Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • Bugging the fine people of Stackoverflow with my vibe coding https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79694784/using-extendscript-for-photoshop-is-there-a-more-elegant-way-of-toggling-a-brus #asca

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  • I just vibe coded for the first time in ExtendScript and got away with a working code. Just took me hours of confusions, going back and forth between Copilot and ChatGPT.
    I mean, I really want to be able to toggle blend modes for brushes in Photoshop by pushing a button, so this will be worth it. #asca

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  • Watching the course mentioned in my post Homebrew file organization, and mindset reminded me of how drawings graphics were organized into categories according to where they were in the printing process, as described in Walter Koschatzky, Die Kunst der Graphik: Technik, Geschichte, Meisterwerke (Herrsching: Ed. Atlantis, 1990).

    I think it is a thing to consider; although you could work with [Photoshop, Procreate, Sketchbook Pro] in such a way that you make multiple versions of files unnecessary: by working with layers in a smart way.

    I can feel that there is a something brewing in my mind there. Maybe this time, it won’t be another glossary or another book to buy?

    I need to schedule a few days for deep work, because this does not happen while online.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • Homebrew file organization, and mindset

    Got myself the Mindset Mastery guide by Martina Flor on Instagram (she has a promotion for this file, I’ll link to the promotional post here, just follow her instructions to get it: comment “Mindset” below that post of hers, but also watch her video, you might get a kick out of it as well), and as I was ready to check out, I saw that she also offered a heavily discounted course on how to organize your work.

    Now, my current workflow for organizing my files is based on two things: naming the files in a useful way, and sorting them into folders by either topic (for camera shoots mostly, although I am getting away from doing that in favor of using Lightroom’s built‑in tagging features) or by software used.

    The naming template I use for everything aside from screenshots is something the author and photographer Velsz uses, as described in István Velsz, Lightroom Classic und CC: das umfassende Handbuch, 1. Auflage, Rheinwerk Fotografie (Bonn: Rheinwerk Verlag, 2018).

    I also started using Bridge heavily, since I started tagging my library, both the PDF, and the visual kind as well.

    I am looking forward to working with her course called “The Tidy Artist Mini Course”, because maybe I can improve on my workflow, and push it more towards where I need it to be: closer to sketch as basis for my work, not software used? Maybe? If that makes sense to you?

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • Pulled my #typography #keyboard off of the shelf, because I could not remember where the horizontal arrows on E1 keyboard layouts were, lol. I need to use it more often for writing online and offline. #europatastatur #e1 #e1keyboard #asca

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  • Bought the CY_BORG asset pack, as well as the miniature expansion for Mörk Borg (from one of my trusted nerd stores), and I did see a Degenesis: Rebirth set lurking in one of the lower shelves as well.

    Soon. But not today.

    And the thing about miniatures is that they have rules : can’t be smaller than, can’t be larger than, should be around such and such a size, then comes genre and type, what you can use for sculpting, and so on.

    Design is a lot like this: a set of rules and limitations create a sort of stage or space for your actions and marks, because otherwise, you can do whatever the hell you want, which usually turns into not being able to do anything at all.

    Because at first, you create the universe.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • „On Agency“ von Henrik Karlson https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/agency

    #asca

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  • Used my document scanner some more (scanning tags and stickers people put on lamp posts is a cool thing to do).

    While driving for a while today, I took note of how odd it is to be a person who is always ready to do smalltalk: thanks to the internet in general, and social media specifically, people can always have dozens of conversations with almost everyone else, kind of like a ready‑made dialog where whole topics can be discussed without having a thought of your own.

    I don’t know about you, but reading the internet is usually such an overwhelming experience that I rarely had the chance to consider how overwhelming it actually is:

    the experience of reading the internet does not create any memories.

    And that is how I measure how much of an overwhelming experience something is – by how likely it leaves memories behind.

    Dealing with that has become my personal goal, in a way. I want to create a much more simple life for me, and not being able to do smalltalk at all, well – that is just a nice start, I think.

    Eventually, I want to further grow my own garden of my mind, until I always feel as if I am sitting in my tiny house in the Austrian Alps, instead of feeling like someone who uses his thumb to read the next screen height, at random, without end.

    I think that is why I like reading books, while the internet eventually exhausts me and leaves me with nothing to show for it.

    In the end, I can create a memory of what I read online by consciously willing it – but honestly, that seems like a waste in itself.

    And if to remember feels like a waste, then the whole action becomes something worthy of reconsideration.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • Even today, we spent a few more hours refining our research and information tool we call Grafikdesignfeed (I have written about it here before), to cover some more topics and to improve our custom search queries with filters as well.

    On the topic of filters: I usually do not have any blocks in place on any social media website (i.e. usually I do not block people/accounts), but I am under the impression that, should I want to use social media as a research tool in the future (looking for what people do and say about certain topics), then I should start using filters there as well.

    Because I want to do that.

    Also, I am adding more books I want to read in 2025 from my Bücherregal page on my website to my Goodreads “Want to Read” list as well, which I originally started out doing, but then some ideas for our FreshRSS service came up… you know how it is: it is not procrastination, it’s more like cleaning up after having ceased to be a perfectionist with a really long to-do list: you work through these things so they don’t occupy space in your mind any longer.

    Speaking of Goodreads: being the way things are, certain books (mostly ones written in German) can’t be found on Goodreads, so I eventually had to decide to add them there myself. By joining the Goodreads Librarians Group, I can add a book missing from the database myself (a thing I remember having done for the first time some ten years ago now).

    So, scrolling down the page on which services are supported for both book data and cover images, I found that the German Deutsche Nationalbibliothek is supported, which is Germany’s national library (everything published in Germany is most likely there), but which in my case led nowhere. So I went with the publisher’s website instead as the source of book data and cover image. Fingers crossed the people at Goodreads accept this contribution (found it on Amazon as well, after looking for it on WorldCat, did not find it by searching for it on Amazon directly, using its ISBN though – odd). You can see my book request here, if you are into that.

    From my bookshelf page on my website, I copy and paste the titles into my Zotero, copy the ISBN from there (to make sure I add the right version of the book on Goodreads to my “Want to Read” list; there are versions of books 😖) and drop it into Goodreads.

    Ideally, I can move on with the next book right away, but otherwise I need to do the extra step described above.

    In the end, there is only one more book left over which I need to add the same way as above. And that book is very special, in a lot of ways (but not special in the way Knauer’s Transformation is: as much as I enjoy ergodic literature, when the ergodism leaves the page and starts to format the book, things get really unusable really quickly), so I will add it after my first request goes through.

    Just something to add to my ever-shrinking to-do.

    Neat reading list. Looks like I moonlight as a librarian of sorts, as well as moonlighting as a hacker and illustrator.

    Now, I am installing Monster Hunter: World, because I crave the exploration and extracting the resources from the world around me.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas