Christian Heilmann

Barrierefreiheit mit Computern 1985 – ein faszinierender Artikel

December 16th, 2022

Beim stöbern nach alten Artikeln im 64er Magazin, das 1985 bis 1993 in Deutschland erschienen ist und suich mit dem Commodore 64 Heimcomputer beschäftigt hat, bin ich auf einen faszinierenden alten Artikel gestossen. Dieser erklärt, wie ein Computerclub in Graz mittels der Symbolsprache Bliss von 1949 und dedizierter Hardware für den C64 es behinderten Nutzern […]

Code brushes for GitHub Copilot

December 13th, 2022

Github Next now showed a new feature in GitHub Copilot labs that allows you to change code you write to make it cleaner, more robust and document it automatically. GitHub Copilot is incredible, and if you check what’s happening in the preview released as the Copilot Labs extension it will only get more amazing. Check […]

Opening Node developer tools just got easier

December 1st, 2022

Microsoft Edge has a command palette which allows you to run commands by typing. You can use this to launch Developer Tools for Node. Press `Ctrl+Q` to open the command palette Type `>`, `node` and press Enter Alternatively, you can always use the old way to access Node devtools using `edge://inspect` and clicking the link. […]

Stop waiting for GitHub pages to build using overrides

November 29th, 2022

Using overrides in Chromium DevTools you can cache static assets locally and you don’t need to wait for GitHub pages to build before seeing a change in your scripts or styles. GitHub Pages are a great offer. You can host and version control not only your code on GitHub, but you can also turn it […]

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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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