Christian Heilmann

Return of the HTTP overhead delay – this time without a server side component

July 10th, 2007

Following my post yesterday about delaying the loading of avatar images to cut down on HTTP requests I was wondering if there is a way to do this without having to resort to a server side solution. In short, there is. Check out the demo page to see the script in action, and download delayHTTPoverhead.js […]

Thinking lowsrc – how to make sites appear to be available a lot faster

July 9th, 2007

ZOMG Update!: We put our heads together and came up with a client side solution without a PHP component that does the same as this one explained in detail here. Those of you who’ve been around some years may remember an otherwise forgotten non-standardized HTML attribute called lowsrc. It was supported by Netscape browsers and […]

In need of a new title

July 3rd, 2007

Just like the Childlike Empress in the Never Ending Story I am right now without a proper name for my new role. Yes, that is right, I slipped into a new role in my current job and boy is it something I wanted to do for years and years. However, the dilemma I am in […]

Collapse Flickr comments – My first greasemonkey script

June 29th, 2007

I couldn’t sleep because of this bloody cold and thought I give Greasemonkey a go. One of my biggest annoyances in flickr is that when you comment on some very popular photo (normally containing a pretty lady and some nudity) you have to scroll through dozens of long comments in order to reach the next […]

Shortening JavaScripts with Math

June 28th, 2007

I just went through an exercise for a DOM scripting course with the YUI and had the task to write a function that takes any element and centers it at the current cursor position. I also wanted to make sure that the displayed object never causes scrollbars or gets cut off when the cursor is […]

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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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