Christian Heilmann

Published on TikTok, but Kompressor does not dance

August 11th, 2021

Visual Studio Code now has a TikTok channel and they asked me if I wanted to contribute, so here you are: @vscode A look under the hood ##vscode ##techtok ##codetok ##programming ##edutok ♬ original sound – Visual Studio Code A 20 second video of me explaining that I like VS Code a lot as it […]

[Video] Learn how to debug web projects end-to-end in VS Code in 5 minutes

August 9th, 2021

This weekend I released a video on the YouTube Channel of Visual Studio Code that shows end-to-end web project debugging. In five minutes I walk through debugging a web project bit by bit: I open a project inside VS Code by opening its folder. The demo used is a simple, plain Vanilla JS/CSS/HTML ToDo app […]

Happy Birthday, WWW – 30 years of mining a landfill for valid code

August 6th, 2021

Today the World Wide Web is 30 years old. I’ve worked on it since 1997 or so and I saw a lot of technologies and design trends come and go. I’ve also seen a lot of “this is much better and will replace the web” solutions come and go. What remained is the web with […]

Redirecting GitHub Pages

August 3rd, 2021

Today I finished moving the Edge Tools for VS Code extension documentation to its official space in the Microsoft docs. That meant I needed to redirect the documentation I hosted with GitHub pages in a docs folder/branch of the repository. There are plugins available for that, but I didn’t want to install any extra features […]

Using console.log() debugging in Visual Studio Code

July 30th, 2021

Using the new in-built JavaScript debugger in Visual Studio code you can use the browser developer tools Console right inside the editor. I just published a “TikTok” style video on the official Visual Studio Code channel explaining this and – after lots of criticism for the quality of the video (lads, this is on purpose!) […]

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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