Christian Heilmann

The myth of Common Knowledge

September 29th, 2006

Recently I have discovered a really sad pattern of behaviour in the webdevelopment world and its communication channels (blogs, mailing lists, forums, IM): People don’t share information as they are afraid that it may sound too trivial, not relevant or has been discussed to death already. This is happening in companies, too: new developers hold […]

Massive Bug in Google Maps!

September 28th, 2006

[link:http://muffinresearch.co.uk,Stuart Colville,colleague friend] just sent me proof for a massive bug in Google Maps! Check it out for yourself! In case it is fixed, [link:http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/254987103/,here’s my flickr copy].

So address tags are rubbish for microformat hCards?

September 27th, 2006

Did I mention that you learn something new every day? I just answered a question on CSS discuss about styling BR elements in andADDRESS element (don’t ask) and got all microformaty by offering spans inside the address with all kind of [link:http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard,hCard] goodness as the solution. I thought I was in the know as even […]

Greenpeace target Apple

September 27th, 2006

Greenpeace [link:http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/,released a web site targeted at Apple] to make the company use more eco-friendly materials, create a greener Apple or even offer [link:http://www.dell.com/recycle,recycling facilities like Dell does]. Let’s see if they get sued for using that menu.

I got my laptop stolen yesterday night

September 26th, 2006

During a substandards meeting. I am really really down and annoyed about this, especially as I had half a chapter of the new book and a lot of photos on it that were not on flickr yet. I was also really annoyed that the police expects you to go to the next police station to […]

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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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