Christian Heilmann

Hours of fun with Google Code Search

October 5th, 2006

As [link:http://www.kottke.org/06/10/google-code-search,Kottke.org informs us] the new [link:http://google.com/codesearch,Google Code Search] already unearthed a lot of interesting things, like WordPress logins, a key generator for Winzip and even something [link:http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=spanish+inquisition&btnG=Search,totally unexpected] . Update: [link:http://blog.predius.org/2006/10/05/fucks-per-source-package-and-license/,Predius also analysed with the search how many f*cks per language and package are in use]. PHP a clear winner there. [tags]google,code,exploit,fun[/tags]

WSG meetup about Microformats on 19th October in London

October 5th, 2006

Come to the Web Standards Group Microformats special on 19th of October at Westminster University’s New Cavendish Street Campus. (near Goodge Street tube station). It is free and there’ll be talk about Microformats and maybe beer afterwards. Sign up on upcoming.org if you want to go. Speaking at the event will be Drew McLellan, Jeremy […]

Accessibility in Trouble

October 5th, 2006

Mike Davies, esteemed colleague and one of the silent web workers that do a lot more than they talk about vented some steam on a series of blog posts where he analyzes what is amiss in the world of web accessibility called [link:http://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/access/AccessibilityInTrouble,Accessibility in Trouble]. It is a great read and I congratulate Mike on […]

Interview Podcast on Web Axe

October 4th, 2006

[link:http://checkengineusa.com/dennislembree/blog/?p=4,Dennis Lembree] and [link:http://www.3point7designs.com/blog,Ross Johnson] interviewed me yesterday for the latest [link:http://webaxe.blogspot.com/,Webaxe] podcast. I’ve talked a lot about my past, JavaScript, where I get inspiration, how I experienced distributed development, what I think of innerHTML and noscript, how I came to write a book, what writing a book means and lots more. The interview was […]

Silly Browser Trick: V for Firefox

October 3rd, 2006

A colleague just found this by chance: If you type “v” in the browser location on firefox and hit enter you’ll end up on the V for Vendetta homepage. Incidently I just bought the DVD and loved the movie to bits. But how does it work?

Newsletter

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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