Christian Heilmann

Faking a mesh ball with lots of rotated colourfull circles

December 26th, 2011

Happy holidays everyone, I just used the 3D tester and played around a bit as I was inspired by a christmas tree ornament: The effect needs Firefox Aurora or Webkit as it uses CSS Animation and 3D transformation.

That /via nonsense (and putting text in images)

December 23rd, 2011

I just got a weird feeling that we are quite misusing the web at the moment to get eyeballs and clicks to our own personal blogs (I am not talking about company sites here). Take this cool quote by Penn Jilette: There is no god and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any […]

HTML5 shiv history, discontent and ski jumping – the smashing mag meetup

December 22nd, 2011

I am right now in my hotel room after the smashing magazine meetup in Stuttgart waving good-bye to each byte of the audio recording of my talk as it is uploading to archive.org (Update: it is done now). I had a great time at the meetup and want to thank Lisa, Vitaly and the others […]

A winter of discontent in the web design world?

December 21st, 2011

There is a lot of discontent in our ranks lately. Almost every week there is something people get overly excited about and blame others for doing wrong. There are endless blog comment and Twitter arguments and they turn personal rather quickly. Or they are being labeled personal attacks where in reality there is not much […]

Check the source before you tweet

December 16th, 2011

Working for a large entity of the web is an awesome thing. You have access to great people, resources and you don’t have to chase the next paycheck or prepare the next pitch document to boot. The thing that can make it taxing – if you let it get to you – is that everybody […]

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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