Opher Vishnia

One of my proudest achievements: Disguising a stand up routine as a tech talk at JSConf Iceland. It combines all the things I like: JS, technology, art, dumb jokes, music, video games and nordic countries www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCAT...

Stacked PRs are great and all, but you should really rotate every other one 90° to distribute the weight

Things that mean everything is going great in Magic: The Gathering but horrible if you're a tech CEO:  "We've burned through an absurd number of tokens" "My board is full of ghouls" "I'm sacrificing all my humans to generate value" "My plan is to discard my hand and find treasure in the graveyard"

Great - can't wait for the "export" icon to become a trebuchet

nit - it always bothered me that the accepted UX symbol for filter is in fact a funnel Funnels don't exclude anything They're just rate limiting for liquids

What if... doors were suddenly alive? They relocate, even reproduce. Any door can vanish and reappear elsewhere. People get trapped in their bathrooms. Homes are built with redundant exits. Parents teach kids never to trust an opening. Something I've been working on recently

I’m camouflaging as an LLM — how am I doing — convincing — enough — ?

TIL the fastest internet is on the public Wi-Fi of a tiny artisanal sandwich shop in Florence, Italy

I dunno there's something really cool about the way the light gradually hits every step

Yesterday I did standup comedy for the first time ever. I covered DevOps, SQL, and how a chicken restaurant relates to that one time I broke production. It was terrifying and nerve-racking and I can’t wait to do it again. Huge thanks to the org @shairez.bsky.social + everyone who performed!

CSS has a new feature, "text-wrap: pretty" and if you're a paragraph reading this don't give in to the W3C's beauty standards you're beautiful just the way you are dangling orphans and all

If surgeons had dev tools: mid-surgery, elbow deep in guts "This spleen is a mess. Who last touched this? git blame... oh. Of course. Me."

My hobby is blackout poetry

A few weeks ago at JS IL, I gathered the best (and worst) detectives to investigate a serious case: The death of a React app's performance🕵️‍♂️🔍 Batman, Agent Mulder, and Inspector Gadget all had their theories - some useful, some... bordering on conspiracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJG6...

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I'm starting a new podcast where two people meet to bake pastries and talk about relationship issues. It's called "Mixed Feelings"

Most of the developers I work with these days have never known the solitude of playing Solitaire on a computer that doesn't even have an internet connection

I haven't written database queries in years but I picked it up again super quickly. It was just like riding a bySQL

Junior dev protip: Given a complicated task, don't be tempted to start with your comfort zone. Hedge the risk - focus on the unknown unknowns first. Assumptions and constraints change as you gather knowledge. This will make your time/effort assessments more accurate and prevent you from re-treading

Emma (6F): Mom, can I have ice cream? Mom: No. Emma: Dad, can I have ice cream? Asking both parents is the OG two-factor authentication, and apparently, I’m just the backup token

Shower thought: In Marvel's cinematic universe are UUIDs unique or similar across the multi-verse?

Built this fun interactive grid toy with canvas, vanilla JS and @gsap.com A minimal stack for maximum sparkle. 🎇 Check it out @codepen.io codepen.io/OpherV/pen/Q...

Growing up with computer games gave me unreal expectations about how big air ducts should be in real life

My wife just added me to a WhatsApp group titled "my business" then promptly removed me from it. Apparently I just got downsized.

software: "Hit any key to continue" me: hits a key software: “And for my next trick… absolutely nothing”

A while ago I went on @trost.codes 's Frontend Horse to collaborately live code a browser-based multiplayer game and shenanigans ensued. We talked games, networking and JS. So much fun! youtu.be/wi0Bw8ocqGo?...

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty JavaScript dev: The cup is [object Object]

If a junior dev I'm mentoring has a question I often say "give me 20 mins and I'll be with you" I've found that most likely, by the time I get back to them they've had already found a solution. This provides clear boundaries, a safety net, space to think & a big confidence boost when they do succeed

CSS hacks beget CSS hacks

Me: Sorry for derailing this, let's take it offline and try to get back on track Confused, injured, train passengers:

It's unfair that developers are expected to master separation of concerns by default. Dude I have so many concerns, it took years for my therapist to separate those

Humans discovered fire around a million years ago, but organized firefighting didn’t show up until 24 BCE in Ancient Rome. That’s a 999,976-year gap of 'fuck it, it'll be fine'. Think about that

I keep thinking about how in the 90's Nintendo's Game Boy beat out Sega's Game Gear, but in the aviation industry it was in fact the Landing Gear which prevailed over the Landing Boy

He aims..! He shoots! he UNCAUGHT NULLPOINT EXCEPTION

It was difficult to think of a proper pun but after breaking it down to its components, throwing away the excess then reassembling the funny it suddenly hit me. like a car

B2B? B2C? B2B2C? Confused? Here's a handy regex that checks if you have a valid business model: /B(2[BC])+/

Felt cute, this email field Might delete must contain a @ 🤝 Form validation

How come so much time and effort had been invested in researching A/B testing and yet we still don't know if the final answer is A or B