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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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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