Notepad++ show line numbers
It’s a little hidden imo, so future-me or for your service – the setting to show the line numbers.

After expermienting alot with my MQTT server it was pretty polluted with sustained messages and I wanted to get rid of them. The fastest way I got this reliably to work was by deleting the persistence file while the MQTT server was offline. You could delete all or specific topics with a script, too, but…
For a container class with a dictionary with config values (among other members) I wanted easy reading access as if it was a dict itself. For that you only have to implement the __getitem__ method. You can extend the provided dict functionality for your class if needed like the following: All but the update method…
I have a talent to forget to cover my car before a night with temperature below zero and the next morning I have to scratch away all the ice. As I really don’t like that I decided to build a warning mechanism for that. I already had a Node-RED flow querying the weather API to…
Pressing F5 does not refresh your view anymore but rewinds the current media?F11 does not run the selected JUnit test in Eclipse any more but activates Caps Lock? I have a Logitech K850 keyboard and I unintentionally turned on the function key lock (didn’t even know such a thing existed). Try the following: [Fn] +…
Not everything is like shorts for computer science students – some other things only make sense in certain months. Like my webscrapers for the current water temperature of the outside pool or the warning system for below 0°C degress. To hide them in the HomeAssistant UI I created a helper that is filled with the…
Precondition: Have your lokal MQTT broker and Node-RED installed and setup or access to a remote one. I recently added a http request node querying a weather API to Node-RED. After extracting, the current temperature is then published on the local MQTT and can be used by all devices connected to the broker.In this example…