Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Truth about social networks, crayon pixels, JSONview and wireless electricity!

February 28th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: Venturebeat release the ugly truth about your favourite social networks Matthew Somerville has a great ideas generator to use in your next pitch Apparently sleepwalking dogs and walls don’t mix An awesome mashup of crayons and pixel art A list of incredible conceptual designs you wish existed We […]

Don’t use window.sun or function sun() in Firefox – lest you want to start Java!

February 27th, 2009

I just came across a mind-boggling “ghost in the machine” style problem in Firefox: if you use window.sun or function sun() in JavaScript you effectively start the Java VM. As explained in this article on doctype There are a few “magic” properties on Mozilla’s DOMWindow interface for supporting LiveConnect that will initialize the Java plugin […]

So how do you add alternative text to background images?

February 25th, 2009

One thing that drives me up the wall is the inertia that happens in the accessibility world. We do our best to keep the web development world aware of accessibility concerns but in the other direction I just don’t see much drive to even understand the basic principles of web design. My favourite example is […]

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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