Christian Heilmann

Hinting at a better web at State of the Browser 2018

September 16th, 2018

State of the browser is an small, annual conference in London. It originated as a format of 20 minute presentations by each browser maker followed by a panel allowing people to hear browser news straight from the horse’s mouth. It has been running for seven years (I think, hard to find out). This year was […]

“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 […]

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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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