Christian Heilmann

A joystick powered kitten cube

April 14th, 2012

After giving my talk “HTML5 and the near-future of the web” (screencast and slides) at the Mosync hackathon in Stockholm, Sweden I thought I should have a bit of fun using the Gamepad API with my trusty USB Competition Pro. The result is the joystick powered kitten cube: All in all, I put a few […]

[Evangelism Reps] Some tips on Tech Blogging

April 9th, 2012

As a ramp-up measure for the Mozilla Evangelism Reps program I just finished a first draft of tips and tricks how to approach technical blogging in Mozilla. Topics covered are: Basics of blogging – being a spokespersonBe professional (no racism, sexism, calling names)No political and religious viewsHave something to saySpeling duz kountDoing research and finding […]

Arguments on Twitter are causing more harm than good

April 8th, 2012

I am tired of Twitter as a “discussion platform”. It isn’t. It is great to give quick updates about what you do or to tell people about something cool you find (something that was reflected in their old slogan before it got all creepy and corporate with “Find out what’s happening, right now, with the […]

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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