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 […]

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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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