Christian Heilmann

flickr trackr – my first attempt and dabbling with the iPhone/iPod touch

February 14th, 2008

I was pretty amazed when I got a thick envelope the other day from Apple. Steven Woolcock, the Safari Evangelist in Europe sent me an iPod touch to play with as I complained about not being able to test something he told me about. Now, as every other 12 year old boy on a sugar […]

Soon the YUI will be two years old, time for a bash, isn’t it?

February 12th, 2008

If you are in or around London on the 26th of February 2008, come to the De Hem’s pub in Covent Garden to celebrate two years of YUI. There’ll be cake, beers, videos from the YUI bash in the US, a quick update by me and schwag to take home. Sign up to the London […]

Flickr’s secret revealed!

February 12th, 2008

Dan Coulter spilled the beans on the developer list: On Feb 12, 2008 1:53 AM, {removed} wrote: Can some one tell me , in which Progaming language has flickr been developed PHP and can we get the clone Highly unlikely how can we develop the same application line this in php….... Hire a world class […]

Retrieving del.icio.us tags for the current URL with JavaScript

February 11th, 2008

If you scroll down the older entries of this blog you’ll see that there is a new feature, namely a box that shows reader tags and a link to del.icio.us: This is not a WordPress plugin (although it would be easy to make and i’d be amazed if it hadn’t been done) but pure JavaScript. […]

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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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