Christian Heilmann

innerHTML vs. DOM = pot noodles vs. real cooking

April 18th, 2006

Following four days of AFN (Away From Network – I did use a keyboard though), I realised that digg.com dugg me and AJAXian once again linked me. Well, not me but the From DHTML to DOM Scripting article. Notice the title: from DHTML to DOM. Not “why innerHTML is rubbish and you should not use […]

B3TA.com in Web2.0 confusion

April 13th, 2006

B3ta.com is a place where people post photoshop-manipulated photos and animations. Unlike Worth1000 where the main idea is skill and immaculate photo manipulation b3ta thrives on novelty, skill, crudeness and, yes, immaturity. The joke of the picture is more important than the technical quality. Chances are you found a lot of b3ta pictures as “funny […]

And the winner of cheekiest SPAM attempt is

April 11th, 2006

This just blew my mind: I would believe that it could be a person really asking for help to get rid of a spyware/trojan infection if he hadn’t used a naughty site as his own URL. Anyways, why should I know how to get rid of it. I never surf naughty parts of the internet, […]

Making AJAX navigation optional

April 10th, 2006

I just put up a proof of concept for the AJAX chapter of my book. For years I have ranted about DHTML multi level menus simply assuming that every user wants to have every page in the sitemap as an item in the navigation. My idea was to make the enhanced navigation optional and allowing […]

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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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