Christian Heilmann

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Coffee with Developers
Fake or News: Sand Batteries, AI Maps and McCartney Kicked Off Reddit

Did Paul McCartney really get banned from his own subreddit? Or did an AI write angry revenge blogs? Test your tech radar against today's most bizarre headlines, and see how Eleftheria Batsou got on.

Kelsey Hightower - ZTA: Zero Token Architecture

Infer once; run everywhere.

While burning tokens is being celebrated as a sign of productivity, it’s irresponsible to ignore the fundamentals around efficiency, and pragmatic engineering.

This talk aims to bring us back to reality.

Psychological Safety in Software Engineering - Jenny-Margrethe Vej andAlexandra Hou Aldershaab

On this edition of Coffee with Developers we sit down with Jenny-Margrethe Vej & Alexandra Hou Aldershaab - Founder, Diagnoseklubben, and DevOps Consultant, Eficode, respectively - to discuss psychological safety in software engineering.

Secure and Accessible Login Systems - Ramona Schwering

On this episode of Coffee with Developers, we sit down Developer Advocate at Auth0, Ramona Schwering to look talk all things security and authentication, as well as looking ahead to her masterclass at WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe 2026.

All the small things at Awwwards Amsterdam

February 2nd, 2016

Last week, I cut my holiday in the Bahamas short to go to the Awwwards conference in Amsterdam and deliver yet another fire and brimstone talk about performance and considering people outside of our sphere of influence. Photo by Trine Falbe The slides are on SlideShare: All the small things… – Awwwards 2016 from Christian […]

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: