Christian Heilmann

An open proposal to OpenAI, Bard, Amazon, et al…: GPTeachers

May 9th, 2023

First of all, congratulations. You managed to kick off the next step of computer and human interaction evolution. Of course we’re in the middle of a hype, but there is so much good in AI generated content and conversational interfaces, it’s pretty safe to say all things “computer” will have some part of this included […]

The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job

May 9th, 2023

I am currently looking for a new job. One thing that keeps happening is that people get my CV, are impressed but then ask me that I seem to be focused on the front end a lot and what my experiences with backend and full stack development are. It seems to me that we’ve come […]

Here is where developers perish…

May 5th, 2023

And that’s a wrap. I recorded my last video in the German LinkedIn Learning video course on “Browser developer tools for non-developers”. My favourite stumbling block over the course of the last few days was me starting a sentence with “Und hier verwenden Entwickler:innen…” (“…and here is where developers use…”) and making a pig’s ear […]

Crown dwarf witness – Recording a new course for LinkedIn Learning in Graz

May 2nd, 2023

I am currently in Graz, Austria to record a video series of “Developer tools for non-developers” for LinkedIn Learning. We had a massive ride by car down here from Berlin as my partner isn’t too hot on flying. The city is ridiculously pretty and we arrived on first of May which is the day of […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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