Christian Heilmann

How to read performance articles

December 17th, 2012

Summary: Performance articles are very good to make a point, but they are very much fixed in time and the shelf-life of their findings can be very short. This can lead to great ideas and technologies being prematurely discarded instead of their implementations being improved or fixed. Proceed with caution. Every few months I see […]

[worth watching] Indie Game – The Movie

December 14th, 2012

We might be late to the party but yesterday we splashed out a wild $10 to download and watch Indie Game – The Movie directly from the makers. The very nicely priced movie came in numerous high-quality DRM free download formats including subtitles, captions and creator’s audio track and is a great example how film […]

Quick review: The Mobile book by Smashing Magazine

December 12th, 2012

I just spend some time to read myself into the “Mobile Book” by Smashing Magazine and here are my first impressions. The book, overall, managed to collect an impressive amount of writers known to be “in the know” about all things mobile and each delivered a chapter based on their subject matter. In detail, we […]

[Reading] Why ad-supported mobile apps are better off to be on the web

December 11th, 2012

From time to time you come across a very courageous and well-written post and just tweeting about it isn’t enough. Vibhu Norby’s “Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first ” is one of those. It is brimming with interesting information on how the web is a great opportunity for entrepreneurs today and debunks a lot […]

On protecting HTML5 apps

December 8th, 2012

One of the most repeated questions I get when talking about HTML5 is the following: “How can I protect an HTML5 app from being copied?” Most of the time the question is not that direct to the point but that’s the gist of it. An example is in the Q&A of my “Keep calm and […]

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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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