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Opher Vishnia

@opherv.com

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Developer, designer, speaker and a spark for creative magic 🔮 Principal engineer Hud.io | ex eko.com | 🎸 lead guitar https://tillian.band 👾

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Nov 5

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

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Opher Vishnia: Wait, you can do that with JavaScript…!? | JSConf Iceland 2018

YouTube video by JSConf

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 8d

Who moved my cheese? Nederlandse Spoorwegen

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 9d

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

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Jul 7

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

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Jul 7

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Reversim 2025

Reversim Summit 2025 is Israel’s leading community-driven tech conference, bringing together developers, product managers, and data scientists for top-tier content and networking.

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Jul 7

I joined Reversim conf's team this year, designed the website & built a gloriously over-engineered interactive Rube Goldberg-style toy inspired by The Incredible Machine, packed with software dev metaphors.
Link 👇 - try it out & lmk if you spot any bugs (figurative and/or literal)

@phaser.io

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · May 26

I mean your kids are more likely than most to flush cs concepts like oop

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · May 26

Macbeth will remember that.

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Apr 14

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

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Apr 3

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

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Apr 2

Yay! thanks! 😊

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Apr 2

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!

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Mar 31

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

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Mar 25

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."

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Mar 11

and not just any hill! A well-designed one where you can stand your ground, not just clamber up or roll down dramatically

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Mar 5

My hobby is blackout poetry

A computer can never be held ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Therefore ⬛ computer ⬛s⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛a⬛⬛ d⬛⬛

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Feb 27

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...

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Feb 26

.cucumber: 80vw;

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · Feb 26

🤘🏻ohh ah ah ah🤘🏻

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Feb 24

Haven't signed up to anything so fast in my life 😅

BTW if you scroll on mobile while the cannon is firing the particle emitter source goes wonky

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Feb 22

They won't be young forever. That sand though, you'll be digging it out of crevices until the end of time

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Feb 7

Notice that it should be RTL 🙂

Also, I translated "this one" to "this course" for lack of a better direct translation

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Feb 7

Hebrew:

למדו כיצד ליצור אינטראקציות מקסימות ונגיעות שובות לב באמצעות הקסם של CSS, Javascript ו-canvas.

בקורס זה אחלוק איתכם את כל הטריקים שלי!

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Jan 28

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

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Jan 20

Tbh more surprised it doesn't say daemons

Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · Jan 14

Hell hath no whammy like a furry scorned