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Bram De Buyser
@chton.bsky.social
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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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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 2d
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!
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 6d
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!
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 6d
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!
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 6d
En Quenya, Sindarin, en Latijn :D

Een mens moet opties hebben :p
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 6d
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!
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 6d
(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)
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 6d
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!
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 30
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
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 22
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_.
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · Aug 22
new chatbot? call it an agent. new software feature? sure, yes, agent. Old feature that's been there for years? It can be an agent if it wants to be, and how dare you suggest otherwise nymag.com/intelligence...
A few of Grammarly's new agents might fit such a definition, if you squint a little. The "AI Grader" tool claims to be able to estimate an assignment's grade by "looking up your instructor, "reviewing public teaching info," and "identifying key grading priorities." Setting aside whether such a feature is ethical, useful, or even functional - Jane Rosenzweig, director of the Harvard College Writing Center, found nothing redeeming in testing - such a feature might fit a bare description of an agent. You give it a task and it does a couple of unpredictable things in its attempt to fulfill it. Same for the "Citation Finder, a tool that will, after your work is done, backfill it with "legit sources to back your claims." (Now is as good a time as any to ask: What the hell are we even doing with this stuff?) A Grammarly feature that claims to offer "feedback inspired by real experts" seems to drift further from "agency." Then there are the rest of the new agents: simulated "reader reactions," a "humanizer," a "paraphraser." These sound an awful lot like features already contained in Grammarly, as well as things you could get by pasting your text into any major chatbot and asking for it. (Are the new included summarization features in iOS, Android, Windows, Office, and Google Docs agentic too?) Finally, Grammarly suggests, there's a "proofreader" agent, which can "refine grammar, clarity, structure, and more as you write." It's hard to find the agent here or even something new. Proofreading has been the entire thing with Grammarly for years, well before the company was talking about generative Al at all.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 21
I should probably also tag @bobabria.bsky.social in this, as the developer, huh :D
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 20
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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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 20
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 20
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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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 12
Probably couldn't hurt to make the repo public, could it
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 .
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 12
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.
github.com
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 12
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.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 12
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.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 12
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.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 12
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.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 7
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!
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 7
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.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 7
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?
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Aug 7
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.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Jul 26
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!
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Jul 26
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)
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...
www.eightforums.com
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · Jul 17
And now it's official, took 10 days to reach milestone #1!
On to #2, then 3, and then... the moon? I guess?
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