Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Reflows, real tetris, enabling design, swf checking and micnosing

March 28th, 2009

Nicole Sullivan has the complete story on reflows and repaints of CSS and how they slow down your JavaScript Check out the real manly tetris for the wide screen but bring some time (link fixed, thanks Jessica Bridges) A real honest developer CV A list of the top 500 worst passwords Google playing with search […]

Ada Lovelace Day: women in technology I admire

March 24th, 2009

Today is Ada Lovelace day and alongside a lot of other people I pledged to write a blog post about a woman in technology I admire. I’ve thought long and hard about who to write about on this occasion and I thought it not enough to talk about a single woman in this post. Instead […]

On holiday

March 23rd, 2009

I case you wondered about the lack of posts here lately, I am currently on holiday in Dallas, Texas meeting some friends and lounging in the sun. I’ll be back next week! Chris

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 […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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