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Liran Tal
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🦄 Node.js Secure Coding: http://nodejs-security.com

🌟 @GitHub Star
🏅 @OpenJS Pathfinder award for Security
🥑 DevRel at @snyksec
nice fun session with Gemini CLI coding up a new command-line and SDK for Cloudflare R2 for a monorepo setup with pnpm + turborepo + changeset
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I spent 1 hour into a spec interview Q&A session with Cursor, spanning 78 questions to flesh out the plan

AMA
January 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
do vibe coders know what to pick?
January 5, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Reminder that Snyk is hiring for a Staff Software Engineer role in Israel 🇮🇱

Check out the job description and DM if you have questions about it: snyk.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Staff Software Engineer, Tel Aviv
Snyk is the leader in secure AI software development, helping millions of developers develop fast and stay secure as AI transforms how software is built. Our AI-native Developer Security Platform integrates seamlessly into development and security workflows, making it easy to find, fix, and prevent vulnerabilities — from code and dependencies to containers and cloud. Our mission is to empower every developer to innovate securely in the AI era — boosting productivity while reducing business risk. We’re not your average security company - we build Snyk on One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. It’s how we stay driven, supportive, and always one step ahead as AI reshapes our world. Why this role? As a Staff Engineer on the Guardrails team, you will provide technical leadership for the group responsible for Snyk’s high-leverage Policy Engine and approval workflows. You will fundamentally improve our group product and technical strategy, ensuring our logic layer—which governs how risk is accepted or blocked—scales to meet the needs of the AI era. You will be a driving force behind our massive architectural evolution, moving legacy services into a high-scale, event-driven data pipeline. This role is about more than just code; it’s about breaking down ambiguous design choices and fostering an environment of collaboration and mentorship. What You’ll Do: Drive Technical Leadership: Proactively identify and design improvements to the system for near-term and long-term strategic innovation. Architectural Evolution: Lead the migration of policy logic into a high-scale, event-driven architecture capable of enriching millions of security findings in real-time. Solve Ambiguity: Understand, break down, and tackle complex design choices, such as high-scale identity and persistence challenges. Champion Growth: Mentor team members to improve their technical skills and drive the adoption of industry best practices across the group. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with scanning engines, data platforms, and developer tooling teams to ensure governance logic is unified across the development lifecycle. Hands-on Contribution: Actively engage in coding while ensuring internal SLOs for our service architecture are met. What You Bring: At least 10 years’ experience in software engineering, with expertise in TypeScript and/or Go. Experience driving experimentation with new technologies, and ability to drive improvements to stability, performance, and security across multiple teams. A collaborative mindset, and history of building trust between teammates and stakeholders to resolve complex conflicts between groups. A deep understanding of developer workflows and a passion for boosting productivity while reducing business risk. It’d Be Awesome If You Also… Have hands-on experience building modern security tools. Contribute to open-source or developer communities. Love solving complex problems with a collaborative team. #LI-HW1 #LI-hybrid We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway! About Snyk Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk. Benefits & Programs - Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role. - Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development - Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers - Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance - Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances Every day, the world gets more digital thanks to tens of millions of developers building the future faster than ever. But with exponential growth comes exponential risk, as outnumbered security teams struggle to secure mountains of code. This is where Snyk (pronounced “sneak”) comes in. Snyk is a developer security platform that makes it easy for development teams to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure — and do it all right from the start. Snyk is on a mission to make the world a more secure place by empowering developers to develop fast and stay secure. Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do.
snyk.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 AM
opus casually takes a trip to the drizzle orm website ;-)
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 AM
nextjs starter project says "production-ready", I look at the tests folder and there's a single dummy counter test file 🙄

it has 12k stars
expectations are so low, I can't fathom
January 3, 2026 at 9:57 AM
woah, you can just ask Cursor to interview you 🤯

-> Change to Plan mode
-> Tell it to ask you question in an interview process
January 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
so have we landed on a good spec format?

like, something I can use as a PRD. I want to give that outline to Cursor when creating a spec out of an interview session.
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
should I build this cloudflare R2 CLI ?
January 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM
lol my X / Twitter wrapped for 2025 is quite accurate 😆
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
if you need a boost on why it is important (maybe more so today than ever) to build in public, especially if you're exploring roles in developer relations work github.com/readme/guide...
Publishing your work increases your luck
In 12 months, @aarondfrancis changed his life by bypassing fear and embracing risk. Now, he’s working his dream job @tuple. Get his full story on The ReadME Project:
github.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
what do you think I'm building? :-)
January 1, 2026 at 11:32 AM
"Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind" 👌
January 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
how in the world do I get Claude Desktop popup to default to a specific model?

can't find any configuration settings for it and it spins up Sonnet where-as I want it to use Haiku for quick lookups
January 1, 2026 at 8:16 AM
such a small UI design but all so helpful
nice work Cursor!
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 AM
it looks like all those years of being a team lead for humans is also working out pretty well for building apps by AI agents, who knew
December 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
the hidden power of side quests
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
👋 Snyk is hiring for a Staff Software Engineer role in Israel 🇮🇱

Hit me up for details about recruiting for this position, see job details below:

snyk.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Staff Software Engineer, Tel Aviv
Snyk is the leader in secure AI software development, helping millions of developers develop fast and stay secure as AI transforms how software is built. Our AI-native Developer Security Platform inte...
snyk.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We tend to do things incrementally... except when it came to nuclear weapons and AI
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Opus 4.5 in Cursor one-shotting a solution for a bad signed request in Cloudflare R2 storage

However, before I gave it context on what was actually wrong, it updated the frontend code to rebuild the CDN URL, incorrectly too, which didn't actually fix anything. So I had to revert the whole thing.
December 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Pretty cool Vitest TUI. When did it get so good?
December 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
we agree that wrapped "as any" statement is hella cryptic and constituted a change, yes? I mean, AI-generated code is fun and all but gotta draw the line somewhere
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
if you thought npm package manager was bad... here's pip and the mess that is Python package management (well, before uv)
December 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM