Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Speaking in Taiwan and Australia

April 15th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: Currently being in Taiwan after a long flight from London via Hongkong (Slumdog Millionaire – win, Memento – win, Marley and me – surprising win, Bolt – looks like put together from recycled other animated movies) and scoring a room on the 35th floor with view of Taipei […]

Screencast: Building an online profile of distributed data with YQL

April 15th, 2009

Distributing your information all over the web has become a common practice over the last few years and it makes a lot of sense. By covering lots of distribution channels you can reach various audiences and get comments and feedback from them. You also make yourself independent of a single online resource – if your […]

TTMMHTM: Tweenbots, mostly, but also Wall-E casemod and Disney templates

April 12th, 2009

Here’s something that put a smile on my face this morning that needs to be jackhammered off: Tweenbots. Kacie Kinzer wondered if people are ready to help a friendly, but dumb robot and build a small robot with a smile and a little flag saying where it needs to go. All the robot can do […]

Is it getting harder and harder to show very easy examples?

April 7th, 2009

I am right now teaching a four day class of DOM and Ajax in Sunnyvale, California and also do some tech editing for Scriptin with JavaScript and Ajax by Charles Wyke-Smith and I find one thing that is pretty worrying: easy examples of web development practices are dangerous to show these days. I’m talking about […]

TTMMHTM: 100% male, resumes, tuning Google Adsense, communication skills

April 5th, 2009

How to make a lot more money with Google AdSense the easy way A good example of car customisation going very wrong Amazing exhibition of balloon sculptures – some of them looking like rude bits The German Elektrischer Reporter explains Nerds (in German of course) A good article on communication skills being a something that […]

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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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