Christian Heilmann

Happy Birthday Evolt!

December 14th, 2008

Happy Birthday tooo youuuu, Happy Birthday tooo youuuu, Happy Birthday dear evolt! Happy Birthday tooo youuuu Evolt.org turned 10 yesterday and I can safely say that I wouldn’t be where I am now without evolt’s thelist, the browser archive and being the first online mag to publish my articles. I’ve met so many genuinely nice […]

TTMMHTM – ZooBorns, Colleague book win, Browser Security and vintage parkours

December 14th, 2008

Things that made me happy this morning (well technically it is morning and the aftermath of the BBC party): ZooBorns is a blog about newly born animals in zoos around the world – instant win (via Simon Willison of course) My esteemed Austrian colleague who now moved to the valley Klaus Komenda had his university […]

TTMMHTM – Paul Carr at LeWeb, Stacking Game and a christmas message

December 13th, 2008

Things that made me happy this morning: Paul Carr from the Guardian’s amazingly funny writeup of LeWeb. But I’m not being entirely fair to LeWeb. Not all of the speakers were dull (some were just batshit weird) Earlier this week, just before the start of LeWeb, Lord Drayson, Britain’s Minister for Science and Innovation, announced […]

YQL is so the bomb to get web data as XML or JSON

December 12th, 2008

Yesterday I wrote a blog post on YDN about opening the web covering curl, pipes and YQL and today I did a more detailed deep-dive on Ajaxian about how YQL can help you to convert the web to JSON. Suffice to say, I like YQL a lot – it is the command line interface to […]

TTMMHTM – CSS3, good job offer, awesome coffee place

December 12th, 2008

Things that made me happy this morning: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Mark 2 are finally officially available only 8 years later! Theres a rather cool CSS3 test suite for browsers available now My perfect job has been advertised (except for the pay) You can learn a lot in Las Vegas, even Good Web Design […]

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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