Christian Heilmann

Links that don’t go anywhere should be buttons

February 5th, 2019

This morning I tweeted a blog post about Back to Basics: Non-Navigating Links for JavaScript Handling and rightfully incurred the wrath of the Gunnar pointing out the flaws of the article. In essence, the article asks which of the five following examples is the correct one to create a link that invokes some JavaScript functionality: […]

[webfinds] Shouting at your screen to prefetch some Word Art

January 29th, 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. Performance Doug Sillars telling us that not all your base belong to us in […]

HTML is and always was a compilation target – can we deal with that?

January 28th, 2019

Every few weeks the webdevelopment Twitter world gets in a frenzy over terrible HTML. HTML that is only DIVs and SPANs with random classes on them. HTML lacking any sensible interfaces like anchors or buttons. HTML lacking any structure like headings and lists. Non-semantic HTML. Unreadable HTML. HTML is well defined. It is also robust, […]

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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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