Christian Heilmann

How long is yours and how happy are you with it (twitter style)?

January 13th, 2009

One of the “useful” services of the web made the rounds on Twitter today: Twicksize allows you to show the world the size of your twick in gradient and round goodness (incidently, mine is 11 inch). Whilst being stunned by the usefulness of the service and the aesthetic perfection I felt a little prick of […]

TTMMHTM: Licenses, Visualizations and Ada Lovelace

January 13th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: the Internet’s vanity license number plates with an amazing amount of naughty ones. It misses the “FLUXCOMP” I’ve spotted in Mountain View A visualization of what the world would look like if it were inhabited by 100 people A schema of the names of almost every big heavy […]

Adding transcripts to presentations embedded from SlideShare using YQL

January 11th, 2009

I like SlideShare a lot (yeah, repetition, I know). It is a great way of spreading your presentations as it allows others to embed them into their blogs and web sites and it also allows people to download and re-use what you’ve done. One thing I really like about SlideShare is that it creates HTML […]

Another amazingly useful web site: http://ismycomputeron.com

January 9th, 2009

Sometimes you come across web services that are so amazingly useful, you wonder why nobody has done it before. One of those is Is my computer on? sent to me this morning by Tomas Caspers. While the usefulness of the service is indisputable the lack of RSS feed or API is actually annoying (let’s not […]

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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