Christian Heilmann

Back to Basics: Event Delegation

November 1st, 2020

Back to basics is a series of small posts where I explain basic, dependency free web techniques I keep using in my projects. These aren’t revelations but helped me over the years to build sturdy, easy to maintain projects. One of my favourite tricks when it comes to building web interfaces is Event Delegation Events […]

Writing a dog picture browser in ~200 lines of code

October 29th, 2020

Dogs are excellent, and great people. When I came across the Dog.ceo API of free dog images sorted by breed the other day, I had to do something with it. So I did. I give you the dog browser: You use it by clicking the image to get a random dog picture or typing into […]

How to be a more effective developer week (tools and tricks)

October 2nd, 2020

I’ve had a busy week. Sharing developer tips at Microsoft Create: Serverless Wednesday I hosted an open Mic session at the Microsoft Create: Serveless event together with Marie Hoeger. The topic was “Developer Hacks and Tools we wished we knew sooner” and we had about 30 attendees sharing their best tricks. I put up a […]

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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