27 Posted March 27 Welcome back.Soma. So nice to have you around again. Gideon 1
Ivan Gretsky Posted March 27 Posted March 27 It is really a pleasure and an excitement to see you back, @Soma! I am sure something great is going to happen soon! 1 1
szabesz Posted March 27 Posted March 27 14 hours ago, Soma said: probably brings me back to work with the cool and great Processwire. :D Nice to see you again! 14 hours ago, Soma said: 7 years ago What? Has it really been 7? Feels like yesterday... 1
jacmaes Posted March 27 Posted March 27 So glad to have you back. Back when I joined the PW community in 2012, you were a constant help in the forum and with your modules. 1
ryan Posted March 27 Posted March 27 @Soma Great to see you back! A couple weeks ago I was just thinking about you and how I wished you were still around here. I've been seeing your amazing paintings on Facebook and figured you had moved on to other things, but thought of sending you a message there, so what a nice surprise to see you here. 6
horst Posted March 28 Posted March 28 Hey, welcome back @Soma! Great to see you here (again). So, I'm my self are away from PW since around 2022-08. I only followed a bit by reading some of Ryan's blog posts and @teppo's ProcessWire Weekly. Well, maybe this summer I'll be able to work more with PW again and participate here in the forum. 💬 6 3
Ivan Gretsky Posted March 29 Posted March 29 This start to look like "The Expendables". The superheroes are back 😎 1 6
cb2004 Posted March 29 Posted March 29 @Soma a massive welcome back. I followed you on Twitter and absolutely loved your art journey but then it just seemed to disappear. As I hate social media I am not really on anything else, and certainly don't use X anymore. I always wondered what happened to a forum legend. As somebody mentioned earlier, you probably don't realise how much your posts have and still do help people. 6
ryan Posted April 4 Posted April 4 Let's see if we can also get these guys to stop by here more often @apeisa @Joss @Nico Knoll @Gazley @WillyC @LostKobrakai @owzim the geerts brothers and who else am I forgetting? 8
szabesz Posted April 5 Posted April 5 10 hours ago, ryan said: who else am I forgetting? @tpr @Martijn Geerts @renobird @cstevensjr @Wanze @pwired @Mike Rockett @Zeka @SiNNuT @DaveP @justb3a @nik @MadeMyDay and so many others... 6
Ivan Gretsky Posted April 6 Posted April 6 Now when they're all pinged, we need to have something for them... Something to do or to write about... Maybe just say hello and share where they're at now... 2
Soma Posted April 9 Author Posted April 9 On 3/29/2026 at 8:28 PM, cb2004 said: @Soma a massive welcome back. I followed you on Twitter and absolutely loved your art journey but then it just seemed to disappear. As I hate social media I am not really on anything else, and certainly don't use X anymore. I always wondered what happened to a forum legend. As somebody mentioned earlier, you probably don't realise how much your posts have and still do help people. Thanks! Yeah I had deleted my first account after I got 100k followers... don't ask why. Then on my second account @somartist2 I tried to leave 2-3 times but then reactivated the account. And finally I did it. I'm on bluesky now, and still on Instagram and other platforms. No I didn't realize, but yeah I was very active for many years answering and helping many. It's great to hear tho. 🙂 Oh @ryan, thanks for the warm welcome back. Yeah I went on a long journey, glad you been following me. Great to see you're still running this thing haha. And now even using llm's! Yeah OMG so many names that I almost forgot about. I'm an old man now hehe. 2
dotnetic Posted April 23 Posted April 23 Welcome back Soma, nice to have you here again, after such a long time.
Joss Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago Well, I might just be back a bit too. But I have a problem. I decided to update my little profile photo. It happily got rid of my old one, but won't let me upload my new one!!!!! Grrr. And so good to see my brother in fantasy @Soma back amongst the brave! 1
ryan Posted 8 hours ago Posted 8 hours ago @Joss It won't let you upload a new one? Does it give you an error message or anything? We've been having some issues with the forums showing 500 errors when the bots start hitting, so it might be worth another try just in case the upload hit a 500 error. You can always send it to me and I can figure it out too. @Adam Kiss is another one to add to the list of people it would be good to see return.
Joss Posted 7 hours ago Posted 7 hours ago 1 hour ago, ryan said: @Joss It won't let you upload a new one? Does it give you an error message or anything? We've been having some issues with the forums showing 500 errors when the bots start hitting, so it might be worth another try just in case the upload hit a 500 error. You can always send it to me and I can figure it out too. I select an image, click on submit. It sends me to this screen: So I choose a file again (this is a nice small file) and click on Continue and end up: It doesn't like me!!! This is what I was trying to upload:
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