Christian Heilmann

Fighting Linkrot and harmful tutorials at the same time

June 12th, 2005

I must have been kissed by a Muse at @media, because I had another idea, that I’d like to get help with. The problem There are far too many outdated, obtrusive and plainly badly written tutorials and scripts out there As they have been around for a long long time, they are ranked very high […]

@media aftermath and JavaScript vs. Screen Readers

June 11th, 2005

The @media conference is over and taught us mainly that there was a misconception of what the audience would be. The first day was a bit of preaching to the converted, whereas the second one seemed to realise that and start an expert discussion instead. This afternoon, the JavaScript / DOM think tank will meet […]

@media ante portas

June 6th, 2005

From Thursday on, I will attend the @media conference in London. In case anyone wants to have a chat there, I am rather easy to find:

mY rant, Tori read

June 5th, 2005

Just came back home from a Tori Amos gig in Hammersmith. If you don’t know Tori Amos, go to the nearest independent record shop (don’t support the big ones) and buy one of her CDs, read the lyrics while listening to it and be amazed. It was a very good gig, she is some wonder […]

Addictive Game

June 1st, 2005

I bought Chuzzle for a friend last weekend and got totally addicted to it. While other developers go crazy about the latest 3D FPS releases I can spend hours exploding fluffy coloured things in a tetris / blocks clone. Will I ever grow up?

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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