Opher Vishnia
Developer, designer, musician and overall a pretty nice guy :)
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Opher is a multidisciplinary creator, with expertise spanning web development, design, music, and game development.
He currently leads development as principal engineer at Hud.io, imbuing magic into the field of development tools and observability. Previously, as director of technical innovation and creative developer at Eko, Opher worked at the intersection of art and technology, collaborating with development teams as well as design, art, and film-making teams to redefine interactive media on the web. His notable work includes open source projects like react-animation-orchestrator, Lance JS multiplayer server and the VR film Broken Night, which was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival in NYC.
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Throw away your Xbox - The future of games is written in JavaScript
Imagine this: you type a URL into your browser and instantly are transported into a modern 3D multiplayer match. Actually, that’s not a dream - that already exists now!
In this talk we’ll be looking at the journey we’ve made from the early days of Flash games to amazing web technologies we can play with today like WebGPU, WebGL, WebTransport, WebWorkers and others. This is particularly mind-boggling considering the web was originally intended to just serve documents!
Game consoles? Who needs them? The future of games is written in JavaScript. Let me show you how the web can serve as a true gaming platform right now
Stop shooting yourself in the foot: Quick wins to improve your app’s performance
Your React app is slow, and, yes, it’s kind of your fault. But don’t worry—you didn’t sabotage it all at once. You were just a frog in a slowly heating tub. A frog with a tiny keyboard, hacking away at its React app as performance issues crept in… along with water that kept shorting out the keys on the keyboard and—Wait, no, something definitely went wrong with that metaphor there.
Anyhow, the good news is you’re not alone. Unfortunately, React is riddled with common performance pitfalls that developers unknowingly create. From over-rendering components to sneaky state updates that wreak havoc—these issues are easy to overlook if you don’t know what to look for.
In this session, you’ll learn how to spot these problems with the right tools and methodologies, while adopting a performance-first mindset with effective refactoring strategies. Whether you’re an experienced developer or just getting started with React, you’ll walk away with practical techniques to stop sabotaging your app’s performance—and maybe even your sanity.
ReactNext 2023 Sessionize Event
NDC London 2023 Sessionize Event
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