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.

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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