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

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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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