Christian Heilmann

Want to design a Gorillaz character? They need “The Evangelist”

November 26th, 2010

Bit off-topic here, but very cool indeed. I am a huge fan of Jamie Hewlett (ever since Tank Girl) and the Gorillaz together with IE9 are asking for people to design a character for the next videos: The countdown begins; Gorillaz fans have two days to develop “The Evangelist” – a new character in Gorillaz […]

Talk nerdy to me! – how to talk to tech audiences (Speaking Out)

November 25th, 2010

On Tuesday Laura North’s Speaking Out partnered with the London Girl Geek Dinners to deliver the third Speaking Out Event in London, England. Speaking out is meant to give people tips, confidence and ideas on how to become a public speaker. This time, Laura had invited Claire Lee from Microsoft and Margaret Gold as speakers […]

TTMMHTM: Reasons why CAPTCHAS are pointless, CSS3 shadow effects, ar on the moon

November 25th, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning: Michael Mahemoff on HTML5 for Game DevelopersFascinating research into the CAPTCHA solving business – getting 1000 cracked will cost you half a dollar!Interesting discussion about the merit of awards for designersCodinghorror has a good analysis how Firesheep works showing just how broken cookies areHTML5 Doctor has a simple […]

TTMMHTM – lovely HTML5 training book, CPU in minecraft and a few games.

November 18th, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning: 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web is a great eBook style HTML5 presentationNick Halstead on what motivates programmersThere is background audio on iPhone you can use for text-to-speechA step by step tutorial how to mark up a progress barDetailed video of a working CPU in […]

HTML5 showcases – open and broken by default?

November 13th, 2010

As announced earlier I am leaving Yahoo to work in Mozilla as principal evangelist with the focus of HTML5 and the open web. So my job will be to advocate the awesome of HTML5 to the world. Yay HTML5 and the open web technologies I love the open web and HTML5 and I strongly believe […]

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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