Christian Heilmann

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 […]

Must-See-Videos: Nate Koechley on Professional Front-End engineering

April 4th, 2009

I’ve just finished watching Nate Koechley’s talk on professional Front-End Engineering on the YDN Theater: Nate Koechley: "Professional Frontend Engineering" @ Yahoo! Video You can download the m4v for your ipod and read the transcription on Eric Miraglia’s blog. I’ve seen Nate give this talk before in a shorter version at @media in London, but […]

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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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