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 […]

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
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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