Christian Heilmann

Like extending browsers? Mozilla Jetpack is looking for an Evangelist.

February 25th, 2011

I just got roped in by my colleagues here to tell you about another cool job opportunity at Mozilla: Tech Evangelist – Jetpack Jetpack is a Mozilla project whose mission is to make it easy to build Firefox add-ons using common web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. As Tech Evangelist for the Jetpack project, […]

Using the social web for development – recycling rocks

February 20th, 2011

I just marked up and released a paper that was rejected for a conference I applied to about using the social web for development: http://icant.co.uk/social-development/. It describes how developers can use the power of the social web to advertise, improve and even develop their products. The article is licensed with Creative Commons, so feel free […]

Vid.ly Bookmarklet – download different formats

February 19th, 2011

If you followed my exploits lately in the realm of HTML5 video you’d know that I am a big fan of the video conversion service vid.ly. This service automatically converts your videos to dozens of different formats and redirects your browsers and mobile devices to the correct format when you call up a single URL. […]

Introducing Mozilla technology and ideas to students for a hack day.

February 15th, 2011

Today I was part of a video conference with the university of Dundee for this year’s Yahoo university hack challenge. Every year the students release a “hack” as part of their coursework for Yahoo and the programme yielded quite some amazing hacks in the last years. This year is different for me as I am […]

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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