About Christian Heilmann

A Principal Program Manager living and working in Berlin, Germany. Author of The Developer Advocacy Handbook.

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I just pulled a 2006 and uploaded my holiday photos to Flickr with a Creative Commons Licence

2024-10-25 21:58:42

I just returned from a holiday on the gorgeous island of Corfu in Greece and spent quite some time taking photos. Instead of releasing those piecemeal on various social media channels, I thought it would be fun to go back to our ways of early social media, and put them all up on Flickr with […]

Let’s bring back browsing

2024-09-15 19:35:27

When the web started one of the best parts about it was the naming of things. To “surf the web” implied fun and adventure and to “browse” implied serendipity. And we seem to have lost that. Let’s go back. When I discovered the internet it was pretty much just taking off. I didn’t go to […]

A billion new developers thanks to AI?

2024-09-13 03:06:24

This is a translation of my German article for the AI mag. At the WeAreDeveloper World Congress in Berlin in July, GitHub announced that the company will use artificial intelligence and assistants to turn a billion people into developers in a very short time. Amazon’s Cloud CEO, on the other hand, explained in an internal […]

Quick tip: using flatMap() to extract data from a huge set without any loop

2024-09-06 19:47:39

I just created a massive dataset of all the AI generated metadata of the videos of the WeAreDeveloper World Congress and I wanted to extract only the tags. The dataset is a huge array with each item containing a description, generated title, an array of tags, the original and their title, like this: { “description”: […]

No more “Expert, Intermediate, Beginner”: Classifying talks in Call for Papers/Conference agendas

2024-09-06 13:50:06

I am currently working on creating the new Call for Papers for the next WeAreDevelopers World Congress and one of the feedback items we got was that levels like “Expert, Intermediate and Beginner” don’t make much sense. First of all, speakers do not choose the right level as they are worried that a beginner or […]