Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM – YouTube captioning, NYC Lego, Opera with JavaScript articles

February 4th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning Arriving in Denver in time to deliver my talk at WDN - only 7 hours in the lounge made it possible New York Lego bricks I love the pepper mill Accessify offers an easy youtube caption creator and asks for feedback The Opera Web Standards Curriculum now has […]

TTMMHTM: Screen Readers, Superheroes and a broken DOM

February 3rd, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: Getting a new flight booking to Web Directions North after all flights had been canceled yesterday Knowing that we are safe as there are Real Super Heroes amongst us – I think the most useful is red arrow although pointing at your crotch is not decent – then […]

So Aral was right – the head conference was much easier

February 2nd, 2009

I am right now rather devastated that I will miss (at least) the first day of the Web Directions North conference as London is simply shut down for the day. I arrived yesterday from India and got back in time to fly out to Denver from the shiny Terminal 5. I was amazed that I […]

TTMMHTM: Laid off people fighting back, India, Hacking and analyzing twitter’s security

January 29th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning not being too jetlagged (in India at the moment) LaidOffCamp a barcamp for people in the IT business having been laid off lately helping each other – cool idea! A new group discussing what server side JavaScript should have promises some good collaboration of clever people for consistent […]

Twitter privacy, protected updates and TweetEffect

January 29th, 2009

I just got a very concerned email (60 pixel font) telling me off for displaying protected updates in TweetEffect. The person was to say the least, very ticked off at seeing their protected updates in my application and threatened to do “something” about it. TWEETEFFECT.COM MAKES MY PROTECTED UPDATES PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE […]

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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