Christian Heilmann

Automatically turning a text into a link

December 22nd, 2006

While twittering away, Fizzy asked for a solution to link every instance of a word to a certain web site in JavaScript (originally he wanted a CSS solution). So here is a solution: How to link different words to web sites automatically in JavaScript Enjoy. [tags]JavaScript,Domscripting,linking,automatisation[/tags]

18 Questions for Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan on Flash and Accessibility

December 21st, 2006

I was asked by some German friends if I knew something about Flash and Accessibility for a German podcast, and I said yes, but most of it is hearsay and some testing some years ago. I remembered however the dynamic Flash Duo Aral Balkan and Niqui Merret from BarCamp and other social occassions and offered […]

New Podcast on WebdevRadio

December 20th, 2006

Michael Kimsal of WebdevRadio asked me about an hour about almost everything I have done to write Beginnning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax and the YUI. You can check the podcast on WebdevRadio and if I sound tired then it is because we had to do the interview twice as the first time around […]

Podcast by Proxy

December 19th, 2006

Earlier tonight (before we ended up with free drinks and a Chinese meal in Chinatown) I recorded a podcast for the German site Technikwürze which was a podcast with a twist. Instead of being interested in what I had to say (be fair – who would?) the maintainers wanted to have some expert information about […]

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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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