Christian Heilmann

That “JavaScript not available” case

December 6th, 2011

During some interesting discussions on Twitter yesterday I found that there is now more than ever a confusion about JavaScript dependence in web applications and web sites. This is a never ending story but it seems to me to flare up ever time our browsing technology leaps forward. I encountered this for the first time […]

Making vid.ly conversion and embedding easy

December 1st, 2011

I am lucky enough to have a vid.ly pro account to convert videos. Lucky because lately the free service started limiting the amount of times you can watch a video in a month (as they were hammered by a lot of traffic from Asia abusing the service). In case you still haven’t heard about vid.ly […]

Building an advent calendar for Mozilla in PHP/JS/CSS (part 2)

November 29th, 2011

Note: the server is defunct at the moment but you can get the source code of the calendar on GitHub: code and zip In Yesterday’s tutorial I went up to making the advent calendar use Ajax to load the different content, now for extra effect I made the entries move to where you clicked the […]

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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