Christian Heilmann

Twitter testing out a new “consequences” button? Not really…

February 26th, 2018

I just had an interesting experience after adding a German SIM card to my phone. The Android version I have told the phone to automatically switch all apps into a German mode. This can be handy, but I found it annoying. Where it got really odd is in the Twitter Lite PWA-ish app. As it […]

Don’t pay me to speak – share instead

February 16th, 2018

I just made an announcement on Twitter on something I’ve been doing for a while. Something I’d love more people with the same privilege as I enjoy doing: Standing offer to any event: instead of paying me to speak, I am very happy for you to offer diversity tickets of the same value instead. That […]

Presenting about the P in PWA at Awwwards Berlin

February 12th, 2018

Last Friday I presented about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) at the awwwards conference in Berlin. Deep dive into Progressive Web Apps with Chris Heilman @codepo8, Developer & Evangelist who's creating a PWA Builder @microsoft #PWA #webdevelopment #AwwwardsBerlin pic.twitter.com/t1PANtKEQk— Awwwards Digital Thinkers Conference (@AwwwardsConf) February 9, 2018 I was pretty lucky as @DasSurma also covered the […]

Developer Evangelism interview on news.com.au

January 29th, 2018

This morning news.com.au ran a segment about new job titles based on an interview with me a few weeks ago. In the interview about developer evangelism I answered a few questions and – more importantly – covered the difference between sales and developer relations. Here are my full answers to their questions: In layman’s terms, […]

That was my Beyond Tellerrand Munich 2018 – Keynote talk/slides and impressions

January 19th, 2018

I just got back from Beyond Tellerrand in Munich and here’s a quick report what you missed if you didn’t go. You might not be interested in my impressions, so let’s get my work out of the way first. I gave the opening keynote “Sacrificing the golden calf of coding” in which I explained my […]

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160: Graphs and RAGs explained and VS Code extension hacks Graphs and RAG explained, how AI is reshaping UI and work, how to efficiently use Cursor, VS Code extensions security issues.
159: AI pipelines, 10x faster TypeScript, How to interview How to use LLMs to help you write code and how much electricity does that use? Is your API secure? 10x faster TypeScript thanks to Go!
158: 🕹️ Super Mario AI 🔑 API keys in LLMs 🤙🏾 Vibe Coding Why is AI playing Super Mario? How is hallucinating the least of our worries and what are rules for developing Safety Critical Code?
157: CUDA in Python, Gemini Code Assist and back-dooring LLMs We met with a CUDA expert from NVIDIA about the future of hardware, we look at how AI fails and how to play pong on 140 browser tabs.
156: Enterprise dead, all about Bluesky and React moves on! Learn about Bluesky as a platform, how to build a React App and how to speed up SQL. And play an impossible game in the browser.

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