Nanolog
Like microblog, but even smaller.
- 02 December 2024, 01:25First ComicView Post
Yesterday I’ve drawn my first comic (as per this poll). The drawing is this shitty on purpose, if I wanted to I could do better ;)
Honestly I kinda liked doing it, might do it some more.
- 27 November 2024, 20:45Writing BankruptcyView Post
Writing bankruptcy is such a brilliant line; it perfectly describes the current state of Progressive Enhancement. Um, yes that’s all, just wanted to share my new favorite line.
- 23 November 2024, 21:20Content DuplicationView Post
You know, I want to make the Neocities site its own thing; with different content, style, vibe, and whatnot, but in order for it to be somewhat useful, I have to duplicate content from this site, which is like the opposite of my goal
. Of course I could just link to this site, but then, what’s the point of having an alt site in the first place? It’s so annoying (just like I am). - 17 November 2024, 04:37Overhauling NeocitiesView Post
Guess who’s writing this at 4AM.
I’ve started porting my Neocities site to Zola; it works already (it took me like 5min), but it’ll take much more time to make it actually clean and pleasant to use, as right now it’s a hot mess of ugly HTML and confusing CSS. I have some grand (not actually) plans for it, so yeah, stay tuned.
- 16 November 2024, 16:34Bye StampsView Post
Lately my site has grew in site quite a bit; I switched to a custom web font, added some Gir stamps, and such. This made the site weight around 1MB, which isn’t a lot, but twice the 512KB limit, so I’ve made a tough decision and axed all the stamps and renamed the section on the homepage from “Bumps” to “Badges”. Sad, but I won’t get id of them entirely; I plan to move them to my spacehey (somehow, idk), feel free to friend me there btw.
- 16 November 2024, 02:56Xip's Picolog
- 14 November 2024, 02:52Switching to GeistView Post
Switched this whole thing to a custom webfont instead of using whatever user’s system provides. I mean system fonts are neat and all, but it’s hard to maintain a consistent design considering that every OS and distro and user configuration uses different fonts. My choice was initially one of my favorite fonts, Inter, but it was too wide to my taste and I wanted something more condensed and cute. Cantarell fits this bill but it’s unmaintained; even GNOME plans to switch away from it. I then remembered about Vercel’s Geist family and thought why not give it a shot. And oh boy, it fits perfectly; it looks like something in between Cantarell and Inter, plus they provide both sans and mono variants which means they perfectly fit together. It’s also pretty compact; Geist Sans weights only
64kB, while Inter is345kB. So yeah, I’m happy, although I have to toss away some more 88x31 buttons and stamps to fit the 512kb limit again… - 11 November 2024, 01:15Material YouView Post
Implemented a feature I’ve been thinking for a while now; all posts that have a banner now use color picked from it as their accent instead of site’s default, and post cards in the article list are colored as well. Looks pretty neat IMO. Oh and yeah I’m writing this at 1AM again, borked sleep schedule and stuff.
- 10 November 2024, 00:42Bye SkeuoView Post
Today I’ve tried to fix the coffee page styling after the recent refactoring, and I’ve realized that I really don’t want to mess with all these broken hacky styles, so I’ve just got rid of it. Sadge. It might come back in slightly different form later on, but not now.
- 08 November 2024, 04:00Broken FeedView Post
Turned out Zola generates the feed for all sections if
generate_feedsis set in the config and not per section, so I had to split it to separate feeds for the blog and this nanolog, which will require everyone to update it in their feed reader. Damn. Oh and yeah I renamed this thing back to nanolog since it sounds cooler. - 08 November 2024, 01:43First PostView Post
This is a first post in this microblog that is inspired by gettie’s; it’s kinda like a blog, but smaller. I will (or not) write some posts here that don’t exactly deserve their own blog post with a banner and such.
Oh and these posts need no front matter at all, only date in the file name and a title, which isn’t seen anywhere except the URL, which cannot be disabled for some reason, so I’ve turned it into a feature (that button up in the corner).
. And yeah we got custom emojis now 
. Aaaaa.