Phil Wolstenholme

I'm building a newer version of my personal site using Astro (wolstenhol-astro.netlify.app). It fetches some reading list items at build time and then some at request time once you start paginating. It looks like each time I fetch the Chrome for Developers blog I'm getting a different language 😁

Other than @devongovett.me 's work on React Spectrum/ARIA are there any other good sources on 'how to make nice full screen UI' for iOS 26? I've found some base-ui PRs but are looking for more examples. I've gotta make a full screen mobile nav full-screen again…

Team size changes, project work, and winter sickness has meant that we're sometimes running as a pair rather than a small mob/ensemble at work. I've never done much pairing! Are there any particularly good blog posts, talks, or books on doing it well and/or different approaches to try?

Neat little feature on my new personal site: use the `Sec-CH-UA-Mobile` header (or UA sniffing 😔) to know the device type during SSR and show fewer items per page. This saves mobile users from having to scroll past giant stacked lists that would be in a nice grid on desktop:

I'd almost completely forgotten about a talk I gave in the depths of Covid for DrupalCon EU. I've just found a blog post I wrote (on a Medium account that I'd also forgotten about!) after getting my session feedback back and I'm feeling nostalgic: philwolstenholme.medium.com/my-drupalcon...

This post is the culmination of my thinking about (and building) SPA-like apps w minimal JS for the last 2 yrs The ideas are informed in large part by the @infrequently.org blog posts and talks Thanks @htmx.bsky.social and @astro.build for building great tools. www.lorenstew.art/blog/progres...

Lodash with imports from `lodash/package`: 151.16kb `es-toolkit`: 3.88kb Tests passing, TS happy, linter happy. There's a bundle size reduction, a speed increase, and we can drop the Lodash ESLint plugin and `@types/lodash` too 🙌 Thanks github.com/toss!

This is a glorious blog post on the history of rendering web pages, how to write a BFF very neatly, returning a representation of UI from a server – and how you might end up inventing React Server Components if you think about these things for long enough:

Nice article: blog.nelhage.com/post/persona... Some key points: the person knows what they are doing, the LLM is speeding them up, but when there's a hiccup they can get back on track with their own skills, and the software they are generating is only their responsibility to maintain.

Locked in

It's December 1st, and you know what that means: For the next 24 days, we'll publish articles about HTML by 24 authors. You can read them on the website or subscribe to the RSS channel. Enjoy! htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Just picked this up

Absolutely this, Knip probably saves me and my team about twice a week from leaving dead code in the codebase, exporting things that don't need to be exported, forgetting to remove a library from package.json when we stop using it in code – that sort of thing

Scroll gallery effect using CSS grid and scroll-driven animations ✨ - split images into layers - lay out images in stacked layers with same grid structure - animate the size of the center image - animate the layers to reveal with different timings

I tried moving from Lodash to `es-toolkit/compat` (as a stepping stone) but now it looks like Webpack is pulling in www.npmjs.com/package/buffer and its dependencies (62.93kb!) so my bundle size has _increased_. I think it's github.com/vercel/next.... from @nextjs.org causing mischief 😭 @leerob.com

Very envious of all the #perfnow posts!

🚀 New Interactive Article: Overflow Clip Explore how overflow: clip works in CSS and see why it’s useful with practical examples and demos. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/over...

🚨 Introducing the 2024 Web Almanac, our annual "state of the web" report! 🔖 almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/ 21 chapters (11 publishing today, the rest to follow) 65 contributors for today's chapters (more to follow) 17M websites analyzed 83 TB of data processed 628 queries written

I'm not sold on the colour scheme yet but as of last night wolstenhol.me is now showing Bluesky posts where it used to show Twitter posts 🙌. I just need to post some photos and videos so I can make sure it handles those okay, the old approach used a lightbox for photos and could play videos inline.

If anyone in the UK is looking for a simple but good beans-to-cup coffee machine then this is the one I've had for three years now, and £399 is a great price! www.techradar.com/home/coffee-...

I just spent way too long adding every guest to a Syntax starter pack If you want to follow the best devs in web development 👇🏻 go.bsky.app/SoASbQA

✂️ Support the mission to automate code maintenance and make it more fun by nominating Knip! Eternal gratitude will come your way uncluttered 🫶 syntax.fm/oss

This is very very cool, a native feeling swipe-to-dismiss modal sheet but all with CSS and a touch of JavaScript, not a Framer Motion in sight! codepen.io/jh3y/pen/LYw...

I'm building a web perf starter pack but I'm still looking for folks to add - please let me know who I'm missing because I haven't found them all on bsky yet go.bsky.app/RVWSVqe

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

Similar to what I'm feeling. Never got on with Mastodon (a bit too self-congratulatory) and persevered with Twitter but would much rather be on a better platform if the content/community/audience is there