Christian Heilmann

Pure mouse independent CSS popups?

January 31st, 2005

A lot of people cherish the pure CSS popups technique published by Eric Meyer in the long long ago. The only problem with these is that they are not accessible. While screen readers and browsers without CSS happily display the texts, users without a mouse have no chance to get to the content of the […]

Blogging gene discovered

January 28th, 2005

Or is it?. “Webloggers are born not made,” he said. “And shouldn’t be persecuted.” The activity could be a positive, group-bonding social function such as grooming, or simply a harmless way of passing the time, such as masturbation.

Lynx users are hackers!

January 28th, 2005

Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser Three cheers for that admin.

Human DNA demystified

January 28th, 2005

Scientists were wondering for a long time why only a small percentage of the human DNA does fulfil a real function. Now it has become clear: the rest are comments .

Beachwalkers

January 27th, 2005

Got an email with videos of two odd contraptions. I have no idea what these things are, but I want one.

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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