Christian Heilmann

Analysing the history of Winter Olympics medals with YQL

February 18th, 2010

I am a big fan of the Guardian Data Blog which releases all kind of cool datasets used in their research for people to mash up. One of the recent data sets was the Statistics of Winter Olympics medals over the years. I’ve taken the Excel sheet and exported it as a CSV. Then I […]

Diving into the web of data – the YQL talk at boagworld live 200

February 12th, 2010

I just finished a quick podcast demo for the 200th podcast of Boagworld, streamed live on ustream. I thought I had an hour but it turned out to be half an hour. My topic was YQL and I wanted to actually do something like shown in the video that was just released (click through to […]

Speaking out – public speaking made easy (for women) was an amazing success!

February 11th, 2010

Yesterday night was the first Speaking out – public speaking made easy event in London and I was lucky enough to be one of the speakers. Speaking Out was the idea of my friend Laura North who hates public speaking and has been pestering me for a while for private tutoring on the matter. Instead, […]

TTMMHTM: Scuba attacks in Norway,safer internet, mouse tracking and SMS API

February 10th, 2010

Things that made me happy this morning: Pestering my colleagues in the US late last night made sure that we have YQL tables for Google Buzz In case you ever go to Bergen, Norway, beware the Scuba Divers in the street Mashable has a nice infographic of the state of the internet Safer Internet is […]

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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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