Christian Heilmann

Data attributes rock – as both CSS and JavaScript know them

October 10th, 2012

Currently my better half Kasia is working on a JavaScript training course and wanted to explain the concepts of JavaScript with a game. So we sat down and did a simple game example whilst she was fretting over the structure of the course. As she wanted to explain how to interact with the DOM in […]

Fronteers12 – Q&A results, quick reviews and impressions from the stage

October 8th, 2012

Last week the fifth annual Fronteers conference lured a few hundred developers, designers and managers to Amsterdam, The Netherlands to hear about what’s hot and new in web development. This year I did not speak, but played the MC and interviewer instead. I have a very soft spot for Fronteers as a conference. I spoke […]

Browser benchmarks are gamed – so why not make them a game?

October 1st, 2012

Tomorrow the Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group is meeting the Mozilla space in London to discuss the future of browser benchmarking. Sadly I won’t be able to attend as I am at Create the Web London on the same day and flying to Amsterdam for Fronteers later. However, I think this is a good […]

Quick one: converting a multi-page PDF to a JPG for each page on OSX

September 30th, 2012

I had this great task to convert a PDF to JPGs, meaning a multi page PDF should become a lot of JPGs. I don’t own Adobe Acrobat Pro and I didn’t want to buy an extra piece of software for it. So I went for the thing that hardly ever lets you down – even […]

The true king rules without a crown – yes, you matter on the web

September 25th, 2012

Going through the Twitter feedback of my closing keynote at Smashingconf I read a lot of “this is awesome, I feel so ready to do stuff, but what can I do – I am not a known entity on the web.”. I guess everybody has songs to listen to when need some perking up. You […]

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer

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