Christian Heilmann

Seven ways to test for accessibility of your web site with browser Developer Tools

January 11th, 2021

There are lots of ways to test your web site for accessibility issues. Services, software packages, even human testing companies. They all have their place and often a test with real people is the best thing to do. However, for a quick, preliminary test you don’t need to install anything or pay for a service. […]

Back to basics: adding a playback speed control to an audio player

December 28th, 2020

Currently I am publishing the new Developer Advocacy Handbook chapter by chapter and I also started recording audio versions of each chapter. A common request of people is to be able to control the speed of a audio/video recording. Luckily enough, using basic HTML5 and JavaScript, this is not that hard to achieve, so let’s […]

Quick Tip: How to capture and replace newlines in liquid for Jekyll/GitHub Pages

December 17th, 2020

As part of the re-write of The Developer Advocacy Handbook I needed to have blockquotes with different classes. With GitHub Pages markdown you can do that using the > notation: > Fact: There are no bad students or a bad audience—only bad workshops and talks. Your mood, dedication and enthusiasm do become those […]

Update to the Developer Evangelism/Advocacy handbook almost complete

December 15th, 2020

Eleven years ago I wrote the Developer Evangelism Handbook .Last month I was approached by a publisher who is interested to print it in another language. Whilst flattered, I also couldn’t let that happen as there are parts of the book that are quaintly outdated now. Some of the products I promote aren’t available any […]

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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