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 […]

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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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