Christian Heilmann

Microsoft’s first web page and what it can teach us

August 8th, 2014

Today Microsoft released a re-creation of their first web site, 20 years ago complete with a readme.html explaining how it was done and why some things are the way they are. I found this very interesting. First of all because it took me back to my beginnings – I built my first page in 1996 […]

On wearables and weariness

August 4th, 2014

I just published my first post on Medium about wearable technology and the disappointment of its current state of affairs partly because I wanted to vent and to try it out as a publishing platform. So head over there to read about my thoughts – TL;DR: I love the idea of wearables but the current […]

[Video+Transcript]: The web is dead? – My talk at TEDx Thessaloniki

July 24th, 2014

Today the good folks at TEDx Thessaloniki released the recording of my talk “The web is dead“. I’ve given you the slides and notes earlier here on this blog but here’s another recap of what I talked about: The excitement for the web is waning – instead apps are the cool thingAt first glance, the […]

Maker Party 2014 – go and show off the web to the next makers

July 15th, 2014

Today is the start of this year’s Maker Party campaign. What’s that? Check out this video. Maker Party is Mozilla’s annual campaign to teach the culture, mechanics and citizenship of the web through thousands of community-run events around the world from July 15-September 15, 2014. This week, Maker Party events in places like Uganda, Taiwan, […]

[video+slides] FirefoxOS – HTML5 for a truly world-wide-web (Sapo Codebits 2014)

July 10th, 2014

Today the good people at Sapo released the video of my Codebits 2014 keynote. In this keynote, I talk about FirefoxOS and what it means in terms of bringing mobile web connectivity to the world. I explain how mobile technology is unfairly distributed and how closed environments prevent budding creators from releasing their first app. […]

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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