Christian Heilmann

If you have 20 minutes today – use them watching this

April 4th, 2012

I like TED. You find educational, interesting and inspiring stuff there. A lot is timely, some things are there for the “wow” factor and others are just good to learn some tricks from great speakers in case you find yourself in the situation to have to speak in front of people yourself. Once in a […]

[open tabs] Flash changes, publish what you learn, tech literacy and nothing to hide?

April 3rd, 2012

Myth: Those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear talks about the dangers of biometric data collection explaining that if a government tries to oppress its citizens knowledge about them is the ultimate power. It is a bit UK centric, but a good pointCollateral Damage is a post by Joa Ebert explaining his unhappiness […]

Make me a speaker – revived!

April 2nd, 2012

Summary: Mozilla is releasing a Evangelism Representative program and I’ll be coaching Mozillians to become public speakers. Five years ago a few well-meaning web folk in the UK were ready to start a program called “make me a speaker”. I blogged about it and there was a Wiki at http://www.makemeaspeaker.com/ which is now defunct (Wayback […]

Mobile first, and last, and always

April 1st, 2012

A wise man said that the only constant is change. Personally I found I wasted a lot of time lately. Reasoning with myself, I came to a few conclusions. I need to stop concentrating on the open web. Learning this was tough, but it makes sense. Free software and open systems are stifling. Open means […]

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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