Christian Heilmann

Doodle jump and work

July 19th, 2012

I like playing Doodle jump on my phone. It is a very simple, fast game and I like the graphics not trying to be impressive but just a little funny time waster. I also like that it has no music. I also found though that it is a very good metaphor for working. Why? Well, […]

Can you tell us what libraries and tools you use to build mobile web apps?

July 17th, 2012

Want to fix the mobile web? Are you developing mobile apps using web standards and libraries? At Mozilla we are right now planning our outreach to libraries and tool makers to support more than one platform when it comes to mobile web development. To make sure that we change where it is most needed we […]

Moving on – line that is

July 16th, 2012

I killed my Macbook Air the other day and I am still not convinced about the current ones. The intel video chipset has/had problems with WebGL on Chrome and when I tried to connect to a projector, it did nothing whatsoever which is a deal breaker for me as a presenter. It seems the way […]

Time yourself

July 10th, 2012

Being able to correctly estimate time is a very important skill for speakers and people who record themselves on screencasts and the like. The media loves you when you can deliver a sound-bite of a certain length. So I thought it would be a fun thing to build a very simple game to test your […]

Running out of (Mac) Air

July 9th, 2012

Summary: my laptop broke, I needed a new one, and I am thoroughly disappointed by the new Macbook Air and Apple’s helpfulness when things really need quick solutions. First-world problems, I know, but it might be interesting for some. I am writing this on my Mozilla 15” Macbook Pro, a machine that so far I […]

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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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