Christian Heilmann

CAPTCHA Alternatives for a commercial product?

December 13th, 2005

Right now I am working on a project that will be a paypal-esque financial application, and of course security is a big issue with this one. We had a great meeting talking about security measures that could be added to the forms to ensure that only real users will be able to log-in. I collected […]

RSS feeds everywhere, even in the smallest room

December 8th, 2005

If you ever wondered if and where people read your RSS feeds, you might be in for a surprise, when your audience is in Taiwan. It seems there is a new product available that prints out RSS feeds onto toilet paper Would be great to have a control element to define the print strength, in […]

What I want from CSS3 – nested declaration blocks

December 6th, 2005

Back in October, Andy Budd wanted to have min- and max-padding in CSS3, so it seems only fair that for my 200th post here I can also give my $.02 and ask (and maybe stomp my little feet) for something in CSS3 (after all we can celebrate together in well, roughly 2010 when all browsers […]

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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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