Christian Heilmann

Now vendor prefixes have become a problem, want to help fix it?

February 9th, 2012

Today is a noisy day in the land of web development and the reason is a meeting of the W3C CSS working group where several people representing browsers discussed and agreed on supporting webkit prefixes in other browsers in order to “not break the web”. Read the notes of the meeting and search for vendor-prefix […]

Superbowl, celebrities, our arrogance and the moneymaking web

February 3rd, 2012

Here’s a prediction: this weekend, Twitter will go down. I have a lot of friends in Twitter and I am very much trusting their abilities (which I know to be awesome) but there will be a fail whale. I am so convinced about this that if there is no outage and next time I am […]

Web enabled video at news:rewired

February 2nd, 2012

Tomorrow I will be at Microsoft London to make IE10 support classList speak at news:rewired – media in motion on the topic of open web video and what you can do with it. For this, I got 10 minutes and then answer questions (or ask them) in a panel. Update: The audio is now available […]

Helper functions: Resize images to a variable thumbnail size

February 1st, 2012

As part of the “Creating thumbnails with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas” post on MDN today, I spent some time creating a short and working resizing function that takes an arbitrary image and re-sizes it to fit into a thumbnail of a certain width and height. After a few failed attempts I googled around […]

TTMMHTM – HTML5 Synth, women in tech, the return of JS, remote tilt, and deploying kittens

January 31st, 2012

Things that made me happy this morning: Morning Star is a monophonic bassline synthesizer controlled by a step sequencer, designed to run on Web browsers and made entirely with HTML5 and JavascriptGirls in a Tech World is a promotional video about women in tech – interviews with engineersVanilla JavaScript FTW is a side-by-side solution comparison […]

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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