Christian Heilmann

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 […]

Going oldschool with del.icio.us – handing over Techthursday

November 12th, 2010

For the last few months, I have always collected some links from my reader every Thursday morning and published them on the Yahoo Developer Network blog. Now that I am leaving Yahoo people asked me how that would go on. As I cannot access the blog from outside the company network I said I’d build […]

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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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