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Christian Heilmann

Open Web guy at Microsoft and long-time JavaScript user

Location Berlin, Germany Joined Joined on  Personal website https://christianheilmann.com github website twitter website
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Principal Program Manager at Microsoft

Quick VS Code tip: Automatically add image width and height to images
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Quick VS Code tip: Automatically add image width and height to images

#vscode #images #performance
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Sharing data between CSS and JavaScript using custom properties

Also useful for scroll position, document dimensions, cursor ...

Checkboxes can be excellent buttons

Correct. This also works for radio buttons, which is even bet...

I am Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for the Microsoft Edge developer tools - AMA!

Well, JavaScript is both server side and client side. Persona...

I am Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for the Microsoft Edge developer tools - AMA!

As a web developer since 1996: wholeheartedly agree :)

I am Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for the Microsoft Edge developer tools - AMA!

For the web space, JavaScript, without a question. It runs ev...

I am Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for the Microsoft Edge developer tools - AMA!

Hey Saurabh, sorry about that experience. This is nothing I c...

I am Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for the Microsoft Edge developer tools - AMA!

Apparition - I want to see my team in person again (I'm in Be...

I am Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for the Microsoft Edge developer tools - AMA!

Interesting question, I am not sure about Visual Studio (but ...

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Save Twitter GIFs as MP4 without any add-on or service
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Save Twitter GIFs as MP4 without any add-on or service

#twitter #hack #trick #devtools
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Quick Visual Studio Code tip: Expand/Shrink selection!
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Quick Visual Studio Code tip: Expand/Shrink selection!

#development #productivity #code
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Batch cropping of screenshots on MacOS
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Batch cropping of screenshots on MacOS

#images #cropping
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Conditional animations with CSS properties
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Conditional animations with CSS properties

#a11y #css #customproperties
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How to debug web projects using the browser developer tools inside Visual Studio code
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How to debug web projects using the browser developer tools inside Visual Studio code

#vscode #webdev #debugging
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Syncing visual CSS changes in browser tools with source code using Workspaces
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Syncing visual CSS changes in browser tools with source code using Workspaces

#developertools #css
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Get all headings and their target URLs from a Markdown generated page
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Get all headings and their target URLs from a Markdown generated page

#snippet #javascript #markdown
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Using position: sticky to create persistent headers in long texts
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Using position: sticky to create persistent headers in long texts

#css #sticky #design
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Sharing data between CSS and JavaScript using custom properties
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Sharing data between CSS and JavaScript using custom properties

#css #javascript #interaction
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Seven ways to test for accessibility of your web site with browser Developer Tools
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Seven ways to test for accessibility of your web site with browser Developer Tools

#a11y #browsers #testing
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Quick tip: How to capture and replace newlines in liquid for Jekyll/GitHub Pages
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Quick tip: How to capture and replace newlines in liquid for Jekyll/GitHub Pages

#jekyll #github #markdown
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Quick tutorial CSS tip: How to show source code the easy way
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Quick tutorial CSS tip: How to show source code the easy way

#css #tricks #tutorials
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Quick hack: How to make the new CSS Overview feature of Chromium DevTools shareable
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Quick hack: How to make the new CSS Overview feature of Chromium DevTools shareable

#developertools #browsers #edge #chrome
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How to persistently change third party web sites with browser developer tools
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How to persistently change third party web sites with browser developer tools

#browser #developertools #tricks #webdev
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Back to Basics: Event Delegation
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Back to Basics: Event Delegation

#javascript #webdev #tricks
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Writing a dog picture browser in ~200 lines of code
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Writing a dog picture browser in ~200 lines of code

#javascript #css #webdev #hack
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How I failed to write a perfect dice throw simulator and how that is totally OK
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How I failed to write a perfect dice throw simulator and how that is totally OK

#development #javascript #fun
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Microsoft Create: Serverless - Developer Hacks and Tools we wished we knew sooner
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Microsoft Create: Serverless - Developer Hacks and Tools we wished we knew sooner

#mscreate #productivity #development
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Checkboxes can be excellent buttons
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Checkboxes can be excellent buttons

#javascript #accessibiliy #forms #checkboxes
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I am Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for the Microsoft Edge developer tools - AMA!
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I am Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for the Microsoft Edge developer tools - AMA!

#ama #microsoftedge #javascript #mscreate
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Progressively Enhancing Radio Groups
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Progressively Enhancing Radio Groups

#a11y #forms #css #svg
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Quick solution: getting the mouse position on an element regardless of positioning
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Quick solution: getting the mouse position on an element regardless of positioning

#mouseposition #dom #javascript
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Fun with browsers: how to get an image into the current page
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Fun with browsers: how to get an image into the current page

#webstandards #webdev #apis
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Quick developer tools tip: simulating dark/light colour mode
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Quick developer tools tip: simulating dark/light colour mode

#development #browsertools #darkmode #lightmode
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Contributor performance matters
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Contributor performance matters

#opensource #simplicity #diversity
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The seven sins of meetings with remote participants
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The seven sins of meetings with remote participants

#meetings #productivity #inclusion
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Develop, Debug, Learn? Time to re-think our tooling
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Develop, Debug, Learn? Time to re-think our tooling

#tooling #development #automation #chromium
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A tale of a typo - can we talk about making things easier for contributors?
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A tale of a typo - can we talk about making things easier for contributors?

#development #opensource #frustruations
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Fun with JavaScript and CSS - random dots
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Fun with JavaScript and CSS - random dots

#javascript #css #fun #creativecoding
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Wanted: disabled developers to help improve tooling accessibilty
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Wanted: disabled developers to help improve tooling accessibilty

#accessbility #developertools
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Web development before standards and open browsers
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Web development before standards and open browsers

#webdev #standards #browsers #javascript
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Terseness tension
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Terseness tension

#coding #optimization #performance #demos
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A simple bookmarklet to tweet the current page
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A simple bookmarklet to tweet the current page

#bookmarklet #twitter #webdev
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Quick tip: using scrollIntoView() to show added elements to a container with overflow
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Quick tip: using scrollIntoView() to show added elements to a container with overflow

#dom #javascript #api #tops
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Simple edit-in-place by changing the type of an input
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Simple edit-in-place by changing the type of an input

#editinplace #javascript #forms
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Using CSS Custom attributes generated by JavaScript as a handover mechanism
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Using CSS Custom attributes generated by JavaScript as a handover mechanism

#css #javascript #interaction
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A worrying change in Open Source perception
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A worrying change in Open Source perception

#opensource #community #empathy #codequality
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Some things you can do to make it easier for people in other time zones to work with you
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Some things you can do to make it easier for people in other time zones to work with you

#remotework #meetings #teamwork #timedifference
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