Christian Heilmann

My JavaScript story featured me, here’s the podcast and some sort of transcript

July 3rd, 2019

I was once again a guest at devchat.tv’s “My JavaScript story” podcast and Charles Max Wood grilled me on Edge moving to Chromium, how I got into programing, blogging and what products I was happy to have contributed to. We also pivoted into events and online videos, how amazing our current development environment is and […]

Life is short and our mind is fleeting

July 1st, 2019

The last weekend sucked and made me reconsider a lot of things in my life. Instead of being on stage at the landing festival talking about great web things I had to go see my family for an emergency. On Saturday we put the urn with my father’s ashes in the ground. That was a […]

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 […]

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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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