Christian Heilmann

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 […]

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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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