Christian Heilmann

The (new) Developer Advocacy Handbook is live!

May 31st, 2021

I just finished the writing part of the new edition of the Developer Advocacy Handbook. I wrote the original almost 15 years ago, and this edition is a heavy re-write. A lot has changed in the world of Developer Advocacy and I tried to add my findings over the last few years to the book. […]

Answering questions about my career for honeypot.io

May 4th, 2021

A few weeks ago Honeypot.io asked me to answer a few questions about my career, and here is the video of my answers. 00:00 Introduction 00:31 What are your top tips for career advancement? 02:03 What strengths are most important for a developer? 04:07 Work-life balance: how do you do it? 05:11 What mistakes have […]

Tabs vs. Spaces show on Developer tools

April 16th, 2021

If you got 25 minutes to spare, here’s a great episode of Matt Wojciakowski ’s “Tabs vs. Spaces” show where I talk together with my colleagues Erica Draud and Rachel Simone Weil about Edge Developer tools, accessibility, PWAs and what we’re doing to make it easier for beginners to get started.

Newsletter

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

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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