Christian Heilmann

Working with questions on HTML5 – one at a time

March 13th, 2012

I just spent a week and a few days in environments that are not the web savvy folk I normally hang out with – Mobile World Congress and CEBIT - and it was fascinating. What fascinated me was not only that the technology approach there is totally different from ours – I was most amazed […]

Some thoughts on CSS – a foreword

March 13th, 2012

The other day I was asked to write a foreword for a book on CSS by someone I inspired, so here is what I wrote. When Cascading Style Sheets got supported by browsers, a lot of things changed. I remember the first article I read about them was saying that using them could increase the […]

The mystery of the rotating sidebar

March 6th, 2012

Every since I played around with the sidebar here on the blog giving it a slight tilt in 3D I get a lot of questions how it was done. Well, there is no dark magic at play, just some 3D CSS transformations and a transition. So I recorded a quick screencast showing you how it […]

Mobile World Congress, Boot to Gecko and the unknown beast called HTML5

March 4th, 2012

Last week I was a bit more silent than usual (some said I appeared to be human rather than a news/tech/kittens/puppies feed). The reason was that I was at mobile world congress in Barcelona, Spain and got roped into doing booth duty on top of my presentation there. Mothereffing Boot to Gecko! The main reason […]

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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