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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
Binary clocks aren't geeky enough, I give you a Cistercian one!
codepo8.github.io/cistercian/c...
January 13, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Working on some geek shit…
January 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
OK, hear me out… If Supergirl is invulnerable and bulletproof, what kind of studio did she have her ears pierced in? Claire's kryptonite?
January 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Tailwind laid off 3/4 of their engineers because of AI…

"75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business" github.com/tailwindlabs...
feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by quantizor · Pull Request #2388 · tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com
Add /llms.txt endpoint that serves a concatenated, text-only version of all Tailwind CSS documentation pages optimized for Large Language Model consumption. Extract text from MDX files, removing J...
github.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Financial Times headlines we did not expect:
"Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter"
archive.is/202601070558...
archive.is
January 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
OK, so Glenkill/Three Bags Full finally gets a movie adaptation with a huge budget and quite the cast. If you haven't read the book by Leonie Swann, go for it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNL...
The Sheep Detectives - Official Trailer (2026) Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Patrick Stewart
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Oh yeah, you're a real big Star Wars Fan! You probably don't even know that Yoda's family name is Lehiihoo…
January 6, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Adding shadows to irregular shapes in CSS with filter: drop-shadow() www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...
January 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Power terminal user tip. Use `Ctrl+L` to quickly clear the terminal and `Ctrl+U` to delete the current line you typed wrongly…
January 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Chris Heilmann
Vim was released 33 years ago. To celebrate, try this: open Vim and type :smile to see an Easter egg. Happy birthday the best programmers text editor out there!!!
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If Data on Star Trek ran on ChatGPT…
January 4, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Chris Heilmann
this is a fake quote and you can tell because british people use plural pronouns for bands, not singular pronouns
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Classical Billiards is turing complete
Classical billiards can compute arxiv.org/abs/2512.19156
Classical billiards can compute
We show that two-dimensional billiard systems are Turing complete by encoding their dynamics within the framework of Topological Kleene Field Theory. Billiards serve as idealized models of particle mo...
arxiv.org
January 2, 2026 at 1:27 PM
You are already behind by not having read this post

christianheilmann.com/2026/01/02/y...
January 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Winter energy savings tip: if you get back inside after being in the cold, and you need to warm up quickly, don't stay in the middle of the room but stick to any of the corners. They are always 90 degrees.
December 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reposted by Chris Heilmann
This will piss the right wingers off, but I’d say this chap is far more a patriot that the wankers painting roundabouts and hanging flags.

What a legend!
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Chris Heilmann
My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.
December 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Russell Brand conveniently finding Christianity at the same time of the appearance of more sexual misconduct allegations reminds me that the UK seriously needs to invest in lion breeding.
December 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Don’t tell me you are a child of the 80s if you haven’t at least chipped one tooth trying to separate some stubborn 4x2 Lego bricks.
December 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Cost me a finger nail but worth it.
[Alt: a blue brixx - smaller Lego - Christmas tree ornament of snoopy of the peanuts in his Sopwith camel world war one aircraft with a pilot leather helmet. A intrinsic model with 432 pieces]
December 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
4, 5 and 6 were afraid of 7, because 7, 8, 9!
December 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
AI overspill Dec 2026: AI in a JAM, Blocking AI browsers, learning programming languages www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...
AI overspill Dec 2026: AI in a JAM, Blocking AI browsers, learning programming languages
Check out a list of AI resources and news that didn't make it to the Dev Digest
www.wearedevelopers.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Two Chrome flaws could be triggered by simply browsing the web: Update now www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Two Chrome flaws could be triggered by simply browsing the web: Update now
Google pushed out a patch for two more security vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser. Update now!
www.malwarebytes.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
alias nsync='echo "bye bye bye"'
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM