Christian Heilmann

De-bricking yourself – starting out as a speaker

September 5th, 2012

At the Reasons to be Creative conference I was asked to give an extra 5 minute talk for Ubelly at their Soapbox stage about some subject. As I had given the keynote before and I was rather excited about it I thought I share my thoughts on how to become a good speaker and get […]

Bricking and De-Bricking it at Reasons to Be Creative Brighton 2012

September 5th, 2012

I am right now on the train back to London after attending the Reasons to be Creative conference in Brighton, England. How was it? Short answer: splendid, indeed. Can has keynote? When the organisers approached me to speak after giving a talk at the reasons to be appy conference I wasn’t quite sure if I’d […]

Playing the blame game?

September 1st, 2012

I just recently started using the Nexus7 I got at Google IO in earnest and thought I have a go at some 3D games. After continuously failing to download the larger than 1GB racing game I bought on the Android market I thought I’d go lower and got myself Running Fred, a very addictive running […]

How to disable Java in all your browsers on OSX (screencast)

August 29th, 2012

OK, once again we have a massive security hole in browsers based on Java. As there are luckily not many things on the web that still need Java (and I pity you if you have to use applets still) here is a screencast how to turn it off in all your browsers on OSX. You […]

Mozilla, the web and you at Campus Party Europe

August 25th, 2012

I just got to edit and upload the slides and screencast of my talk at campusparty europe, so here you go: Campusparty are live streaming and recording the talks. Here is mine but sadly enough there is quite a chunk of audio missing and it seems To be out of sync later on. I also […]

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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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