Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Panic half, make a mag, howling wolves, geocoders and lots of videos

May 28th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: Naughty photos with the people removed is just not the same Panic has a 3 day half-price sale on Transmit, Coda, Candybar and Unison and even a corny commercial for it (you gotta love the Kleenex) The German mail released a pretty cool collaborative magazine creator in Flash […]

TTMMHTM: Yarn about CSS on mobiles with free music (or summat)

May 26th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: Browser testing overlord Peter-Paul Koch has a support of CSS in mobile devices table that is full of win I did not know that there are hard-core knitters out there. Reminds me of Monty Python’s Hell’s Grannies Moby has free music for film makers Natalie Downe has a […]

Newsmap – using Placemaker to add geo location to a news feed

May 22nd, 2009

I am right now very excited about the new Placemaker beta – a location extraction web service released at Where2.0. Using Placemaker you can find all the geographical locations in a feed or a text or a web url and you get them back as an array of places. As a demo I took the […]

TTMMHTM: Sorry Jinho answers, twittering cat flaps, hot goths and the real AYB

May 18th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: The Sorry Jinho group on flickr that I set up to say sorry to a colleage who had his camera with photos of the british museum stolen already has 113 photos! Thanks, folks! The tweeting cat door is a wonderfully geeky hack that only makes a cat flap […]

Sorry BBC, my pimped Firefox made me think you did wrong

May 17th, 2009

Here’s an interesting example of me being a typical developer. This morning I checked a news piece of Danger Mouse sticking it to EMI by releasing their album as a blank CDR and got an alert() on the BBC site: As you can see the alert clearly states that it comes from the BBC site […]

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
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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