Chris Heilmann
@codepo8.bsky.social
The robots are coming and we need to make a great example for them. Author, presenter, A11y lover, Online teacher at Skillshare and LinkedIn Learning
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Officially this is the last day to weirdly out-spook your friends. But who's counting…
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Officially this is the last day to weirdly out-spook your friends. But who's counting…
Generating everything with AI feels like progress and making ourselves more efficient, but it comes at a dire cost: creation, even flawed creation is what makes us human.
AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
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AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
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October 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Generating everything with AI feels like progress and making ourselves more efficient, but it comes at a dire cost: creation, even flawed creation is what makes us human.
AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
christianheilmann.com/2025/10/30/a...
AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
christianheilmann.com/2025/10/30/a...
There is a chicken breed called the Sebright Chicken which looks like you still need to colour it in.
cs-tf.com/sebright-chi...
cs-tf.com/sebright-chi...
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There is a chicken breed called the Sebright Chicken which looks like you still need to colour it in.
cs-tf.com/sebright-chi...
cs-tf.com/sebright-chi...
Setting up for my talk at #allthingsopen Ballroom B - puppy cam until I am ready. See you in 5!
October 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Setting up for my talk at #allthingsopen Ballroom B - puppy cam until I am ready. See you in 5!
At the airport in Berlin soon flying to Iceland and then to the US to present at #ATO2025 Working on the slides of my talk on Tuesday.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
At the airport in Berlin soon flying to Iceland and then to the US to present at #ATO2025 Working on the slides of my talk on Tuesday.
2025.allthingsopen.org/speakers/chr...
2025.allthingsopen.org/speakers/chr...
Dat CPU speed tho…
October 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Dat CPU speed tho…
Never forget that craft also comes with repetition. This ceiling painting by Michelangelo is rightfully considered a masterpiece, but also remember that it was the sixteenth chapel he painted.
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Never forget that craft also comes with repetition. This ceiling painting by Michelangelo is rightfully considered a masterpiece, but also remember that it was the sixteenth chapel he painted.
Abandonware of the web: do you know that there is an HTML tables API?
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October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Abandonware of the web: do you know that there is an HTML tables API?
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Learning from Berlin Graffiti
October 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Learning from Berlin Graffiti
OK then, keep your secrets
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
OK then, keep your secrets
Two day old donkey foal zoomies.
October 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Two day old donkey foal zoomies.
Look Google, that shit - showing the interface in the local language just because I lugged my laptop over here - nobody needs that shit. I've set my account to English, just show me that - nobody benefits from that. Don't assume. This is World Wide Web.
October 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Look Google, that shit - showing the interface in the local language just because I lugged my laptop over here - nobody needs that shit. I've set my account to English, just show me that - nobody benefits from that. Don't assume. This is World Wide Web.
CFP is open for the 2026 WeAreDevelopers events in Berlin and San Jose:
Berlin: sessionize.com/wearedevelop...
San Jose: sessionize.com/wearedevelop...
Learn what we look for in a good CfP submissions:
christianheilmann.com/2025/10/01/c...
Berlin: sessionize.com/wearedevelop...
San Jose: sessionize.com/wearedevelop...
Learn what we look for in a good CfP submissions:
christianheilmann.com/2025/10/01/c...
October 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
CFP is open for the 2026 WeAreDevelopers events in Berlin and San Jose:
Berlin: sessionize.com/wearedevelop...
San Jose: sessionize.com/wearedevelop...
Learn what we look for in a good CfP submissions:
christianheilmann.com/2025/10/01/c...
Berlin: sessionize.com/wearedevelop...
San Jose: sessionize.com/wearedevelop...
Learn what we look for in a good CfP submissions:
christianheilmann.com/2025/10/01/c...
OK then
$ npx codepo8-card
$ npx codepo8-card
September 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
OK then
$ npx codepo8-card
$ npx codepo8-card
TIL that the "lines in a box" overlay in MacOS' quickview is a shortcut to copy text from the image. I always went via Preview and Tools…
September 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
TIL that the "lines in a box" overlay in MacOS' quickview is a shortcut to copy text from the image. I always went via Preview and Tools…
Why does @Copilot utterly fail to center a generated image? This is such a simple thing to do right…
September 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Why does @Copilot utterly fail to center a generated image? This is such a simple thing to do right…
OK, can we give an applause for the @devopsdays London logo? This makes me happy.
September 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
OK, can we give an applause for the @devopsdays London logo? This makes me happy.
Hyundai wins the pointless animation award - our rental here.
September 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Hyundai wins the pointless animation award - our rental here.
Time to separate the art from the artist…
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"Warning bells should go off any time the creator isn’t willing to separate their ideals (or those he or she repeats to get on the good side of those in power) from their product."
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"Warning bells should go off any time the creator isn’t willing to separate their ideals (or those he or she repeats to get on the good side of those in power) from their product."
September 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Time to separate the art from the artist…
christianheilmann.com/2025/09/28/t...
"Warning bells should go off any time the creator isn’t willing to separate their ideals (or those he or she repeats to get on the good side of those in power) from their product."
christianheilmann.com/2025/09/28/t...
"Warning bells should go off any time the creator isn’t willing to separate their ideals (or those he or she repeats to get on the good side of those in power) from their product."
Wow, I just put together a list of what we look for in talks for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress and other events and CoPilot went full on "speak English or bugger off". If you are not a native English speaker, please come and do your best. We all make mistakes!
September 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Wow, I just put together a list of what we look for in talks for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress and other events and CoPilot went full on "speak English or bugger off". If you are not a native English speaker, please come and do your best. We all make mistakes!
That's a new one - a fake reCaptcha screen asking me to paste some code into the Terminal! Never, ever, do that!
September 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
That's a new one - a fake reCaptcha screen asking me to paste some code into the Terminal! Never, ever, do that!
Discarded slides from presentations. The one where I wanted to warn about overdoing code re-use…
September 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Discarded slides from presentations. The one where I wanted to warn about overdoing code re-use…