Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Some games and good videos

May 30th, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning (all on the lighter side – it is a day off) Exit Path is another very simple but addictive game from Armorgames I also want to have a job where one of your deliveries is to tickle baby Gorillas I do love news that are concise and short […]

Speaking at BarCamps – its not that complicated

May 27th, 2010

BarCamps are a wonderful opportunity to get your first experiences as a public speaker. I’ve organised a few and attended a lot in the last few years in various countries and love them to bits. Lately, however, I found that the original ideas and freedoms of BarCamp have been washed out and people get stressed […]

It is Towel Day! Carry your geek with pride.

May 25th, 2010

Today is towel day in memory of the great Douglas Adams. I am doing my bit by carrying my towel: The Google offices in London proudly sport Douglas Adams’ bathtub full of towels in their lobby today: In case you don’t know who Douglas Adams is or what the Towel is about hand back your […]

TTMMHTM: Swinging, Darkroom, iPad accessibility and AI in PacMan

May 24th, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning: The iPad can be used as an affordable communication device for people with disabilities – more apps like these please. The Swinger is a python script that turns any song into a Swing version by elongating the first half of a beat and shortening the second – make […]

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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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