Christian Heilmann

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 […]

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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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