Christian Heilmann

A $40 photobooth for your event – powered by WebRTC and MaKey MaKey

November 13th, 2012

If you’ve been at Mozfest in London, you might have seen me stand next to a weird contraption of cables, tinfoil-covered squares and my computer. Here is what it looked like in action: This was the so-called Interaction cam and here are the photos people took with it. This is how it works: You put […]

From geeks to presenters – a talk/training at Spotify Sweden

November 2nd, 2012

Today I went to the Spotify office in Stockholm to test-run a training I’ll give at the MozCamp in Singapore next month. The topic was turning geeks into presenters, how to foster a culture of speaking and presenting in a company and tricks how to become a better speaker. Slides and screencast The slides are […]

Book idea: The Vanilla Web Diet

October 30th, 2012

I right now feel the itch to write a book again. I see a lot of people buying books and making a living selling them and I feel that there is a space for what I have in mind. I also don’t see how I could cover all the things I want to cover right […]

Welcome to the New Web – Keynote at Eclipsecon Europe 2012

October 25th, 2012

This morning I gave the keynote at the Eclipsecon Europe in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Around 500 Eclipse and Java fans waited for some information about the latest and greatest in the web and here is what I gave them. The slides are available online and the screencast is up on YouTube. I will follow up with […]

Don’t call it “open source” unless you mean it

October 22nd, 2012

In terms of releasing code into the wild we live in terribly exciting times. Products like GitHub, Dropbox, online collaboration tools like JSFiddle, JSBin, Codepen and Dabblet make it very easy to show our code to the outside world. Furthermore, a lot of products are build in a modular manner which means you can simply […]

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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