Christian de Botton

I spend a lot of time now thinking about how lucky I was to spend the early 2000s living around the East Village and Williamsburg. Wow. It was so cool.

I love Photomator as a Lightroom replacement but it really seems like Apple is killing it in favor of Pixelmator which seems… like a really dumb thing to do?

I used to stay out super late 6 nights a week and be fun and cool and now I get a tummy ache whenever I eat a quesadilla.

It's funny how it works, when Apple got rid of TouchID, everyone was furious, and now that there's a phone that has TouchID again, everyone hates it. I think people just like to hate things.

I don't get time to do it often lately, but sitting in front of Davinci Resolve on two 6K monitors with the speed editor panel and the micro color panel brings me so much joy.

I feel like I’m in the minority here but I really enjoy using Siri AI. It does the quick dumb things I want to do on my phone and it does them VERY quickly.

My workflow is to import photos into apple photos and then edit in Lightroom. I can only assume this is intentional to push people to buy Adobe cloud storage but seriously, Adobe, I’d love for you to explain what is happening here.

Trying to direct GPT 5.6 Sol through implementing drag and drop on touch devices is laughably difficult.

I would like a Sony FX5 and also I’d like to have the time to use a Sony FX5

We moved from NYC to SF almost 7 years ago and I still follow every opening and closing in the city because I fully expect to move back there at some point in our lives. I just saw that the AMC on Kips Bay is closing after 27 years. We saw so many movies there. This one's especially devastating.

I want to go back to this. Also, someone needs to talk me down the ledge here before I spend $1,400 on this never used minidisc player.

Trying to think of ways to start using my A7SIII more so I can rationalize buying the FX5 in 2027

I got a Surface Laptop for work, it's my first Windows machine since 2005 and... I mean... people choose to live like this?

Today is my last day of the very generous amount of parental leave that my company gives. I’m so happy to have had the time to spend with my kid but also, honestly, devastated that this could be the last time I ever have a chance to spend this much time with him

My biggest regret is not buying property in New York City at the beginning of the pandemic. We just moved to San Francisco but we could’ve rented it out for seven years.

I had Claude continuously deploy changes because I was giving it feedback from my phone and validating it from there and the first thing to give was github actions which almost immediately hit their basic paid account limit, like under a day

I just got rid of about 15 extra large Home Depot boxes of stuff from the house and now I feel like I have ascended corporeal plane. AMA

You'd think with the 20x CC plan you'd be able to turn on fast mode for Opus and just consume 2x your usage?

I know I could probably do this with DO or D1 + KV or a Container + R2 for hydration, but it would be cool if Cloudflare had a native graph storage solution

A full week on the Claude Code 20x plan with Opus 4.8 and I went through 44% of my weekly usage limit. A day and a half on Fable 5, I've gone through 68% already. It's impressive, but I had no complaints with Opus 4.8. Being that it's going billing-only, I can probably safely stop using it now.

The Fable 5 model has been pretty incredible, but it's noticeably much slower and is absolutely tearing through my Claude 20x plan right now. I think it's a great tool for planning and iterating on new large features, but for visiting existing work, I think I need to drop back down to Opus/Sonnet.

I can't really understand why there's so much hyper around Vercel and not Cloudflare. Cloudflare is such an cool set of products and you can really do anything you want.

I upgraded to the Claude Code 20x plan for the month to get through some side project work, coincidentally, the first Mythos model just dropped and is available for CC plans through near the end of June before it goes to usage-only. I'd been hitting 50% of my limits, guess it's time to let it rip.

I can't even imagine what a soft little boy you must be to be angered by the new God of War game. So embarrassing.

There isn’t much that I miss about pre-baby life. Except for going to movies. I really miss going to movies. I would love to sit in an air conditioned room with a big screen for five hours and watch Obsession and Backrooms, back to back.

Without giving away a ton, the last season of Euphoria was... so stupid. Sam Levinson threw away 2 seasons of rich character development to write a Quentin Tarantino fanfic. Complete waste of performances by Zendaya, Colman Domingo, and Jacob Elordi.

Jesus Christ, Duolingo.

My body is getting older, but mentally, I’m choosing to stay in 2005, forever.

My first meal of the day, it is 4pm and I’m eating a bag of flaming hot limon Cheetos with a cherry coke zero.