Christian Heilmann

Do we have a lack of developers or a false assumption what the job is?

May 31st, 2022

Last week I was at build Europe and talked to a lot of people about the developer market. The general consensus was that there is a huge lack of developers to hire. That there is not enough talent. When I poked further and asked about how people assess talent, it boiled down to people having […]

What people think that web developers do vs. what we really do

May 27th, 2022

What people think web developers do: Code, deploy and use, with coding being the main task What web developers really do: Coding Require random 3rd party framework code Updating Node/NPM Try the last command again with `sudo` Checking on mobile Shaking fist towards Cupertino Looking things up on the web Pasting Stack Overflow solutions Resize […]

A teleprompter script for video recordings

May 25th, 2022

Currently I am recording a lot of videos and I found the fastest way to do them is to write the script and read it out to my camera and then record screencasts and edit them to fit the narration. In order to make sure I read from the top of the screen and reading […]

Fixing the accessibility of Inspection overlays

May 17th, 2022

The Inspect tool is a great way to get information about different page elements before selecting then. Once it is enabled, it shows an information overlay as you move from element to element. The main problem with the tool is that sometimes it is tough to get the information about the right element, as they […]

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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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