Christian Heilmann

Decoded Chats – fourth edition featuring Sarah Drasner on SVG

November 10th, 2016

At SmashingConf Freiburg I took some time to interview Sarah Drasner on SVG. In this interview we covered what SVG can bring, how to use it sensibly and what pitfalls to avoid. You can see the video and get the audio recording of our chat over at the Decoded blog: Sarah is a dear friend […]

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 […]

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer

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