Christian Heilmann

RSS2map – a Placemaker/Yahoo Maps mashup generator script

July 14th, 2009

This morning I went to the Telegraph Media Group to talk about GeoMaker and Placemaker. The main thing they wanted to know was how to place an RSS feed that does not have any Geo data on a map and how to style it. To make this easier I created rss2map, a demo PHP script […]

Did Digg and YouTube just spell the end of Internet Explorer 6?

July 14th, 2009

In the last few days the blogosphere was abuzz and Twiter a-twitter about Digg pondering dropping support for IE6 and now YouTube showing an ‘update your IE as we won’t support you in the future’ message. While this is great and I am happy about it I really doubt though that this has a massive […]

Soho is so hot right now – huge fire in Soho, London

July 10th, 2009

I just thought my laptop was broken as it was smelling of burning plastic in the office, but it turned out to be a massive fire some streets down in Soho, London (that is not Soho,NYC). I am very impressed with the job the firefighters have done to stop the fire from spreading. It also […]

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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!
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