Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 2hHot 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 060
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 29/09/2026I'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 😬 021
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 29/09/2026The 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 😅 100
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 29/09/2026ok but what's the consensus on bringing iced coffee on the plane yay or nay 120
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 22/09/2026Anthropic: 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 🤭 030
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 17/09/2026My 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... 010
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 16/09/2026"now boarding zone 2--" *The entire terminal and all adjacent neighborhoods simultaneously stand up* 030
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 16/09/2026I'd like to formally announce that I, Olivier, am withdrawing from the Ed Sheeran tour, and shall no longer be an opening act 010
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 14/09/2026My brain always autofills "SEA" for Seattle, and it makes for really odd sentences when the person meant South East Asia 110
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 11/09/2026Gmail 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? 100
Reposted by Olivier Bourgeoiskat cosgrove @kat.lol · 11/09/2026Not 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 5695
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 10/09/2026I dunno why TTC subway wayfinding are so obtuse Kipling? Kennedy?? I just wanna know how to go East 😥 2191
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 09/09/2026"We value your business..." Then maybe hire more customer service representatives so I'm not stuck on hold for an hour? 🤨 010
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 08/09/2026East Side Mario's implies the existence of a lesser known West Side Wario's 140
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 03/09/2026Did you know Walkie-talkie in French is... Talkie-walkie (I'm not making this up btw) 140
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 02/09/2026Riffed on it and turned it into an actual poem! Fully brain generated ✨ olivi-eh.dev/summer-is-ov...olivi-eh.devSummer is over: A short poemA short poem on the inevitable transition of the seasons. 010
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 27/08/2026I'm ready to host another successful event in Toronto! 🍁 030
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 26/08/2026I 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 ityoutube.comSquaresoft (1995)YouTube video by Broken Saw 140
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 25/08/2026Hitting that "this looks like AI slop" button like there's no tomorrow 010
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 25/08/2026I 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 090
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 24/08/2026I 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 061
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 23/08/2026I 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 000
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 23/08/2026I don't understand why we still teach anglicized names of historical figures e.g. Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo), Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), Nicholas Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) It's 2026, we have the collective of all human knowledge at the tips of our fingers, there are no excuses 381
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 18/08/2026Why is it that I only manage to spill coffee on me when I'm wearing a white shirt and not any other time 120
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 17/08/2026If 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 230
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 17/08/2026Lowering the quality of my speech lest* I get accused of being AI *I never said I was good at it 100
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 16/08/2026I'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 051
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 16/08/2026Some 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?" 030
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 12/08/2026What's the science behind why coffee tastes better in those bowl-like mugs you hold with two hands? 230
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 08/08/2026Looking for some fellow humans to build a New Internet just for ustheregister.com‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare execMachine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly 020
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 07/08/2026My 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..." 👨💻 020
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 05/08/2026'friend of a friend' but make it corporate "I've met them through a coworker of a coworker" 010
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 05/08/2026Maaaaaan. Who knew the Legend of Mana soundtrack was this good?? 🎶 Where was I all this time 100
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 04/08/2026Why is the *official* install step for the @github.com CLI so complex it takes 5 minutes just to decipher what it does? Can they not push their package to the core APT repository, instead of hosting their own? The install step should literally just be "sudo apt install gh" like every other pkgs 100
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 29/07/2026I realized that nowadays I dread having to make phone calls. Not because I don't like talking on the phone. On the contrary. But because I know I'm going to have to wrestle a dumb AI assistant for 15 minutes to have it finally transfer me to a darn human being. Please get me out of this timeline. 010
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 22/07/2026I'm not a coffee snob, but if I order a mocha and I see you pick up a bottle of Hershey's syrup, that's my last time in your coffee shop 😔 110
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 20/07/2026Hotels will tell me that they're "eco-friendly" by not providing me a change of sheet, but then in the same face will blast my A/C all day so that my room stays at a freezing 17 degrees 010
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 08/07/2026Why is it that if I get a very basic men's haircut in most places downtown Toronto it costs me $50, but if I walk over a couple blocks to Chinatown they'll do the exact same cut for $15? 🤔 010
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 28/06/2026Pedestrianized streets in Montreal are something else! All the business patios were full of customers, and tons of people were laughing, chatting, and dancing in the street. Who wouldn't want more of this in their city? 1408
Olivier Bourgeois @olivi-eh.dev · 16/06/2026Explain your @ My name is Olivier I'm Canadian, eh? And I'm a dev 020