Christian Heilmann

Using Twitter as a data provider to automatically fill forms

January 8th, 2009

I hate having to enter all my details when I fill forms – especially when I know for a fact that I’ve entered them before. Looking at Smashing Magazine’s Twitter Avatar WordPress Plugin I got to play with the show API of twitter, which gives you user information. For example to get my information in […]

TTMMHTM: Biillboard Ads, Tetris the healer, Crayons and i18n

January 8th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: A Game that shows you your chances of winning the lottery A very sensible and good suggestion for public transport in London (make sure to read the reason why it was denied) Tetris found to be very effective in fighting trauma – I knew it still is a […]

TTMMHTM – Dudes, hacks, pigs, unicorns and freedom!

January 7th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: Andy Helms’ Dude-A-Day illustrations – Skill! (via Ethan Marcotte) Detailed information about the Twitter admin interface hack – “happiness” is not a good password Bruce Lawson giving me words of his very personal wisdom for an upcoming press interview Crazy Little Fingers is a keyboard locking tool that […]

Scripting Enabled Videos are available now (starting with Denise Stephens)

January 6th, 2009

Last September I was very happy to be able to pull off Scripting Enabled, an accessibility hacking event in London, England. Over two days the speakers, around 150 attendees and 40 hackers educated and learnt about accessibility barriers on the web and – in the case of the hackers – removed some of them. The […]

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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