Christian Heilmann

Summary about the Accessibility2.0 conference on YDN

April 29th, 2008

I just put up a summary blog-post about AbilityNet’s Accessibility 2.0 conference on the Yahoo Developer Network blog. It is pretty tricky writing a summary of a conference you spoke at yourself, I found. In any case, I wanted to say thanks to everybody involved in organizing the conference and the other speakers. I learnt […]

Example of an unobtrusive, lazy-loading badge using the Twitter API

April 11th, 2008

Following questions I had about my talk at Highland Fling about badges for distribution and a twitter nagging by Tantek about the official twitter badge I thought I’d have a go at creating a twitter badge following some of the best practices I mentioned in my talk. Here’s the result. The markup Instead of HTML […]

Opera, REST APIs, Module Patterns and generated script nodes

April 11th, 2008

I just came across an annoying thing in Opera. I love using the Module Pattern for designing my JavaScripts and I love generating script nodes on the fly for REST APIs that give me back JSON. The following example using the twitter API works swimmingly on Firefox and Safari (have to check IE later, but […]

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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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