Christian Heilmann

No more ads on my blog

Thursday, August 30th, 2018 at 3:38 pm

Most of the readers here on Desktop will not have realised any difference thanks to ad blockers, but I just took the conscious decision to take off all the ads from this blog.

The reasons is that even by sticking to Google as the ad provider, I keep seeing ads I don’t approve of, and I just don’t think the JavaScript/Tracking overhead is worth the gain. At the heyday of blogging, I made about an extra $1k a month with this blog without resorting to SEO nasties or linkfarming. These days, I make about $80 extra, which I am happy to not have if it means that my content is delivered without any extra cognitive overhead or annoying content beneath.

I still use analytics, but they might go soon, too. I am in the lucky position that I don’t need to live off this blog, so I am happy to do my share to un-clog the WWW a bit more.

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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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