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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 13h

The patron saint of excessive work communication is Saint Francis of a CC

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 22h

Still, it's impressive for a turtle to stay that long on its back and paint with those short arms.

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 22h

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.

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 1d

Abandonware of the web: do you know that there is an HTML tables API?
christianheilmann.com/2025/10/08/a...

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 1d

Redis warns of critical flaw impacting thousands of instances www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

www.bleepingcomputer.com

Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 1d

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web www.404media.co/sora-2-water...

www.404media.co

Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 1d

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? vgel.me/posts/seahor...

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?

Investigating the seahorse emoji doom loop using logitlens.

vgel.me

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 1d

Learning from Berlin Graffiti

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 1d

So @AnthropicAI is expanding to India… See you at our WeAreDevelopers Event?
Expanding our global operations to India with our second Asia Pacific office www.anthropic.com/news/expandi...

Anthropic expands global operations to India, plans to open an office in Bengaluru.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

www.anthropic.com

Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 2d

OK then, keep your secrets

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 2d

I am speaking at the Developer Relations Summit on 19/11
virtual.productmarketingalliance.com/location/dev...
Cat herding with lions and tigers - How we organized a 15,000 attendee developer conference

Developer Relations Summit | Online

Learn how to build and nurture a thriving developer community that fuels innovation and product adoption

virtual.productmarketingalliance.com

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 2d

Messenger is a gorgeous in-browser game in WebGL with a lovely pace and excellent graphics. messenger.abeto.co

Messenger

It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.

messenger.abeto.co

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 2d

Assailant is an anagram for Atlassian, hmm…

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 2d

Echoes of AI Exposure: Thousands of Secrets Leaking Through Vibe Coded Sites redhuntlabs.com/blog/echoes-...

Echoes of AI Exposure: Thousands of Secrets Leaking Through Vibe Coded Sites | Wave 15 | Project Resonance - RedHunt Labs

1. Introduction The vibe coding revolution has empowered millions to build and deploy websites using natural languages. Entrepreneurs, artists, and small businesses can now bring their ideas to life o...

redhuntlabs.com

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 2d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Dear me…

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

More than half of those surveyed (54 percent) said that they had some sort of relationship with an artificial intelligence platform

www.independent.co.uk

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 2d

Redshifted civilizations, galactic empires, and the Fermi paradox arxiv.org/abs/2510.00377
Why we are not meeting aliens…

Redshifted civilizations, galactic empires, and the Fermi paradox

Given the vast distances between stars in the Milky way and the long timescales required for interstellar travel, we consider how a civilization might overcome the constraints arising from finite life...

arxiv.org

Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 4d

Two day old donkey foal zoomies.

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder that August is international procrastination awareness month.

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 8d

CISA Sounds Alarm on Critical Sudo Flaw Actively Exploited in Linux and Unix Systems thehackernews.com/2025/09/cisa...

CISA Sounds Alarm on Critical Sudo Flaw Actively Exploited in Linux and Unix Systems

CISA adds critical Sudo flaw CVE-2025-32463 and four other exploited vulnerabilities to KEV list.

thehackernews.com

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 9d

Black Bart was the first to call himself a po8 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_B...

Black Bart (outlaw) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 9d

OK if you get a domain and SSL from @GoDaddy make sure that if you let the domain expire you also cancel the SSL. I didn't and paid for the whole year without being able to verify the domain. This should be automatically cancelled...

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 9d

#TIL that "browser" is an acronym for
"BRowsing On-Line With SElective Retrieval" although acronyms with variable amounts of letters at the start are weird…
blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-...

Browsers, cookies and surfing the web: The quirky history of internet lingo | The Mozilla Blog

Dr. Erica Brozovsky is a sociolinguist, a public scholar and a lover of words. She is the host of Otherwords, a PBS series on language and linguistics, and

blog.mozilla.org

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 9d

Why I gave the world wide web away for free www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
@timbernerslee.bsky.social for the Guardian on open sourcing the web.

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

www.theguardian.com

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