Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Accessible Currency converter

December 17th, 2008

Yahoo Finance just released “the new (accessible) currency converter”:http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter done by my colleagues Artur Ortega and Dirk Ginader. It is a perfect example of how accessible does not mean boring. Rich interactions – screen reader compatible Firefox 3.05 comes with some new cool accessibility features fixing focusing issues Our Dumb World – the Onion’s Atlas […]

On measuring evangelism success

December 17th, 2008

I am right now in Santa Clara, California for the end of the year wrap-up and planning sessions of the Yahoo Developer Network. One thing I am realizing is that it is very tough to measure the success or really the impact of what an evangelist does. As my company does not have any commercial […]

Media Interviews – or “How I became an accidental file sharing hero”

December 15th, 2008

Two weeks ago I went to Sweden to attend a geek meet and give a workshop at bwin. I didn’t know that me coming to Sweden was big news, but apparently this was the case and the people at creuna organized some interviews with me – one with the Internet World (still to be published) […]

TTMMHTM – Benny Hillifier, Freebase hosted, Real life Hell’s Grannies

December 15th, 2008

Things that made me happy this morning (just a few cause I am on my way to the airport – Sunnyvale, California for a week) The Benny Hillifier because every YouTube video gets much better by adding the Benny Hill theme An interesting hosted development environment in JavaScript for Freebase Urban Knitting – we are […]

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 […]

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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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