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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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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