Olivier Bourgeois

Hello world! I'm a software developer with a focus on cloud runtimes and advocating for delightful developer experiences. Keywords: FOSS, urbanism, inclusivity, YIMBY, sustainability, and prog music. Want to learn more about me? Check out my personal website & blog, built by hand! → olivi-eh.dev

Noooo they're taking down the iconic VIA Rail departures board at Union Station 😥

This beautiful puzzle of downtown Toronto is so accurate there's even a taxi obnoxiously blocking the street car lane! mangopuzzles.com/products/tri...

Someone woke up one day and thought "what if we copyrighted nature 🤑"

Hot take maybe but I don't want transit to be more affordable, I want it to have better service, more proactive maintenance, better routes, shorter headways, etc. Chocking farebox revenue doesn't help transit flourish, it mostly leads to cutting service further

I'm on a flight and the sheer amount of people locked in on Claude / ChatGPT / whatever other tool is crazy You're 40,000 feet in space, the only safe haven from AI, chill out and watch a fun movie or something 😬

The border agent asked me if I was going to Sunnyvale for business or pleasure The idea that someone out there is going to Sunnyvale for pleasure 😅

ok but what's the consensus on bringing iced coffee on the plane yay or nay

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Anthropic: For safety reasons, everyone should pause on improving AI! Anthropic the following week: We just released a new model that has Fable capability at a fraction of the price teehee 🤭

My SO got me a green Suica card from her summer trip, not long before the penguin gets permanently retired from the card 🐧 Stacked with the red Welcome Suica I used during my own 2024 trip 🌸 The world will miss you, dear penguin, farewell...

"now boarding zone 2--" *The entire terminal and all adjacent neighborhoods simultaneously stand up*

I'd like to formally announce that I, Olivier, am withdrawing from the Ed Sheeran tour, and shall no longer be an opening act

My brain always autofills "SEA" for Seattle, and it makes for really odd sentences when the person meant South East Asia

Gmail has a dedicated button that lets you translate your email in Polish, and I feel like that's unfair to other languages. How can I customize it so I have a dedicated "French" button?

Not a lot of people know this, but we can actually go to Kubernetes 2.0 basically whenever. We just push it back by a year every time someone asks, like Valve does with Half-Life 3

I dunno why TTC subway wayfinding are so obtuse Kipling? Kennedy?? I just wanna know how to go East 😥

"We value your business..." Then maybe hire more customer service representatives so I'm not stuck on hold for an hour? 🤨

East Side Mario's implies the existence of a lesser known West Side Wario's

Lord, have mercy on my wallet

Did you know Walkie-talkie in French is... Talkie-walkie (I'm not making this up btw)

Riffed on it and turned it into an actual poem! Fully brain generated ✨ olivi-eh.dev/summer-is-ov...

"ok in 3, everyone say... Kubernetes!"

I'm ready to host another successful event in Toronto! 🍁

I don't know if it's because the first RPG I played was Seiken Densetsu 3, but nothing brings me more at peace than the Squaresoft splash sequence they made for it

2010 is back, babyyyyy! 🎶

Hitting that "this looks like AI slop" button like there's no tomorrow

I wake up, slightly shivering It was 16 celcius overnight A glance at my phone notifications "Pumpkin Spice Latte is back at Starbucks!" Summer is officially over

I love love love high-agency people The ones where you tell them an issue you're having and the immediate response is "alright let me schedule this thing, send that email, ping that person... done your problem is gone!" Definitely one of my love languages

I don't understand how people intentionally flip items / do resell for a living I just posted a couple things on FB Marketplace last night and I'm already pulling out my hair dealing with people's low-ball offers and ghosting

Erm... I'll stick to human teammates, thanks.

Why is it that I only manage to spill coffee on me when I'm wearing a white shirt and not any other time

If you're emailing someone named Frank, is it socially acceptable to start the email with "Can I be frank with you for a minute," Asking for myself

Perfect (urbanism) is the enemy of good (urbanism)

Lowering the quality of my speech lest* I get accused of being AI *I never said I was good at it

I've never been able to get into Big Bang Theory but I got hooked on Young Sheldon despite it having similar humor I realized what was bugging me so much... I think it's the constant laugh track of Big Bang Theory that's not present in Young Sheldon! Realizing I don't enjoy laugh tracks

Some days (everyday) I wonder what life would be if society wasn't enticed to extract as much money from the populace literally all the time What if we didn't see every aspect of life under the lens of "but how much profit could we generate from this?"

What's this "Instagzam" you're talking about?

What's the science behind why coffee tastes better in those bowl-like mugs you hold with two hands?

Looking for some fellow humans to build a New Internet just for us

My dream docs look like this: "...Defining a new HTTPRoute may result in configuring additional traffic routes in a cloud load balancer or in-cluster proxy server. 👨‍💻 Don't forget: You are enough; Pet your cats; Stay hydrated! 🥰 In the following example, HTTP traffic from the Gateway..." 👨‍💻