Christian Heilmann

Help me make developer evangelism more measurable!

June 26th, 2011

I am a developer evangelist. I’ve written a handbook about it and I have fought and lived for the role for a long time. I think it is very important for a company to have a person that understands tech and translates it into understandable content for everyone out there. It is also important to […]

Creating Commodore 64 style logos in Canvas

June 21st, 2011

The year is 1993 and a young me spends quite some time in front of a Commodore 1901 colour screen, a C-64 and use Amica Paint V1.8 with my trusty Competition Pro Joystick to set and delete pixels. One of the things I did a lot was fonts for scrollers and logo effects, like the […]

TTMMHTM: iPad talks, Rainbows, TED talks

June 20th, 2011

Things that made me happy this morning: Verbally is an iPad app to communicate for those who can’t speakUse the Source is a job board without agenciesThe New York Times has a beautiful interactive form to see how many families are like yours in DHTMLLea Verou has a CSS only Tic Tac Toe gameReceipt racer […]

Fixing the vid.ly embed code for my needs

June 13th, 2011

As you may have guessed from my talks and all I am a big fan of Vid.ly, a service that automatically converts uploaded videos to all kind of HTML5 compatible formats on the fly. I met with the owner for a coffee and they are overall good guys! Yesterday I realized though that they broke […]

The skill swap Twitter game

June 10th, 2011

At the Inspire conference this week Simone Brummelhuis of The Next Women used one of the breaks to play “The Skill Swap” game. Simone handed out sheets of paper where you could say what skill you need and what skill you have and your contact details. She then picked a few and asked the people […]

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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