two cool sites today, the first one makes an avatar say a text for you on video, the second rips out the video background (like a greenbox) and can paste in another background.

synthesia.io

unscreen.com

Downloading and installing libraries for every new site is a PITA.

So I've spent an hour today with trial and error to find out how libraries can be installed with composer.

Results: there are three things to do in composer.json

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/simple-auto-playing-slideshow/

https://symfony.com/doc/current/frontend/encore/server-data.html

Videos. Responsive pseudo-streaming. MP4 with H264 and WEBM with VP9.

recommended bitrates per resolution:

I thought I would quickly setup a little stock tracker and portfolio tracker app using the easy to use and free Yahoo Finance API or Google Finance API, but oh boy, it's not a free internet anymore!
I guess the free data subscription models didn't work out, because both services have been discontinued. Open Bloomberg is history as well.

So after some research I made a shortlist of API providing free market finance data:

I regularly scan the web for more Drupal modules that add functionality that I might need.

This is my most recent crop. I include it here so that I don't forget it, and I add what I hope the module will achieve

for all sites

stumbled upon this unbelievable writeup of all things Jquery and Javascript in a Drupal context:

https://www.therussianlullaby.com/blog/guide-how-to-integrate-javascript-in-drupal-8-9

Great reference document, I saved this to a Word document and also put the URL here so I find it easily again.

there's a part 2 to my dream to be a Drupal dev - the previous installment was about creating patches, but the new recommended way of contributing code to Drupal is to create an issue fork and create a merge request.

As usual, documentation on Drupal.org for doing that is poor, and I spent hours to figure out how to get it done.

here are my steps:

*this supposes you have access to Drupal.org as well as Drupal GIT

Open an issue and describe what you want to do
Click "request push access"

How to contribute a patch to Drupal

Login to Drupal.org, login to Drupal GIT

Go to the project page, such as https://www.drupal.org/project/webform_validation

Go to version control, select branch, click SHOW button to get the right command

In a temp directory, copy-paste the command, for example
git clone --branch '2.0.x' https://git.drupalcode.org/project/webform_validation.git

then go into that directory
cd webform_validation

useful if you want to hack core or a module, but want to keep updatability and composer integrity.

use Winmerge

file paths in the .patch file are relative from the root directory of the installed package that is being patched

store patch in some high directory, I use /projectname/patches

add the patch under "extras, patches" in composer.json

run composer update