Christian Heilmann

Using position:fixed and transparency in a creative way

February 23rd, 2006

Some time ago, design for CSSZenGarden using a knife that slashes through the document was all the rage. Now I stumbled upon a referrer in my stats that got me sniggering: blether.com has a much more subtle gimmick like that, and I am sure that if you open this site on public terminals you’ll encounter […]

Mapsurface – another very slick site statistics thingamajing

February 23rd, 2006

Andy Budd reported yesterday about mapsurface , a new site statistics tool that does all the others do, but with the difference that it shows the data live on the site without the admin or statistics-interested visitors having to log into a backend editor. I really like what I can see on Andy’s site and […]

Freddy vs JSON – Lots of noise about OO JavaScript

February 21st, 2006

It is amazing how something dormant for a long time in the developer community emerges simultaneously at different spots. My own Show love to the object literal was basically intended to explain the OL as a coding style and syntax allowing your scripts to be self-contained. Dustin Diaz had a similar post cooking for quite […]

CSS Designer and DOM scripter, sitting in a tree

February 20th, 2006

Hello, I have a question for the CSS folk out there. Currently I am writing a book for APress on Practical JavaScript and I am right now at the chapter about JavaScript and CSS working together. Dynamic classes needed for styling JavaScript effects The idea is to separate CSS and JavaScript completely – as explained […]

Two Viruses for Macs – does this mean we cannot be smug any longer?

February 19th, 2006

Security Pro News reported about two Viruses spreading on Macs. While one of them is not yet found in the wild and spreads via Bluetooth, the other one is around, but needs a daft user like most of the less subtle PC Viruses. Leap.A spreads itself via iChat and originally claimed to be screenshots of […]

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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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