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

I like to use the “other view” feature of Notepad++ to show two files side by side. As I often have compare them I really like the synchronized vertical scrolling option which scrolls them both at the same time. There’s an icon you can click, but I prefer to use a key binding to toggle…
As I really prefer Python for my little projects over C++, I flashed my Wemos boards with Micropython and wanted to share how I did it (it was pretty easy). You have to connect your board with USB to your computer, have Thonny installed and the desired micropython image downloaded. (You can do it with…
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…
Generally speaking this is how I learned to cache a JSON object in a Node-RED flow with the Change node by setting a flow based variable. Specifically this handles a problem with HomeAssistants light card backed by a MQTT light (defined in the configuration.yaml) only emitting partial values of the light setting when updating. New…
This is a step by step reminder how to get your Python scripts run automatically on your Raspberry. We will be creating a cron job that is run once when booting. (This should be possible like this or pretty similar on every Linux distribution where Cron is available and is not limited to Python scripts…
Yeah we all can loop, but can you any or all? Checking if condition matches for at least one element of an iterable (e.g. list, tuple, set) In Python you can write that nicer with the builtin method any(): But who doesn’t like a one-liner (that is understandable): Very similar is the case if you…