Christian Heilmann

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 […]

Pixels, Politics and P2P – Internet Days Stockholm 2016

December 2nd, 2016

I just got back from the Internet Days conference in Stockholm, Sweden. I was flattered when I was asked to speak at this prestigious event, but I had no idea until I arrived just how much fun it would be. I loved the branding of he conference as it was all about pixels and love. […]

Interviewing a depressed internet at The Internet Days

November 22nd, 2016

This morning I gave one of two keynotes at the Internet Days in Stockholm, Sweden. Suffice to say, I felt well chuffed to be presenting at such a prestigious event and opening up for a day that will be closed by an interview with Edward Snowden! Frankly, I freaked out and wanted to do something […]

Decoded chats the fifth: Ada Rose Edwards on Progressive Web Apps

November 17th, 2016

A few weeks after I pestered Ada Rose Edwards to write her first Smashing Magazine article on Progressive Web Apps I did a Skype call with her to talk about the same topic. You can see the video and get the audio recording of our chat over at the Decoded blog: Ada is a great […]

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