Christian Heilmann

About showing the “open to work” badge

May 20th, 2025

I just came across a post on X that stated “nothing makes me want to hire someone less than this”, with a picture of the “open to work” badge LinkedIn offers job seekers. This being X, I thought I answer using appropriate voice: This, albeit succinct, is not very enlightening, so let me elaborate… Like […]

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April 28th, 2025

Last Saturday was my 50th birthday and it’s as good a time as any to reminisce a bit. The 80s were shit First of all: don’t believe the Stranger Things image of the 1980s. They were not a time of leg warmers and neon colours. They were a time of social unrest, existential anxiety and […]

Keeping it on the < dl > – another HTML gem you never use

April 18th, 2025

In a moment of boredom, I wrote a little app/web page that shows lovely words we should be using more. It is done in plain HTML, JavaScript, and some CSS. The source code is available, and I am also happy to receive pull requests adding more lovely words. This is not what I wanted to […]

The rise of Model Fatigue – or is it just me?

April 16th, 2025

As someone curating a newsletter and dabbling in AI, I am feeling both overwhelmed and bored with news about yet another AI model being released by Company XYZ that will be a “game changer” and “leaves the others in the dust”. It feels hard to guess what I should be excited about. The size of […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

160: Graphs and RAGs explained and VS Code extension hacks Graphs and RAG explained, how AI is reshaping UI and work, how to efficiently use Cursor, VS Code extensions security issues.
159: AI pipelines, 10x faster TypeScript, How to interview How to use LLMs to help you write code and how much electricity does that use? Is your API secure? 10x faster TypeScript thanks to Go!
158: 🕹️ Super Mario AI 🔑 API keys in LLMs 🤙🏾 Vibe Coding Why is AI playing Super Mario? How is hallucinating the least of our worries and what are rules for developing Safety Critical Code?
157: CUDA in Python, Gemini Code Assist and back-dooring LLMs We met with a CUDA expert from NVIDIA about the future of hardware, we look at how AI fails and how to play pong on 140 browser tabs.
156: Enterprise dead, all about Bluesky and React moves on! Learn about Bluesky as a platform, how to build a React App and how to speed up SQL. And play an impossible game in the browser.

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