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Bram De Buyser

@chton.bsky.social

Founder Arcology (arcology.io), on a mission to take away the barriers to entry to AI so everyone can benefit. Building goblin.tools, smart tools for the neurospicy. Also wourdle.com, the British spelling word guessing game. He/Him.

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Are you a teacher in Scotland?

I'd like to talk to you!
We're working on something, and would love to hear about you and your specific experiences in the Scottish education system.

Send me a chat here, or email me at bram@arcology.io

Reposts appreciated!

10.11.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you a teacher in Scotland?

I'd like to talk to you!
We're working on something, and would love to hear about you and your specific experiences in the Scottish education system.

Send me a chat here, or email me at bram@arcology.io

Reposts appreciated!

10.11.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image 29.10.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

25.10.2024 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8090    πŸ” 3502    πŸ’¬ 349    πŸ“Œ 428

I had a few more gremlins to work out of this, if you had trouble switching languages, sorry about that!

On the plus side, the site is now quicker to navigate. Quick as hell. And that will help the apps too!

07.10.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Easily the most requested feature ever on Goblin Tools, and i finally decided to stop dragging my feet on it. Internationalisation is here!

From now on, you can use it in your own native language, completely.

Do you see a mistake? Need an extra language? let me know!

03.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

En Quenya, Sindarin, en Latijn :D

Een mens moet opties hebben :p

03.10.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Should be all good now!

It's got over 70 languages ready to go. Let me know if you spot any obvious mistakes? Obviously my Klingon isn't as strong as it used to be!

03.10.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(There's currently an issue with it on mobile, it'll jump back to english but responses will come in your own language! Should have that fixed shortly)

03.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Easily the most requested feature ever on Goblin Tools, and i finally decided to stop dragging my feet on it. Internationalisation is here!

From now on, you can use it in your own native language, completely.

Do you see a mistake? Need an extra language? let me know!

03.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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a cartoon of a llama with the words what a llama he 's supposed to be dead below it ALT: a cartoon of a llama with the words what a llama he 's supposed to be dead below it
30.08.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fantastic to see that even big companies like Grammarly are stooping to copying functionality either already present in Goblin Tools, or stuff we're working on with Teacher Tools.

And doing it _badly_.

22.08.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I should probably also tag @bobabria.bsky.social in this, as the developer, huh :D

21.08.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @hankgreen.bsky.social
Love Focus Friend, what a fantastic idea!

I run Goblin Tools, the Other Big ADHD app. Not quite biggest in the world but top 10 paid apps several years running now. Maybe we should have a chat and see if we can help each other?

20.08.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

20.08.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Hey @hankgreen.bsky.social
Love Focus Friend, what a fantastic idea!

I run Goblin Tools, the Other Big ADHD app. Not quite biggest in the world but top 10 paid apps several years running now. Maybe we should have a chat and see if we can help each other?

20.08.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed .

Probably couldn't hurt to make the repo public, could it

12.08.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For the #Dotnet crowd, because i wasn't going to spend hours getting this fine tuned only to not share it:
github.com/Arcology-pub...

Do you have a bunch of nuget packages but don't want a repo for each, AND don't want a single line change to version up all of them? Got it covered.

12.08.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm aware of this, but it's not the AI overview being bad (it often is) or even individual sites disappearing. I'm still getting results from sites i expect, but they're less relevant than i'd have expected from the same query even a few days ago. It's like it's just substituting more words.

12.08.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not so much the sites hiding, i think. It's parsing the query differently, being broader with what words mean and it's screwing up technical searchers.
A 'reference' when i'm looking up how to debug a package issue is not the same as a readme or a guide, but all the top results are about those.

12.08.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had that a few times too, at least i didn't mind that so much.
But technical queries for exact things i need seem to get a ton of results on the first page that use rephrasing and alternative words, leading to completely wrong results. And it's definitely a new thing.

12.08.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Has something changed about Google results? I swear i am getting absolute garbage results the last few days, even for things i'd expect it to do fine at before. It's like none of them are even halfway relevant anymore.

12.08.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

This is completely optional, but if you or her are willing to have a chat, i'd love to find a way to help her out. We're already planning an auto notes feature for our edtech toolbox, but if we can make that work for her even more than her current system, that would benefit a lot of educators!

07.08.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is exactly my view, too. LLMs come with risks and considerations, but they do a job that helps teachers. The least we can do is acknowledge that the workload is unsustainable and find ways to help them, even if that's the magic intelligence box that is sometimes wrong.

07.08.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No joke, I wouldn't say this lightly, but I think we're now creating some of the best resources of any teaching tools out there. Completely usable out of the box.

Go give it a try, I guess?

07.08.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We put out a major update to Teacher Tools (tchr.tools) today, and I couldn't be more proud of the quality of the results and how far the tools have come already.

We've also been hard at work making the site work natively in a ton of languages, and so many Quality of Life upgrades I've lost count.

07.08.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Took a little break from writing Teacher Tools (tchr.tools) to update Goblin Tools (goblin.tools).

It was about time it had a little homepage refresh, it just didn't look appealing or nice anymore!

26.07.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
TUTORIAL: How to change device names in Device Manager If you have ever wanted to change that boring "HID-compliant Mouse" title to something more descriptive, this tutorial is for you. The name of any device can be modified with this method and can help...

Are you on this journey for learning or would you like to skip to the end?

www.eightforums.com/threads/tuto... (verified this works at least for device manager, hopefully also applies to your list in other apps)

26.07.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

And now it's official, took 10 days to reach milestone #1!
On to #2, then 3, and then... the moon? I guess?

17.07.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We launched Teacher Tools (tchr.tools) just over a week ago, and nearly a thousand of you (!!) have already signed up. We're stunned, but the work is only just beginning.

If you haven't tried it yet, give it a go! And if you have, we’d love to know what you think so far.

15.07.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

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