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John Goering 🇺🇦
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Husband · Dad · Christ-follower

I build SmoothTrack, the head tracking app (iOS / Android) for sims https://smoothtrack.app

Day job: Java dev @ http://inetsoftware.de in Berlin ❤️

AKA @epaga

I am loved, therefore I am.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." - Romans 1:22
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“From Amazon, order number sixty two million, seven hundred and twenty two thousand……….” - Siri announcing a notification.

How can Siri STILL be this profoundly bad after sooooo long? Truly insane.
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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A few weeks ago my colleagues at WestJet had a gear collapse while landing in St Maarten.

It was reported as a “hard landing” and the pilots were blamed in the media.

Much less media coverage with the initial TSB report.

Not a hard landing.

Not the pilots’ fault.

www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/enquetes...
Air transportation safety investigation A25F0337 - Transportation Safety Board of Canada
The occurrenceOn 07 September 2025, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by WestJet was conducting a flight from Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Ontario, to Princess Juliana Internation...
www.tsb.gc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
one day i'm going to make so much money with a simple tool that acts like an ad-filter but instead just filters out coding AI slop response lines like

"You're absolutely right."
"I see the issue now!"
"Ah, you've run into a classic problem of XYZ."
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is a good sign. What's encouraging is that humans aren't THAT stupid - we will push back sooner or later when things get too dehumanizing.
So much is about the framing: personal AI computer assistant? Sure, maybe.

"Friend"? Yeah how about no. And how dare you?
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.

Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Played around with #kittenspaceagency modding last night, and of course started with a mod to receive SmoothTrack head tracking data and control the camera with it. It totally worked! 🤩 Very fun! #buildinpublic
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Yep have successfully done this multiple times. ChatGPT's Deep Research does a WAY better job finding deal codes than I can manually with Google (and my Google Fu skills are not bad if I do say so myself).
This may be an expensive way to save money, but if you're paying for ChatGPT or Claude and not doing this, then you're just leaving money on the table. Works great for finding promo codes too.
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Not to brag but my son just made 65th fastest speedrun in the world of Super Mario Bros on NES, absolute insanity. He’s been working on it for many hours. youtu.be/p1q0YnHUILw?... huge congrats @haju05.bsky.social
[4:56.894] Super Mario Bros. Any% Speedrun
YouTube video by Haju05
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
John Webster’s theological definition of God’s immensity:

“the surpassing excellence of God that includes within itself the boundless capacity for nearness”

Beautiful. He had a way with words even though he had no relation to the dictionary guy! 😅
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
My son, leading a Bible study on Psalm 119:1-8: "God’s law is unique because its lawgiver actually loves us."

So succinct, and it's stuck in my head ever since I heard it.
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
As the president often says, we have a concept of a plan.
BARTIROMO: How do you want this to play out once the ACA subsidies expire?

DR OZ: We have lots of great ideas, but I don't want to show our cards. As the president often says, why would I telegraph to you what we're gonna do?
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Friends are wanting to send us a fun package of food goodies from the States. $47 value in the box. I have now been sent MULTIPLE cryptic customs sheets to fill out, and even when they sent the package (postage OVER $150), they had to as well.

Multiple people + multiple hours for a $47 box. 🤮
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yeah so this is just plain insanity right?
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
So I've made this app - Mindscope 2, a visual and hierarchical outliner app for iOS and macOS - it's nearing completion, and the TestFlight is open, check it out! mindscopeapp.com #buildinpublic #swiftui
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The new Jacob Collier album is sublime. music.apple.com/de/album/the...
„The Light For Days“ von Jacob Collier bei Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 11 Titel
music.apple.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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“We are all, how you say, trying to find zee guy who did zis.”
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
My dad was there and he is a lifelong republican, conservative evangelical. I would have been there but was busy preparing a sermon for church tomorrow.
Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"
October 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
No kings but Jesus
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Francis Schaeffer in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 (1984) on the danger of confusing patriotism with Christianity:
October 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.
October 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Over 40 years ago. So prescient.
Francis Schaeffer, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 (1984):
October 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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This distinction, which Schaeffer emphasized, is easily minimized if not all together neglected in the current political climate.
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM