Opher Vishnia
@opherv.com
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
Opher Vishnia: Wait, you can do that with JavaScript…!? | JSConf Iceland 2018
YouTube video by JSConf
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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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCAT...
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
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
October 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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
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 — ?
July 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I’m camouflaging as an LLM — how am I doing — convincing — enough — ?
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
Link 👇 - try it out & lmk if you spot any bugs (figurative and/or literal)
@phaser.io
July 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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
Link 👇 - try it out & lmk if you spot any bugs (figurative and/or literal)
@phaser.io
TIL the fastest internet is on the public Wi-Fi of a tiny artisanal sandwich shop in Florence, Italy
April 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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
April 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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!
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!
April 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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!
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
March 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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."
mid-surgery, elbow deep in guts "This spleen is a mess. Who last touched this? git blame... oh. Of course. Me."
March 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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."
mid-surgery, elbow deep in guts "This spleen is a mess. Who last touched this? git blame... oh. Of course. Me."
Reposted by Opher Vishnia
My hobby is blackout poetry
March 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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...
Batman, Agent Mulder, and Inspector Gadget all had their theories - some useful, some... bordering on conspiracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJG6...
February 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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...
Batman, Agent Mulder, and Inspector Gadget all had their theories - some useful, some... bordering on conspiracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJG6...
Reposted by Opher Vishnia
I'm starting a new podcast where two people meet to bake pastries and talk about relationship issues. It's called "Mixed Feelings"
January 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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
December 30, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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
December 26, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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
December 23, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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
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
December 18, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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
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
My last skeet got me thinking: Are UUIDs unique across Marvel's multiverse? Let’s explore this mathematically, and spoiler: infinity makes things complicated 🤯 🧵 (1/7)
December 6, 2024 at 10:18 PM
My last skeet got me thinking: Are UUIDs unique across Marvel's multiverse? Let’s explore this mathematically, and spoiler: infinity makes things complicated 🤯 🧵 (1/7)
Shower thought: In Marvel's cinematic universe are UUIDs unique or similar across the multi-verse?
December 6, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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...
A minimal stack for maximum sparkle. 🎇 Check it out
@codepen.io
codepen.io/OpherV/pen/Q...
December 5, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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...
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
December 1, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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.
Apparently I just got downsized.
November 29, 2024 at 3:29 PM
My wife just added me to a WhatsApp group titled "my business" then promptly removed me from it.
Apparently I just got downsized.
Apparently I just got downsized.
software: "Hit any key to continue"
me: hits a key
software: “And for my next trick… absolutely nothing”
me: hits a key
software: “And for my next trick… absolutely nothing”
November 28, 2024 at 5:40 AM
software: "Hit any key to continue"
me: hits a key
software: “And for my next trick… absolutely nothing”
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?...
Make a Multiplayer Elimination Game w/ Firebase + Pixi.js - Opher Vishnia
YouTube video by Alex Trost
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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?...
Reposted by Opher Vishnia
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
JavaScript dev: The cup is [object Object]
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
JavaScript dev: The cup is [object Object]
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Abolitionist: The carceral cup is constraining our radical imagination
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Abolitionist: The carceral cup is constraining our radical imagination
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
November 23, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
JavaScript dev: The cup is [object Object]
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
November 22, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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