Christian de Botton
@cdb.bsky.social
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Software engineer at thebrowser.company, building Dia. Also, I like to take pictures.
日本語を練習します。
Software engineer at thebrowser.company, building Dia. Also, I like to take pictures.
日本語を練習します。
I haven’t hit a ton of paper cuts when working with Cloudflare workers but one that I’ve run into with R2 in dev is that certain APIs like FixedLengthStream are only available when running with miniflare, which makes a normal debugger workflow with, say, sveltekit, really difficult and annoying.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I haven’t hit a ton of paper cuts when working with Cloudflare workers but one that I’ve run into with R2 in dev is that certain APIs like FixedLengthStream are only available when running with miniflare, which makes a normal debugger workflow with, say, sveltekit, really difficult and annoying.
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pretty excited about this feature (thanks @ottomated.net!). dealing with file uploads can be a bit of a pain — the way it works normally is that you (or your framework) does `await request.formData()` to get a FormData object. but it has to buffer every file into memory first. that's a problem!
Streaming file uploads via a custom binary format just got merged into SvelteKit! In a follow up PR (github.com/sveltejs/kit...) upload progress will be handled too! github.com/sveltejs/kit...
Streaming file uploads · Issue #14773 · sveltejs/kit
Describe the problem When you submit a form, and JS is available, we POST a lightly-seasoned FormData object to the endpoint. Whenever you post form data with fetch, it defaults to multipart encodi...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
pretty excited about this feature (thanks @ottomated.net!). dealing with file uploads can be a bit of a pain — the way it works normally is that you (or your framework) does `await request.formData()` to get a FormData object. but it has to buffer every file into memory first. that's a problem!
I didn’t realize just how much of early fatherhood was going to be getting puked on
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I didn’t realize just how much of early fatherhood was going to be getting puked on
Most of the junk you buy won’t last two years. Great headphones can last literally a lifetime. AirPods are cool and I use them a lot but my Audeze LCD-X and Shure 846 genuinely change how you feel about listening to music and are built to last decades.
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Most of the junk you buy won’t last two years. Great headphones can last literally a lifetime. AirPods are cool and I use them a lot but my Audeze LCD-X and Shure 846 genuinely change how you feel about listening to music and are built to last decades.
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Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.
Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.
Both very excited and very nervous for New York and California today.
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Both very excited and very nervous for New York and California today.
We went out for the first time since having our baby and I'd forgotten what it's like to be able to spend more than 3 minutes eating a meal while also getting to use both hands to eat.
November 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
We went out for the first time since having our baby and I'd forgotten what it's like to be able to spend more than 3 minutes eating a meal while also getting to use both hands to eat.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
2 of the last 5 things that I’ve ordered from Amazon just never came. Either they didn’t even ship it or it got as far as out for delivery but they just never came to my house to deliver it. It’s wild to see how, as tech has taken over all aspect of life, most things have gotten so much worse.
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
2 of the last 5 things that I’ve ordered from Amazon just never came. Either they didn’t even ship it or it got as far as out for delivery but they just never came to my house to deliver it. It’s wild to see how, as tech has taken over all aspect of life, most things have gotten so much worse.
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I’ve been building some things on Cloudflare as a learning exercise for all of their primitives while I’m up late with the baby. Auth provider, log warehouse, analytics storage and querying, asset transform and storage. It’s pretty unbelievable how cheaply you can do all of these things.
October 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I’ve been building some things on Cloudflare as a learning exercise for all of their primitives while I’m up late with the baby. Auth provider, log warehouse, analytics storage and querying, asset transform and storage. It’s pretty unbelievable how cheaply you can do all of these things.
I get people who are really into model trains. Like, it’s not for me, but wanting to build an analytics warehouse and oauth service from scratch for funsies is more or less the same thing.
October 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I get people who are really into model trains. Like, it’s not for me, but wanting to build an analytics warehouse and oauth service from scratch for funsies is more or less the same thing.
Looking at the Remix 3 demo app, it’s very interesting and I see what they’re going for, and I appreciate it, but it doesn’t quite resonate with me. I think a little bit of magic for the sake of being concise (eg, DOM event bindings) goes a long way.
github.com/remix-run/re...
github.com/remix-run/re...
remix/demos/bookstore at main · remix-run/remix
Build Better Websites. Create modern, resilient user experiences with web fundamentals. - remix-run/remix
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October 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Looking at the Remix 3 demo app, it’s very interesting and I see what they’re going for, and I appreciate it, but it doesn’t quite resonate with me. I think a little bit of magic for the sake of being concise (eg, DOM event bindings) goes a long way.
github.com/remix-run/re...
github.com/remix-run/re...
I’m falling behind on a lot of this but Cloudflare has email services in private beta. I haven’t had a chance to try containers yet but the gap between Cloudflare and AWS is shrinking, and Cloudflare is cheaper and has a MUCH better developer experience.
blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/
blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/
Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single servi...
blog.cloudflare.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I’m falling behind on a lot of this but Cloudflare has email services in private beta. I haven’t had a chance to try containers yet but the gap between Cloudflare and AWS is shrinking, and Cloudflare is cheaper and has a MUCH better developer experience.
blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/
blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/
Oh wow do I not like this place sometimes.
September 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Oh wow do I not like this place sometimes.
Just throwing it out there, I like Cloudflare a lot, they are absolutely worth checking out. What you get out of the free tier is generous a what you’re getting for $5/mo in not just bandwidth but feature set is just silly. And the DX is fantastic. And they own the infra, it’s not an AWS wrapper.
September 30, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Just throwing it out there, I like Cloudflare a lot, they are absolutely worth checking out. What you get out of the free tier is generous a what you’re getting for $5/mo in not just bandwidth but feature set is just silly. And the DX is fantastic. And they own the infra, it’s not an AWS wrapper.
I don’t think I’ve ever bought a new iPhone and made it more than a week without scratching the screen.
September 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever bought a new iPhone and made it more than a week without scratching the screen.
The work that the Svelte team is doing is, in my opinion, the most exciting thing in web dev. Not only is what they’re putting out transformative and so, so, so well designed, but they’ll announce some huge new thing coming out “in the future” and a week later, it’s in a patch release.
September 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The work that the Svelte team is doing is, in my opinion, the most exciting thing in web dev. Not only is what they’re putting out transformative and so, so, so well designed, but they’ll announce some huge new thing coming out “in the future” and a week later, it’s in a patch release.
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Super excited to announce the experimental release of asynchronous SSR in Svelte! github.com/sveltejs/sve...
`await` expressions in your Svelte components can now be rendered on the server, meaning you don't need to render them inside boundaries with a `pending` snippet. Next up, streaming SSR!
`await` expressions in your Svelte components can now be rendered on the server, meaning you don't need to render them inside boundaries with a `pending` snippet. Next up, streaming SSR!
Async SSR · sveltejs svelte · Discussion #16784
The Svelte team has been hard at work on asynchronous rendering, with client-side support and remote functions as our first two efforts. It’s time for the third: SSR. Background There are three cor...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Super excited to announce the experimental release of asynchronous SSR in Svelte! github.com/sveltejs/sve...
`await` expressions in your Svelte components can now be rendered on the server, meaning you don't need to render them inside boundaries with a `pending` snippet. Next up, streaming SSR!
`await` expressions in your Svelte components can now be rendered on the server, meaning you don't need to render them inside boundaries with a `pending` snippet. Next up, streaming SSR!
I’m not sure what my YouTube recommendations say about me but this is where the algorithms at right now
youtu.be/r4FHbjuCHvA?...
youtu.be/r4FHbjuCHvA?...
電気グルーヴ 『ピエール瀧の体操42歳』
YouTube video by 電気グルーヴ OFFICIAL YOUTUBE CHANNEL
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September 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I’m not sure what my YouTube recommendations say about me but this is where the algorithms at right now
youtu.be/r4FHbjuCHvA?...
youtu.be/r4FHbjuCHvA?...
Love waking up to a surprise trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 which is actually coming out in a few months, NOT in 2027
youtu.be/RYI-WG_HFV8?...
youtu.be/RYI-WG_HFV8?...
JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 3 | Official Teaser | Crunchyroll
YouTube video by Crunchyroll
youtu.be
August 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Love waking up to a surprise trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 which is actually coming out in a few months, NOT in 2027
youtu.be/RYI-WG_HFV8?...
youtu.be/RYI-WG_HFV8?...
Ok look I’m clearly going through something where I’ve become obnoxiously sentimental for the early 2000s but I think we can probably agree that most things were just better then?
August 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Ok look I’m clearly going through something where I’ve become obnoxiously sentimental for the early 2000s but I think we can probably agree that most things were just better then?
Industrial design peaked with the Motorola RAZR V3 in black back in 2004.
August 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Industrial design peaked with the Motorola RAZR V3 in black back in 2004.