Christian Heilmann

80 years ago

January 27th, 2025

80 years ago today the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. Millions of people were killed there. Jews, Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, homosexuals, political prisoners… All accounted for. Killed by people “just following orders”. An industrial destruction complex void of any emotion. A dehumanisation machine. Surrounded by villages of people who claim not to […]

WAD Live 22/01/2025 – Accessibility, JavaScript Bundlers and Git Basics

January 23rd, 2025

OK, yesterday at WeAreDevelopers Live we talked with Stefan Judis about AI and Webdesign, Screenreaders and what JavaScript bundler to use. All the links we talked about are here: DeepSeek Crushes OpenAI o1 with an MIT-Licensed Model—Developers Are Losing It Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Back to Text: How AI Might Reverse Web […]

“modern” is rubbish

January 21st, 2025

Some terms irk me whenever I read them and one of them is “modern”. I try to avoid it like the plague, which is counter to all the marketing announcements you read out there: “Product X uses modern JavaScript features” “7 modern CSS tricks you can’t live without” “The modern productivity tool to get your […]

Learning HTML is the best investment I ever did

January 15th, 2025

One of the running jokes and/or discussion I am sick and tired of is people belittling HTML. Yes, HTML is not a programming language. No, HTML should not just be a compilation target. Learning HTML is a solid investment and not hard to do. I am not alone in this, Wired had a piece on […]

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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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