Christian Heilmann

Accessibility mistakes we have all done

January 11th, 2006

I am currently writing up my follow up article for my digital web article 10 reasons why clients don’t care about accessibility aptly named “Seven habits of projects who fail to deliver accessibility”. In it I’ll be listing mistakes I have encountered and done which caused the final product to become less accessible than it […]

Free Scott Adams ebook

January 6th, 2006

Andrews and McMeel are giving out a free PDF copy of Scott Adams’ book ‘God’s Debris’. Allegedly the real book was hard to market, but worked out well enough. Scott Adams is most known for his Dilbert comics, but wrote some enjoyable full books, too. This one is not in the dilbert fashion, but a […]

Things Web Developers can learn from craftsmen part 1

December 31st, 2005

I spent Christmas at my parents’ and went through some of the old paperwork to see what can be ditched. One of the contracts I found dated 1996 and was my application to start a web design business. I remember clearly that back then the government agency dealing with new businesses asking me if “web […]

Samorost – A wonderfully designed time waster

December 24th, 2005

If you like puzzle games and want to see really cool rust/dirt/moss inspired designs with off-beat humour and a dash of drug induced ambient music check out Samorost and Samorost2. I spent the money on the full version and must say it really was worth it. I want more of their stuff! Tips & Tricks […]

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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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