Pier-Luc Brault

https://fosstodon.org/@plbrault

Computer science teacher and former software developer. Free software, self-hosting and home automation enthusiast. Nerdy in various other ways.

Pronouns: He/Him
Location: Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Languages: French, English
Website: https://plbrault.com

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2025-05-15 14:26:52 UTC

I wanna make a very simple web app to replace a personal spreadsheet, and I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on it. So I'm leaning towards coding it in good ol' PHP: no API, no frontend logic. Party like it's 2006.
#WebDev #PHP #programming

2025-02-01 17:47:45 UTC

I finally found a FOSS Android keyboard I like: Heliboard.
I was stuck with GBoard because I could never find a FOSS keyboard that worked as well for me, especially for swipe typing. Heliboard feels a lot like GBoard.
Swipe typing is made available by loading a proprietary library that has "google" in its name, which is unfortunate, but still a better compromise than being stuck with GBoard.
Heliboard is available on F-Droid.
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
#Heliboard #FOSS #Android #Fdroid

2024-12-25 14:30:40 UTC

Merry Christmas Mastodon! 🎄

2024-06-25 18:27:27 UTC

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It's not that FOSS makes something automatically better, it's that with closed-source I can't know for sure that it's good.

2024-06-25 16:08:10 UTC

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Vivaldi is proprietary though, while Firefox remains open source. I can't trust proprietary software with my web browsing.