Christian Heilmann

Thumb-O-Matic Update

May 18th, 2005

After two years I finally decided to upgrade Thumb-O-Matic, a script that displays images in the same page rather than a new window or replacing the document. This is one of my ancient scripts that won a JavaScript competition of a German Magazine in 1999 :-). Enjoy!

Web Design should be more Hardcore

May 17th, 2005

I like web sites that are like Bad Religion songs: Short, Fast, Simple but full of great messages. I hate having to find navigation, content or wade through long sentences and unnecessary marketing blurbs to find what I am looking for. Following some recent discussions on various forums and mailing lists, I got the impression […]

Geekiness extreme – Windows only sounds track

May 16th, 2005

Dean Perry seemed to have spent a lot of time on turning the windows operating system sound files into a quite listenable tune (MP3, 1.7MB). Let’s just hope he didn’t infringe any copyrights, like Microsoft might have done developing these sounds.

Slap your coworker day

May 12th, 2005

Got this from a disgruntled colleague: Slap Your Co-Worker Day is Coming!! Tomorrow is the official Slap Your Irritating Co-workers Holiday: Do you have a co-worker who talks nonstop about nothing, working your last nerve with tedious and boring details that you don’t care about? Do you have a co-worker who ALWAYS screws up stuff […]

Attack of the vegetables

May 11th, 2005

The Storewars animated movie got me in stitches this morning. Much better than all the other hype about Episode 3 I have seen so far. And I just remembered that I have foreseen it:

Newsletter

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

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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