Christian Heilmann

[webfinds] ML and security, Pixel Fire and your best work time

Wednesday, January 9th, 2019 at 9:30 am

As people complained that I post too many links to follow on Twitter (it is my stream of consciousness – as I find it, I post it), I’m starting to release these link lists every few days now. Hopefully that helps.

Error

Security

Tools

  • Automatic visual diffing with Puppeteer is a simple explanation by the amazing Monica Dinculescu
  • Blobmaker is a tool to create organic shape blobs and save them as SVG (saving doesn’t work in Edge, at the moment)
  • RRWeb is an open source web session replay library, which provides easy-to-use APIs to record user’s interactions and replay it remotely.

Misc Tips

Geek shit

Inspiration

Books

  • Algorithms by Jeff Erickson – This web page contains a free electronic version of my (soon to be) self-published textbook Algorithms, along with other lecture notes I have written for various theoretical computer science classes at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign since 1998.

Mental health and working

  • New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers – one of the big new(ish) topics is that of personalized biological rhythm known as “chronotype”. Basically this means that we all tick differently – some of us a more effective in the morning and others in the wee hours of the morning. That leads some companies to put people on different shifts. More information about the chronotype is also in the morning lark or night owl article of the World Economic Forum

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Newsletter

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

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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