Christian Heilmann

Javascript vs. CSS – More control means more responsibility (video interview)

April 11th, 2019

A few weeks ago I was in Paris, France to visit Prismic and they interviewed me about the JavaScript vs. CSS debate. In 10 minutes we covered a lot :). Transcript Here is a verbatim transcript of what we talked about: So I’m here at Prismic, with Chris Heilmann. Chris, can you introduce a little […]

Hinting at a better web at JSFWDays in Kiev, Ukraine

April 1st, 2019

Two weeks ago I went to Kiev, Ukraine to speak at the JavaScript FWDays conference. I gave the closing keynote talking about what matters on the web and how we can create a better one by moving our best practices into our development flow. The video is now available on Youtube The slides and resources […]

Talking to prismic about performance

March 20th, 2019

A few days ago, I flew to Paris to meet with Prismic and record a few videos on web topics. Today they released the first video where I talked about web performance, mistakes to avoid and tools to use to make your apps faster. Here are the topics in detail: 0:59 Managing performance on a […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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