Christian Heilmann

Barrierefreiheit mit Computern 1985 – ein faszinierender Artikel

December 16th, 2022

Beim stöbern nach alten Artikeln im 64er Magazin, das 1985 bis 1993 in Deutschland erschienen ist und suich mit dem Commodore 64 Heimcomputer beschäftigt hat, bin ich auf einen faszinierenden alten Artikel gestossen. Dieser erklärt, wie ein Computerclub in Graz mittels der Symbolsprache Bliss von 1949 und dedizierter Hardware für den C64 es behinderten Nutzern […]

Code brushes for GitHub Copilot

December 13th, 2022

Github Next now showed a new feature in GitHub Copilot labs that allows you to change code you write to make it cleaner, more robust and document it automatically. GitHub Copilot is incredible, and if you check what’s happening in the preview released as the Copilot Labs extension it will only get more amazing. Check […]

Opening Node developer tools just got easier

December 1st, 2022

Microsoft Edge has a command palette which allows you to run commands by typing. You can use this to launch Developer Tools for Node. Press `Ctrl+Q` to open the command palette Type `>`, `node` and press Enter Alternatively, you can always use the old way to access Node devtools using `edge://inspect` and clicking the link. […]

Stop waiting for GitHub pages to build using overrides

November 29th, 2022

Using overrides in Chromium DevTools you can cache static assets locally and you don’t need to wait for GitHub pages to build before seeing a change in your scripts or styles. GitHub Pages are a great offer. You can host and version control not only your code on GitHub, but you can also turn it […]

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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