I haven't mentioned it lately, but I wanted to mention it again. My app, Pocket Greek Dictionary, is available in the App Store! It's got the most common Ancient Greek words from the Greek New Testament and you can add widgets to your iOS home screen! apps.apple.com/us/app/pocket…

I’m building a version of the Odyssey that contains the Homeric Greek with definitions of each Greek word and also has AI notes for entries not in the dictionary- for example proper nouns such as Θήβη. In foldable phones the app will have the Greek and English on facing pages.

Exciting!

Maxed out my little laptop GPU having Claude use a local model in LM Studio generate thousands of AI text summaries in an attempt to save on token usage. AI assisted software development is addictive!

It’s 2015. The Apple TV is $69. Life is good…

My desktop publishing skills are a little rusty but here's my app in the Google Play Store! I wrote the app on my @omarchy Linux laptop and put together the header graphic here with the new PhotoCraft app on my Mac. play.google.com/store/apps/d…

Using @omarchy Linux is so much fun- I can vibe code a TUI game and have Claude add it to the Omarchy menu so I can launch it any time! I still build iOS apps on macOS but I live in Linux

I bought my Framework Laptop 13 last October before RAMageddon had fully arrived, and I've been running @omarchy Linux on it for 359 days! It's been a great laptop over the past year. The simplest little thing I appreciate about it is the PRT SCR button which my Mac doesn't have.

Shortly after JCD had passed, I realized that he had been at Cal at the same time as my uncle. The revelation of John’s true age put him ~two years older. My uncle passed a few years ago, but I visited my aunt this weekend and was able to look at the 1965 UC Berkeley yearbook. There’s our man, peddling humor and satire as always. #itm #ripjcd Tagging @johnsdvorak for posterity. “Social consciousness is a necessity for satire.”

Our latest free books give-away, open to all worldwide. This time it's 8 books from the last 200 years, and 8 people will be drawn to pick their choice. Retweet this and you're in for the random draw on Sunday 11 October. Proper books these. Details to follow over next few hours!

Testing out the iOS version of the Hexapla app in the iPhone Duo simulator

The Greek word lookup feature I just built is looking good on the iPhone Duo! You can read the Odyssey and look up πολυτροπον (polytropos) just by tapping on the word in the text of the poem!

In my new blog post The AI-Enhanced App, I share my thinking about how the AI aspect of the app should stay hidden from users... natashatherobot.com/p/the-ai…

I'm working on a new app that displays Homer's Odyssey with the original Greek on the left, and an English translation on the right, like a Loeb. The iPhone Duo is the perfect form factor for an app like this!

If you're not too excited about AI yet, watch this talk by @dhh. Exactly how I feel - we get to live through the most exciting time as software engineers. We can build ANYTHING we want!! ANYTHING!! piped.video/watch?v=vDjW_dRy…

Getting the Pocket Greek Dictionary ready for iPhone Duo! The updated app is available on Test Flight. testflight.apple.com/join/Rn…

I'm running Omarchy Linux on a 2015 MBP and I can vibe code an Ancient Greek Wordle TUI game, put it on GitHub (github.com/barrybro/greek-wo…) and then have Claude create a shortcut (& custom icon) to quickly launch my game! I can't do this on any other distro!

My app looks pretty good on the iPhone Duo Simulator! The beta version with better wide screen support is available via TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/Rn… The next version I publish will be built and ready for the new iPhone Duo!

I would consider myself an iOS and Android developer- but now with AI, I have a C repo and a Rust repo up on GitHub. github.com/barrybro Now that I can build in any language, how should I update my bio to reflect this new reality?