Christian Heilmann

Turning a web folder with data into an API using YQL execute

November 30th, 2009

Yesterday Johan Bouveng challenged me on Facebook with another brain teaser. Johan had found a nice resource for weather forecasts for airports. The data came back in TAF or METAR formats and he already had a parser for this (thank f*** – what a mess these formats). Now, what he wanted to have is an […]

Want to work for Yahoo? We’re looking for web developers in the UK and the US.

November 29th, 2009

A new year is coming which always means new opportunities. If you think Yahoo is a place to work and help us build the biggest web sites on the internet here’s your chance. Requirements are: Hand-coded (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Solid knowledge of standards-based, accessible, cross-browser web development Basic PHP or other front-end language (e.g. […]

Frontloaded and zipped up – the Full Frontal 2009 keynote

November 21st, 2009

Here are the slides, the audio recording and my notes for the keynote of the full frontal conference held yesterday in Brighton, England. It was a blast, thank you Remy and Julie! Slides on Slideshare Frontloaded and zipped up – the full frontal keynote Audio recording You can get the recording of the talk over […]

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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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