Francis Chary
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Cรก bhfuil an caife? ๐ฎ๐ชโ๏ธ This bleet brought to you by my 950+ day Duolingo streak
over 1 year ago
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Hard agree with Neven. If you havenโt seen Hundreds Of Beavers, itโs on Prime in ๐จ๐ฆ. Interestingly, the creators wanted it to feel like a video game. Watch it, and youโll understand.
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14 days ago
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Canadaโs fifth season.
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17 days ago
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This is really good transcription from Podcasts. Picks up the mixed English and French without any trouble.
about 1 month ago
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Wow. I had no idea how to spell this word. Just went with my best guess. Am Iโฆ figuring out how Irish works??
about 1 month ago
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Soโฆ literally canโt go to Scotland anymore until I get my UK passport renewed. Cool cool cool, very good government there.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Dual Canadian British citizens scrambling under new passport rules | CBC News
Entry requirements for dual nationals are being updated as part of broader changes to entry requirements in the United Kingdom. The sudden change, announced quietly in the fall, has caught citizens of...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/dual-canadian-british-citizens-scrambling-under-new-passport-rules-9.7099400
about 1 month ago
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Iโm so excited to hear Tim speak!
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about 2 months ago
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Patrickworld ๐๐พ ๐ ๐ธ
about 2 months ago
Bob Ross (October 29, 1942 โ July 4, 1995) was an American painter and art instructor who created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States and CBC in Canada.
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Nope.
2 months ago
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I lowkey love that FastAPI is built on top of OpenAPI, so you get nice api docs for free
2 months ago
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Watching Home Alone with kids takes on new meaning this year, when you realise that Kevin McAllister lives on the 670-679 block of his street.
3 months ago
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I made this Irish cream for the holidays, and itโs EXCELLENT. Strong recommend.
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3 months ago
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Very excited about this conference!
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3 months ago
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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 ๐จ๐ฆ Im just saying, if Saskatchewan is good enough for Chappell Roanโฆ
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Honeycomb: Observability for Distributed Services
Observability for what comes next. Honeycomb gives you the context, speed and scale you need to build great software in the AI era.
https://honeycomb.io
4 months ago
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Harshil is the ๐, but Iโm happy with my effort! Consistency works for me.
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4 months ago
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The jokeโs on Google here, basically 95% of my inbox is ad emails for products I already purchased and donโt need more of. Really useful training set there.
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4 months ago
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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/...
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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...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4037180/Go_Ape_Ship/
4 months ago
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Joe Fabisevich
5 months ago
To use the most classic sports cliche ever, both teams are just leaving it all on the field.
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Casey Drottar
5 months ago
World Series baseball sliding into your timeline like
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Honestly, I think itโs a little rude of the Blue Jays not to win the World Series on my birthday.
5 months ago
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Great. Now itโs stuck in my head.
6 months ago
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Joe Fabisevich
6 months ago
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.
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Canadian History Ehx
6 months ago
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! Enjoy my content? You can support my work with a donation at
buymeacoffee.com/craigu
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What is the most annoying kitchen dish to wash, and why is it muffin tins?
6 months ago
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Iโm on the job hunt after a layoff, and itโs 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. Hereโs Day 1:
francischary.com/blog
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Rants And Things
https://francischary.com/blog
6 months ago
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Wordle 1,550 2/6 ๐จโฌ๐จโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ This is so much more satisfying than getting the first word. Best. Day. Ever.
7 months ago
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Amina is very special to our family, and has organised this GoFundMe to help pay for her brotherโs ongoing rehabilitation and legal costs after he suffered a terrible accident in Italy.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-adam-...
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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 motorbikeโฆ Amina Bennebri needs your support for Help Adam Rebuild His Life After Amputation
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-adam-rebuild-his-life-after-lifechanging-accident-in-i?attribution_id=sl:1a40ba74-b9f2-4ebe-8d87-de4a974c0130&lang=en_GB&ts=1757522277&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link
7 months ago
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This is pretty cool. It seems that solar panels installed 30+ years ago are still working pretty well.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/30-year...
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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
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/30-year-old-solar-panels-still-going-strong/4022052.article
7 months ago
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Me, waiting for my Docker build to complete
7 months ago
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And there we have it. I can commit a change to the site, push, and have it deployed in less time than it takes toโฆ <checks notes> โฆwatch Dune Part 2.
7 months ago
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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 Iโm a glutton for punishment? Also yes.
7 months ago
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Wow. For the very first time, Iโve added a new ssh key to Github without having to look anything up. Whatโs more, I remembered to ssh-add my key to the ssh agent on my machine before trying to push for the first time! Iโm all grown up now!
7 months ago
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My first 6-move win!
apple.news/JDv-xHKvvRLS...
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Monday, Jul 21, 2025 โ Apple News+ Emoji Game
https://apple.news/JDv-xHKvvRLS2BGgOcHkpdg
8 months ago
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Shonna White
9 months ago
Don't try to figure out Canadians. We don't know either.
#HappyCanadaDay
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Iโd 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!
10 months ago
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Too real
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10 months ago
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My current pet peeve is seeing the phrase: โYou finally found a page dedicated to explaining the universeโ. On social media, superimposed over a video, showing a wrong explanation of how bees make honey. I know this shouldnโt bother me. But it does. Wrong on so many levels.
11 months ago
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Someone needs to tell VSCode that sometimes a tab is just a tab. I donโt ALWAYS need it to spew out some code or comment.
11 months ago
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The Beaverton
12 months ago
US campaign entices Canada tourists: โCome visit America and also maybe El Salvador!โ
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US campaign entices Canada tourists: โCome visit America and also maybe El Salvador!โ
OTTAWA - Following months of declining Canadian travel to the USA, Americans have launched a tourism campaign inviting Canadians to visit locations like New York, Austin, and possibly even take an all...
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/us-campaign-entices-canada-tourists-come-visit-america-and-also-maybe-el-salvador/
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Absolutely wild to be having a conversation in 2025 about the calculus of buying kidโs clothes while trying to avoid fast fashion and American brands. Compromises must be made.
about 1 year ago
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This is a lovely writeup of the development process of a game Iโve been really enjoying. Big props to
@localthunk.bsky.social
for including the struggles as well. Canโt imagine how hard it would have been!
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about 1 year ago
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Elbows Up
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
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We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_OzbmriDgQc
about 1 year ago
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Warren Kinsella
about 1 year ago
Trudeau quote that'll long be remembered: โ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐๐จ ๐ก๐๐ช๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ฉ ๐พ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐, ๐๐ฉ๐จ ๐๐ก๐ค๐จ๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ฉ๐ฃ๐๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ก๐ก๐ฎ, ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐ก๐ค๐จ๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฃ๐. ๐ผ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฎโ๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฅ๐ค๐จ๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ช๐จ๐จ๐๐, ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐ช๐ฉ๐๐ฃ: ๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐, ๐ข๐ช๐ง๐๐๐ง๐ค๐ช๐จ ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ง. ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐."
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WheatNOil
about 1 year ago
Pretty sure raising the Canadian flag in Boston officially makes Massachusetts the 11th province.
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The discourse about โlowering trade barriers between provincesโ sounds great, but what it actually means is: โreduce provincial government power to set regulations and collect taxes, and move that power to the fedsโ. Thatโs how you get interprovincial free trade.
about 1 year ago
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Charlie Chapman
about 1 year ago
Ok, I'm actually legitimately excited about this. Been struggling to find a good, simple invite system with reminders for
@stlswift.com
that doesn't cost an arm and a leg (and isn't Facebook or LinkedIn events, lol)
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Introducing Apple Invites, a new app that brings people together
Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that allows users to create custom invitations to gather friends and family.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/introducing-apple-invites-a-new-app-that-brings-people-together/
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This is a great overview of the impact of the newly open-sourced-by-Apple Swift Build System
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about 1 year ago
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Apple open sources its build system on the same day as the Prime Minister announces retaliatory tariffs. The universe giveth and taketh away
about 1 year ago
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End of an era. I have been using Timehop every day for almost a decade. So long that it predates my usage of password managers. I opened the app from the push notification this morning, and I canโt remember how to log in. Goodbye, sweet prince.
about 1 year ago
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Iโve spent the last year working on a Flutter app, and thereโs one place where it has traditional iOS development beat, without any shadow of a doubt: hot code reloading. Itโs absolutely magical to make a change to a file, and watch my running app reflect that immediately
over 1 year ago
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Terrifying
over 1 year ago
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