Christian Heilmann

I won\’t go naked this year!

April 4th, 2007

CSS Naked Day fails to impress me. You can organise have a fashion show of very healthy bodies for an obese audience, but without telling the audience what went into achieving this body and why their bodies will be a problem in the future it is just showing off.

Ready for Highland Fling

April 3rd, 2007

I just finished my slides for the Highland Fling conference and ordered a mini cab to get me to the airport in the morning. I am looking forward to this a lot, for several reasons: I am taking a plane but I don’t have to brace myself for jetlag Alan (the organizer) is a lovely […]

The only for loop you will ever need °

April 2nd, 2007

° main contain hyperbole to take the mickey out of other blog posts I am a very lazy person when it comes to typing. As I am doing so much of it I’d rather not type something I really don’t need. This is why I had an issue with “for” loops as you need to […]

Q&A: Linking a whole DIV

April 2nd, 2007

Q: I have a DIV with some text, an image and a link and I was asked by our designer to make the whole thing a link. I cannot use an image, so I tried nesting all in a link and making the real link text a SPAN with a style that makes it look […]

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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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