Christian Heilmann

Mint ate my server

September 12th, 2005

I just had to deactivate Mint on the CSS table gallery as it maxed out the server resources due to too many database connects per minute. I posted on the help forum and see if there is a way around that. A shame, I like the product a lot.

What kind of personality are you?

September 9th, 2005

The beep has a nice new test for you to find out what kind of personality you are. Allegedly I am a big thinker

addEvent recoding contest

September 8th, 2005

We all love Scott Andrew’s addEvent and how unobtrusive it allows us to add and remove event handlers from and to elements. But now things have turned sour and Peter Paul Koch gathers the forces of good to come up with a better solution: I just launched the “addEvent() recoding contest”:http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/09/addevent_recodi.html, aimed at producing a […]

Why good programmers are lazy and dumb

September 8th, 2005

Philipp Lenssen of google blogoscope has published a while ago truth I had known for a long time now Good programmers are lazy and dumb. I keep telling my developers that you don’t impress me by staying in the office late, you impress me by doing the 8 hour job in 6 hours with proper […]

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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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