Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • Welcome back to my after‑hours. This means that I’ve been working on my work again. I needed to fix a few things which I thought I’d properly fixed before.

    And I needed to get back into keeping a diary, for my own sake.

    You know, I think that writing things down, in your own hand, is a sort of self‑programming or self‑designing.

    So far, I am really happy to have bought a notebook by Leuchtturm1917 a few months (or maybe years) ago, since it does a few neat things for me: it comes with stickers for the cover, and a table of content which you can fill out yourself.

    I am always on the lookout for better notebooks, of course, and I ended up using Leuchtturm1917 ones because I find Moleskine notebooks too expensive by far (but there are even more expensive ones out there).

    Speaking of taking notes in general, I’ve decided to clean out my iPad in a way which makes it useful for my work and studies, much less useful for everything else: I’ve deleted all messaging apps from my tablet (and my laptop as well) and decided that messaging belongs on my smartphone and my smartphone only.

    I used to think that having a sort of meta‑computer for which each of my devices is a representation of would make sense for me, but it turns out that this didn’t work out for me at all.

    Instead, I want each device to have its own function, and I want to be aware of said function.

    It’s not set in stone, but I am getting to something here.

    In general, the tablet is for sketches and notes, the laptop is for more serious work, the smartphone is just for fun.

    And I’ve lowered my computer table, too!

    How is your work setup in 2025?

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

  • Scanned my diary’s cover.

    I’ve always loved what scanning does to print objects.

    You can find the uncompressed version on my flickr here, for panning around and zooming in.

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

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    Scan of my diary. I find that scanning does something to (mostly) paper and print I find I love.You can find the uncompressed version on my flickr account which you can zoom and pan around as it pleases you (the original is, of course, huge).

    If you know, you know.

    #scan #diary #artifact

    Source: My Instagram account Mario Breskic

  • I still think of the design system I called “human‑oriented design” in my thesis, in contrast to “human‑centered design”. I wanted to write that I worry that it does not have the fortitude to compete with human‑centered design but now I think that maybe it does not have to.
    Maybe having (an) alternative design system(s) is sound in itself: mine just starts with the human being and its needs, instead of starting with the product and then approximating the human.

    Source: My Mastodon Instance Mario Breskic

  • I believe that a brand is basically built in reverse: you start with the brand and then you design the steps needed to increase the likelihood of someone else calling you that. See this for a better visual https://www.threads.com/@mariobreskic/post/DGOI0EvNPx_ #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • Will look into it in 14 days when the trial period for Zapier expires. #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • @mariobreskic:

    Mail me in a week from now, asking me how many pages I am currently able to read each day asca

    Source: My Threads Account Mario Breskic

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    Beautiful
    Source: My Instagram account Mario Breskic

  • Note to self: LUA is cool

    Source: My Mastodon Instance Mario Breskic

  • Website changes, website changed. I’ve spent the last two days moving my WordPress website away from using a theme I bought three years ago.

    My reasoning for doing so was that this theme cripples what I can do with my website. This needs an explanation and context.

    When I use a theme, this theme is made by a web designer who earns money that way. So whenever a theme has been made, it carries its own trends with it: trends date websites the same way Carbon isotopes date fossils.

    My theme relied on a couple of plugins.

    It relied on external resources, loading external files. So when you went to my website, it didn’t load as quickly as it should’ve despite being mostly empty.

    My theme made using my website complicated, even for me.

    So I went with the current WordPress default theme, adjusted a few things my website does, updated its content and I am more content with the way it works now. I have added the same easy way to be able to navigate from post to post you’ve already seen on my Social Media archival site: default is below the posts but that is dumb, so I put it on top, like here

    Below a few screenshots of what is currently going on my actual website.

    I am not sure about the typography but so far it’s actually legible.

    All in all, it feels more like my own website now.

    I wanted to write “shame about the money” for the theme, but I honestly don’t feel that way. Having paid for it made me realize that I never liked to use it.

    Which makes sense, if you think about what a theme actually is.

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

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