Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • 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

  • Due to the world’s toughest internet laws, running a service which posts the best graphic design articles in Germany is not an easy thing to do.

    Things like self‑hosting, reposting on your own domain, and so on are absolutely out of the question, unless you are really keen on testing out the limits of your (legal) budget.

    So we slowly started rebuilding our project grafikdesignfeed using freshrss, ifttt, buffer and free socials.

    The logic is as follows:

    freshrss gathers all kinds of rss‑feeds, we favorite the articles we think are cool, these get sent to IFTTT where an applet takes these favorites, sends them to a buffer account which sends these favorites to (as of now) our account on Bluesky and our account on X (we are working on more socials as well, but that takes time; not work, just time, so we are waiting) and that is the whole machine called grafikdesignfeed.

    We are doing this because we want to provide a service to the German‑speaking part of the (not only graphic) design world, and because we really like building useful little machines like this one.

    Who knows, maybe you like using our machines as well?

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

  • I am not here (or on any social media account anywhere) to market myself, to build an audience, no, none of that stuff. I am here to get into chats with other people, like

    oh cool, you did that, this is what I did while you were doing your thing. You know?

    #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • I am not here (or on any social media account anywhere) to market myself, to build an audience, no, none of that stuff. I am here to get into chats with other people, like

    oh cool, you did that, this is what I did while you were doing your thing. You know?

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

  • Yeah, I want to build my own stuff here, there, everywhere. I like to talk shop, mostly #graphicdesign, with a special interest in #PDF­s, and what they are capable of, I am into video games, and solo and solo‑ish #TTRPGs lately, and I want to be an illustrator. Let’s party #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • I have talked to so many people who told me about growth mindset, and baby, did they always ever talk like a star to his audience.
    People are reaaaaally not all there, they need you, we need each other, but all they can do is put on the facade of already being there #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • Spent a very hot afternoon in the city of two rivers working on my website’s privacy policy: where it is hosted, which CMS it uses, if the plugins should be explained in terms of user privacy.

    I even went so far to ask ChatGPT (which I used to figure this thing out more easily: to be honest, privacy policy in Germany is not just opaque, there are whole industries thriving in this well‑kept opacity) about mentioning the privacy policies of the individual social media providers I am linking to, even if I don’t host their content (mine, actually, but you know what I mean) on my website.

    Doing all of this makes me realize a thing even more: this is serious. I am clearly not a “Liebhaber”, that is, an amateur in this game. I am building my own enterprise here.

    If I would’ve continued to treat the privacy policy as something to be solved later, most likely by overpaying someone for what is a glorified text generator, I would not feel this accomplishment right now.

    Thank you, Germany. You really tried to filter me there 😉

    And you know what? Somehwere while putting this together, it felt like putting together a manual of sorts for my website. And that felt really nice.

    Like now nice it’ll feel to put this laptop away from me, because that damn thing is not exactly cooling me down.

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

  • Curation in progress…

    #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • Bought a few manga issues

    Zotero finally released their official android app, so I installed that

    Updated my Goodreads

    Had bobas today

    Went back to reading one of my study books, imported it into my Goodnotes so I can make notes

    It is very hot today in Mannheim, so I am thankful for the AC next to me.

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