Christian Heilmann

Seven things I want to see on the web in 2011

January 2nd, 2011

As I’ve been particularly nice all year, I think I deserve to be allowed to have a wish list of things that should change on the web in 2011. So here is what I want to see: HTML5 everywhereDeath of the password (antipattern)Backup APIsFocus on SecurityGovernments embracing the web instead of fighting itCloud based apps […]

From corporate to creative – hello Mozilla!

December 19th, 2010

On the first of December I started my new job at Mozilla and this week I spent in the headquarters in Mountain View, California for a work week where the foundation invited all the people working here and a few contributors. I don’t know why, but I somehow I feel compelled to share my experiences […]

Backing up delicious bookmarks

December 16th, 2010

OK, it is not the end of the world yet, but a leaked screenshot of the latest Yahoo all-hands shows that delicious has no bright future in the company. So in order to preserve the years of work I put into this web service of awesome I am backing up my data. There are a […]

Indiana Jones maps with HTML5 and Google Maps

December 16th, 2010

I am right now in the US for my first week in Mozilla (back to back meetings and lots of discussions and interviews of awesome going on here) and when I got back to the hotel USA had all the Indiana Jones movies playing. Now, I always loved the travel sequences with the moving red […]

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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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