Christian Heilmann

Future Decoded 2016 – My talk on Machine Learning, Terminators and Star Trek

November 3rd, 2016

Yesterday I went to the Excel in London for Future Decoded to learn a lot about the future of technology, finally see the DeLorian from Back to the Future and give a talk. I covered Machine Learning, its ethics, its effects on the job market and what we as developers need to do to make […]

My GotoCon Copenhagen talk videos: PWAs and Machine learning for images

November 2nd, 2016

The lovely folks at Goto Conference just released the high quality recordings of my talks at their Copenhagen edition earlier this month. Fixing the image problem of the web using Machine Learning was a impromptu presentation as one of the presenters had to pull out and they needed another presentation. Progressive Web Apps – return […]

Decoded Chats – third edition featuring Chris Wilson on JavaScript and Web Standards

October 25th, 2016

At the Microsoft/Mozilla Progressive Web Apps workshop in Seattle I ran into Chris Wilson and took the opportunity to interview him on Web Standards, JavaScript dependency and development complexity. In this first interview we covered the need for JavaScript in today’s web and how old-school web standards stand up to today’s needs. You can see […]

Decoded Chats – second edition featuring Monica Dinculescu on Web Components

October 20th, 2016

At SmashingConf Freiburg this year I was lucky enough to find some time to sit down with Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf) and chat with her about Web Components, extending the web, JavaScript dependency and how to be a lazy but dedicated developer. I’m sorry about the sound of the recording and some of the harsher cuts […]

Decoded Chats – first edition live on the Decoded Blog

October 18th, 2016

Over the last few weeks I was busy recording interviews with different exciting people of the web. Now I am happy to announce that the first edition of Decoded Chats is live on the new Decoded Blog. In this first edition, I’m interviewing Rob Conery about his “Imposter Handbook“. We cover the issues of teaching […]

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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