Christian Heilmann

Is anybody familiar with Sake?

December 17th, 2006

I won a bottle of Sake at a christmas party raffle. Does anyone know if this is a high quality sake that I should give a party for or something to have with cheap take-away? All photos of the sake bottle on flickr. [tags]sake,japanese,bafflement,headache[/tags]

Christmas Shopping the geek way: Blank DVDs

December 14th, 2006

I just got some blank DVDs for my brother and I am amazed how much you money you pay in highstreet shops for low quality DVD-Rs. Here’s some dirty secrets: The brand of the packaging is irrellevant, there are a lot less DVD-R producers out there than brands. There is a stunning web site that […]

Automatic merging and versioning of CSS/JS files with PHP

December 14th, 2006

Over at Ed Elliot’s the man himself came up with a cool PHP script that allows you to create a single cached include automatically from all the JavaScripts or CSS files you want to include. Check out Automatic merging and versioning of CSS/JS files with PHP. For those who wonder why the hey you’d want […]

This one day, on twitter…

December 12th, 2006

Craig: I haven’t had a spam comment in about two months. Either my Akismet/BadBehavior combo is working or the spammers have learned to target POPULAR blogs. 5 out of 5 for good humour, Craig Cook Yes, I also got hooked on twitter which is a system built by the people behind odeo that allows you […]

Have a random weekend

December 12th, 2006

During some research for a new product I just got a cool mashup site sent to me by a colleague. Random Day Out allows you to define a starting location and will add random locations around the area that can be visited in a day. You get a map, photos, directions to and from each […]

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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!
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