Christian Heilmann

Chrome Developer Summit 2013 – Day one review

November 21st, 2013

When I was invited to come to the Chrome Developer Summit, I went with a sense of dread. I got a weird impression the last few months that Google is pushing very hard into a Chrome-only world, with lots of information about Dart and APIs only available in Chrome packaged apps flooding Google+ and the […]

There’s no need to deliver the talk that “kills it”

November 15th, 2013

I spend a lot of my time right now coaching people on public speaking and attending conferences seeing other presenters. The latter is a great step to get into presenting yourself. Analyse what you see, find what you like and what you could use without parroting what the other speaker does. Also take down what […]

Webconf Hungary – HTML5 Beyond the Hype: Let’s make it work

November 10th, 2013

I am on my way back to England from Budapest where I spent the last two days in an epic hotel and the day speaking at the 10th annual Webconf. I was invited by the Mozilla community in Hungary, who did a great job showing off Firefox OS to the attendees. My presentation (one of […]

Øredev2013 – Firefox OS – the platform HTML5 deserves

November 8th, 2013

It is not very often that I mess up completely, but when I do, I don’t give up easily. On the second day of Øredev I was scheduled at 1 in the afternoon to talk about Firefox OS and I thought I totally got over my jetlag (I arrived 2 days before from San Francisco). […]

Øredev 2013 – The very near future of a richer, standards based web

November 6th, 2013

I am currently at Øredev in Malmø, Sweden, and this morning I spoke about “The very near future of a richer, standards based web”. photo by Fredrik Frodlund My talk covered new technologies people should be using to make them a reality rather than waiting for a perfect reality and full support across all browsers […]

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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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