Video with transparency in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, iOS and Android, circa 2022
![Transparent video](https://static.supergeekery.com/site-assets/_halfWidth/transparent-video.jpg)
This post on using video with a transparent background will probably not age well. At least I hope that is the case! Ideally, in the future, you can use a single .webm
video file and it will work everywhere. But, as I write this post in January 2022, after a full day of research and trying different approaches, I’ve got a “ tag that will play a video with a transparent background across a… + read on
Tweaking site performance and configuring AWS
![PageSpeed 98 on jmx2.com](https://static.supergeekery.com/site-assets/_halfWidth/2021-07-20_15-23-54.png)
I’ve recently updated jmx2.com. The site worked as it was and I didn’t really have the spare time to get to the ever-growing list of updates I’d accumulated. I had a week of relative quiet appear and I’ve finally worked on the site again. Here’s what I’ve been doing. General clean up of the code in the Craft Twig templates. Built a new server with PHP 8 and moved the site. *… + read on
The HTML email template in Craft CMS
![Craft HTML email template option screenshot](https://static.supergeekery.com/site-assets/_halfWidth/craft-html-email-template-option.png)
The documentation of Craft CMS improves constantly but for a CMS that evolves at the pace we’re used to with Craft, keeping up with documenting every nook and cranny doesn’t always happen. The HTML Email Template is pretty basic and hasn’t received much love in the docs yet. Searching the Craft documentation doesn’t turn up much information. If you search the Craft Discord community, you’ll find documentation nuggets scattered in conversations. In this post,… + read on
Docker, Craft, Forge, Arcustech, and Heroku
I have recently embraced using Docker for my local development. To be clear, I’ve had stumbles along the way. Luckily, I have a friend who is always there to help me out. (Thanks, Andrew!) As with almost everything I post on this site, this post serves as a note to my future self, but I hope you (you, being you, not me) gets something out of it too. ## Why do this? Like many… + read on
So long, Craft Link List, and hello again, Craft Link List
![How to decide](https://static.supergeekery.com/site-assets/_halfWidth/how-to-decide.png)
Hello Craft friends! I’ve got news to share about Craft Link List, the Craft CMS-focused newsletter I’ve written since May 2015. Craft Link List #127 was the last issue I worked on before handing over the newsletter to the Craft CMS team. The decision to stop writing the newsletter was difficult. The diagram above is from this tweet that I stumbled upon in early December. I bookmarked it and kept coming back to it… + read on
Adding Date Validation Logic when Creating an Event in Craft CMS 3
I have a Craft CMS site with two Date/Time fields. One field is called calStartTime
and the other is calEndTime
. The goal is to check that calEndTime
does not happen before the calStartTime
. To do this, I have a custom module. Head over to pluginfactory.io to scaffold out a module. You could also do this in a plugin, but a module is probably easier. Listen for the Entry::EVENT_BEFORE_SAVE
event and then make sure the… + read on
A critical error: Chromium revision is not downloaded.
I have been trying to get critical to work on my Mac but kept getting the following error when my webpack configuration hit the point where it was trying to configure the Critical CSS. Error: Chromium revision is not downloaded. Run "npm install" or "yarn install" at Launcher.launch (/Users/john/Sites/craft-w-webpack/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:119:15)
I tried fixing this by following the instructions, npm install
, but the error continued to happen. The path to getting this fixed had… + read on
Installing Imagick in Valet
Whenever I update to new versions of PHP in my local installation, I need to reinstall Imagick. Since I look up these steps every time, I’m documenting them here so future me can remember this. ## Is Imagick really not installed? First you might have it installed on your machine. Does this return a version number? convert -version
If so, you have it installed but it might not be wired up for… + read on
Fixing a MariaDB database that has a corrupted root user password.
In one terminal window I did this: echo $(brew --prefix MariaDB)
That gave me the path to my MariaDB of: /usr/local/opt/mariadb
Then I ran this in that same window: /usr/local/opt/mariadb/mysqld_safe
That started MariaDB successfully. Then I opened a 2nd terminal window. sudo $(brew --prefix mariadb)/bin/mysqladmin -u root password
I followed the prompts to reset the password to ”, i.e. blank. Then I killed the MariaDB current running by… + read on
Synology, Plex, ports and missing URLs
I’ve had a Synology for many years, and the interface has changed over time, obscuring useful information for installed apps. One of my favorite apps to run on it is Plex. In the Synology interface, it used to be easy to open Plex. The URL was shown in the “Package Center” when looking up the app. Below is a screenshot of how the interface used to look. This is not a screenshot I created.… + read on