Christian Heilmann

Detecting and displaying the information of a logged-in twitter user

January 5th, 2009

Wouldn’t it be cool (and somehow creepy) to greet your visitors by their twitter name, and maybe ask them to tweet a post? It can be really easily done. Check it out yourself: Hello Twitter Demo Update: this is not working any longer. Twitter have discontinued this functionality because of the phishing opportunities it posed. […]

TTMMHTM: Wallace and Gromit details, CSS scrubbing, accessibility stuff and UX London

January 5th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: Wallace and Gromit’s “A matter of loaf and death” (for the Brits available on iPlayer for others on bittorrent) – I just love the amount of detail the people at Aardman put into their work. Check for example that the cardoor claims “dough to door delivery” and “flour […]

Will a new browser war help web innovation?

January 2nd, 2009

I just spent an hour on the cycle in the gym watching the video of Douglas Crockford’s Web Forward presentation on my iPod touch. Douglas makes some great points about the state of the current technology for the web – especially browsers – being counterproductive to innovation. I agree with all of what Douglas says […]

Small change in the flickr API output breaking my bad code

December 31st, 2008

During my absence I got an email that the first version of my unobtrusive Flickr badge has stopped working. The reason was that Flickr changed the output of the API. I the old version the JSON object contained an HTML description that was run through htmlspecialchars() first. I always considered this a bit of a […]

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 […]

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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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