iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 30/07/2026

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.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 01/06/2026

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.

Quentinen And
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Writtin
Directino

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 31/05/2026

Jesus Christ, Duolingo.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 13/04/2026

Rewatching the Nine Inch Noize Coachella set daily for the rest of 2026

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 11/01/2026

If Sony made a hifi audio player that looked like their old Walkman I would spend an irresponsible amount of cash on it.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 16/12/2025

Like a lot of other people my age, The Princess Bride and This Is Spinal Tap were a big part of my formative years and why I grew up to become the person that I am today. I don’t have the words for how sad this is.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 09/12/2025

Industrial design peaked in the 80s and I’d like to go back.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 30/09/2025

Oh wow do I not like this place sometimes.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 15/08/2025

Industrial design peaked with the Motorola RAZR V3 in black back in 2004.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 09/07/2025

Excessive? Most definitely. But still cool that you can do it without any JavaScript.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 06/07/2025

I appreciate Duolingo but the last bunch of sections have all been really negative and it’s a little obnoxious?

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 18/06/2025

I've been using Claude Code with neovim and tmux, and I'm really liking the ability to opt into using the LLM to do things rather than constantly fight off autosuggestions that I'm not interested in.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 11/06/2025

I spent too much time trying different Javascript animation libraries and in the end I was the happiest with a (mostly) CSS approach. Wild what you can do with CSS masking and trig functions.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 23/05/2025

One thing I've run into quite a few times is App.PageState types when using pushState. 1. Load a page's data with preloadData, and use pushState with modal: data. 2. Render modal and the page, passing the data, and you have to import the PageData types for that and cast the type.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 17/04/2025

My life is forever changed

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 11/04/2025

I'd spent some nights this week with anime.js and I really, really like the API. Particularly with Svelte, this feels like a really nice way to compose non-trivial animations.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 19/03/2025

I've been playing around with adding little flourishes with CSS animation timelines and I've been really happy with how easy it is and how smooth they are

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 12/03/2025

The last chapter of Split Fiction is some of the most interesting game mechanics I’ve seen, so cool

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 29/01/2025

I’m up at 5am and I was just curious to see what places deliver on Caviar in SF this early/late and I see cheesesteaks from a place in the airport and now I can’t stop thinking about what a dark, dark place you’d have to be in to order airport cheesesteaks at 5am and I can’t sleep.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 23/01/2025

Looks like I found my double feature for the weekend

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 14/01/2025

Oh god I just got this ad on instagram and now I think I need to send this thing back

A human manifestation of the mucinex germ talking into a Shure microphone

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 03/01/2025

Today I discovered that CSS style queries are available in most major, modern browsers (except Firefox) and I feel so powerful.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 01/01/2025

Good morning and happy new year.

Someone overlooking SF from Twin Peaks at sunrise

Someone walking down the road overlooking downtown SF with crows flying overhead

Barricade in front of a view of SF, graffiti saying “LOVE LOVE” four times written on it.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 31/12/2024

Why is this what every website looks like on a phone in 2024?

Trying to read a website, it’s completely covered by three different ads

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 25/12/2024

I have no musical talent what so ever but everything about this is perfect I don’t even really need to know what it does I just want one.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 24/12/2024

I’m not a watch person and I’ve hardly bought anything online in a while but every time I’m on instagram they feed me ads for watches and every time they get more and more expensive and it’s far past the realm of anything that makes sense / who do they think I am?

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 22/12/2024

I did a test run of a clarified painkiller a few days ago, I’ve been looking for a holiday Tiki drink to make a large clarified batch of this week. Any recommendations?

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 13/12/2024

And the last day in New York

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 10/12/2024

First day back, I’ve missed Brooklyn very much

Leaving the west coast, flying through clouds at sunrise.

Looking down a rainy street to Manhattan from Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

A circus tent in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, reflecting in a puddle of rain water.

An empty pizza place between lunch and dinner with a checkerboard tile floor and red dining tables with green diner chairs.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 02/12/2024

We’ve also put together a Christmas movie calendar the past few years! Here’s this year’s

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 01/12/2024

I watched act three of Arcane s2 last night and had to immediately rewatch the last episode and will probably rewatch the show from season one in a week or two. It. was. so. good.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 30/11/2024

Red Dead 2 on the Steam Deck is pretty incredible

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 22/11/2024

Please, please, PLEASE put the reference mode toggle in control center.

A screenshot of the iPadOS control center’s display settings. There’s no way to add a toggle for the iPad’s reference display mode.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 22/11/2024

How much would adding pronouns to Diablo break this guy? Blizzard has the power to do something spectacular here.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 21/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four video games.

Final Fantasy VII — Cloud standing in the Wall Market

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 20/11/2024

I've been making and animating SVGs by hand and I know there's gotta be a better way. What's everyone else doing? I just want to be able to draw and animate singular elements, not build the entire project in some kind of tool like Framer.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 16/11/2024

TIL you can declare SVG paths as a CSS property and animate them with CSS transitions, introduced in 2016 and adopted by all major browser engines in 2020, except for WebKit, which is... incredibly disappointing.

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Christian de Botton @cdb.is · 15/11/2024