Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • “Link in Bio” is a slow knife, by Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com/2019/12/10/link-in-bio-is-how-they-tried-to-kill-the-web/ via https://www.are.na/benjamin-hickethier/digital-ist-besser

    #asca

    Quelle: Twitter

  • Will have to update my incrementally from v2.11.5 to v2.12.2.

    I use linkwarden to store links from my blog articles via a custom wordpress plugin which I have hacked together using

    I am sure that doing the update incrementally makes more sense than jumping a few versions in between.

    Quelle: Mastodon

  • Settled for a better system on I use an index post to link to my own hashtags I use on Code and Canvas. This is a smart solution because Tumblr is really good at grouping hashtags by blog, since only that blogs hashtags of that name will end up being displayed.
    The thread is then visually prepared by tumblr natively, rather than me forcing it.
    This seems fine to me.

    Quelle: Mastodon

  • Coming back to an old idea I’ve had while studying Koschatzky and old pixel art at the same time, sometime last year: I will treat a graphic file as a copper plate with etching, and a CRT as a combination press and paper, and using a camera to make prints.

    I’ll use GrafX2 for this, since my setup is now better suited for these kinds of experiments. And since the nights have started to begin earlier recently, this will give me enough time to experiment with this idea.

    Light as print. Light‑print photography. Something like that.

    I expect me doing knock‑off Wizardry sprites for quite a while, lol

    Then I will most likely also run my DesignWars logo idea through that same process, or one similar to it.

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • Here you will find an index of ongoing topics and themes on Code and Canvas.

    This index supersedes the previous version.

    1. Code and Canvas – all posts made by me
    2. Lab – all posts dedicated to exploration and study
    3. Workshop – all posts about putting in the hours
    4. Content Meta – change notes and ideas for this blog’s meta structure

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • I think I will make it work like this:

    have a pinned index post which in turn links to custom tags, rather than individual links (current situation) or a reblog thread (previous situation).

    I might be tired from travelling for two days, but I actually needed to discuss this with ChatGPT because it seemed I was going in circles, instead of using what tumblr already does: allow to show specific tags by blog (this one), and leave the sorting to tumblr.

    So that is what I am going to do. Tagging this “content meta” so it is clear (to me) what this is about. I seem to remember that I have had a similar nomenclature in 2019, elsewhere (Twitter, I think).

    Going to rewrite the indexed post to reflect this new change, and have it simply link to the (each) proper tag I want to use on this blog.

    Finally this snapped into place. All I had to do was do a 360° and walk away from it

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • I’ve finally fixed the way my body text on my website is being rendered on these small devices everybody insists on using despite them being out of fashion (and having become basically unwieldy mirrors in everyone’s pockets by now) for more than ten years.

    No accounting for taste, mind.

    Last week, my Automated Social Content Archiving system celebrated its first birthday, and I am gearing up to move our FreshRSS-based information system for media and design into its next version. And we are planning on launching our next project called hyperfutures, a German Verein about futures, about how there is not one future, like there is not one present, but many instead.

    I am looking into getting more into type design myself, as well as expanding my tool box of design software, since I found out how to reconnect with my own passions (and wouldn’t you know, staying far away from social media is a huge part of it, just not in the way the people who write articles and books about that thing would have you believe): I just need to be bored, and to surround myself with slow, offline things.*

    Currently reading Heavy Metal Magazine, so that helps. Also, I have quit caffeine. At this point, you can call me Mr boring, I think.

    *looking into setting aside a budget for interesting software, like FontLab and Rebelle, on top of the usual stuff everyone uses all the time; also came across Feather, which I definitely want to check out. You can check out https://www.threads.com/@joshwhite/post/DMN8EApMyaf to see why I think that this is a useful tool for illustration, especially if you are deep into the two books by Bertling and Robertson. I actually might buy this next time I’m home.

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • I have quit caffeine two days ago. I expect to be rid of withdrawal effects in the next few days, because caffeine is such a filthy addiction, you actually experience withdrawal effects which maybe not coincidentally are the same as the reason why people drink/imbibe caffeine: tiredness. It is an absurd loop.
    In general, I am starting to look at a more healthy lifestyle, and so far not running or rushing everywhere has changed my moods. Maybe this will be my health thread, eventually?

    Quelle: Mastodon

  • Hinter den Kulissen arbeiten wir fleißig weiter an unserem nächsten Projekt namens #hyperfutures, über Zukünfte #asca

    https://x.com/ArianeKonzepte/status/1961126786588443080

    Quelle: Twitter

  • Neuer Blogpost: „Happy Birthday, ASCA! Mein Social-Wall-Projekt wird ein Jahr alt“.
    https://www.mariobreskic.de/blog/happy-birthday-asca-mein-social-wall-projekt-wird-ein-jahr-alt/

    Quelle: Bluesky