spboucher.ai
Where research meets shipped software
The personal site of Simon-Pierre Boucher — financial econometrics researcher and macOS/AI developer — presenting his research, teaching, and the six-app Zyquo suite.
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Zyquo macOS apps showcased
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Next.js version
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Overview
spboucher.ai is the academic and developer home of Simon-Pierre Boucher, Professor in the Department of Administrative Sciences at Université du Québec en Outaouais. The site presents his research in financial econometrics — commodity markets, monetary policy announcements, high-frequency finance, volatility modelling — alongside his teaching record and a portfolio of native macOS applications.
Built on Next.js 16 with the App Router, the site uses server components everywhere with static prerendering on every page. Tailwind CSS v4 and shadcn/ui-style components deliver a clean academic aesthetic with a developer edge; Framer Motion adds subtle scroll reveals that respect prefers-reduced-motion and degrade gracefully without JavaScript.
The site is self-hosted with character: it runs on a Mac Studio node of the author's personal cluster under PM2 process management, tunneled to the world through ngrok on the custom domain — production build only, with a JSON health endpoint for uptime monitoring.
Key Features
Server components everywhere
Next.js 16 App Router with static prerendering on every page; client components only where interactivity genuinely requires them.
System-aware dark mode
Dark mode follows the system with a manual toggle and no flash on load, themed through Tailwind v4 design tokens.
Motion with restraint
Framer Motion scroll reveals honor prefers-reduced-motion and fall back cleanly when JavaScript is disabled.
Zyquo app portfolio
Six native macOS AI apps — Cloud, Local, Agent, Atlas, MLX, Router — each with icon, description, and Repo/Release/DMG download links.
Full academic profile
Research publications, working papers, conference presentations, and courses taught at Université Laval, in dedicated sections.
Accessible by design
Semantic HTML, alt text on all app icons, keyboard-friendly navigation, and a mobile-first responsive 1/2/3-column grid.
Self-hosted on a Mac
Runs on a personal cluster node under PM2 with auto-restart, exposed through an ngrok tunnel bound to the custom domain.
Health monitoring
A dedicated GET /api/health JSON endpoint enables uptime monitoring of the production deployment.
How It Works
App Router pages
Five routes — home, research, teaching, apps, CV — rendered as server components with static prerendering, plus a JSON health API route.
Single source of truth for apps
The Zyquo suite data lives in one lib/apps.ts module that drives the app cards — icons, descriptions, and the three canonical links per app.
Production deployment
The production build runs under PM2 on cluster node m2u64, port 3100, with a second PM2 process holding the ngrok tunnel to www.spboucher.ai.
Tech Stack
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Highlights
- Served from a Mac, tunneled to the world: the site runs on the author's personal Apple Silicon cluster, not a commercial cloud.
- Showcases the Zyquo suite — six native Swift/SwiftUI macOS apps for AI and local LLMs, each with direct DMG downloads.
- Every source file carries a mandatory author header, enforced as a project convention.
- Framer Motion animations degrade gracefully: prefers-reduced-motion respected and no-JS fallbacks in place.
- Both processes — app and tunnel — run under PM2 with save/restore, making the deployment survive reboots.