Christian Heilmann

How !important are we?

May 28th, 2019

One of my favourite parts of CSS is the !important exception. It is a wonderful metaphor of the oft cited problem between CSS and JavaScript developers. As a CSS developer, you know to avoid using it. It makes things too important and hard to overwrite. As a developer that has to write CSS and doesn’t […]

AI and ethics keynote at Azure Saturday in Munich (video, slides and resources)

May 22nd, 2019

Last weekend I went to Munich to give the opening keynote for the Azure Saturday hosted in the Microsoft office. I was asked to give an overall intro about AI, what we should be worried about and how to embrace this new technology without locking people out or endangering them. The video recording is on […]

A checklist for more inclusive, accessible, measurable and understandable talks

April 23rd, 2019

I’ve spent the better part of the last seven years presenting at all kind of conferences, meetups and client meetings and I’ve learned a lot along the way. I learned about different needs of different audiences and how to prepare your talk to make it as easy as possible for organisers to work with you. […]

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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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