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 […]

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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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