Christian Heilmann

Shifting an image with canvas

November 23rd, 2020

As part of my Tile Editor I needed a way to shift an image by x pixels left, right, up or down. I didn’t need to move the image, I needed to shift the pixels of the image. This allows you now to shift the image and thus makes painting seamless tiles much easier. Now, […]

How to persistently change third party web sites with browser developer tools

November 3rd, 2020

This has also been published on Medium and dev.to in case you prefer them. Often you find things in web sites that annoy you. And – as a web developer – you’re even asked to fix some problems in web sites without getting access to the source. Using developer tools in browsers you can change […]

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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!
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