Francis Chary

Cá bhfuil an caife? 🇮🇪☕️ This bleet brought to you by my 950+ day Duolingo streak

Appnouncement time! Playbook Prodigy is now available on iOS. It’s a Youth Football Learning app with guided football learning and automatic quiz generation, which also features spaced repetition to make learning faster. apps.apple.com/us/app/playb...

I’ve had this topic on my mind for a while. Can’t wait to give this talk and experience @swiftsonicconf.bsky.social !

Nailed it. 100%.

I think we have different definitions of the word “Trending”, Bluesky.

First thing I wanted for Swiftsonic was a set list, not an agenda. That’s why we have Openers and Headliners. The day builds: fresh voices, deep experience, practical Swift and iOS stories. Nashville · Nov 20–22 🎟️ swiftsonicconf.com

I gave the app to my teenager and told him to “build a play”. This is actually pretty good! Lots to fix, but it’s coming along. #shipaton #buildinpublic

Finally updated ShapeUp to 1.0.0! Create corners using relative anchor points, apply corner styles, move/rotate/scale/mirror them with ease, add notches along any edge, and wrap them in a CornerShape that is automatically insettable and animatable. #SwiftUI #iOSDev github.com/ryanlintott/...

Got this working, and I’m pretty pleased with it! #buildinpublic #shipaton

EXCITING (nerve-racking 😭) NEWS. MY FIRST APP EVER JUST GOT APPROVED AND IT'S NOW LIVE!!! (In the US, Canada, and UK for now, because I had no idea what I was doing!) ENDLESS NERVOUSNESS, but I have so many people to thank for this. Made it just in time for #Shipaton Day 4 of 60! #BuildInPublic

Jace pulled as much out of #SwiftRockies as possible, and is an absolute delight! A great write up of a really special conference in Calgary.

I was absolutely thrilled to speak at Swift Rockies in Calgary last week. The energy of this incredible event blew me away! Thank you so much to all the speakers, and attendees. Thank you as well to the incomparable Raman Singh for giving me a chance. My talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sigi...

I’m out for a walk with the dog, and Siri reads this message to me. The pronunciation of the first word rhymed with “shiv”. This has never been a problem before.

Calgary, you’re pretty.

So great to be watching James Dempsey & The Breakpoints to close out Swift Rockies. What a conference!

Next week, the inaugural SwiftRockies 🇨🇦 🏔️ conference is happening! If you were on the fence to grab a ticket, now's the final call. And, Apple Canada is coming to Calgary to host a session on "Discover what's next: The biggest updates from WWDC26". calgary.tech/2026/07/14/a...

Canadian friends! 🇨🇦 RevenueCat will be in Calgary next week for Swift Rockies and would love to meet up! If you're in the area hit me up. Our team would love to chat with any mobile app builders around – and we can probably sneak over some of that famous RevenueCat swag 👀

I’m really excited to be speaking at Swift Rockies in a week’s time. Apple will be sending people as well! calgary.tech/2026/07/14/a...

TIL: The new Little House On The Prairie show on Netflix actually takes place in what will later be known as Sudbury, Ontario. #iykyk

My younger sister took a summer job at a local cultural organisation. They just wanted her to do some filing and maybe post on social media. Then she went and produced this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=3NEu...

Oh wow, Ismaël Koné. What a letter. www.theplayerstribune.com/ismael-kone-...

Okay folks, tomorrow is a day to watch if your a sicko like me and cheer for statistical possibilities. If Canada wins their group, their most likely opponent (by a thin margin) is Egypt. But that could change tomorrow in the Group G games of Belgium vs Iran and New Zealand vs Egypt.

Really exciting detail from the WWDC Platform State of the Union yesterday; Xcode Cloud builders are now on Apple Silicon, so are 2x faster, and can run Metal.

GG macOS, amirite?

I'm about to say something I haven't said in 8 years: I'm looking for a full-time job. I'm looking for the right role with the right people and the right mission, all of which I've laid out in this blog post. I'm mostly interested in something new, so if this sounds like your team I'd love to talk.

Podcasts.app has the worst kind of bug imaginable; when I start a new episode, the sound randomly cuts out (as though buffering), except that it DOESN’T PAUSE! So it goes quiet for 15 seconds, and then comes back in a different spot, as though nothing happened. Maddening. Inexcusable.

You know a book has really left an impression on you when you’re reading something else, and you find yourself searching: what was Robert Moses was up to in the same time period? #thepowerbroker

Hard agree with Neven. If you haven’t seen Hundreds Of Beavers, it’s on Prime in 🇨🇦. Interestingly, the creators wanted it to feel like a video game. Watch it, and you’ll understand.

This is really good transcription from Podcasts. Picks up the mixed English and French without any trouble.

Wow. I had no idea how to spell this word. Just went with my best guess. Am I… figuring out how Irish works??

So… literally can’t go to Scotland anymore until I get my UK passport renewed. Cool cool cool, very good government there. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I’m so excited to hear Tim speak!

Nope.

I lowkey love that FastAPI is built on top of OpenAPI, so you get nice api docs for free

I made this Irish cream for the holidays, and it’s EXCELLENT. Strong recommend.

Very excited about this conference!

I saw a mobile/SDK position at @honeycomb.io today, and I was all excited to apply, but then noticed they only hire from ON, BC & QC in 🇨🇦 Im just saying, if Saskatchewan is good enough for Chappell Roan…

Harshil is the 🐐, but I’m happy with my effort! Consistency works for me.

The joke’s on Google here, basically 95% of my inbox is ad emails for products I already purchased and don’t need more of. Really useful training set there.

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.