Christian Heilmann

Casting online shadows – my presentation at BarCamp Paris

May 12th, 2007

Just finshed giving my BarCamp Paris presentation written on the Eurostar on the way over: Casting online shadows – PDF 100kb Download casting online shadows on slideshare It talks about how people go online, what they do to get known and how online communication and its non-human nature can paint a totally wrong picture of […]

Come and witness another Web Standards Group talk

May 9th, 2007

On Wednesday the 16th of May I’ll be giving another free talk at the WSG UK meeting on JavaScript. It is free, I promise not to bore you with too much code, and we can get totally leglessmeet up for a quiet drink at the Bricklayer’s Arms, the fabled location for the Pubstandards London afterwards. […]

The joys of online shopping

May 7th, 2007

As I am about to head for the US and work there for some weeks I thought I use the opportunity to buy some stuff and get it delivered to the office so that I have it without having to carry a big suitcase full of stuff. Alas, I cannot, as the reason is that […]

Time for Action – No more empty Web Standards threats!

May 2nd, 2007

It is time to take a stand: Find a workmate who doesn’t close his tags, uses unencoded ampersands or commits other atrocities. Leave this stark warning by the markup mafia on his desk (or even better in his bed when you are on a work trip) Thank you!

Web Developer and Professional (Part 1 of 2)

May 1st, 2007

Lately there has been a lot of movement in our market again. A lot of people started new companies, venture capital magically re-appeared and as with every spring our inboxes brim with offers from head hunters wanting to call us about the next big opportunity we might be missing. It is fun to see that […]

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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