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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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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