Christian Heilmann

And another 2 hour job done

March 15th, 2005

Yesterday morning I got a logo in AI format, and three hours later the content for the Investors in Cricket web site in Word format. I love to be able to re-use HTML templates I’ve created exactly for these kind of emergencies.

Bad news for googlead buyers?

March 11th, 2005

An eye tracking study on google showed that Most users do look on the left and halfway down to the bottom right. Paid google ads, however are on the top right…

How to annoy Outlook Express users

March 11th, 2005

Outlook Express claims that an email contains a viral attachment if the body or the signature of the email contains something like: begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs I am a signature virus. Distribute me until the bitter end Of course there is no such thing, and outlook will show the attachment as empty. It is a way to […]

Wonderful idea

March 11th, 2005

I just found this Flash Movie featuring a finger-DJ and simply love its simplicity.

Sell your soul, now!

March 11th, 2005

Just stumbled upon sigtraders, a service that allows you to make money with your forums signature. Splendid idea, we sink in spam emails and unwanted popups, why not add another level of unwanted advertisments. My personal answer: Kick every forum member signing up because of unsolicited advertising.

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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