Chris Heilmann

We're all builders now…

Accurate

I feel seen http://wumo.com/wumo/2026/09/11

Started watching Season 5 of Babylon Berlin and it is gorgeous looking and well acted but feels incredibly uneasy seeing the election results…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG18iGQ_jdg&t=6s

This is just unbelievable…
@realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com

Math is still beautiful
https://codepen.io/editor/codepo8/pen/01a03ec4-be19-7193-8f4f-d19ba943b049

Everything announced by Google at I/O in under a minute
via @passivelywealthydad@www.threads.com

Live Dog Shelter cams from around the world!
https://somodus.com/artifact/0cb492cc998a2bbd801075b7763f747a

LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/08/lg-accused-of-egregious-invasion-of-privacy-over-tv-data-collection/5294956

This is bonkers, good thing I have an old as the trees Phillips TV - you're not watching big brother - it is.

"if you want to be a good developer, hone your curiosity" This Friday I am hosting Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon on my Podcast "Coffee With Developers". What should I ask him? The best question gets a VIP ticket for https://wearedevelopers.us, others can use "ilovebacon" for 50% off!

https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100214-20-years-of-solving-unsolvable-problems

What is a small word with a laugh in the middle.

Excellent wood art by Patrycja Kujawowicz

You can hire witches on Etsy… https://www.etsy.com/uk/market/witches
Probably all Hufflepuffs…

When ChatGPT calls you Shirley instead of your real name, check if your phone is in airplane mode.

$ dig -x 107.150.61.139

MODERATORS WANTED!
WeAreDevelopers is coming to San Jose, California on the 23rd this month! https://wearedevelopers.us - we now still need some people to moderate stages. Your job is to introduce speakers, run the Q&A and keep time. You get a free ticket to the event and for a +1 and you get access to the VIP parts of the event to talk to speakers and leaders of companies. Ping me here or at chris@wearedevelopers.com if you are interested.

One MacOS terminal feature I love is using ** to recursively access files. So whilst you can use
find . -type f -iname "*.gif"
to find gifs in this and all subfolders, you can also do:
ls **/*.gif

Employers expecting people to learn German to get a job remember that "umfahren" (running something over) and "umfahren" (driving around something) are the same word only distinguished by how long you pronounce the a.

There is a 24/7 Wallace and Gromit stream on YouTube. Because we need more joy in our lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuxbXceM7_U

Happy towel day!

One of my favourite things in the Vienna airport are the piss-poor AI generated people printed out as a wallpaper for a "coming soon" ad at security.

So my colleague got me socks. And, yes…

Tearable UI https://pushmatrix.github.io/tearable/

The AI-free site builder for genius founders https://fraude.design

Finally got to use Claude on the command line. As you should.

Christ, @guardian@press.coop why not call him "violin player" with that issue at hand?

Love the interactive #WebMCP demo Sarah Drasner put together, so clear and simple.
https://webmcp-demo-sdras.netlify.app/

Arrived in the silicon valley for the week. Sunnyvale is still pants.

My new instaban pattern:
"XYZ is going to hate this.
Someone just released ABC"
Just no.

Yesterday I presented at AgentCon in Berlin, here's the recording and the write-up:
The Web We Broke (And Why AI Agents Are Paying the Price) - AgentCon Berlin
https://www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/735/the-web-we-broke-and-why-ai-agents-are-paying-the-price-agentcon-berlin-735

Oh noes…
https://www.infowars.com/

Sitting upstairs in Red Rock Mountain View whiling away the time until I go to the airport to fly back to Berlin. I think the last time I sat here typing was when I finished my JavaScript book in 2006. For sure a lot more people here now

We're hiring!!!
https://labs.wearedevs.ai/about-labs/product-engineer

Want to come to WeAreDevelopers World Congress Berlin?
https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress/tickets
20% off with code "openclaw"

Arrived at the SQUER CodeCrafts conference in Vienna and set up to record lots of Coffee With Developers episodes with speakers and attendees. The first talk mentioned the Matrix. Most people do not know that the Matrix must be located in Europe as in order to access Oracle you need to accept a cookie.

New book by @archive.org !
Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026) https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/n1/mode/1up

Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution. https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions

WeAreDevelopers Live with @bramus@front-end.social is happening right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAWf6qyh0FI

See you in 40 minutes for WeAreDevelopers Live!
https://www.wearedevelopers.com/live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbAjNP22cLM

Arrived at #twilio signal conference in San Francisco. We'll be here all day in case you want to know more or become part of WeAreDevelopers.us.

User just tricked Grok and Bankrbot to send tokens with Morse code https://www.cryptopolitan.com/user-tricked-grok-bankrbot-to-send-tokens/

Evogent is an AI curation agent that browses your social media for you and shows you what you want to see, not what the algorithm wants you to see. https://github.com/djgish485/evogent

Well, if I review tools, I might as well have some fun whilst doing so…

https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/760-tool-showcase-marta-sh-a-fast-native-fully-customisable-and-extensible-two-panel-file-commander

So, what part do you not understand?

My new instaban pattern:
"XYZ is going to hate this.
Someone just realises ABC"
Just no.