Christian Heilmann

Quick tip: embedding YouTube Videos in GitHub pages

September 14th, 2022

GitHub Pages is a great way to host some of your content online. All you need to do is to write some markdown files and tell GitHub to create it as a page. The problem is that you can’t just add some HTML into your markdown to – for example – embed a YouTube video. […]

Automatic issue fixing and filtering in Visual Studio Code

September 9th, 2022

Using the Microsoft Edge DevTools for VS Code extension you get live analysis of your code and information about problems with accessibility, compatibiliity, security and performance. One highly requested feature was to automatically fix issues or allow users to never report a certain issue again. This is now part of the extension since version 2.1.1. […]

The sum of all knowledge

August 29th, 2022

Last week my mother died. After we put her urn into the ground next to my father’s we went back to their flat to talk about next steps and dividing up their belongings amongst us three children. One thing I immediately called dibs on were my father’s two books. Both were printed in 1955 and […]

Newsletter

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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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