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 […]

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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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