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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 4d

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 · 14d

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 · 24d

Also, black tape pagination buttons, because why not?

'Previous' and 'Next' buttons using black masking tape as their background image

Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · 24d

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 · 25d

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...

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…

philwolstenholme.medium.com

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · Aug 12

Oooh, what would this be?

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Loren Stewart @cheddybop.bsky.social · Aug 11

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...

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...

www.lorenstew.art

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · Jul 11

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 · Apr 15

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:

dan @danabra.mov · Apr 15

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: JSX Over The Wire overreacted.io/jsx-over-the...

JSX Over The Wire — overreacted

Turning your API inside-out.

overreacted.io

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · Mar 28

This is really relevant to me at work at the moment! @tammyeverts.com do you have a link to that Akami study on slowness leading to 28% abandonment, please? I'd like to quote it at work but with a direct link to the source.

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · Feb 10

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.

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...

blog.nelhage.com

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · Jan 9

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · Dec 31

I blogged about what my testing workflow is like now that I'm one of those developer creatures:
cactus-flamingo.ghost.io/a-software-e...

A Software Engineer in Testing: How I Build Quality In

If you're familiar with my journey, you'll know I made the transition to a software engineer role around 6 months ago, after being a QA engineer in various forms for the best part of a decade. Part of...

cactus-flamingo.ghost.io

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · Dec 7

Locked in

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Dec 7

For those on BlueSky unfamiliar with this modern British tradition:

During times of high winds, we all jump on YouTube and watch planes trying to land at Heathrow, with excited commentary from the UK's premier plane nerd channel.

Currently live here!

www.youtube.com/live/egvoBvc...

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Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me · Dec 1

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · Dec 1

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...

HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 - HTMHell

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

htmhell.dev

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