Christian Heilmann

Finding real happiness in our jobs

January 7th, 2014

Want to comment? There are threads on Google+ and Facebook It is 2014 and you are reading a post that will be talk at a web development conference. We’re lucky. We are super lucky. We are part of an elite group of people who are in a market where companies come to court us. We […]

Endangered species of the Web: the Link

January 5th, 2014

Once the Web was a thriving ecosystem of happily evolving, beautiful creatures. Like with any environment, sooner or later man will step in and kill a lot of things – actively or by accident – and diminish the diversity and health of said ecosystem. In this series we will look at some of the strange […]

Teaching people to think about code instead of acing a test

December 19th, 2013

One of my biggest bugbears with education, learning and teaching – especially online – is the focus we have on testing people by giving them multiple choice questions or having them fill out a very specific and rigidly defined test. This is a remnant from school education, where it is important to compare pupils and […]

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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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