Christian Heilmann

Fixing the mobile web talk at Internet World Romania

October 11th, 2013

I am currently in Bucharest, Romania and yesterday talked about current issues with HTML5 and how Mozilla found solutions for them during the creation of Firefox OS. photo by Ștefania Ioana Chiorean The slides with notes are on Slideshare There’s also an audio recording available on Soundcloud It was good fun and I got some […]

Quickie: on Google Web Designer

October 1st, 2013

Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla, these are my views, yadda yadda. Today Google released the Google Web Designer (beta), a WYSIWYG editor to create HTML5 ads for Google AdSense. The designer is an installable app for Mac or PC but seems to be an HTML app under the hood. The interface is very familiar to […]

Let’s explain the “why” instead of the “how”

October 1st, 2013

One thing that bugs me a lot is that in the publishing world about the web we have a fetish for the “how” whereas we should strive for the “why” instead. What do I mean by that? Well, first of all, I count everything that is published as important. This could be a comment, a […]

7 things about working in I.T. you don’t learn in school

September 26th, 2013

Disclaimer: this is the script, well, the notes, for a presentation I am giving at Spotify in Sweden this weekend as part of the Studenttechfest. I was asked to give an inspirational keynote telling students what working in IT is like. The slides and recording will be available afterwards. Update: there is now a (bad […]

The good, the bad and the ugly about going to India…

September 23rd, 2013

Disclaimer: this is not a technical post, it is a cultural and personal one. It is also very long, but I talked to a few people and they wanted me to write it to understand some of my actions and reactions. If you have comments, there are threads happening on Facebook and also on Google+ […]

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.

My other work: