iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For the first time ever, I bought myself a 7-string guitar. It may prove useful on a few songs in my cover band’s next performance. Also, I hope to make a use of it in my own music later. And it’s a nice one, too. IYKYK.

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’ve found a TextExpander snippet that I used for support. It mentioned the previous name of our app, Trickster, “Blast”. When we released version 2.0, we renamed it to Trickster. This was in June 2012. So this snippet is about 14 years old now, at least. A Blast from the past, pun intended.

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Our apps Trickster and Eter Radio are 50% off today in the (Mac) App Store as part of Indie App Sales, along with many other great indie apps. Don’t miss.

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Did Wordle 1000 times (not counting various quordles/octordles and such).

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Caught a few shots of this blue jay who’s been visiting our backyard the last few days

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Brett Terpstra gives away 3 copies of our Mac app Trickster on his website. Check out brettterpstra.com/2025/05/0… for details.

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

At my first concert of the season. Leprous (with Wheel opening). In 2023, I performed on this stage.

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Any Mac devs use coupon offers with their apps? Some people reach the final confirmation step and then the Store says that it's being modified. Had it happen on 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 stores to some customers although I did succeed to use the coupon code myself (Canada). Anybody had this? Ideas?

Purchase of this item is not currently available.
This item is being modified. Please try again later.
OK

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

👨‍🎤 Music Trivia: this is the inner sleeve for a vinyl record. Anybody knows which record this is?

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Finally iOS 17 support Facebook!? You’re either a year too late or confused.

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

I bought two Kansas vinyl records yesterday, though I don’t know them well. Is an opportunity to get better acquainted. Also, what beautiful sleeve in this one. The other one is their first album. If you buy physical media, do you usually buy albums you already know or new stuff to discover?

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

I have to say that in my various, limited testing of llama-3 AI model vs ChatGPT 4 Plus, I often find llama-3 following instructions better and giving more precise results. Quite surprising. These two images are ChatGPT4 and llama-3-7B run locally, which actually gave a better result.

$Result of llama-3-7b. Here is a poem about programming for iOS in Swift:&10;&10;`let codeFlow = "where logic meets art"&10;print("Creating an app from the heart")&10;var uiView: UIView = UIView()&10;uiView.backgroundColor = .systemBlue&10;print("Designing UI, making it new")&10;func handleTap(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {&10; print("User tapped!")&10;}&10;print("Adding functionality, step by step")&10;swift.print("iOS dev's delight is in sight")`&10;&10;This poem contains valid Swift code, using the `let`, `var`, and `func` keywords to define a variable, an instance of a class (`UIView`), and a function. The code also uses string interpolation to print out a message.$

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Yesterday, while driving, I heard two songs on the PRM online radio that I liked. With the new history feature in Eter, I later added these albums to my Apple Music library. That’s exactly the use-case that I envisioned this feature for.

The new my added album cover art in Apple Music

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

We launch Eter 2.0 (an online radio streaming app for Apple devices) on Product Hunt tomorrow. We’ll appreciate it if you follow the launch. You can get notified at www.producthunt.com/products/… Requires Product Hunt account. IYKYK.

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

🚨 And the new single is out today. Got some positive feedback on it. It’s a light rock kind of tune. 🎸 Musicians will appreciate the lyrics, in particular. Links to listen here: distrokid.com/hyperfoll…

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

My new single, a Beatlesque, jazz/rocky “You Make Me Smile”, is gonna be out on streaming soon (officially tomorrow). Video is going to be premiered tomorrow morning. Already available on Bandcamp. Links are here: distrokid.com/hyperfoll…

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

I don’t know why but taking photos with Hipstamatic is so much fun. It’s somehow inspiring. It’s also quite easy to get artistic-looking results with it, which may be the main reason behind the feeling it creates. These are just a couple of latest ones.

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Gotta check out this new web browser. I heard it’s gonna rule.

A floppy of Netscape Navigator version 1.1

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Jacob Gorban @gorban.bsky.social · 17/05/2023

Groomed Sparky was relaxing near me earlier today. He likes lying on soft rugs.

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