Christian Heilmann

Chat around the Campfire

February 17th, 2006

The clever people who brought us Backpack and Basecamp strike back with Campfire which is essentially like having a chat in an Instant Messenger with several people, but with a fixed URL and logging of the conversation. This could be a cool replacement for phone conferences for companies like the one I am working at […]

Show love to the object literal

February 16th, 2006

German Visitors: Zur deutschen Version gehts hier – auf dem Blog von Jens Grochtdreis If you are just getting your teeth into JavaScript, or if you used it in the past and re-discovered it in the wake of the AJAX craze you might have been baffled by scripts that come in a new syntax. While […]

More Yahoo goodies

February 14th, 2006

More good stuff from Yahoo: The Design Pattern Library describes patterns to use when you have a certain task to fulfil, taking the idea of patterns into the UI arena. If you have no clue about patterns, check Snook’s bit at Digital Web about them. Proving that the developers can walk the walk instead of […]

Graded Browser Support

February 14th, 2006

Yahoo just released their idea of modern browser support entitled Graded Browser Support . I have been advocating this in my company for a while, although it sometimes is tricky as it is also dependent on the client and their visitors (I had this wonderful degrading CSS-layout with awesome DOM Scripting effects just to realise […]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it is a new server!

February 14th, 2006

Ok, I am reporting live from the new server donated by the lovely people at NWU. Hopefully the transition went smoothly and there are no hickups. Generally the site should run smoother and faster now, as the server is bigger better faster and better connected.

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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