Christian Heilmann

JavaScript Jabber Podcast episode “Edge on Chromium”

October 29th, 2019

Devchat.tv today released the 404th episode of “JavaScript Jabber”, a podcast where a panel of experts asks guests about a certain topic. In this episode (which can be found, despite the number), they had Zoher Ghadyali and me as their guests and we answered lots of questions about the move of Edge to Chromium and […]

Memories of web development past

October 15th, 2019

I just found an old CD with a projects folder of work I did in 1998 – 1999 as a web developer and I am in awe about a few things. Well, first of all, let’s get out of the way how I – successfully – advertised my business: Then I discovered a full size […]

Terseness tension

October 1st, 2019

There is a strange fascination in developers to keep things as small as possible. There are several reasons for it. In the past, computers had limited resources, so every byte had to count. On the web, we never know what people use to consume our code. Erring on the side of caution is also a […]

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 […]

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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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