Christian Heilmann

So which was the day slashdot linked to me?

August 3rd, 2005

Last month was also the first one to break the 1 million hits barrier on the whole server (blog, icant.co.uk and onlinetools.org. Again, a huge thank you to NWU for sponsoring my server space. This would cost me a bundle :-)

I want a Mac.

August 2nd, 2005

I toyed with the idea of getting myself a Mac for a longer time now, mainly because I want to be able to check my works on this OS and Safari more easily than now. I put some money aside, and now my landlady tells me I need to move out as she wants to […]

What can we do when there is too much navigation?

July 28th, 2005

We have faced quite a dilemma today and had a 4 hour meeting about possibilities how to solve it. The client has a huge sitemap, and they are bound by law to offer all of the services listed in it on their site as links. Now, up to two levels, a navigation on the left […]

Talking business: How I Learned to Love CSV

July 25th, 2005

Devarticles just published my first article in a two article saga: Talking business: How I Learned to Love CSV . Why they published it in their XML section is a bit beyond me, but there you go. The article deals with the dilemma of receiving and giving data from and to non-techie business people and […]

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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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