Christian Heilmann

Internet Explorer 7 ante portas?

February 15th, 2005

After us whining and cursing the aged Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft seems to have plans to ship out Internet Explorer 7. Planned only for Windows XP2 users, and not backward compatible to win2k (how could it be without reusing the same engine?) it promises better security but so far there is no word as to […]

Hiding from the standards Gestapo

February 14th, 2005

I just got an email that made me laugh: Hello there. I just noticed your W3C validation thingy at the bottom of this page, and I thought “yay, finally someone that takes his work seriously!”. But no… When I clicked it I noticed that your page hasnt passed the W3C validation at all! There’s even […]

Comment spam

February 11th, 2005

The gall of some people is just unbelievable. I am getting spammed in the comments here with faked emails. The messages end in “If you don’t want us to comment here, email us at $fakedemail”. Why is it that free options just don’t get any respect?

CSS constants

February 11th, 2005

A lot of web designers complain about CSS lacking constants you could define once and reuse throughout the CSS document. CSS was not meant for that and does not support it. What you can do though is use a server side language to simulate a CSS file by setting the appropriate header. However, this means […]

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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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