Christian Heilmann

Top Five Reasons why I blog

March 8th, 2007

I’ve been tagged by Ann Arbor of 3.7designs to talk about the top five reasons I blog. Oh well, normally I don’t play the tagging game, but why not? Reason 1: I wanted to keep a repository of what I do and feedback I get for it This is actually how that started. I created […]

Another failed accessibility redesign

March 6th, 2007

Can we please get a wheelchair person with a very long right arm for a publicity shot? [tags]accessibility,redesign,building,toilet,wtf[/tags]

Quick SEO meta tag testing bookmarklet

March 6th, 2007

In order to test the title and meta information of a lot of web sites, some testers asked me for a simple way to get that information without having to look at the source. I quickly whipped up a bookmarklet that shows the title and any meta information with a name attribute and their lengths […]

Make me a speaker

February 28th, 2007

Just by chance I stumbled over a really cool idea and wiki, namely Make me a speaker. The idea of the wiki is to help people find mentoring and opportunities to give some public speeches about web standards. The wiki also allows you to share experiences, give tips and connect to other people with the […]

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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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