Christian Heilmann

GitHub Toggle – a bookmarklet to toggle between repo and GitHub Pages

March 18th, 2019

And in the “things I always wanted to have” camp, I just wrote myself a small bookmarklet that switches from a GitHub repository and its Pages back and forth. You can get it on its GitHub repo: GitHub Toggle It is not clever, and for now only works with index.html pages, as I didn’t want […]

[webfinds] The CSS edition – drawing with it, why yours fails and a remedy

March 12th, 2019

As people complained that I post too many links to follow on Twitter (it is my stream of consciousness – as I find it, I post it), I’m starting to release these link lists every few days now. Hopefully that helps. Pure CSS Drawing Essentials – the top 5 CSS properties Diana Smith relies on […]

My IT Career Energizer interview

March 5th, 2019

A few weeks ago I was asked by IT Career Energizer to be a guest on their show. Yesterday they released the podcast. You can listen to the podcast and see the extensive notes there. According to them, my best answers were: (3.57) CHRIS – “Being flexible in your time and being flexible to actually […]

Codemotion released the interview I gave about JavaScript and AI topics

February 26th, 2019

Over on the Codemotion magazine, they just released the video interviews shot at the Berlin edition last year. I had quite a lot of questions, spanning from AI and ethics, what machine learning means for our market up to how to learn JavaScript. There are two parts to the interview: In the first, I am […]

Interactive Typography cheatsheet

February 18th, 2019

A few weeks ago I stumbled across a great resource, a typography cheat sheet explaining the proper names of all the different parts of letters. I thought it would be fun to turn this into an interactive cheat sheet and wondered how much would be involved. Turns out, it wasn’t that much, so here is […]

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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