Christian Heilmann

Introducing BOSS at the Open Hack Day in Bangalore, India

February 14th, 2009

I just came back from stage at the Open Hack Day in Bangalore, India where introduced BOSS as an idea to innovate and turning a search engine into a find engine: [slideshare id=1026635&doc=bossopenhackbangalore2009-1234581590455453-3] Now I am enjoying the magic of YQL presentations before talking to people about YUI.

To hell with IE6? More like to hell with “good enough”

February 13th, 2009

Lately a lot of bloggers have started venting their frustration on IE6 - Robert Nyman got the ball rollling, Roger Johannson enforced the argument and now Ara Pehlivanian chimes in. The general consensus is that people should stop making things work pixel-perfect for IE6 at the cost of delaying projects or adding cruft to the […]

Don’t click this – a clickjacking experiment currently hammering twitter

February 12th, 2009

Reverse psychology is an interesting thing. Currently Twitter is being hammered by thousands of people twittering about a page that has a button that tells them not to click it. Why do they do it? Because they are told not to. How come they are twittering about it? A small thing called clickjacking. Scott Schiller […]

Web Development is moving on – are you?

February 12th, 2009

Last week Think Vitamin released an article by me about the changes in web development. I wrote this article over Christmas to publish at another web magazine but it was not to be as they stopped publishing for the moment. I consider this article and what it talks about very important at the moment. I’ve […]

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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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