Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Book pirates, Cabinet Office, Socks of Win and browser stats

January 27th, 2010

Confessions of a book pirate is the first account I’ve ever read of someone from the OCR scanning and book pirating scene. It is amazing how fast those guys are. App.itize.us is a good blog triaging the “must have” apps for your iPhone. Code a Backwards Compatible, One Page Portfolio with HTML5 and CSS3 is […]

Finding the current location by IP and with the W3C Geo API

January 25th, 2010

I was always fascinated by those ads that show you “hot contacts in {city}” not because of the hot contacts, but because they always changed to where I was at the time. I was also quite interested in the fact that they were always a bit off (again, the city, not the contacts). As I […]

TTMMHTM: data.gov.uk live, CrisisCamp, Pixel stuff and Windows 95 explained!

January 22nd, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning: The data.gov.uk release yesterday was a great event. UK House Prices got applauded, I sat next to Tim Berners-Lee and I managed to pester people from the government to have me come around and showcase YQL! Gource is a very sexy visualisation of Git commits, forks and so […]

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Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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