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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 26/06/2026

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 😁

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 06/11/2025

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…

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 23/10/2025

@jensimmons.bsky.social @saron.bsky.social @jondavis.bsky.social – do you know why using this CSS would cause flickering? It's across devices and iOS versions: ``` :where(:root) { --vpc-loader-height: 23.75rem; } content-visibility: auto; contain-intrinsic-size: auto var(--vpc-loader-height); ```

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 08/10/2025

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?

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 28/09/2025

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:

https://gist.github.com/philwolstenholme/fff89398fd02f0032859c9a3a60cfc94

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 18/09/2025

New feature on the redesign of my personal site (wolstenhol.me) – show when its the birthday of a repo I've starred on Github. Happy anniversary for oRPC, @unnoq.com!

A very close up and cropped screenshot of a website card representing the 'unnoq/orpc' Github repo. The card shows a repo description, its number of stars, its language, and a birthday cake emoji next to the next '1 year old this month'

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 17/09/2025

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...

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My DrupalCon Europe 2020 session feedback

Back in December I gave a talk on using Tailwind with Drupal, and why, for me, it makes sense in an agency environment where long-running…

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Loren Stewart | Cheddy @cheddybop.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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...

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A Progressive Complexity Manifesto | Loren Stewart

A manifesto for progressive web complexity. Reject the false binary between static sites and SPAs. Embrace the powerful middle ground with server-rendered HTML, HTMX, and intentional complexity escala...

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 11/07/2025

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!

Bundle size comparison table showing the `lodash` package being removed (saving 151.16KiB) and `es-toolkit` being added at a cost of `3.88KiB`

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 15/04/2025

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:

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 10/02/2025

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.

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Building personal software with Claude

Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the execution time by a factor of 1000 or more (in one concrete case: from 90s to about 15ms). This is a vari...

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 01/12/2024

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...

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HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 - HTMHell

An article, talk, or tool that focuses on HTML every day until Christmas.

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 23/11/2024

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

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Jhey ʕ·ᴥ·　ʔ @jhey.dev · 22/11/2024

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

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 20/11/2024

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

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buffer

Node.js Buffer API, for the browser. Latest version: 6.0.3, last published: 4 years ago. Start using buffer in your project by running `npm i buffer`. There are 9127 other projects in the npm registry...

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Ahmad Shadeed @ishadeed.com · 12/11/2024

🚀 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...

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 12/11/2024

Has anyone ever seen Safari render a page correctly (visually/layout speaking) but all the touch tap targets are offset? Only reproducible when Safari has been configured to show the address bar at the top of the screen, and only when a particular style of Flexbox-based modal is open? #frontend

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HTTP Archive 💾 @httparchive.org · 11/11/2024

🚨 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

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The 2024 Web Almanac

The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 11/11/2024

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.

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 10/11/2024

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-...

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I test coffee machines for a living, and this Smeg espresso machine is the best Black Friday deal I've seen so far

With £300 off, this is the cheapest this bean-to-cup machine has ever been

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 09/11/2024

I'm sick, which obviously means it's time to rebuild wolstenhol.me in Astro, mainly just because my current site won't build anymore due to hitting the max environment variables size limit on AWS/Netlify Functions… I should probably just try and fix that first, right?

wolstenhol.me

Phil Wolstenholme's personal website, blog and portfolio

Phil Wolstenholme's personal site

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A L I E N Cerny @alancerny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

This may be helpful for you new followers. You can block every single person on these lists. Just click on the subscribe button and it will give you the option to block every one on it. Here’s the first: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Syntax @syntax.fm · 02/11/2024

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

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Lars @webpro.nl · 31/10/2024

✂️ 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

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$50,000 for Open Source - Syntax

Syntax is Pledging $50,000 to open source projects.

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 31/10/2024

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...

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 31/10/2024

Made a cute bit of UI to switch between Adobe Target A/B test experiences in server-side rendered HTML. It's all managed with React Server Components and API calls to save us having to load a tonne of Adobe's third party JavaScript and still suffer layout shift and flicker.

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Sia Karamalegos @sia.codes · 28/10/2024

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

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

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

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Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page

Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 26/10/2024

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

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