Bram De Buyser

Big News! Arcology has been selected for CivTech Scotland Round 11 🎉
We're building a recording and workflow assistant to free teachers from incident admin. Less paperwork, less stress, more time for students.
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What a fantastic note, i had honestly never considered that!
You're absolutely right, too. I've swapped out the icon with something that looks more like a sun. You'll probably need a hard refresh to see it :D

Goblin Tools has just had a big update, fixing a lot of bugs with translations and ToDo lists. If you had sync issues, or unde/redo, or performance problems, hopefully they're all solved now!
You might need to close and re-open the app to load it.

If any of you still run into issues, let me know?

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By popular request: Goblin Tools has a ko-fi now!
ko-fi.com/goblintools

Goblin Tools isn't at risk but it is getting a bit tighter around the waistline. Serving 2 million people every month is an awesome impact to have, but it does give one cold sweats from time to time :D

Support Goblin Tools Support Goblin Tools

By popular request: Goblin Tools has a ko-fi now!
ko-fi.com/goblintools

Goblin Tools isn't at risk but it is getting a bit tighter around the waistline. Serving 2 million people every month is an awesome impact to have, but it does give one cold sweats from time to time :D

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

En Quenya, Sindarin, en Latijn :D

Een mens moet opties hebben :p

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!

(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)

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!

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_.

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

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?

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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?