Christian Heilmann

Chasing the shiny – HTML5, CSS3, transitions – oh my!

May 14th, 2010

Yesterday I had a back and forth on Twitter with Paul Irish and Divya Manian on Twitter about a thing that is full of win but also drives me crazy. Those two lads built http://html5readiness.com/ – a beautiful demo of what you can do with CSS transformations, JavaScript and markup these days. Here’s what it […]

Leancamp London – a new outlook on startups

May 11th, 2010

After spending the past weekend at Warblecamp I went up to the construction site that is the Great Western Studios to attend Leancamp. In essence, Leancamp was an unconference trying to promote a new, more agile and leaner approach to starting your own business. Instead of trying to dazzle investors with great visuals and random […]

Always outnumbered, never outgunned – Speaking out event at London City Hall

April 21st, 2010

If you had told me a few months ago that I would be the only guy in a room with 75 women in London’s City Hall (the crooked thermos near Tower Bridge) about to hold a workshop on “how to be an inspiring speaker” I’d have nodded understandingly, taken your pint away from you and […]

TTMMHTM: Sliding dogs, free city guides and a clapper

April 20th, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning: The lonely planet are giving out Free city guides for iPhone/iPod/iPad (iTunes Link) today. You can generated your own Movie clapper board Dogs and Snow#! they are like kids, really Pretty awesome 3D graffiti#! by Peeta – almost as good as Daim Michael Jackson’s Beat it as a […]

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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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