Christian Heilmann

Linkshare – a GitHub Pages template to store links and share them on social media

March 14th, 2023

With Twitter shutting down its APIs my automatic bookmarking of links broke, so I thought I use GitHub and GitHub pages to store links I talked about instead. Enter Linkshare, a GitHub Pages template that makes it simple to copy your links in a shareable format to use on Twitter, Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc… You can […]

Migraining to a new server

March 8th, 2023

As MediaTemple ceases all grid servers, I had to move this to a new shared server. I hope all is OK and I am still on it.

Continuous growth is cancer

March 3rd, 2023

I am currently affected by the wave of layoffs in the technology industry and this isn’t my first rodeo. The difference is that it feels worse this time as I am not only annoyed by losing my job, but I am starting to feel that the system is incredibly flawed. Instead of building a sustainable […]

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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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