Nanolog
Like microblog, but even smaller.
- 09 May 2026, 18:10 (MSK) Edit Post
I mean, we ball 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
- 09 May 2026, 18:10 (MSK) Edit Post
I will never finish doing all the things I want to, but it’s fine, nothing I do has any impact on the world anyway.
- 26 March 2026, 22:59 (MSK) Edit Post
Mmh, I really don’t like how slim the text is, and favicon is pretty dull and boring too compared to what I have on Neocities. I can do better than this.
- 24 March 2026, 13:07 (MSK) Edit Post
Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- 12 March 2026, 21:26 (MSK) Edit Post
Don’t mind i;m just testing if improved site autodeployer service is more seamless now
blehh :PP
- 12 March 2026, 05:22 (MSK) Edit Post
I should be using this thing more tbh I love it (thanks daudix you’re so based for “”“inventing”“” nanologs)
- 10 March 2026, 05:56 (MSK) Edit Post
Designed a new 88x31 badge to match current design, might tweak it a bit later but yea!!
- 05 March 2026, 00:00 (MSK) Edit Post
Yesss, the bridge works, I had to add a Traefik middleware to serve daudix.one/nanolog/atom.xml on nanolog.daudix.one/atom.xml as well. Bridgy really doesn’t like loading stuff from non-canonical URLs huh.
- 04 March 2026, 23:03 (MSK) Edit Post
You can now follow this nanolog from Bluesky and Fediverse, thanks to Bridgy Fed:
- 04 March 2026, 03:12 (MSK) Edit Post
Also yey im not dead and im working on some other, less personal blosts :]
- 04 March 2026, 03:11 (MSK) Edit Post
There’s this buzzing thought of writing a blog post about certain topic(s) that I can’t scratch off but then there’s the sane side of me that keeps on talking myself off from writing it ughhshahss idk what to do.
- 14 February 2026, 04:57 (MSK) Edit Post
Pushed a bunch of updates to this site and the latest blog post, see this thread for website updates summary and this post for a summary of blog post updates.
- 21 January 2026, 05:56 (MSK) Edit Post
Finally got rid of these awful and annoying and pointless nanolog titles yayyy.
(thanks person who added this to Zola: https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/2966)
- 11 January 2026, 03:33 (MSK) Edit Post
Maaan it’s been already almost two weeks of 2026 and the new brand announcement’s been due since August and multiple other blog posts’ been cooking for months now and are still raw and I have a bunch of plans but I’ve never been so mentally and physically tired, 2026 “started with a bang” in addition to all that and arghhh I’m so tired of everything fuck fuck duck.
- 13 December 2025, 08:34 (MSK)
- 29 November 2025, 03:26 (MSK) Edit Post
You know what, screw this shit, I’ve got plenty of work to do, and after all I have seemingly eliminated main sources of stress that were wearing me down mentally for a while.
- 28 November 2025, 06:23 (MSK) Edit Post
Hello there. Life’s been rough lately, and I’m tired as shit, so I’m going to take a break from the Internet until at least mid-December. Maybe even until the end of the year. It’s the least I can do for my mental health.
- 18 November 2025, 03:28 (MSK) Edit Post
As you might know I have this silly thingy on a homepage where one can send me a push notification, and a bunch of folks actually did send some! Some of them are actually questions, so I figured, what if I answered these as an unasked Q&A? Before that I’d like to turn this thingy into an actual guestbook, but I’m not quite sold on this one yet.
- 03 October 2025, 06:38 (MSK) Edit Post
I can’t believe Nanolog’s been around for almost a year. Scary.
- 20 September 2025, 06:00 (MSK) Edit Post
Just uninstalled TikTok, again… I’ve been spending an hour+ on it daily, and while it might not seem like a lot for some, it’s actually a bunch of time — pretty much an entire full-length movie! And so, I want to redirect that time from one form of entertainment to another, a bit more healthy one; watch some movies, finish watching a few shows that I abandoned, maybe watch YouTube? And yes, I could spend it productively, but we all know it won’t actually work, at least I’ll be slightly happer.
- 06 September 2025, 05:50 (MSK) Edit Post
Hi, I’m writing this through Sveltia CMS; essentially a webui that allows be to browse, edit, delete, and create blog posts/nanologs without ever needing to open my code editor, or even pick up my laptop, for that matter. It’s a drop-in replacement for Decap (aka Netlify CMS) which I tried out today, which is pretty good but some things didn’t work (such as colocated images, which I use exclusively) and the development has been pretty slow.
IDK what to do with my custom nanolog posting UI now that I have a CMS :]
Edit: didn’t work first try due to some frontmatter date format fuckery, hopefully it works now.
- 02 September 2025, 22:10 (MSK) Edit Post
Another one of my crazy ideas: what if this nanolog was stored on atproto, and was fetched from some api on build? or even crazier, what if we used leaflet.pub to post nanologs, and this would just display them? I’d have the ease of leaflet and would have total control over the looks. Unlikely to happen, but also, hmm.
- 31 August 2025, 23:26 (MSK) Edit Post
Now that the cat is out of the bag as I spoiled it in a couple of places…
Yes, I have a new personal brand! It’s nothing like what I had before and it’s not designed by me!
Currently adding all the needed remaining brand assets, afterwards I plan to write a blog post about this, which will be accompanied with me actually putting the new brand into circulation. I also want to make a short animation showing all the brand features, but it’s much harder than I anticipated, so it might not happen.
- 18 August 2025, 22:29 (MSK) Edit Post
Updated my New Era post to include a couple new images and an entirely new section. See this commit for a detailed overview.
With this edit this post is what I intended it to be from the very start. Yes, it’s been a month, but I’d rather edit it now than leave it in a bit undercooked state.
- 18 August 2025, 17:57 (MSK) Edit Post
I really need to get rid of the nanolog title requirement, not only each title has to be unique to avoid collision, but it also has to be unique so I can’t just put whatever in there ughhhh
- 18 August 2025, 17:52 (MSK) Edit Post
Been fixing my sleep schedule in the past three days; friends are all busy and my mental state is pretty bad so it’s a perfect opportunity. Been assisting myself with melatonin+magnesium, multivit, and vitamin e pills, and they seem to actually help, I’m falling asleep pretty much instantly, which is pretty unusual as I usually first go through a (mini) panic attack. Today I overslept though, and by this I mean really overslept, buuut it’s okay, I didn’t have any like, super serious plans xD
- 13 August 2025, 08:41 (MSK) Edit Post
Added (or, to be precise, repurposed “View Post” button) an edit button to nanologs, all it does is opens GitHub’s editing UI. Yeah that’s really it lmao but it’s so damn useful.
Edit: Oh right, posts can still be viewed as a separate page by clicking on the timestamp.
- 13 August 2025, 05:13 (MSK) Edit Post
That’s right, no more Bluesky or Mastodon, I can produce high quality shitposts on the go without them /hj
- 13 August 2025, 05:08 (MSK) Edit Post
Some technical details. It uses GitHub API to push a new file to daudix.one’s repository, all client-side. Auth works by using a fine-grained access token, which is configured to only push changes to daudix.one repo. It’s not that important tho as the token is stored in localStorage so it should be safe.
I also plan to add edit button to nanologs that will open GitHub editing UI in a new tab, should be straightforward.
Oooh and since I’m using
textareaHTML element I get free spellchecking! - 13 August 2025, 04:47 (MSK) Edit Post
Okay so, I’ve been working on a web UI for posting nanologs/nanoposts, as the CLI I made earlier wasn’t very nice and was super weird on mobile. Now I have a nice little dialog that allows me to do so without leaving this site, pretty neat. While at it, I have simplified nanolog structure so that every post is a single text file and not a folder with index.md file, this means I can no longer attach images, which is on purpose. Okay I hit the 500 char limit.
- 31 July 2025, 09:06 (MSK) Edit Post
There’s now a pre-Ametrine, May 3rd version of this site available at old.daudix.one. It’s there to preserve older blog posts that soon will be removed and/or reissued.
While at it, I have also delegated control over daudix.one’s DNS to Netlify. Hopefully nothing broke.
- 18 July 2025, 18:28 (MSK) Edit Post
How I imagine y’all reading my blog, especially the latest post:
- 24 May 2025, 16:03 (MSK) Edit Post
As I said in one of the previous nanoposts my website source code has been made private due to reasons, go read it I’m not writing it all again. Baically I said “fuck it” and open sourced right now, it’s under https://github.com/daudix/daudix.one. yay.
- 15 May 2025, 04:27 (MSK) Edit Post
Forgot to mention, site’s source code has been, well, nuked. Codeberg introduced new repo size limits, basically personal repos that don’t really benefit anyone will be limited to just 100MB, and since mine weights twice as much, I had to move it somewhere else, aka private GitHub repo. It’ll be the case until I figure things out, but yeah, I didn’t want to risc it since the Codeberg changes will take effect starting tomorrow.
I know I said this on Discord and Bluesky already, but it’s a pretty important change so an entry in nanolog wouldn’t hurt.
- 15 May 2025, 04:20 (MSK) Edit Post
Alright so, I have finally deployed the new daudix.one based on Ametrine, which is a work of the last 4 months, longest of course was the work on Ametrine itself. Content changed a bit, but no drastic changes so far, but there are exciting updates on their way, such as /blog/ content rewamp. uyiiii i’m so excited x33
Make sure to check out the new badges page btw
- 11 May 2025, 21:47 (MSK) Edit Post
Today is one of those days when you go down some random rabbit hole, this time it’s about fonts and icons.
First, I found an amazing font called Departure Mono made by the Phosphor Icons creator; Helena. Not only the font itself is gorgerous, the site itself is spectacular too, which is no surprise considering it’s made by the same person that made Phosphor Icons website; Tobias. Why am I naming the creators and providing links? because that’s part of the journey!
Next up I came across the hardest working font in Manhattan, and it’s been a great read with lots of beautiful photos, check them out even if you don’t plan on reading the whole thing, even though I heavily recommend doing so.
Lastly, I came across Micro Bold Icons mentioned on one of Helena’s posts about best new icons of 2024. It’s such a great icon library and it’s exactly what I needed for Ametrine, however it’s paid, so I’ll continue using Phosphor Icons, they’re great too.
And after writing the above chunk of text, I’ve read nobody cares, I forgot how I came across it, but yeah, it really does suck that many people really just don’t care :<
P.S. What’s funny about this entire journey is that it all started with me looking up “more” icons on Phosphor Icons website XD
- 09 March 2025, 03:13 (MSK) Edit Post
Testing something out, if everything works this post should be created and pushed to the website repo automatically by the nanolog tool.
Or it’ll nuke the entire repo, idk.
[7 edits omitted]
Edit #7: Turned out I was using an old version of the script and didn’t properly export the GIT_DIR variable, hopefully it’ll work now.
Edit #8: I hate Git so so much. - 22 February 2025, 05:25 (MSK) Edit Post
So uh yeah, I kinda forgot about this thing for a month, sorry. This month I’ve been working hard on Ametrine, participated in HighSeas and won some prizes, and… that’s about it. I plan on writing about HighSeas once I get (or don’t) said prizes, and plan on porting this site to Ametrine and releasing its first alpha before the end of the month. Oh and yesterday I caught flu, yay.
- 21 January 2025, 03:49 (MSK) Edit Post
Alright, I’ve been putting this post away for three days, for no reason, so yeah here we go.
I’ve made a CLI tool for posting nanoposts (nanolog posts?) with Gum for UI, and it’s basically just a bash script. I’ve got the idea of using Gum from Sam while they were working on Gir (very swag tool btw check it out). The idea is to make nanoposting easier and faster, thus reduce my Mastodon usage, thus having more control over my posts or something, I’ll write a post about this sometime.
Anyhow, this post was written entirely from terminal using said tool; a bit tricky without spellchecking and having the edit area 6 line high, but could be worse. It doesn’t really make the process significantly faster, but why not make stuff more painful for no reason.
Now that this post is written I can finally nanopost something else, as it was stopping me from doing so.
P.S. Here’s a short demo:
- 10 January 2025, 05:49 (MSK) Edit Post
Once again I’ve sat down to write a blog post and ended up doing completely unrelated things. This time I have shortened homepage by moving unnecessary info to about page, which I have got rid of a while ago, and redesigned the works section (that window with rainbow text is now on about page). Design is pretty heavily inspired by Volpeon’s site, but also it’s very different so I guess it’s fine.
- 29 December 2024, 03:27 (MSK) Edit Post
So, there’s this thing I’ve been working on for five days straight: Navigation sidebar!
That’s right, I have finally fixed site’s navigation. The thing that was used for a short period of time before this was honestly pretty pad; to go somewhere you had to open the burger menu and then click, it covered content on mobile, and some links were in the footer (for some reason?). Now it’s all neatly placed in a sidebar, with categories, icons, all that stuff. It was surprisingly hard to implement, not the sidebar itself, no no, fixing all the stuff that relied on screen width such as post banners; I had to use some modern CSS features such as container queries as it wasn’t possible to fix them otherwise. I have also burnt down the “Rizz it Up” button on home page, it had to be done anyway.
While at it I have also redesigned the footer, moved post buttons such as “Table of Contents” and “Share” over to header, and on pages that have an Atom feed it displays button to subscribe to it. The title in heading acts as “Go to Top” button, minor detail but pretty useful at times.
There’s still a lot of stuff to clean up and simplify, but whatever I have at hand already is times better than what was before. I’m particularly not happy with the search bar taking a lot of space, and search results being very narrow.
Even thought sidebar is not a new concept, it’s worth noting that I got the idea to implement it by first looking at old Volpeon’s site, and was then convinced by looking at Pebble’s site (both look spectacular by the way).
- 23 December 2024, 10:25 (MSK) Edit Post
Feature that I’ve been wanting to implement for a while; automatic contrast color picked from the accent color. I’ve tried adding it earlier but it didn’t work for some reason, likely because I’m a moron, but in any case now I don’t have to set the contrast color manually. I will backport this to Duckquill along with other changes later today (I hope so at least). Thanks Lea Verou for this neat trick. One thing I changed about it is made it use slight transparency if the contrast color is black, so it doesn’t look too ugly. The code is as follows:
--l: clamp(0, (l / 0.623 - 1) * -infinity, 1); --a: calc(var(--l) + (var(--dim-opacity) * (1 - var(--l)))); --contrast-color: oklch(from var(--accent-color) var(--l) 0 h / var(--a)); - 21 December 2024, 02:03 (MSK) Edit Post
I’ve finally finished working on the categories feature, and if you’re reading this it means it’s already deployed. Not that it was difficult in terms of coding, but it was a bit tricky in terms of design, plus it was unclear how to integrate it properly.
Basically I had some sort of categorization using tags and “post types” such as “Featured” and “Hot”, and while it sounds okay on the surface, it really wasn’t that good; there were no way to filter posts by their type, and the styling was a bit over the top and rather distracting.
So, to address these issues, I have added categories page. Under the hood it uses the same logic as tags, but my plan is to use only one category per post. I have also added feed links next to headings, so that you can subscribe to, I don’t know, “Archived” category and get ancient posts only, or subscribe to “Devlog” tag to get my site updates, you got the idea.
I like how I managed to reuse existing styling from post list for the categories index page, and it wasn’t really my plan; I initially wanted it to use a unique and interesting style, but I just couldn’t come up with anything so I reused existing design (which I stole from Fuwari).
What’s now left to finalize the categorization overhaul is redesign the “Tags” page, but right now I’m not sure how it should look like.
P.S. This particular nanopost is a bit lengthy huh…
- 02 December 2024, 01:25 (MSK) Edit 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, 20:45 (MSK) Edit 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, 21:20 (MSK) Edit 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, 04:37 (MSK) Edit 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, 16:34 (MSK) Edit 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, 02:56 (MSK)
- 14 November 2024, 02:52 (MSK) Edit 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, 01:15 (MSK) Edit 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, 00:42 (MSK) Edit 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, 04:00 (MSK) Edit 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, 01:43 (MSK) Edit 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
. And yeah we got custom emojis now 
. Aaaaa.