Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: X-Men and gay rights, tongue stud wheelchair and accessibility in UX

June 10th, 2011

Things that made me happy this morning: Did you also think that the awesome that is X-Men: First Class had a lot of gay undertones? This is totally on purpose as revealed in a comment of the screen write on the very good X-Men: First Class, Gay Rights, and the Intelligence Community article (detail about […]

TTMMHTM: Google Les Paul, SVG Maps, CSS3 Cubes and Comics

June 9th, 2011

Things that made me happy this morning (yes, it is back) Today’s Google Doodle is a playable guitar in honour of Les Paul (screencast)HTML Boilerplate makes it much easier to write those annoying HTML emailsA collection of simple .htaccess snippetsjVectorMap is a jQuery plugin to make simple map visualisations in SVG - for larger data […]

I had an accessibility hacking dream – RIP Scripting Enabled

June 5th, 2011

About two years ago I had a dream and made it reality: I wanted to mix the crazy world of hackdays and unconferences and the world of accessibility. In hackdays and unconferences developers show in a very short amount of time that they can solve a lot of problems and create great proof of concept […]

Webinale – HTML5 und CSS3 fuer alle!

June 2nd, 2011

Derzeit bin ich noch ein paar Stunden in Berlin, wo ich gestern auf der Webinale einen Vortrag ueber neue Web Technologien und deren Einsatz gehalten habe. In dem Vortrag beschreibe ich Probleme von HTML5, wie Firmen es als Marketingidee verkaufen anstatt die Technologie weiter zu fuehren und was man heute machen kann um die Evolution […]

On working remotely and efficiency

May 25th, 2011

I am a lucky, lucky man. I do the job I love and I do it from where I live. Well, technically – with my travel schedule I mostly do it from hotel rooms, airport lounges, trains and coffee shops. In any case though, I am lucky. My company supports and pays people who do […]

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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