Problems with using useFakeTimers('modern') in a create-react-app (CRA) project with Jest 26 and Lodash's debounce function
I spent the best part of a day (after meetings etc) working why something that seems so simple in the...
Phil Wolstenholme
Hi 👋, welcome to my personal site. It’s part blog, part portfolio, part place to try new things.
I'm a lead frontend engineer at the Co-op. I have a wide range of skills, knowledge, and experience, particularly focussed on accessibility and frontend web performance. Outside of work I'm interested in science, the environment, bouldering, bikes (everyday/utility), and open source software.
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- LinkedInI hardly use Linkedin, but it's here to look ✨professional✨…
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the internet…
Tweets from Twitter, blog posts from DEV/Medium, talks from YouTube and beyond, photos from Instagram, music from Spotify, and nice places from Foursquare (lol, I know, but I've built the API integration now so Foursquare lives on on this website!).
Words
Section titled WordsBlog posts I've posted on DEV Community or Medium (one day I'll build my own blog, I promise…)
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Reading
Section titled ReadingSome things I've been reading recently:
How to choose a median result when running Google Lighthouse multiple times
Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you f
Are We Really Engineers?
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. I sat in front o
Pixelated rounded corners with CSS clip-path
I remember the day in 2011 when the design agency that I worked for decided that we were dropping IE
Remix vs Next.js
An objective comparison between Remix and Next.js
Good advice on JSX conditionals
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to
Patterns.dev - Modern Web App Design Patterns
Improve how you architect webapps Patterns.dev is free book on design patterns and component pattern
Locality of Behaviour
The behaviour of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of cod
Improving Cumulative Layout Shift at Telegraph Media Group
How Telegraph, the leading UK news website managed to improve their 75th percentile CLS by 250% from
How to write performant React code: rules, patterns, do's and don'ts
Performance and React! Such a fun topic with so many controversial opinions and so many best...
know how your org works (or how to become a more effective engineer)
A few months ago, exhausted by a constant stream of people perennially disappointed about reward str
The human side of delivery in a remote world
There are three parts to what I call the Human side of Delivery — those things we can do to make thi
I died on Monday night.
The dark side of whistleblowing
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! Utility-first with Tailwind
- Event
- DrupalCon Europe 2020
- Talk
- Write Better CSS by Stopping Writing Any More CSS! Utility-first with 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
“Stunning talk – those tips on Twig syntax gotchas were worth it alone. Many 'thank you's!”
Jack Garratt on YouTube “Brilliant talk. If this guy made a 10 hour series on Drupal & Vue development I'd watch it ASAP.”
'just another human' on YouTube 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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Photos
Section titled PhotosPhotos and videos from Instagram.
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Tagged location: Hotel Ottilia by Brøchner Hotels
Hanging out in Copenhagen while Marli finishes her (Danish company) work Christmas do. Featuring pod hotel first night, Danish Architecture Centre, then a much fancier hotel in one of the original Carlsberg brewery buildings for the rest of the trip! Free wine hour from 5-6! #copenhagen #cph
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Tagged location: Wadi Mujib
Having just about recovered from the million steps we did across two days at Petra (and one evening of Petra by candlelight) I was ready to do a bit of canyoning-lite at Wadi Mujib which is a part hike, part canyoning, part via ferrata up a canyon (wadi) using ropes, ladders, and walking up to a nice double waterfall, then climb/jump/slide/float back down. On the way down you can float on your back and look up at the lovely sandstone rock formations and patterns. This was my last Jordan activity, now I'm just abusing the happy hour at the W hotel back in the capital after a week away from non-Arabic country levels of access to alcohol!
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Tagged location: Dead Sea Beach (Holiday Inn Resort)
Obligatory Dead Sea floating and mud photos! The most fun I've ever had at a Holiday Inn (probably)!
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Tagged location: Petra, Ma`An, Jordan
Went to Petra, saw some rather old things, got offered a million donkey rides! Props to the Bedouin guy who took the first photo and had clearly done this a million times before!
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Tagged location: Wadi Rum
Some Wadi Rum spam, featuring obligatory photo of me hanging off a rock, a totally not staged at all 'looking at the sunset' photo, and the first time I used the Astronomy mode on my phone's camera and caught a shooting star? (Or maybe just a satellite, not sure, but don't rain on my parade if you can tell what it is!) 🌠🌟🌞🇯🇴
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Tagged location: Amman, Jordan
I also saw this in the downtown area, which doesn't really fit with the Amman Citadel pictures, but that I still liked!
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Tagged location: Amman, Jordan
Day 1 in Jordan 🇯🇴 Amman is a big sprawling, kinda messy (in terms of planning) capital city where I think it's assumed you drive everywhere, and my hotel is next to a dual carriageway (exotic!) so my morning errand of 'get a local SIM card so I can use data for directions and stuff' turned into an sweaty odyssey of going round in circles then coming up against ring roads/roundabouts of death with no way to cross, but I made it eventually. The afternoon (shown here!) was much more civilised! There's only me and another person on the Intrepid tour that I booked onto (I was expecting 5-12…) so it's going to be a cosy trip!
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Tagged location: 2021 Hospitality Weekend In The Woods
Just about snuck in a full-blown day of festivalling this year (ignoring the Sunday of Moovin because it was so small!) It was SO GOOD to be back at a big event and listening to all the Hospital and related artists playing outside on generally pretty loud sound systems to a super friendly crowd and a not-oversold venue with LOADS of space to move! We made up for @_sannebosmans 's 30th being during one of the lockdowns by all wearing party hats, and hundreds of people had wished Sanne a happy birthday, sung to us, or presented us with an imaginary cake by the end of the night ☺️ There couldn't have been a better way to celebrate me finishing my job of 6.5 years on the Thursday then me and Marli jumping on a train to London to alternate between chilling and partying all weekend!
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Tagged location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Super chill Sunday riding around Manchester with @dom_whiting 🚲🚴🔊📢
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Tagged location: New Adelphi Building
One more for the Instagram collection of 'Phil hanging off things to make it look as if he actually does anything active anymore' - this is a giant bust of Engels' head and beard that's part sculpture, part bouldering object
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Tagged location: Manchester, United Kingdom
It was my birthday yesterday! 🎂🎈🎊 Big thanks to @marley.rude for orchestrating a really good birthday weekend! We did a Manchester staycation thing, we stayed at @nativemcr @duciestreet which was great (red brick and iron columns! 😍), went to @treetopmanchester in Heaton Park (zip lines and squirrel befriending!), drank and ate at @escapetofreightisland (tacos, tequila…) and was just really happy to be somewhere other than my flat for a weekend!
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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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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…
Oishi-Q
People talk about great value, casual, healthy food.
Unit 7 The Quad (Hulme St.), Manchester
London Grind
People talk about coffee, lively, trendy.
2 London Bridge, London
Peggy's
People talk about good for groups, good for singles.
Barlow's Croft, Salford
FACT Cinema and Art Gallery
People talk about draft beer, coffee, wine.
88 Wood St (at Back Colquitt St), Liverpool
Kuli Alma (כולי עלמא)
People talk about trendy, lively, good for groups.
Mikve Israel 10 (Barzilai), תל אביב-יפו
Casa Pepe
People talk about rooftop.
Av. Uruguay 86, Mexico City
Home Sweet Home
People talk about coffee, milkshakes, cake.
49 Edge St, Manchester
Pho Vietnamese
People talk about pho, great value, good for a quick meal.
Charlotte St. (George St.), Manchester
Rudy's
People talk about pizza, authentic, casual.
9 Cotton St, Manchester
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Tweets
Section titled TweetsTweets by me, @philw_.
Sure, it’s 2022, but I’m still doing skeuomorphic fake sticky notes in CSS like it’s 2012 😎
(it’s just that now the rotation is controlled by a custom property, the styles are composed of existing utility classes, and the truncation is done via CSS rather than a jQuery plugin!) pic.twitter.com/kdLQw5JGQr
This is a super interesting read. @remix_run sounds lovely, and I’m really looking forward to trying it at some point.
(mustn’t rebuild my personal site, mustn’t rebuild my personal site, mustn’t rebuild my personal site…) https://twitter.com/remix_run/status/1483512990741659656 …
We’re excited to launch an eCargo bike library with @ManCityCouncil The bikes will be available for the public to rent early February - more information below https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/news/article/8931/ebikes_come_to_manchester_as_ambitious_city-wide_scheme_launches …
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