Christian Heilmann

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 […]

Being a public speaker in the web business

December 11th, 2008

Chris Brogan has put together a nice to-do list on how to start speaking at events and there’s some great information in there (some of which I am not doing yet, but will start soon). Right now I am a “international developer evangelist” which is a nice title but sadly enough does not come with […]

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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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