Christian Heilmann

My 2012 wishlist – don’t make the unicorn cry!

January 2nd, 2012

This year I will not go for any new year’s resolutions. In a market where the hotness is responsive design resolutions seem a bit outdated. Instead I will list my wishes for 2012. Wishes are a good thing as they bring you on the way rather than the burden of resolutions (which we always hush […]

[Open tabs] things of note I read and saw lately

December 30th, 2011

I am right now offline at an airport and closed Aurora for the first time in a few weeks so I had time to read all the tabs I opened but haven’t covered anywhere yet (except for a small tweet here and there). I thought it might be a cool idea to publish those when […]

What I did in 2011 – talk archive with slides, recordings and videos

December 29th, 2011

The year is over (well, almost) and I thought it’d be fun to list the conferences I attended and spoke at. You can see the 2011 archive here or below: All in all: 29 talks, 15 videos, 23 audio recordings, 37 conferences Date Conference Location Title Slides Audio Video 01/28Heart and SolePortsmouth, EnglandTime to build […]

On single page apps

December 28th, 2011

TL;TR: Single page apps are coming and necessary for the web to be an apps platform. We have to battle two main issues: old conditioning of users and sloppy development for the sake of doing something “new”. At the Smashing Mag meetup in Stuttgart Paul Irish got a question about single page apps and what […]

Beginner tutorials who don’t help beginners?

December 27th, 2011

Today Smashing Magazine will released an article I wrote yesterday about a “beginner tutorial” on the same magazine which showed developers how to build a Christmas wish list whilst opening up the server to a lot of attacks. It annoyed me that these things still happen, which is why I talked to Vitaly about it […]

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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