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+ […]

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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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