Christian Heilmann

Don’t tell me what my browser can’t do!

January 16th, 2016

Chances are, your guess is wrong! Arrogance towards possible customers never pays out – as shown in “Pretty Woman” There is nothing more frustrating than being capable of something and not getting a chance to do it. The same goes for being blocked out from something although you are capable of consuming it. Or you’re […]

Don’t use Slack?

January 10th, 2016

When I joined my current company last year, we introduced Slack as the tool to communicate with each other. Of course we have the normal communication channels like email, video calls, phones, smoke signs, flag semaphore and clandestinely tapped Morse code stating “please let it end!” during meetings. But Slack seemed cool and amazing much […]

Detecting AdBlock without an extra HTTP overhead

December 25th, 2015

The other day Cats who code had a blog post about detecting AdBlock, where the main trick is to try to load a JavaScript document with the name adframe.js: