Christian Heilmann

You already have the best presentation tool

March 19th, 2013

Helping out people with giving their first public presentations can be frustrating. The reason is the misconception that we have based on years of conditioning in school and corporate environments that a good presentation stands and falls with the slide deck. Of course a beautiful slide deck is a nice thing to have and allows […]

RIP Google Reader – I’d have paid for you

March 14th, 2013

Google just announced that on 1st of July 2013 they will shut down Google Reader as a service. Just like that. The reasons are meager: There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind […]

No more “petting zoo for developers” for me

March 6th, 2013

I just finished a talk at another “developer conference” which is a side-attraction at a larger trade show and decided that this was the last one of those that I will do. The reason is that I’ve done a few of them, and they’ve always been a disappointment to me. Of course there are great […]

Making HTML5 work with Firefox OS – a talk at CeBIT

March 6th, 2013

I just got back from CeBIT in Germany which hosted the Mooseconf developer conference. My part of the show was to give a talk about Firefox OS and what it means to HTML5. I gave that talk twice, once in the morning for a closed audience of developers and a repeat in the afternoon for […]

Helping or hurting? (keynote talk at jQuery Europe)

February 20th, 2013

This was my closing keynote talk of the first day of jQuery Europe 2013 in Vienna, Austria. The slide deck is here. Sadly, due to technical issues there is no audio or video recording. As developers, we seem to be hardwired to try to fix things. And once we managed something, we get bored with […]

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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