Christian Heilmann

“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 […]

Using CSS Custom attributes generated by JavaScript as a handover mechanism

July 29th, 2019

Update: there was a simplification about Custom Attributes being not supporting concatenation, thanks to Sime Vidas, Brian Kardell and Greg Whitworth to set this straight. Over the last few iterations of CSS the boundaries between CSS and JavaScript started to blur. CSS was a static language, meant to define colours, look and feel, but not […]

Passing the mic

July 19th, 2019

I realised this week that I’ve been presenting at technology events for about 13 years now. The latter years were more or less dedicated to this and in some cases I covered 30 conferences a year. Painting by Anke Mehlert It is exhausting, but also fun work. And it brings a lot of extra opportunities. […]

A worrying change in Open Source perception

July 11th, 2019

Open Source is an excellent idea. It proved itself to create large and complex products with a shared workforce. It also allows products to follow the input and guidance from several players. Products don’t have to follow the demands of one company or their stakeholders. We build for the platform and the community, not for […]

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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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