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 […]

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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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