Christian Heilmann

A santa themed CODE100 puzzle – Hitting the chimney

December 19th, 2023

I just finished another puzzle for the CODE100 competition and thought I make it Santa themed. Imagine Santa cocking things up by dropping his presents everywhere but inside the chimney. Can you find out which ones hit, which ones landed on the chimney and which ones dropped outside of it? You get points in a […]

Cracking a “Developer Tools Killer” script…

November 14th, 2023

The other day I got an email from somebody who took one of my developer tools courses and he said he found a website that cannot be debugged. So I looked, found a nasty script and show you how to work around that one. You can watch the video on YouTube or read on… I […]

Pangram validator in one line

November 6th, 2023

For a quiz, I am playing with Pangrams, sentences that have all 26 letters of the alphabet in them. Using Set and some RegEx it is a one-liner in JavaScript to validate them (split into two lines for readability…). const isPangram = s => new Set( s.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z]/g, ‘’) ).size === 26;const isPangram = s => […]

Neuer Kurs auf LinkedIn Learning: Grundlagen der Programmierung – Barrierefreie Software

November 2nd, 2023

Mein zweiter Kurs auf LinkedIn Learning Grundlagen der Programmierung – Barrierefreie Software ist live! Der Kurs richtet sich an Einsteiger und Fortgeschrittene und ist eine Stunde und 28 Minuten lang. Hier ist die Beschreibung von LinkedIn und die detailierten Videotitel: Christian Heilmann beweist in seinem LinkedIn Learning-Kurs, dass einfache barrierefreie Nutzbarkeit von Software heutzutage schon […]

Today was a great day for accessibility!

October 25th, 2023

Today was a great day, even when it started at four in the morning to get to the airport in time. WeAreDevelopers LIVE is a series of online events covering a specialist topic. And today we ran the event with one of my favourite topics of all time: accessibility. Originally we had planned a different […]

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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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