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Yonatan

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Changing lightbulbs at @WixEng. Atwood's Law pays my bills. Open DMs.

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#BuildStuffConf folks, the best Cryptography teachers in the world: Alice and Bob (and Eve the hacker) are waiting for you at 3:05pm at the Zeta 2 room ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ Build Stuff Conference

#BuildStuffConf folks, the best Cryptography teachers in the world: Alice and Bob (and Eve the hacker) are waiting for you at 3:05pm at the Zeta 2 room ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ
<a href="/BuildStuffConf/">Build Stuff Conference</a>
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Have you ever added a 'console.log' to your code and wondered why it's called that? How does it relate to a physical log? ๐Ÿชต It might sound strange, but this term traces back to sailors and how they measured the speed of their ships! As it turns out, many phrases we use in

Have you ever added a 'console.log' to your code and wondered why it's called that? How does it relate to a physical log? ๐Ÿชต

It might sound strange, but this term traces back to sailors and how they measured the speed of their ships!

As it turns out, many phrases we use in
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Giving a short (hopefully fun) talk next week about the linguistic origins of the terms devs use every day meetup.com/nodejs-israel/โ€ฆ Here's one of my slides. Can you guess what term it's related to?

Giving a short (hopefully fun) talk next week about the linguistic origins of the terms devs use every day

meetup.com/nodejs-israel/โ€ฆ

Here's one of my slides. Can you guess what term it's related to?
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A coworker commented "I love your commits" on my PR, and I felt really seen and appreciated as a professional engineer ๐Ÿ˜‡ And then I realized they're talking about my branch's funny commit messages ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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TIL that when you analyze the content of a web page using the Playwright MCP, what it actually sends back to the LLM is the page's full Accessibility tree (usually meant for screen-readers) I expect a lot of A11Y start-ups to re-brand as AI start-ups ๐Ÿ˜… github.com/microsoft/playโ€ฆ

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I'm wondering which web sites started to adopt this UI pattern. Did you spot it anywhere else? (this is from modelcontextprotocol.io)

I'm wondering which web sites started to adopt this UI pattern. Did you spot it anywhere else?
(this is from modelcontextprotocol.io)
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resume tip from someone who reviews a lot of resumes: โŒ please stop putting that you increased retention by 70% โœ… please do tell me what product / feature you actually worked on "it's about the outcomes... bottom line..." โ€”ย some career advisor in college, probably but when

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We are proud to announce that Yonatan Mevorach, Infrastructure Team Lead at Wix, will be speaking at #NodeTLV '25! Want to learn more? Check out all the details at ๐Ÿ‘‰ nodetlv.com

We are proud to announce that Yonatan Mevorach, Infrastructure Team Lead at <a href="/Wix/">Wix</a>, will be speaking at #NodeTLV '25!

Want to learn more? Check out all the details at ๐Ÿ‘‰ nodetlv.com
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This month at NodeTLV Conference - donโ€™t miss two standout sessions: ๐ŸŽค Or Rozenzweig's "How to Monitor Your Product, and Not Just Your Pods" ๐ŸŽค Yonatan's "An HTTP Request Is Just 3 TCP Packets in a Trench Coat" Good luck, Or and Yonatan - we canโ€™t wait to see you rock the stage!

This month at <a href="/NodeTLV/">NodeTLV Conference</a> - donโ€™t miss two standout sessions:

๐ŸŽค Or Rozenzweig's "How to Monitor Your Product, and Not Just Your Pods"

๐ŸŽค <a href="/cowchimp/">Yonatan</a>'s "An HTTP Request Is Just 3 TCP Packets in a Trench Coat"

Good luck, Or and Yonatan - we canโ€™t wait to see you rock the stage!
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I read this article about how to tackle performance optimizations 12 years ago, and I tell someone about it at least once a month calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/an-engineโ€ฆ Hat tip to Tony Gentilcore