Christian Heilmann

AMPed up

August 3rd, 2016

With yesterday’s coverage of more rumours that Google search on mobile will rank AMP versions higher than normal HTML ones (The Verge and Nieman Lab reported) I thought it high time to take a closer look at AMP. I will follow up with more in-detailed information about this and I’m chatting to the team in […]

Why ChakraCore matters

July 27th, 2016

People who have been in the web development world for a long time might remember A List Apart’s posts from 16 years ago talking about “Why $browser matters”. In these posts, Zeldman explained how the compliance with web standards and support for new features made some browsers stand out, even if they don’t have massive […]

A great time and place to ask about diversity and inclusion

July 18th, 2016

There isn’t a single day going by right now where you can’t read a post or see a talk about diversity and inclusiveness in our market. And that’s a great thing. Most complain about the lack of them. And that’s a very bad thing. It has been proven over and over that diverse teams create […]

Things not to say on stage at a tech event

July 6th, 2016

This is also available on Medium This is not about a post about trigger words or discriminatory expressions. There is a lot of information about this available, and even some excellent linting tools for your texts. It is also not about unconscious bias. Or well, maybe it is. Learned bias for sure. This is a […]

My closing keynote at Awwwards NYC 2016: A New Hope – the web strikes back

June 20th, 2016

Last week I was lucky enough to give the closing keynote at the Awwwards Conference in New York. Following my current fascination, I wanted to cover the topic of Progressive Web Apps for an audience that is not too technical, and also very focused on delivering high-fidelity, exciting and bleeding edge experiences on the web. […]

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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