Christian Heilmann

Show off your hidden data with SearchMonkey – new article on Digital-Web

June 4th, 2008

Digital Web just released my new article about showing the world your page-embedded data with Searchmonkey. SearchMonkey is a new Yahoo product that allows you to enhance search results with information that is in your document but wasn’t indexed by Yahoo. You can either retrieve this information with an XSLT and transforming the document or […]

Is it time to take mashups and use them to solve real issues?

June 2nd, 2008

This is my presentation given at the BarCamp4 at Gcap in London, talking about my recent move to start doing more mashups again and what lead to it. View Accessihacking – How I Got My Mashup Groove Back on SlideShare My mashup and accessibility fatigue In a nutshell I have to say that I was […]

@media2008 report live on YDN

May 30th, 2008

It is 1.14am after the first day of @media2008 and I just finished my report over on the YDN blog: Check @media2008, day one See you there tomorrow morning for day two, I am off to bed.

Providing script configuration in-line and programatically

May 23rd, 2008

One of the things I’ve been quite consistent and pushy about when writing code is to separate out all the things that should be customizable into an own configuration object. A normal script I write these days would look like this: var module = function(){ // configuration, change things here var config = { CSS:{ […]

An unobtrusive badge for Google Reader’s shared items

May 21st, 2008

I am a user of Google Reader to get through the vast amounts of RSS feeds I subscribed to. I think it is safe to say that reading RSS and twittering has replaced most of my web surfing. Like most big RSS readers, Google reader also allows you to share great finds you had with […]

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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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