Christian Heilmann

Taking my G-Ro for a spin…

January 9th, 2017

Almost two years ago the G-Ro travel bag kickstarter did the rounds and all of us travelers pricked up our ears. It sounded revolutionary and a really cool bag that is a mix of carry-on and laptop bag. It’s unique physics and large wheels promise easy travel and the in-built charger for mobiles and laptops […]

First Decoded Chat of the year: Paul Bakaus on AMP

January 5th, 2017

Today on the Decoded Blog I published the first ever Decoded Chat I recorded, where I grilled Paul Baukaus in detail about AMP. This is an hour long Skype call and different to the newer ones – I was still finding the format :). There are quite a few changes that happened to AMP since […]

Web bloat isn’t a knowledge problem

January 2nd, 2017

There is a consensus among all browser makers and lovers of the web: the current state of the web is a mess. The average web page is 2.4 megabyte big and has over 200 requests. We spend more time waiting for trackers and ads to load than we spend reading content. Our high-powered computers and […]

Enjoying the silence…

December 27th, 2016

It is a strange love I have for the web. Ever since I used the web for the first time it felt like taking a ride with a best friend. I knew I had to start working on it to never let it down again. Many people who started with the web when I did […]

Taking a look behind the scenes before publicly dismissing something

December 3rd, 2016

Lately I started a new thing: watching “behind the scenes” features of movies I didn’t like. At first this happened by chance (YouTube autoplay, to be precise), but now I do it deliberately and it is fascinating. Van Helsing to me bordered on the unwatchable, but as you can see there are a lot of […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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