Christian Heilmann

Quick trick: using template to delay loading of images

September 8th, 2015

In addition to this explanation, I also recorded a quick screencast. Feel free to check that one first. When it comes to newer elements to play with there are a few that are slightly odd. Canvas is one of them, as it doesn’t do anything without scripting. It is a placeholder for a canvas painting […]

Quickie: Fading in a newly created element using CSS

August 30th, 2015

Update: I got an email from James at VIDesignz who found another solution to this problem using the :empty selector. I added it at the end of the article. As part of our JSFoo workshop today I was asked to look into an issue a team had that you can not apply a CSS transition […]

ES6 for now: Template strings

August 28th, 2015

ES6 is the future of JavaScript and it is already here. It is a finished specification, and it brings a lot of features a language requires to stay competitive with the needs of the web of now. Not everything in ES6 is for you and in this little series of posts I will show features […]

Rock, Meats, JavaScript – BrazilJS 2015

August 25th, 2015

I just got back from a 4 day trip to Brazil and back to attend BrazilJS. I was humbled and very happy to give the opening keynote seeing that the closing was meant to be by Brendan Eich and Andreas Gal – so, no pressure. The keynote In my keynote, I asked for more harmony […]

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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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