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Darek Kay

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Darek Kay is a professional front-end developer and an accessibility advocate.

Frontend / CSS / browsersTravel

’15’20’25
Posts
89 from 18 Oct 2012 to 14 Jul 2026
Posting
monthly (18 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 18

  1. Sabbatical #18: Great Ocean Road
  2. Sabbatical #17: Melbourne
  3. Sabbatical #16: Kaikōura
  4. Sabbatical #15: Tasman-Marlborough
  5. Sabbatical #14: West Coast
  6. Sabbatical #13: Wānaka
  7. Sabbatical #12: Milford Sound
  8. Sabbatical #11: Queenstown
  9. Sabbatical #10: Mackenzie Basin
  10. Sabbatical #09: Dunedin
  11. Sabbatical #08: Christchurch
  12. Sabbatical #07: Waitomo
  13. Sabbatical #06: Tongariro National Park
  14. Sabbatical #05: Rotorua Lakes
  15. Sabbatical #04: Coromandel Peninsula
  16. Sabbatical #03: Auckland
  17. Sabbatical #02: Doha
  18. Sabbatical #01: Getting ready

2025 1

  1. Grab browser links and titles in one click

2024 5

  1. Open Graph images: Format compatibility across platforms
  2. A guide to bookmarklets
  3. Prevent data loss on page refresh
  4. Web push notifications: issues and limitations
  5. Website themes with uBlock Origin

2023 5

  1. Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts
  2. Building a photography website
  3. Delaying asset requests in Eleventy
  4. My personal one-pager
  5. Style your RSS feed

2022 2

  1. Fixing long start-up times of the Eleventy dev server
  2. Handling Enzyme in React 18

2021 20

  1. Running Storybook from a separate folder
  2. Separate Firefox dark UI theme from website dark mode
  3. Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution
  4. Countercheck unit tests
  5. Git explained: Commit ranges
  6. Migrating a Create React App project to Vite
  7. Create uniform album art images with ImageMagick
  8. GitHub developer statistics
  9. Import TypeScript types in JavaScript projects
  10. I've analyzed the accessibility of over 1600 personal sites
  11. Web developer's guide to AVIF images
  12. Reverse-engineering the Foobar2000 index file format
  13. Workflows for opening issue tracker pages
  14. Debugging dynamic content in browser dev tools
  15. Estimating the number of your RSS subscribers
  16. IntelliJ IDEA debugger cheatsheet
  17. Focusing partially hidden elements in CSS
  18. Group posts by year in Eleventy
  19. Using a custom ESLint version in Create React App
  20. Moving from Hexo to Eleventy

2020 11

  1. Using CSS to improve CLI documentation
  2. Cut/Copy the whole line in your editor
  3. Using LF line endings on Windows
  4. Designing an accessible color palette with magic numbers
  5. Creating a custom GitHub profile page
  6. Local history in IntelliJ IDEA
  7. Bypass a blocked context menu in Firefox
  8. GitLab CI monorepo setup
  9. Git explained: Rewriting history
  10. Implementing an accessible focus indicator
  11. Would you survive a skydive with an emoji parachute?

2019 1

  1. The state of accessible web UI frameworks

2018 5

  1. Skydiving memoirs
  2. Advanced Todoist tips & tricks
  3. Tomorrow Evening theme for IntelliJ IDEA
  4. Convert to arrow function in WebStorm
  5. Various ways to include comments on your static site

2016 1

  1. Recommended IntelliJ IDEA settings

2015 4

  1. Puzzle solving tool for geocaching
  2. Script crashes before 10 am
  3. Private ignore files for Git and Mercurial
  4. My Putty color scheme

2014 10

  1. Export tool for Todoist
  2. Monokai theme for IntelliJ IDEA
  3. Labyrinthz
  4. Solve the redirect loop problem in WordPress
  5. Have you recently checked your Myspace account?
  6. Another password leak — oh, it must be Tuesday!
  7. Turn Notepad++ into a log file analyzer
  8. What The Commit — Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
  9. Trakt.tv backup
  10. IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts for Eclipse users

2013 5

  1. Compiling Sencha GXT showcase
  2. Embed YouTube HD videos in WordPress
  3. Hot-air balloon jump
  4. Empuriabrava skydiving course 2013
  5. MooMovies — A personal movie database

2012 1

  1. My first skydiving course