Christian Heilmann

How to create a CSS Toolshed submission – step by step

December 2nd, 2005

It has been quite a while since I started the CSS Toolshed, and I expected a lot of submissions after hundreds of people downloaded the templates, but now – more than two weeks later – I only got one good submission to show. OK, I get the message: I cannot expect developers to work in […]

Blogs, Lists, Mags, Forums, Feeds? Where do you get your webdev juice from?

November 30th, 2005

I remember finding A List Apart and Evolt.org very early in my career and it helped me heaps, and I learnt a lot from the Forums on Sitepoint.com and really way back at experts exchange. I’ve also been a regular on the list and CSS-Discuss for some years and on IRCnet in #html since almost […]

Do you really need an HTML email christmas greeting?

November 28th, 2005

I got 5 test emails from different web developer friends today asking me if this christmas ecard in email format looks good in my email client. Most looked messed up in one way or another, and all had the images initially blocked and flagged up the loading as a security issue. So here are some […]

Geekdinner aftermath

November 25th, 2005

Yesterday was Molly’s geek dinner in the hog’s head in Bond Street, and it was quite a good social gathering. Check the flickr photos to see what was going on. My findings: geekdinner is a rubbish tag, as you can see at number on non-related pictures (including the pita goatse ) if you ever want […]

Working on another CSS Toolshed entry

November 24th, 2005

As there is to date only one additional working submission for the CSS Toolshed (in comparison to over 400 downloads, so there is hope), I started another design of my own, with apologies to Zeldman and Happy Cog. Take a peek at what is there to come I will write a step by step commentary, […]

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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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