Christian Heilmann

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 […]

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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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