Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • 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

  • Neuer Blogpost: „Happy Birthday, ASCA! Mein Social-Wall-Projekt wird ein Jahr alt“. mariobreskic.de/blog/happy-bir

    Quelle: Mastodon

  • #aside just to cast an observation into html here: if commercial social media websites allow editing then they do not offer threading? Could this be?

    Quelle: Mastodon

  • Rebuilt the index post/persistent context “tool” for tumblr because threading there should not be done with reblogs.
    Instead, I used a system I came up with in 2019, on Twitter: make a post containing a link I want to hook up to the persistent context scaffolding.

    On tumblr, this means: make a post, then link to that post from its category/theme master post.
    tumblr.com/codeandcanvas/79278

    Quelle: Mastodon

  • Instead of editing and then splitting apart previous posts, I will instead use the power of “knowing better upon reconsideration” to rebuild how my index post and linked threads function on tumblr:

    Below you will find threads grouped by theme and content, linked to persist context. Each linked post serves as an anchor for other posts like this:

    whenever I write a post belonging to a theme or representing a specific kind of content, I will edit the anchor post and add a link to the newly created post. Same for reblogs: instead of reblogging, I gather them as links inside the anchor post they belong to.

    This means that the index post lists the themes, and the theme posts list the individual posts belonging to the theme.

    I am doing this because using the reblog system creates a quickly growing body of html, which then becomes unsustainable (and my automatons can’t tell what is new and what isn’t in reblogs)

    This index post supersedes the previous one here.

    Shoutout to @searchsystem and @aminotes who I think are to blame for some of this thinking I have developed somewhere in 2019.

    Lab and workshop

    Post by @codeandcanvas · 2 links

    Notes and reblogs

    Post by @codeandcanvas · 1 link

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • codeandcanvas:

    You are not from around here, right?

    You mean from this town?

    No, Earth.

    I love this exchange. Half remembered, expletives omitted.

    As I write this using a German keyboard layout on a tablet device I do not use half as often as I would like, summer is going out of season.

    Here, where I am, that means when it rains, it pours.

    I want to reconnect with where we last heard from each other, tell you what I am up to right now, and these last few weeks.

    I used a lot of ChatGPT to complete projects which I had on my mind for years, but knew that I would never finish them.

    And I am currently working through the gaps in my graphic design education, because Plain Text 1 by Plain Form talked a lot about type design, experimental type design even, and I saw that what I knew, what I was taught, did not cover that at all.*

    Shot from Plain Text 1, Type as Labyrinth, by Benjamin Dumond.

    Type design? I learned which type to choose to make things look a certain way, read a certain way.

    Experiments? There was the one during our first semester where we made our own grids and used that grid to make some letters. Not a whole alphabet, much less than what a typeface covers. And after that?

    So reading this zine I understood my need to become a graphic design generalist as much as I can: why should I stop at what I know when there is so much to learn, do, make?

    So that is where I am right now: reading pages of that magazine, made by typographic outlaws from France, who talk about asemic writing, about FontLab and Glyphs, about computational type design, and if knowledge is a country, these are the cities I want to visit. I do not want to be a user of software, like an interface worker who pushes assets around a canvas. My apologies if that sounds rough, but I need the distance from my core studies. I need a little punk here.

    And what I need is to get that next level of control, so I can reach the next screen, again.

    *I had to order the out of print volume 1 from a different store, cahier central, but you are a smart kid, you will find your own source for it

    Today is the birthday of my social wall, a project I have started a year ago, and announcing it with this post below from one year ago.

    And I have decided to write a post on my website about ASCA, my Automated Social Content Archiver, while going through the first few of my posts I have saved on my social wall, and since this sideblog was one of the first of my social media accounts to have some* of its content stored that way, I wanted to celebrate here as well.

    Happy Birthday, ASCA!** 🎉

    Code & Canvas

    Liberate your posts!

    *actually all of it, besides reblogs and reposts

    **I am drafting ASCA a birthday present which is overdue: an avatar

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

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