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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 06/08/2026

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 17/06/2026

Replace all cooks with OpenClaw 🦞

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 01/06/2026

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"

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 20/05/2026

Cool! It feels like it will definitely lower friction for existing services to enable agent functionality that otherwise would have required building native MCP from scratch. I imagine a lot of the imperative functionality for the page already exists in the FE codebase, further contributing to this

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 19/05/2026

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 19/05/2026

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 19/05/2026

Designers will tell you that's already how it works

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 19/05/2026

That’s also how I emotionally model running DROP TABLE against production

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 19/05/2026

Between the funnel, hamburger menu, kebab icon and bento box, UI design is just a long history of doubling down on the wrong kitchen equipment

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 19/05/2026

Single-origin Postgres with low acidity, notes of citrus and under-indexed joins

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 18/05/2026

and scales make terrible strainers

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 18/05/2026

So we didn't collectively choose the wrong metaphor, just the wrong zoom level

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 18/05/2026

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 11/05/2026

Legacy of the Void → ancient cosmic prophecy Void of the Legacy → startup after the founder leaves 3/3

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 11/05/2026

Wings of Liberty → gritty sci-fi rebellion Liberty of Wings → Discovery Channel documentary that insists it’s about "freedom" but is mostly birds getting lost 2/3

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 11/05/2026

Heart of the Swarm → space bug apocalypse Swarm of the Heart → Hallmark movie where 10,000 Zerglings learn to love again if you swap around the StarCraft II campaign titles, you get completely different genres 1/3

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 17/01/2026

Actually so looking forward to those! Also, last time we met (in Iceland, I think..?) the 7 year old didn't exist. Time flies 🕐 🪰

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 17/01/2026

Not really. Only in the evening. Maybe if you count the case where we're meeting with friends for coffee and the kids are playing with friends 😅 It's equal parts exhausting and satisfying. I guess I'll miss this once they're teenagers and I'll only see them when they emerge from their room caves

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 17/01/2026

Ages 4 and 7 with special needs. I try to always plan ahead so that we have outside activities: meeting with friends & kids, outdoor playgrounds, shows, family, hiking. Anything to minimize indoors time otherwise they get frustrated quickly. Me time is only in the evenings after they're asleep

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 05/10/2025

Who moved my cheese? Nederlandse Spoorwegen

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 04/10/2025

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 07/07/2025

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 07/07/2025

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 · 26/05/2025

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 26/05/2025

Macbeth will remember that.

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 14/04/2025

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 03/04/2025

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 02/04/2025

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 · 31/03/2025

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 25/03/2025

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."

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 11/03/2025

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 · 05/03/2025

My hobby is blackout poetry

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 27/02/2025

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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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 26/02/2025

🤘🏻ohh ah ah ah🤘🏻

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 24/02/2025

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 · 22/02/2025

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 07/02/2025

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 · 07/02/2025

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 · 28/01/2025

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 20/01/2025

Tbh more surprised it doesn't say daemons

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 14/01/2025

Hell hath no whammy like a furry scorned

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 04/01/2025

Brilliant! It's even rendered in purr-spective

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 30/12/2024

Ghost-in-the-machine type issues are the worst :( Happy to help brainstorm-debug the issue with you

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 30/12/2024

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 26/12/2024

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 23/12/2024

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

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Opher Vishnia @opherv.com · 22/12/2024

How about Dormant Palms? They're barking up the right tree, one that currently has no dates

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