Christian Heilmann

Generating thumbnails with PHP and GD

March 26th, 2005

This rather old article is now moved to icant.co.uk where it belongs and I ditched the gd1 information. It describes how you can generate thumbnails from images on the fly using PHP and the gd library. You can check it at: http://www.icant.co.uk/articles/phpthumbnails/

Busy sunny day, happy easter to all!

March 26th, 2005

I spent the day on my new bicycle riding into London to go to the computerfair for some cheap hardware (USB 2 enclosure + 160GB Maxtor for 60 Pound!) and found the coolest DVD carrier case ever: I also realised that it might be handy to use the bus lane as a cyclist but rather […]

Click for water

March 24th, 2005

It’s just a simple click for you, but it means that the european plastics industry donates 10 cents to ensure that people in Ethiopia get clean water. Having spent 3 months in India brushing my teeth with bottled water I gladly give that one click.

icant.co.uk redesign done

March 21st, 2005

It’s done! icant.co.uk is up and live with the new design and layout. While I will write some words why and how the redesign was done, I’d be grateful for any feedback.

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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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