Christian Heilmann

In praise of intelligent paper maps – map² on Kickstarter

June 29th, 2013

I am currently in Barcelona, a gorgeous but quite confusing town. Once again, I am getting the distinct feeling that we are becoming the slaves of the usefulness of our technologies as I find myself checking my phone for the map and places to go just to realise that I am not on roaming data […]

Mobile Solutions Day – Firefox OS:supercharged HTML5

June 25th, 2013

Yesterday I did a one-day round-trip to Frankfurt, Germany to speak at T-Mobile’s Mobile Solutions Day about Firefox OS and what it means for app developers. The slides are available here and I recorded a screencast with not-that-amazing-but-does-the-job audio here. The whole conference was also streamed on the internet and the raw stream recording is […]

Use your words

June 22nd, 2013

I love the web. I live it, I breathe it, I was there when it became available to a larger audience at an affordable rate and I have seen it grow more and more to the most interesting, versatile and easiest to participate media out there. I’ve witnessed the power it gives to people who […]

First video of a Firefox OS series is live

June 21st, 2013

The last weeks I have been busy scripting (and then improvising as always) a series of videos explaining Firefox OS. These are now going live on a weekly basis. Over on the Mozilla hacks blog, you can now find the first in a series of six videos explaining what Firefox OS is about. Under the […]

A few tricks about public speaking and stage technology

June 20th, 2013

Preparing for my upcoming workshops on public speaking for Mozillians, I just collected a few tips and tricks when being on stage and thought it might be fun to share them here. Stage attire/clothing You will read a lot of things by clever people about “dressing better than the audience to give you a position […]

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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