Christian Heilmann

The full stackoverflow developer

July 17th, 2015

In a few talks and interviews I lamented about a phenomenon in our market that’s always been around, but seems to be rampant by now: the one of the full stackoverflow developer. Prompted by Stephen Hay on Twitter, I shall now talk a bit about what this means. Full Stack Overflow developers work almost entirely […]

7 Reasons why EdgeConf rocks and why you should be part of it

July 13th, 2015

Having just been there and seeing that the coverage is available today, I wanted to use this post to tell you just how amazing EdgeConf is as a conference, a concept and a learning resource. So here are seven reasons why you should care about EdgeConf: Reason 1: It is a fully recorded think-tank Unlike […]

Over the Edge: Web Components are an endangered species

July 1st, 2015

Last week I ran the panel and the web components/modules breakout session of the excellent Edge Conference in London, England and I think I did quite a terrible job. The reason was that the topic is too large and too fragmented and broken to be taken on as a bundle. If you want to see […]

That stream of tweets at conferences…

June 21st, 2015

A few weeks ago, I wrote the That One Tweet post explaining how one tweet managed to puncture my balloon of happy and question if my work is appreciated. All of this is caused the gremlin of self-doubt living in all of us and it was mostly a reminder to tell it to mind its […]

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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