Dom Jay | Developer & Writer

"Newly available" and "Widely available" aren't the same promise, but the badge doesn't help that grey area either.

Two lines get you newspaper columns.

Style the exact text a URL fragment resolves to.

Google's search results are summarising your page.

With AI consolidating our research for us, here's a list of newsletters I'm currently subscribed to in order to keep those content publishers alive and visible

This months page turners have articles written by Terry Godier, David Bushell, Nicole Sullivan, Stuart Robson and Abbey Perini.

We can describe code that works.

A list of links and demos I've collected over November 2025, with the intention of posting monthly

Stop the jumps: the two-line CSS fix that kills CLS for good

Why does an industry full of creative, successful professionals make so many of them feel like they're just getting away with a con?

A list of links and demos I've collected over November 2025, with the intention of posting monthly

The anxiety that you're not keeping up isn't a personal failing - it's the predictable result of measuring yourself against a target that has never existed.

A list of links and demos I've collected over September 2025, with the intention of posting monthly

A list of links and demos I've collected over July 2025, with the intention of posting monthly

A list of links and demos I've collected over June 2025, with the intention of posting monthly

Your CSS is lying to some of your users.

A list of links and demos I've collected over May 2025, with the intention of posting monthly

How @scope finally gives CSS the style boundaries it's always needed - and why that means BEM can retire.

A collection of articles I've read over June 2024, with the intention of posting monthly

A collection of articles I've read over May 2024, with the intention of posting monthly

Highlights from the month

A collection of articles I've read over April 2024, with the intention of posting monthly

Highlights from the month

A collection of articles I've read over March 2024, with the intention of posting monthly

A collection of articles I`ve read over February 2024, with the intention of posting monthly

I read Rach Smith's post 'a work from home reset for the new year' and had a thought about how I want to start the year off professionally.

I was interested in picking up some new CSS tricks, and there’s been a lot of talk recently about scroll driven animations.

There’s been a trend recently of writing up a list of default apps, stemming from a recent podcast, so here I am, jumping on that trend!

Highlights from the week

Reaching an element's siblings in CSS used to be tough.

Don't like some of the colors used on a variable font?

How line-clamp truncates text in four lines of CSS - no JS, no npm package, no polyfill needed.

A public reflection of 2022, both professionally and personally.

Highlights from the week

Highlights from the week

Highlights from the week

Highlights from the week

A deep dive into Create React App - a tool for building single page applications

Setting up the Netlify CLI to deploy a Next application to Netlify

The five values, which one you'll actually use, and why cover is almost always the answer

The four behaviours that make custom properties more than just variables.

Highlights from the week

Highlights from the week