Christian Heilmann

Back in California

November 15th, 2006

I am back in the U.S. for a week staying in San Francisco and working in Santa Clara. So much more warmer here than London. I’ll be at the Accessibility Dinner on Thursday and generally trying to get to know as many people as possible while I am here. So if there is a bit […]

Needs of the disabled spark inventions – why not in web design?

November 8th, 2006

I just created a presentation for a Tech Talk later on with the topic “Accessibility and You, a non-tech approach to web accessibility” and during the collection of material I realized that a lot of real world inventions were based on the needs of disabled people and are now benefitting everybody. Thomas Edison and Alexander […]

Moved to media temple

November 7th, 2006

After almost four years my free hosting service finally didn’t work out any longer and I was annoyed about the outages and the other clients on the shared box annoyed about the traffic I caused. So I bit the bullet and got myself a new server for all my sites. I looked around a bit, […]

Explore flickr tags and photos with flickrdrillr

November 3rd, 2006

I played with JSON, event delegation and the APIs of flickr for the upcoming hack day and thought it’d be fun to explore flickr only by tags. Using the YUI, I put a small example together that allows you to search for a tag, get all the other tags entered by flickr users and see […]

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Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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