Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Plane rescue, useless super powers, clipboard hack

January 16th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: A plane crash-landing safely and being tracked online – me being on the road (in the air) all the time it is cool to see that there are smart pilots who do the right thing Microsoft Songsmith’s version of The Police’s Roxanne – Somehow Sting with rastas looks […]

TTMMHTM: API updates, YDN Tuesdays, YUI on GitHub and good vibes

January 15th, 2009

SlideShare has released version 2.0 of their API – win! BBC’s Good Food really has the most amazingly clever and complex recipes The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks – Aggravate’s and annoy’s “that” YouTube now have inaugural IRC office hours which is cool, but Mozilla has Triage Call phone conferences The Yahoo Developer Network partnered […]

Jeff Croft hates standards! Typical designer, eh?

January 15th, 2009

I just had a wonderful time on the train home reading Jeff Croft’s Two Thousand Twenty Two post, following the whole trail of comments is like watching a TV show. I got to the end although there is a distinct lack of explosions, car chases, gracious nudity or even kittens! In essence, Jeff (who is […]

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 […]

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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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