Christian Heilmann

Now that is a great job offer – anyone for HTML6 guru?

December 9th, 2010

Just got an invite in LinkedIn full of win: I’m a IT Head Hunter (10yrs+). My client is a City based (5mins of Liverpool St) Digital Agency (40+ staff). They are seeking a Lead Front End HTML5/6 Dev / Guru – it is not a pure developer but someone to guide them on the Front […]

TTMMHTM: Geo APIs, some cool HTML5 interfaces and Michael Jackson vs. Vuvuzelas

December 9th, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning: Apparently I am the third most influental GitHub user in London – more importantly, ex-colleages Steve Marshall and Yoan Blanc lead England and Switzerland!SimpleGeo has released two new Geo free APIs that give almost the same data density as Yahoo GeoPlanetA Star Wars alphabet of winGithub have a […]

Talking about HTML5 and gaming in Old Street

December 7th, 2010

Yesterday I went to the Mozilla Labs Gaming Special evening at the Bar Music Hall in Old Street, London. Around 150 developers, designers, entrepreneurs and project managers showed up despite the cold and it being a Monday so it seems this was a hot topic. As the first speaker I wanted to lay the groundwork […]

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 […]

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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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