Christian Heilmann

Open Hack Day London, 9th and 10th of May – signup now open!

March 18th, 2009

And lo and behold, the Open Hack Day returns to London. On the 9th and 10th of May we have space for around 200 hackers to show us what can be done when you let European geeks run wild and feed them with yummy yummy data and APIs to mix and show this data in […]

My new book idea – “Don’t do it again”

March 16th, 2009

I am a massive fan of Steve Krug’s “a common sense to web usability” book called “Don’t make me think” and want to write a book that fills the same gap for developers. Right now the books available for developers are very technology centric and make you learn a lot about a certain job but […]

A few things the web development community can learn from The Green Movie

March 12th, 2009

One of the, oh heck, the only really good thing about flying Delta was their Fly-in-Movie competition. This is a section of their entertainment program where they show short movies of budding movie makers who compete to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this coming April. The green film One of […]

Building a hack using YQL, Flickr and the web – step by step

March 11th, 2009

As you probably know, I am spending a lot of time speaking and mentoring at hack days for Yahoo. I go to open hack days, university hack days and even organized my own hackday revolving around accessibility last year. One of the main questions I get is about technologies to use. People are happy to […]

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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