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 […]

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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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