Christian Heilmann

What’s my job in my new role as Director of DevRel at WeAreDevelopers?

August 16th, 2023

Now, with the World Congress out of the way, it is time to focus on my new role as Director of Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers. It feels great that what I do anyways because of personal interest is part of my role. This was the case when I worked for Yahoo and Mozilla and the […]

The Verge’s new way to display news item links is a terrible idea

August 14th, 2023

Sometimes it is baffling to me why people publish on the web and don’t follow the simplest ideas that made the web what it is. Take a link for example. You can link anything in HTML so that when users interact with it they go to another URL, or a target inside the current document. […]

Assistive technology shouldn’t be a mystery box

August 5th, 2023

Web developers nowadays have full insight into how browsers work. The engines are open source, and you have programmatic access to almost anything they do. You even have in-built developer tools allowing you to see the effects your code has. You can see what the render engine does and how much memory gets allocated. With […]

GitHub Copilot is a great example for in-context AI chat

August 2nd, 2023

Generative AI is only as good as its integration in your work environment. GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code is a great example how to do that right. You can highlight code in the editor and press `CMD + I` on Mac or `Ctrl + I` on Linux/Windows and you get a text box […]

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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