Christian Heilmann

How I save money when traveling for work (San Francisco/Valley/US)

February 16th, 2014

As we are currently re-evaluating our travel costs I thought it a good idea to share my travel tricks. Here are some of my “hacks” how to save money when traveling whilst adding status points and having a good time. I did 39 business trips worldwide last year and 42 the year before. I am […]

Three geeks and a microphone – recording screencasts with Telenor in Oslo, Norway

February 4th, 2014

Beginning of last week I spent three days in Oslo, Norway, with Jan Jongboom (@janjongboom) and Sergi Mansilla (@sergimansilla) of Telenor Digital recording screencasts for an upcoming series on Firefox OS aimed at developers in Asia. These will be dubbed and localised, which is not only super exciting, but also very powerful. Here’s a quick […]

Why “just use Adblock” should never be a professional answer

February 2nd, 2014

Ahh, ads. The turd in the punchbowl of the internet party. Slow, annoying things full of dark interaction patterns and security issues. Good thing they are only for the gullible and not really our issue as we are clever; we use browsers that blocked popups for years and we use an ad blocker! Hang on […]

Quick Hack: The Mozilla Monument Name Finder

January 30th, 2014

Outside the Mozilla office in San Francisco stands a beautiful monument thanking all the people who did work with Mozilla to keep the web open, secure, inviting and beautiful. Overall, this is 4536 names on four sides with two panels, which means your name might be hard to find. Fret not, for Chris More released […]

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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