Christian Heilmann

Dev Digest Issue 115 – password beefstew is not Strog/|n0FF

May 12th, 2024

Friday I released Issue 115 of the WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest Newsletter This time you learn how AI changes how code is taught, cryptography, the history of passwords, how the internet is declining and you can play Super Mario on a type writer. News and Articles Some cool new things to try out: The Netlify Image […]

New CODE100 challenge: #BuntStattBraun

March 29th, 2024

I just released a new CODE100 challenge- can you tell how many of these hearts are brown from a list of brown colours and the HTML source? README and code Gist Codepen See the Pen #BuntStattBraun CODE100 challenge by Christian Heilmann (@codepo8) on CodePen. Next week’s solution will also have a “making of”.

Dev Digest 108 – Git off my cloud!

March 26th, 2024

Welcome to another edition of the WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest. This time we have am interview with Sead Ahmetovic, CEO of of WeAreDevelopers amd Scott Chacon, co-Founder of GitHub. They talk about careers, early coding days, developer communities, evangelizing git, and how AI is shaping the future of coding. Gitting things done… So, let’s get started […]

Giving your app a temporary public URL with VS Code port forwarding

March 18th, 2024

VS Code now has port forwarding. If you want to share what you are working on with the world, open folder in terminal, run your server and forward the port. Set it to public and Bob’s your uncle! This is great for some testing and showing people what you do, but of course should not […]

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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