Christian Heilmann

Developer Relations revelations: Conferences are a lot of work

June 26th, 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 conferences and attending them as a DevRel person. As an attendee conferences are amazing. […]

Developer Relations revelations: not all is glamour and fun

June 25th, 2018

I spent this morning at a photoshoot. A photographer dragged me all over Berlin Mitte to take photos of me holding my phone and pretending to communicate. The reason is an essay about “Jobs of the Future” for a German finance magazine. Me, I am a “Developer Relations Person/Developer Evangelist/Developer Advocate” and this is baffling […]

New Skillshare course: Introduction to Machine Learning: Using Artificial Intelligence

June 19th, 2018

I am chuffed to announce that my first Skillshare course is going live today! The course is online and comes with a free two month subscription to Skillshare. You can watch it by following this link: http://skl.sh/christian or tapping on my nose in this still: Under the title “Introduction to Machine Learning: Using Artificial Intelligence” […]

Artificial Intelligence for more human interfaces

June 10th, 2018

Artificial intelligence is the hype we’re knee-deep in at the moment. Everybody says they use it. Some says it will make the world a better place, others worry that it is the first sign of the end of the world. AI isn’t only for a few, big, technical players And most are technically correct. Most […]

So I went to “We are developers” in Vienna…

May 31st, 2018

A few days ago, I went to the We are developers congress in Vienna, Austria. The “Woodstock for developers” actually turned out to be a very well organized, but less wild event full of pretty amazing presenters and content. It was a developer conference, not as focused about all kind of web matters, but more […]

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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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