Christian Heilmann

Being a better web citizen: complain where things get fixed

August 20th, 2012

We like to complain. It feels good, it feels like we are doing something that will make things better. The problem is though, if we don’t complain where things can be changed we are not making things better. In a lot of cases we make them worse. In almost all cases where we don’t complain […]

Datatable to barchart without images, libraries or plugins

August 16th, 2012

Following the results of a survey on library use by developers I was asked to make it easier to do a head to head comparison of the data of one of the questions. I thought it’d be interesting to start a dynamic bar chart from scratch and it is incredible just how easy these things […]

Browsers have a presenter mode: console info!

August 15th, 2012

Working on creating a re-usable slide deck for the Mozilla Evangelism Reps I played with HTML slides, this time using Shower as I like the list view of it. And once again as explained in the past I found myself in the pickle of adding presenter notes to the slides that presenters could look up […]

The myth of the “portable presentation” in slide form

August 9th, 2012

During our Evangelism Reps training in Brazil I got asked a few times what the best format for presentations is. Of course this was related to creating your slides in HTML5 vs. closed formats. HTML5 slide systems are all the rage. Everybody and their dog creates one. I’ve blogged about them in the past and […]

#canyouscroll – or: How to keep the internets busy

August 8th, 2012

Reviewing my upcoming article on events for Smashing Magazine for the umpteenth time I came across a short code example I ended up not using but being fun all the same. Can you scroll? is a very simple small game that asks you to predict the amount of pixels you will scroll and then tells […]

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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