Christian Heilmann

“The complete JavaScript toolkit” Skillshare course is free this week!

September 3rd, 2018

This July Skillshare released my course called The Complete JavaScript Toolkit and you can access it by signing up for a 2 months trial of Skillshare. I am happy to announce that for this week, this course is now completely free. You need still to sign up for a Skillshare login, but you don’t need […]

No more ads on my blog

August 30th, 2018

Most of the readers here on Desktop will not have realised any difference thanks to ad blockers, but I just took the conscious decision to take off all the ads from this blog. The reasons is that even by sticking to Google as the ad provider, I keep seeing ads I don’t approve of, and […]

One Dev Question – What is webhint?

August 21st, 2018

I am currently on vacation, so I keep this short. On my last trip to Redmond, I met with the video team and recorded a series of One Dev Questions on webhint. The first one was released today on Twitter: Here's the first video in our new One Dev Question series with Chris Heilmann, @codepo8. […]

Developer Relations revelations: social media can be pretty anti-social

August 10th, 2018

This is part of a series of posts about the life as a DevRel person and how not all is unicorns and roses. You can read the introduction and the other parts of the series here. So, today, let’s talk about social media. Social media is one of the most powerful things for a DevRel […]

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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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