Christian Heilmann

People on the Edge: Gaurav Seth

December 7th, 2015

In a new series of posts, I want to introduce the world to people I work with. People who work on the Microsoft Edge browser and related technologies. The faces and voices behind the product. Today we have an interview with Gaurav Seth (@gauravseth). Gaurav is a program manager on the Chakra JavaScript engine, which […]

People on the Edge: Jonathan Sampson

December 4th, 2015

In a new series of posts, I want to introduce the world to people I work with. People who work on the Microsoft Edge browser and related technologies. The faces and voices behind the product. Today I’m starting with an interview with Jonathan Sampson (@jonathansampson). Jonathan spends a lot of time on the web and […]

A quick reminder on how and why to use labels in forms to make them more accessible

December 4th, 2015

Yesterday the excellent Alice Boxhall of the Google Chrome team pointed out an annoying bug to me: Seen in the wild on https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-developer … I agree @codepo8 It seems the UserVoice page of Microsoft Edge has a checkbox that is inaccessible to screen reader users. The reason is a wrong implementation of a label. So, […]

Devfest Asia – JSConf Asia closing keynote and Microsoft Meetup

November 19th, 2015

I am currently on a trip in Singapore, Thailand and Sydney for the next 8 days and today I presented at JSConf Asia and a meetup in the Microsoft offices in Singapore. JSConf Asia closing keynote The closing keynote of the first day of JSConf Asia covered my worries that we are getting slightly overboard […]

Meetup in London: why is Windows not your platform of choice

November 17th, 2015

This Thursday, my colleague Mike Harsh and Keith Rowe (@krow) from Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Group invite you to the Square Pig in London for some drinks and a chat. These two program managers are leading efforts to make Windows-based machines a better place for web development. I’ve put up a small web site with […]

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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