Christian Heilmann

No more URLs in comments, please

September 11th, 2006

Ok, I am sick and tired of getting ninety spam comments to one half-interesting comment on this blog. Therefore I turned off any link submitting in the comments and do not display the URL of the author automatically any longer. I am sorry I had to do this – and I will display your URL […]

No more dead links – My first go at a WordPress Plugin

September 9th, 2006

I’ve just played with an idea for a wordpress plugin. If you [link:http://www.wait-till-i.com/stuff/noMoreDeadLinks.zip,download this plugin] and install it you can use the following syntax for links in your posts: [xlink:url,text,xfn data] The plugin will then check if the url exists and create a link if it does or otherwise add a DEL element with a […]

dconstruct 2006 review

September 9th, 2006

Yesterday I went to dconstruct in Brighton (thanks to Andy Budd who got me a last minute ticket) and all in all I can say it was a massive success (missing the last tube on the way home and having someone throw up next to me on the night bus was less of a success […]

The future is hybrids – how JavaScript can purify pure CSS solutions

September 4th, 2006

Over the last few months there were more and more requests on mailing lists and articles published how you can achieve functionality with pure CSS that was traditionally achieved with JavaScript. This post will explain why that is an interesting concept, but hopefully make you aware of the benefits of JavaScript enhanced solutions versus pure […]

Barcamp London

September 3rd, 2006

Just finished the first day at Barcamp London (it feels very odd to be in the office during the weekend and not working on products). I had very much fun and met some interesting new faces while hearing good presentations of seasoned presenters. My personal contribution so far was a quick talk I knocked together […]

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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