Christian Heilmann

It’s a date (field)

March 9th, 2005

Following a discussion I just couldn’t stop myself participating in about date form fields on the list I googled a bit on the topic of date entry usability and found a extensive usability study on hotel booking systems. There is no silver bullet, and it is very dependent on the product. The battling sides are […]

Get a sloppy connection

March 7th, 2005

I just played with Sloppy, a tool to simulate dial-up connections on your broadband for testing purposes, and I am very happy indeed with it. So if you have a web site or product that is most likely to be used by dial-up users, check them out with sloppy slowing down your connection.

Psychic JavaScript?

February 28th, 2005

Human behaviour is rather predictable. When guessing passwords for example it is quite a good bet to check for names of family members and birthdates. It is also possible to predict what a person will choose when following certain rules, as the Mind Reader proves.

Keyboard Access and Internet Explorer

February 25th, 2005

Internet Explorer has a nasty bug when you link to named anchors. You go there visually, but the focus of the keyboard access is not taken forward.

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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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