Christian Heilmann

Seven Reasons for Code Bloat – My presentation for the WSG London Meetup

May 23rd, 2007

Here are the slides from my talk at the Webstandards Group meetup earlier. A massive Thanks to Stuart Colville for organizing the event, Steve Faulkner for his presentation on screen readers and accessibility and everyone who attended and bought me drinks afterwards. new Listen to the podcast HTML version of the notes PDF version of […]

How to make your web applications accessible – the human way

May 20th, 2007

One of my biggest annoyances when talking about accessibility and web development is the argument of some developers that what they develop are web applications and not web sites which is why they don’t need to care about accessibility. The arrogance of that statement aside it also does not make any sense whatsoever. If anything, […]

Web Developer and Professional (Part 2 of 2)

May 19th, 2007

In the first part of this I wrote about three aspects of a professional web developer: not to overrate your knowledge, for it is fixed in time, making sure you share what you know and never ever consider yourself indispensable. It is not only what but also how you deliver In terms of delivery of […]

Have I got tabs for you!

May 17th, 2007

One of the guys I keep dragging into the limelight of the web (the last time with an A List Apart article on font resize monitoring) is my colleague Lawrence Carvalho. This time he has an amazingly versatile tab interface based on the YUI on offer. There are many tabs solutions out there, including my […]

Working in the valley for the next 2-3 weeks

May 16th, 2007

I will fly to San Francisco on Monday to work in Santa Clara and stay in Sunnyvale for the next 2-3 weeks. So far my stops beside working are: Go to Stanford and give a talk on web development (invitation by John Foliot) Visit the Flock offices to talk shop and pick up schwag. Anything […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

160: Graphs and RAGs explained and VS Code extension hacks Graphs and RAG explained, how AI is reshaping UI and work, how to efficiently use Cursor, VS Code extensions security issues.
159: AI pipelines, 10x faster TypeScript, How to interview How to use LLMs to help you write code and how much electricity does that use? Is your API secure? 10x faster TypeScript thanks to Go!
158: 🕹️ Super Mario AI 🔑 API keys in LLMs 🤙🏾 Vibe Coding Why is AI playing Super Mario? How is hallucinating the least of our worries and what are rules for developing Safety Critical Code?
157: CUDA in Python, Gemini Code Assist and back-dooring LLMs We met with a CUDA expert from NVIDIA about the future of hardware, we look at how AI fails and how to play pong on 140 browser tabs.
156: Enterprise dead, all about Bluesky and React moves on! Learn about Bluesky as a platform, how to build a React App and how to speed up SQL. And play an impossible game in the browser.

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