My DrupalCon Europe 2020 session feedback
94% of attendees gave my session a 5 star (79%) or 4 star (15%) rating. Back in December I gave a talk on using Tailwind with Drupal...
Phil Wolstenholme
Hi 👋, welcome to my personal site. It’s part blog, part portfolio, part place to try new things.
I work as a Principal Developer helping put together Drupal and other sorts of websites and apps for CTI Digital in Manchester. Outside work I'm interested in science, the environment, bouldering, bikes, and open source software.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere on the internet…
Tweets from Twitter, blog posts from Medium, talks from YouTube and beyond, photos from Instagram, music from Spotify, and nice places (remember when we used to be able to go to nice places?) from Foursquare.
Speaking
Section titled SpeakingTalks I've given at conferences or other events. I'll link to slides or videos where they are available.
Write Better CSS by Stopping Writing Any More CSS! (Tailwind)
- Event
- DrupalCon Europe 2020
- Talk
- Write Better CSS by Stopping Writing Any More CSS! (Tailwind)
“Phil Wolstenholme gave an insightful and well thought out presentation.”
Daniel Lemon, Amazee Labs Progressive decoupling with Vue and Drupal
- Event
- DrupalCon Europe 2019
- Talk
- Progressive decoupling with Vue and Drupal
“Brilliant talk. If this guy made a 10 hour series on Drupal & Vue development I'd watch it ASAP.”
a YouTube commenter on my DrupalCon 2019 video Let's go on a Contrib module safari!
- Event
- NWDUG
- Talk
- Let's go on a Contrib module safari!
Progressive decoupling with Vue and Drupal
- Event
- NWDUG Unconference 2019
- Talk
- Progressive decoupling with Vue and Drupal
Pattern Lab, Tailwind, and Vue (or the time I tried to cover three talks in one… 😬)
- Event
- NWDUG
- Talk
- Pattern Lab, Tailwind, and Vue (or the time I tried to cover three talks in one… 😬)
Vue at the Royal Navy
- Event
- VueJS Manchester Community
- Talk
- Vue at the Royal Navy
How to write better CSS by stopping writing CSS
- Event
- NWDUG Unconference 2018
- Talk
- How to write better CSS by stopping writing CSS
Performance Optimisation for the Rich and Famous
- Event
- NWDUG Unconference 2017
- Talk
- Performance Optimisation for the Rich and Famous
“Phil normally delivers really good talks, and this was no exception.”
Phil Norton A New Era of Accessibility with Drupal 8
- Event
- DrupalCamp London 2017
- Talk
- A New Era of Accessibility with Drupal 8
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Music
Section titled MusicAccording to the Spotify API, I've been listening to a bit of pop punk (Something Corporate), indie emo (Roosevelt), jump up (Logistics), pop (Lana Del Rey) and electronica (Faithless) over the last few weeks (their genre names, not mine!)
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You can click the cards above to play a little preview of the artist, courtesy of the Spotify API. I also use the Spotify API to get the tempo/BPM of the preview song, and I use this to influence the speed that a card bops at while its playing.
Press the pause icon or the esc key on your keyboard to stop the previews.
Photos
Section titled PhotosPhotos and videos from Instagram.
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Speaking at a conference in 2019 versus speaking from your living room to a webcam in 2020 😩
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Tagged location: Liverpool
Super late posting this, but @marley.rude and I went on a bike ride to Liverpool last weekend to escape Manchester (and not have to get a train anywhere), and it was LOVELY! (Despite cycling last about five sewage treatment works). We got a suite at @pullman_liverpool for pretty much the price of a normal one-level-up-from-standard room which was lush, saw @kilbyster and ate a bunch of tacos and drank a bunch of wine!
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Tagged location: Worthy Farm
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Tagged location: Pickmere Lake
Went for a lovely swim, hopefully didn't get the co-co (or anything from duck poo water!) 🦆🏊♂️
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Tagged location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Aorta remember more of this from GCSE biology
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Having a monogrammed neonesque light on your living room wall probably isn't particularly modest, but in my defense @marley.rude gave it to me, and it does look banging!
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Tagged location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Thanks to everyone who sent me lockdown-birthday wishes, and to @marley.rude for organising a mock pub crawl with open-air recreations of @penandpencilnq @piccadilly_tap @thefontmcr and @yes_mcr complete with booze and props! Also to @thekoffeepot for basically feeding us all weekend with their burger and pancake kits which I'm still living off even into Tuesday!
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Tagged location: Amsterdam
Some delayed pics from DrupalCon in #amsterdam! 🇳🇱🚲🤓🇪🇺💪🏻
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One day I'll figure out how to make my eyes work when someone's taking a photo of me! 🙄 Thank you for a banging wedding @megan__k__ and @brian_shutter! 😘
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Tagged location: Rock Over Climbing
I CAME IN LIKE A WWWWRRREEEEECCCKKKIIIINNNGGGGH BALL! ⚫
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Tagged location: Berlin, Germany
After Melt we hung out in Berlin for a bit anywhere with AC, water to swim in, or Schofferhofer to drink. I didn't end up sitting in it, but the seat I was assigned on the return flight didn't have a cushion, just the bare plastic and metal that holds up the seat... Luckily the seat next to it was free, but it seemed quite a fitting return from Berlin and living in hotel rooms to work and the grot of Manchester 👎🏻
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Tagged location: Melt Festival
Went back to @meltfestival in Deutschland, and it was sehr sehr gut! Swimming in the lake by day, nursing Tetra-Pak babies with @cjeporter and @sanne_bosmans in the twilight, and dancing on sand and amongst diggers by night 😌 We caught the heatwave in Germany but also an epic thunderstorm one evening with a load of thunder, lightning, and dodging airborne gazebos as anything that wasn't properly staked down in the campsite went walkabouts, including a portaloo which we saw topple over and then miraculously was put the right way up and cleaned up before the storm even seemed to be over. A++ organisation from Melt, would festival again👌
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Places
Section titled PlacesA randomised asortment of places I've liked on Foursquare at one point - it could be somewhere from a holiday, or it could be a random bar in Manchester that closed three years ago…
Satan's Whiskers
People talk about cocktails, good for dates, cozy.
343 Cambridge Heath Rd, London
Alphabet Brewing Company
People talk about breweries, good for singles, happy hour.
99 North Western Street, Manchester
Design Museum
28 Shad Thames, London
Wasabi
Unit 8, The Quadrangle, Manchester
The Crown & Two Chairmen
People talk about wine, burgers, cider.
31-32 Dean St (at Bateman St), Soho
Salouf & Sons (סאלוף ובניו)
People talk about authentic, hummus, cozy.
נחלת בנימין 80 (לוינסקי), תל אביב
Brouwerij Troost
People talk about burgers, lively, good for groups.
Cornelis Troostplein 23, Amsterdam
Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes
People talk about pizza, trendy, cocktails.
32-34 Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch
JETpak Alternative
People talk about cappuccinos, complimentary breakfast.
Görlitzer Str. 38, Berlin
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Tweets
Section titled TweetsTweets by me, @philw_.
Been down to check out the resurface on Barlow Moor Road. New surface is certainly smooth but the repainted murder strips are criminal: riding a safe distance from the kerb has even narrow road handlebars overlapping into the main lane.
Murder strips should not be repainted. pic.twitter.com/zODfSbS0wB
Another day, another 20 minutes reloading pages, adjusting build scripts, checking caching settings to find out why a CSS change wasn’t being applied to a page, only to find out I still had some dev tools local overrides set up from the last time I worked on this project… 🤦♂️
What if I told you that you could create a pure CSS LQIP on-demand by writing a @tailwindcss class?
Say hello to Plaiceholder’s Tailwind JIT plugin 🚀
Coming soon…
Coming sooner if I get more http://Plaiceholder.co “Pro” members… pic.twitter.com/iM6YGM1od3
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