Louis Bourque

#introduction Hi, I'm Louis. I'm a software developer💻​, working mostly with web apps in #javascript but dabbling in #typescript and #rustlang 🦀​. Recently bought an acreage in rural Alberta where I live with my boyfriend who raises sheep 🐑​. Interested in all things #tech.

Looking forward to the KDE documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P749...

Trying out GLM-5.3 (Mistral hosted) on vibe cli and it's really good. So much faster than Claude and way cheaper. The cli is a bit rough around the edges, but nice to see some viable competition out there.

I’ll have to move off Codeburg because I have two repos that are vibe coded experiments from December. Guess I’ll go back to GitHub

Best friends hanging out

@techconnectify.bsky.social bro I watched your video about engines and today my oil pressure went to zero. I was two minutes from home, if I didn't watch your video I would've pushed it. You probably saved this '94 GMC Sierra's engine. Sitting waiting for a tow truck right now.

Microsoft: please stop calling it slop Also Microsoft: here's some fresh slop

Me: Asks LLM to replace all [--var(--xx)] with (--xx) LLM: Replaces only the [--var part Me: LLMs suck LLM: Realizes what it did, starts to fix it Me: LLMs rock! LLM: Breaks the UI because it replaced all )] and broke unrelated code Me: LLMs suck LLM: Realizes the error, fixes it Me: 🤯

GPUI (v0.2.0), the GPU-accelerated Rust UI framework that powers Zed, is on crates dot io. 👀 crates.io/crates/gpui

Just watched this Dioxus talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl90... and I'm blown away. WASM bundle splitting makes Rust viable for web apps and the hot patching fixes a major pain point. Definitely going to have to check it out

Best kept secret: the IBM accessibility checker, blows other #a11y testing tools out of the water ✅ open source and well maintained ✅ Free and ad free ✅ multiple rulesets ✅ export results to excel www.ibm.com/able/toolkit...

Finally got around to deleting my X account. I deleted my posts and stopped using it when it was bought out. I can't believe I signed up for Twitter in 2008! My account was almost old enough to buy beer 🍻. So many good memories, here's to the next 17 year on Bluesky 🥂

First lamb of 2025 born this afternoon, or course it had to be on the coldest weekend. One more ewe to go, then we get a break until end of February

StarCraft (1998)

🎁 A surprise holidays gift: after over a year of hard work, we have just published Rolldown 1.0.0-beta.1!

The 2024 Rust annual survey is out 🎉 Let's all fill this, so that the Rust project has more data to understand how to serve the community better! 👉 blog.rust-lang.org/2024/12/05/...

Today one of our ewes gave birth to Morgan, here he is chilling under a heat lamp. Already working on his tan, you can tell he's gonna be a looker. Sadly his brother didn't make it. But that's life on the farm, you take the good, the bad and everything in between and just focus on the good stuff.

That feeling when you close two VS Code windows

Rolldown 0.14 is out! github.com/rolldown/rol... Rolldown's core bundling capabilities are largely complete. We are now focusing on robustness (Rollup and esbuild test alignment) and polishing DX (error messages, docs) before planned 1.0 beta by EOY.

🎵 You've got a friend in me 🎵

Bluesky’s captured tech twitter because it appeals to our innate desire to buy a new domain name.

Nap time

How it started // How it's going

#throwbackThursday to when she was a little puppy

Another lambing season begins.