Christian Heilmann

Maintainable JavaScript at the ThinkVitamin JavaScript online conference

September 13th, 2010

Today I spoke at the ThinkVitamin JavaScript online conference alongside Simon Willison, Stuart Landgridge and Drew McLellan. Topic and slides My topic was “Maintainable JavaScript” and I managed to pack 150 slides into the 50 minutes of my talk. The Slides are available on Slideshare. Maintainable Javascript carsonifiedView more presentations from Christian Heilmann. What I […]

Google goes bubbly – interactive logo today on the UK homepage (plus source)

September 7th, 2010

The Google UK logo today is a mass of bouncing colourful balls that flee the mouse (screencast): This is another example how Google are happy to play with their brand to show off some cool new browser technology (the other of course being the Pac Man logo a few weeks back). This, and the Pac […]

Going snappy at conferences? Where are your results?

September 6th, 2010

Whenever I go to conferences I see lots of people running around with impressive SLR cameras snapping away furiously at everything that moves. When I get back from the conference and check the normal sources for these photos (Flickr, Facebook, heck even Picasa…) I get almost nothing. This wasn’t the case a few years ago […]

Enjoying the full stack – my talk at Frontend2010 in Oslo, Norway

September 3rd, 2010

I just got back from Frontend 2010 in Oslo, Norway. Two days of excessive drinkinggreat information about designing and building the web of tomorrow.. I was invited as a speaker alongside a lot of great people and my task was to give the last presentation of the conference to sum up a bit what we […]

Building with JavaScript – write less by using the right tools

September 1st, 2010

Yesterday Framsia organized a meetup in Oslo, Norway with Molly Holzschlag, Paul Irish and me ramping up to the Frontend2010 conference. Molly talked about the open web and the open stack of technologies and Paul showed people the developer tools in Chrome. My talk was about building web applications with JavaScript and how using progressive […]

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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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