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Bram De Buyser

@chton.bsky.social
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Founder Arcology (arcology.io), tech for human problems. 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 · 15/08/2026
I sometimes get asked how i deal with the pressure of goblin tools, and usually it's something i can kind of ignore. but once in a while, like right now, i have a glass of wine and i sit and the scale of it kind of seeps in. I don't talk about it much, but GT has a userbase measured in millions.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Well that took absolutely no time
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Not only are the copycats still going, they're proudly posting on Reddit about it now. I'm too old for this
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I'm already expanding the value of subs. Starting with the Formalizer, which now has a few new bits to it: Favourites: quick pick your preferred tones Custom tones: add any you think are missing My voice: give a few samples, it'll write to sound like you Compare: see multiple options side by side.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There have always been some features I've wanted to provide in Goblin Tools, but that I had never been able to. A proper on-server todo list, templates, history, shareable lists, that kind of stuff. I resisted because they require a subscription cost to be manageable. Well... I stopped resisting.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm still twiddling with some of the registration flow and the tech, so if you run into any trouble, do let me know! On here, DM, help@goblin.tools, any way you see fit. It works on my machine, but who knows if it works on yours :D
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There have always been some features I've wanted to provide in Goblin Tools, but that I had never been able to. A proper on-server todo list, templates, history, shareable lists, that kind of stuff. I resisted because they require a subscription cost to be manageable. Well... I stopped resisting.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Pushed huge upgrade to goblin.tools Should help with stability, and it adds a few things people have asked for since... forever. Multiple todo lists! Deadlines! A prioritisation button! And a new tool! Go give it a shot, it might help make todos less overwhelming.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Pushed huge upgrade to goblin.tools Should help with stability, and it adds a few things people have asked for since... forever. Multiple todo lists! Deadlines! A prioritisation button! And a new tool! Go give it a shot, it might help make todos less overwhelming.
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Arcology @arcology.io · 22/01/2026
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. #CivTechRound11 #CivTechScotland #CivTechChallenge
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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
ko-fi.com
Support Goblin Tools
Support Goblin Tools
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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
ko-fi.com
Support Goblin Tools
Support Goblin Tools
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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!
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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!
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags
web.archive.org
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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 · 03/10/2025
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 · 03/10/2025
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 · 30/08/2025
media.tenor.com
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 · 22/08/2025
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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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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 · 20/08/2025
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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 · 12/08/2025
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 · 12/08/2025
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 · 07/08/2025
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 · 26/07/2025
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 · 17/07/2025
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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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Hey hey psst Arcology is building a new thing tchr.tools
tchr.tools
Teacher Tools
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I thought i had a joke about AI engineering but it doesn't work because because i got another AI to write it.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This seems like an obvious one in hindsight, but when you have a dynamically generated site with links to next pages DO NOT ALLOW WEB CRAWLERS My AI bill for the last 2 days is... spicy.
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
It has come to my attention that people have been creating cryptocoins with the Goblin Tools name and logo. These are NOT affiliated with it. Goblin Tools will NEVER create or support any branded cryptocurrency. I'm frankly disgusted people would try to pump-and-dump on its name
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Teacher Tools (tchr.tools) has hit 10,000 subscribers to the waiting list, despite having no landing page or practical info, just a demo tool. What an incredible honour!
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Karyn Fillhart @gktechies.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New blogpost series spotlighting my favorite #AI tools. First up is goblin.tools from @chton.bsky.social gktechies.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/a... #EduSky #EdTech
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AI Spotlight #1: Goblin.Tools and Tchr.Tools
Uses for Goblin.tools and Tchr.tools
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Oh no I had half an hour free time and my brain did a dumb thing incorporeal.website
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Karyn Fillhart @gktechies.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Goblin.tools expanded again with Consultant. I think it’s time to write a new blogpost just on Goblin Tools and the new Teacher Tools tchr.tools I updated my bookmarks. 💚 @chton.bsky.social is amazing! #EduSky
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Magic ToDo - GoblinTools
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Prakash Haridas @prakashph.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I can already see this being an interactive piece that can be shown at an art gallery 🤣
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just because it's a toy doesn't mean it can't get better. I managed to squeeze out a huge speed upgrade, making it feel more like a regular site. I'm also slowly convincing myself that with some improvements, this could be a real product? On-the-fly site with your own knowledge base or data?
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 21/02/2025
Interesting Facts

The first bearcopter prototype was developed in 1943
Bears can operate helicopters with a 95% success rate
There are over 500 registered bearcopter pilots worldwide
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Oh no I had half an hour free time and my brain did a dumb thing incorporeal.website
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
With Arcology, we're building Teacher Tools (tchr.tools) While developing, we want to give you some sneak peeks. Ever wished you could have someone just quickly pull together some info on a topic? Your personal researcher? You're in luck! tchr.tools/researcher
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Teacher Tools
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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There are no famous bad people with my name so... Me. The answer is me, isn't it?
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Karyn Fillhart @gktechies.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
@chton.bsky.social, you’ve been busy! I was showing someone goblin.tools and saw a message at the bottom about Teacher Tools! 😁 I can’t wait to see what’s coming! #EduSky Tips bookmark: www.canva.com/design/DAGdJ...
Bookmark from link in post
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 03/12/2024
Tweet you think about
@Edcrab_
Data: This is my brother Art. Due to a typo he was given a "postironic" brain
Art: I am embracing the new sincerity
Data: Shut the hell up
7:38 AM • Mar 30, 2016
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Arcology @arcology.io · 15/01/2025
Now on The Conduit: Understanding AGI: Setting Realistic Expectations blog.arcology.io/p/understand...
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Understanding AGI: Setting Realistic Expectations
The bold claims of AGI 'soon' are going to be disappointing, but not for the reason you think.
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