Christian Heilmann

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 […]

Using HTML5 Storage to cache application interfaces

August 26th, 2010

One of the things that gets me excited about the new features of browsers is the “HTML5” Web Storage module. I like it mostly because of its simplicity. The Web Storage idea is to simplify storing of information for the user. I always hated using cookies because of all the domain issues. It was also […]

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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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