Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Back online, news draught, monkeys, squirrels

December 31st, 2008

Things that made me happy this morning: Finally being home and online again (blackberry helps, but also hurts) Getting £750 payback from Scottish Power as I have used much less gas than they anticipated (well, I am hardly at home) Todd Kloots from Yahoo explaining in detail how to set up a screen reader testing […]

So what will I try to do in 2009?

December 29th, 2008

(Normally I tend not to write any personal posts here, but hey, why not?) It is the end of the year and time for new year’s resolutions. Luckily I had a great year and did most of the things I planned to do (the classics like losing weight, cleaning up the flat, changing my work […]

Merry Christmas all of you!

December 24th, 2008

I am currently in the German countryside to see my family and old school friends. My brother’s internet connection is actually trained weasels carrying the things I type on 5.1/4” floppy disk to the next internet hub and I need to write everything in their beautiful but hard language. Therefore I am not answering emails, […]

TTMMHTM – Paris Web Videos, Project:Possibility, Mozilla Labs evening, Fish Sandwiches

December 20th, 2008

Things that made me happy this morning (evening, afternoon? what do I know, jetlagged and confused): The Videos of Paris Web talks are now available – most of them in French, but two in English. In any case awesome content, check them out! Amazing “bang for your buck” conference, that one. Opera’s “Mother” Henny Swan […]

Working in the now – video of my talk at Paris Web released

December 19th, 2008

Paris Web – one of my favourite conferences last year – just released all the videos of the presentations. Most of the presentations are in French, but mine is in English: Download and watch the presentation on SlideShare In the talk I advocated re-using components and systems we already have to work faster, deliver better […]

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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