Christian Heilmann

Minislides – inline slide shows with DOM and CSS

March 17th, 2006

As part of my book, I am right now writing the “common uses of JavaScript” Chapter, and this morning a request by Michel Bozgounov on the CSS-d list tickled my fancy. He wanted an easy way to show slightly larger images when clicking on very small thumbs inside a page. While his solution would force […]

Web2.0-tastic – my office outside the office

March 16th, 2006

As much as I am annoyed with the web2.0 hype and a lot of products that are just clones of others (how many RSS readers are there?) I just had an epiphany of sorts when I was on the client site and had to do some work without my trusty laptop with Photoshop, Homesite, Word […]

Time to move on

March 15th, 2006

Allow me to be a bit narcistic for a moment – don’t worry it does not involve a podcast of me talking about web design stuff: I just wanted to announce that I am quitting my current job on the 14th of April and from the 24th of April (2 days before my birthday) onwards […]

Poke London are looking for a designer and a webcoder

March 9th, 2006

I am not affiliated with those guys, just heard about them via flow once, but I really really like the job post they have on their site: Desperation of the most charming kind Sounds like a fun place to be.

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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