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 […]

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
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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