Christian Heilmann

Into the web multiverse

September 25th, 2019

This is the article version of a talk I gave at Web Unleashed in Toronto and Halfstack in Vienna. You can also check the slides here . I love the web, and it has been only good to me from a career point of view. I am also worried about where it is going. I […]

Unleashing the web multiverse at web unleashed

September 15th, 2019

I’m in the lounge at YYZ waiting for my flight back to London after attending Web Unleashed in Toronto for the second time. Sadly enough I couldn’t be there for the whole event, but arrived late in the evening of the first day. I’m saying sadly, because I had an excellent time and I am […]

Avocode interviewed me about my career and what comes next

August 30th, 2019

The nice folks at Avocode have a series of blog posts where they interview important people of the web and ask them about their history and career. Probably by accident, I ended on their invite list and they just published a long blog post of me explaining some things. The questions we answered were in […]

“Tweet this page” bookmarklet

August 23rd, 2019

Update: Moved the code to GitHub, make sure to drag it from there to your toolbars Update: Fixed now for Chrome – there were some issues with whitespace :( I like tweeting about pages I read in the following format: “Headline” https://example.com Most “share this” buttons add a lot of cruft and if there is […]

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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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