Christian Heilmann

Gabbly.com in case you need to talk about a web site

June 8th, 2006

Gabbly is a really interesting approach to the issue that you need to discuss designs with clients and peers. It is a chat panel that appears on any page (except for those that redirect the user) when you add the URL as a parameter, for example http://www.gabbly.com/www.wait-till-i.com It is a matter of time before there […]

Trying to buy a ticket for Henry Rollins

June 7th, 2006

Update: The performance was great and I met Henry outside later on for a quick chat. He really is as down to earth as you’d expect. The venue, however, was a joke: Boiling hot and there was no space for your feet (on the most expensive seats). I am always amazed how hard some web […]

Dynamic Code Viewing with jQuery

June 5th, 2006

Dabbling around with jQuery for the last chapter in my upcoming book about JavaScript , I realised it is dead easy to do something that really annoyed the hell out of me for a long time: When you display code examples in online tutorials and you don’t want to use server side includes to show […]

Replace Pop-Ups with dynamic includes using DOMinclude (updated)

May 25th, 2006

Update 25/05/06: DOMinclude now supports only one include window at a time and closing include windows from external files. Pop-up windows are a pain for both the developer and the users. Often enough a page needs to link to a terms and conditions document and as the client does not want the user to leave […]

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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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