Christian Heilmann

Breaking out of the Tetris mindset

May 23rd, 2017

This is a longer version of this year’s keynote at Beyond Tellerrand conference. I posted earlier about the presentation with the video and slides. Here you get the longer transcript and explanation. If you prefer Medium to read, here’s the same post there It is amazing to work on the web. We have a huge […]

You don’t owe the world perfection! – keynote at Beyond Tellerrand

May 16th, 2017

Yesterday morning I was lucky enough to give the opening keynote at the excellent Beyond Tellerrand conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. I wrote a talk for the occasion that covered a strange disconnect that we’re experiencing at the moment. Whilst web technology advanced leaps and bounds we still seem to be discontent all the time. I […]

Talking about building the next interfaces with Machine Learning and AI at hackingui

April 25th, 2017

Yesterday I was proud to be an invited speaker at the HackingUI masterclass where I presented about what Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence means for us as developers and designers. I will be giving a similar talk tomorrow in Poland in my Code Europe talk. The Masterclass is using Crowdcast to allow for discussions between […]

Want to learn more about using the command line? Remy helps!

March 14th, 2017

This is an unashamed plug for Remy Sharp’s terminal training course command line for non–techies. Go over there and have a look at what he’s lined up for a very affordable price. In a series of videos he explains all the ins and outs of the terminal and its commands that can make you much […]

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