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.

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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