Christian Heilmann

My company is hiring: who wants to work with me in Developer Relations?

October 20th, 2023

I have a spot on my team for a Developer Advocate and you can apply here: Developer Advocate all genders – Remote, Europe, UK Please, don’t send me CVs or tell me to “take a look” as all applicants need to be in the system so we can follow the needed legal procedure. What you’ll […]

Falling Behind In Style – explosive and continuous growth is bad for tech

October 17th, 2023

These are the notes for my talk at the TechKnowFest in Amsterdam. We always see big technology companies as the best place to work and as those who make the world go around. I’ve been pretty disillusioned in this regard lately. The main reason why technology isn’t really making the world go around is that […]

Lossless Cut is my new favourite tool to cut parts from a video without any hassle

October 7th, 2023

Lossless Cut is probably the simplest way to cut out parts of a video without having to re-encode it or use an online service. It is open source, free and available for all platforms. It is in essence a frontend for FFMPEG and cuts without re-encoding, so the results are instantaneous. VideoTap has an amazing […]

The 10 tools I install on every new Mac I get

September 14th, 2023

I am currently on a company trip with my brand new MacBook and here are the things I always install first to get started: Homebrew – makes installing of low level stuff a breeze (free) Node/NPM – many things rely on it (free) Dropbox – still be best way to store and share content amongst […]

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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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