Francis Chary

Go Ape Ship! on Steam Go Ape Ship! is a frantic co-op multiplayer game for one to eight players. Work with your crew of daring Astrochimps to master an expanding collection of tasks, respond to emergencies, unlock new room...

Super excited for my friends at Sound Games, about to launch their first game, it looks super fun! Add it to your Steam Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4037180/...

To use the most classic sports cliche ever, both teams are just leaving it all on the field.

World Series baseball sliding into your timeline like

Honestly, I think it’s a little rude of the Blue Jays not to win the World Series on my birthday.

This is WILD. I’m glad I learned about the whole thing from you. I don’t think we have drama like this in the iOS community, though we have Apple to deal with, so… 🤔 ⚖️

That’s really neat! I think I know what that would look like at the call site, but it would be nice to see the before/after of how it gets used as well.

It looks lovely in-app, that’s for sure

A Duolingo screenshot showing the Irish translation of the phrase: “What does the fox say?”

Great. Now it’s stuck in my head.

Just because we've finally invented a good infinite slop machine, doesn't mean it's good for us. Releasing a deepfake generator app is bad for society the same way legalized gambling is bad for society, even if a lot of people are really clamoring for more gambling.

We started with 224 albums. After 350,000 votes, we have a winner!
Canada's Favourite Album by a Canadian Artist is....
JAGGED LITTLE PILL!
Thank you everyone for voting!

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What is the most annoying kitchen dish to wash, and why is it muffin tins?

There we go: Day 2 is up

francischary.com/blog/2025/09...

Hah build failed due to an expired PAT 🙈

Day 2 coming soon, just kicked off a new build.

I’m on the job hunt after a layoff, and it’s been a minute since I was really working on Apple Platforms exclusively. I decided to make myself a crash course in SwiftUI using ChatGPT, and blog about it as I go.

Here’s Day 1: francischary.com/blog

Wordle 1,550 2/6

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This is so much more satisfying than getting the first word. Best. Day. Ever.

Donate to Help Adam Rebuild His Life After Amputation, organized by Amina Bennebri On 2nd September 2025, my 21-year-old brother, Adam, was hit by a motorbike… Amina Bennebri needs your support for Help Adam Rebuild His Life After Amputation

Amina is very special to our family, and has organised this GoFundMe to help pay for her brother’s ongoing rehabilitation and legal costs after he suffered a terrible accident in Italy.

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30-year-old solar panels still going strong Reliabilities of modules manufactured in the late 1980s and early 1990s provide design lessons for modern photovoltaics

This is pretty cool. It seems that solar panels installed 30+ years ago are still working pretty well. www.chemistryworld.com/news/30-year...

A solitary figure on a sand dune, waiting for a worm

Me, waiting for my Docker build to complete

And there we have it. I can commit a change to the site, push, and have it deployed in less time than it takes to…

<checks notes>

…watch Dune Part 2.

Is publishing a Swift Vapor single-page website to DigitalOcean via Docker and Github Actions overkill? Yes.

Am I going to do it anyway, because I’m a glutton for punishment? Also yes.

Wow. For the very first time, I’ve added a new ssh key to Github without having to look anything up. What’s more, I remembered to ssh-add my key to the ssh agent on my machine before trying to push for the first time!

I’m all grown up now!

Monday, Jul 21, 2025 — Apple News+ Emoji Game

My first 6-move win!

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I feel like “Boom, Pants” is just going to be my rejoinder to any ridiculous idea from now on.

Shrimp in a chocolate fountain? Boom, Pants.
Roof made of reinforced cheese? Boom, pants.

Don't try to figure out Canadians. We don't know either.
#HappyCanadaDay

Well I mean it’s like 8 versions old so no wonder

I’d like to thank Big Oil for anticipating my desire not to take my kid to soccer practice today. By promoting their products over the past decades and warming the planet, thereby ensuring that the ever present forest fire smoke will see practice cancelled. What foresight!

Too real

We had similar, and ended up switching food, which helped a little, but not a lot. Maybe he’s got seasonal allergies?

My current pet peeve is seeing the phrase: “You finally found a page dedicated to explaining the universe”.

On social media, superimposed over a video, showing a wrong explanation of how bees make honey.

I know this shouldn’t bother me. But it does. Wrong on so many levels.

Someone needs to tell VSCode that sometimes a tab is just a tab. I don’t ALWAYS need it to spew out some code or comment.