Christian Heilmann

Eine Milliarde neuer Entwickler dank KI? Linkliste

September 2nd, 2024

Hier sind die Resourcen meines Artikels im AI Magazin zum selbst nachlesen: The road to one Billion developers keynote by Thomas Dohmke and Demetris Cheatham of GitHub at WeAreDevelopers World Congress Amazon Cloud CEO Predicts a Future Where Most Software Engineers Don’t Code — and AI Does It Instead In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud […]

Talk notes: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web

August 5th, 2024

I am just on my way back home from presenting at the Typo3 Developer Days in Karlsruhe, Germany. I had a great time and met a lot of interesting people. I also had the opportunity to present my talk on making the web simpler. The talk was well received and there were some requests to […]

Interaction bait is killing social media

July 11th, 2024

OK, I’m going to say it: interaction bait is killing social media. You know what I’m talking about. Those posts that are designed to get you to comment, like, or share. They’re everywhere, and they’re getting more and more annoying. I never cared much about timelines. Almost all my social media interaction is posting things, […]

Hot take: social platforms should disallow special character growth hacking

July 7th, 2024

Over the last few years something magical has happened without much fanfare: social media platforms and operating systems automatically translate text content for us. Having spent a lot of time traveling around conferences, I amassed a lot of people I follow who do not speak or write like me. And whilst it was fun following […]

Dev Digest 122 – Cracks in the polyfill

July 2nd, 2024

Hello and join me to learn about removing malicious code, what the web is up to and why there are some cool new careers in AI. News and articles First things first: if you use Polyfill.io delete it immediately from your server! The – by now pretty unnecessary library – has been acquired and is […]

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer

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