Christian Heilmann

Icant.co.uk redesign in the making

March 17th, 2005

I am redesigning my articles web site right now, realising that I practise bad usability and did it more for me than for you guys (nobody cares where I published the articles, what they are is important). Activate the thumbnail to get a preview of what it will look like:

Spring is here!

March 17th, 2005

And I am happy. Also, I won the Pink Panther DVD collection on ebay and it just arrived. Movies tonight!

Fixing JavaScript memory leaks

March 16th, 2005

Keith Gaugan has come up with a nice script that prevents event handling in JavaScript from causing memory leaks. I’ll give it a spin soon, so far it looks like a good idea to implement.

Nielsen speaks out about lower literacy

March 15th, 2005

Jakob Nielsen much loved/hated usability expert speaks in his latest alertbox about low-literacy users and what we have to think about when trying to accommodate our content for them. Much more interesting read than the 1314th tutorial on why skip links are a great idea.

The Joy of feedback

March 15th, 2005

I just got another nice contact via the YADM homepage stating: asdf(asdf@asdf.asdf) wrote Your relative drop down doesn’t work in NS6 Cheers. (Why do I bother?)

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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