Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts 🔗
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions [...]
Darek Kay
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Building a photography website 🔗
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms [...]
Delaying asset requests in Eleventy 🔗
While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading behavior. One technique is to provide a visual fallb [...]
My personal one-pager 🔗
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal con [...]
Style your RSS feed 🔗
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech users. However, many people do not know what RSS feed [...]
Fixing long start-up times of the Eleventy dev server 🔗
Recently, I've encountered a peculiar issue with Eleventy. The development server stopped working: eleventy --serve [11ty] Wrote 92 files in 0.48 seco [...]
Handling Enzyme in React 18 🔗
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. Howeve [...]
Running Storybook from a separate folder 🔗
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder next to the actual app: 📁 project ├─ 📁 app | ├─ [...]
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode 🔗
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but wit [...]
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution 🔗
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, w [...]
Countercheck unit tests 🔗
Test-driven development (TDD) is a good technique for making sure that our code matches the requirements. With frontend unit tests, it is often necess [...]
Git explained: Commit ranges 🔗
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can [...]