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! [tags]silly,markupmafia,geek,humour,sad,webstandards,html[/tags]

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 […]

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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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