Christian Heilmann

Is browser and tech innovation assuming an audience rather than talking to one?

April 24th, 2012

Web development is not what it used to be. It has undergone so many transformations and changes that it is pretty confusing to keep up with what is going on. My main problem right now is that as someone working for a player that provides the world with a browser and is involved in defining […]

Android tablet connected but Market not loading? Set your time and date

April 24th, 2012

This cost me far too much of my time yesterday night: I had reconnected my Android Tablet (Galaxy 10.1) after running out of battery for quite a while and connected to my wireless and surfed the web – all fine – except for “certificate errors” on a few pages. This is nothing new, SSL is […]

TTMMHTM: Valves, Adobe <3s HTML, Responsive primer, Browser pairs and lots more

April 23rd, 2012

Things that made me happy this morning: The new employee’s handbook at Valve (PDF) is pretty much how things like that should be written. Great job.Adobe’s new HTML landing page shows their open source web things in one spotAngular.js by Google is a new MVC framework in JavaScriptTwitter hacking the software patents world with their

Change the tune – hacking a common office issue

April 19th, 2012

A common issue when you play music loud in a shared environment is that you will inevitably play songs that someone in the room hates. In the past this was less of an issue as changing the tape or CD was quite a task. Nowadays we have millions of songs to choose from and – […]

Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons

April 16th, 2012

TL;DR: if you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon. We finally arrived at the official JavaScript drama with big players like Brendan Eich and Douglas Crockford involved in the discussion. The […]

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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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