Christian Heilmann

Perpetuating terrible JavaScript practices

October 31st, 2013

I just went to the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco and one thing in the goodie-bag was a book (paper, no less) on building apps for the amazing new Smart TVs they are bringing out. Exciting stuff, especially as the platform is HTML5 and JavaScript driven. When opening the book randomly though I found […]

Of flying cars and the greater good – my Firefox OS talk at 360i

October 25th, 2013

Yesterday I visited the lovely people at 360i for the first edition of their inspired speaker series talking about Firefox OS, the greater good of the internet and how HTML5 got pushed by the need to build an operating system with it. As always, I’ve recorded a screencast of the presentation and you can watch […]

The shiny silver elephant in the room

October 17th, 2013

I am typing this on my Macbook Air. A very pragmatic and great machine for me to use. 13 inch, really small and light to use on the plane, 8 GB of RAM, 250 GB solid state drive which makes video editing a snap; the works. I’ve been using a Mac for about 5 years […]

Start spreading the news… I’m coming to New York, New York

October 16th, 2013

Tomorrow I am flying to NYC for a week to squat in Queens and as I felt bad about not having a speaking date during that time I asked on Twitter and, lo and behold, was asked to give two quick tech talks next week. On Tuesday I will be speaking in detail about FirefoxOS […]

The passion accessibility presentations need

October 14th, 2013

I am lucky that in my job I manage to come across amazing people all the time. In some cases it takes a while for them to come out of their shell and show what they can do. One of those is my friend Luz Rello (luzrello.com) from Barcelona. Here she is next to me […]

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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