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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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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