Christian Heilmann

Making remote work – Podcast

June 21st, 2021

Last week my former colleague Si Jobling interviewed me for his Make life work podcast about working from home, in different time zones and how to optimise your workflow. This also tied in nicely with Tools and Tips to Optimize Your Workflow as a Developer class and I shared how this one got prepared and […]

Seven things you can’t do in React…

June 21st, 2021

I got a cold email asking me to write a blog post about “Seven things you can’t do in React” for exposure on a “leading technology blog”. I sent them my proposal, wish me luck… 1. Boil the perfect egg 2. Connect to your inner child 3. Reach that itchy part on your back 4. […]

Shut up, old man…

June 16th, 2021

Often you will be part of meetings where people show demos of what your product could look like in the future. These are brain-storming, visionary meetings that can have great outcomes. The idea is to not think in boundaries but in benefits for your users and customers. The longer you work in a certain company […]

New class on Skillshare: Tools and Tips to Optimise Your Workflow as a Developer

June 9th, 2021

I have a new class on Skillshare where I am teaching how to be a developer that is easy to work with in a world of home office, geographical and temporal distribution and how to communicate across departments. You can check the introduction video here: Here’s what I am covering in the video: Our world […]

Accessibility issues you can discover and fix using the browser Developer Tools

June 8th, 2021

I’ve been busy lately writing and recording a lot of things concerning accessibility and tooling. One of the practical upshots of my Skillshare Class Product Management: Tools for Improving Product Accessibility was that I had to go through the documentation of the developer tools of Microsoft Edge and bring it up-to-date with new information about […]

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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