Jacob Gorban

Stairway to Heaven solo? ✅
Check me rocking out to this classic.

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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.

A meme features a person rejecting "Googled" and favorably pointing to "DuckDuckWent" with the DuckDuckGo logo.

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

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

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

I mean how helpful was it? I never learned with Duolingo. My kids and some other family members did use it. A thing I heard about them is that the lessons are a bit random and not necessarily that good enough to master a language in a practical setting.

And? How much did you learn that you use in real life?

If you experience any trouble with our app, please reach out to our support and we will promptly reply with a commiserate 🤷🏻‍♂️.

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

A look back at my musical projects in 2024: https://gorban.org/2025/01/01/a-look-back-at-my.html

I'm excited to share the release of Bushel 2.0
getbushel.app
Lots of fixes but most importantly...
Screen Recording and Screenshots!
Now you can record your VM screen and add notes and of course share it with others.

What? Why all the flip-flopping? Had a few customer support issues with this limitation. Interested to know why they brought the old behavior back. I’m glad they did because it’s just a strange limitation even if they worried about a potential security risk.

If I posted a thread on X about X, did I go Meta?

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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?

Does this make you younger or older than Jesus? I’m always confused about the year 0 or 1 in the calendar

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

So, will I be able to ask the new ChatGPT voice mode to speak with a spam/scam call on my phone and stall them as long as possible? Asking for a friend.

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

Eter (our internet radio player app) now supports sharing radio stations. A surprise awaits those who come to the share page without Eter installed on their iPhone. Try it:

eter.apparentsoft.com/stations/Abs...

https://gorban.org/2024/09/05/david-gilmours-new.html

My 🐕 Sparky is addicted to snacks and would sometimes bark to request them. I now call him “addictator”.

🎵🚨Gonna have the premiere of my new song release (that I started writing in late 2020) in 5 mins at www.youtube.com/watch It’s a kind of a singer-songwriter rock.

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?

🎵 Did you know I write a newsletter related to my musical journey? I just posted some “behind the scenes” for an upcoming songs that’s been (too) long in the making. music.gorban.org/posts/spa…

Apple stock is down 2%. Coming back up “later this year”.

Ha, ChatGPT. I caught you!

Result of ChatGPT4

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.

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.

So happy about the new music from David Gilmour, one of my main influences on guitar. The first single’s video is just out, and it’s a better song than I was expecting, given his previous output lately. Good energy. www.youtube.com/watch