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 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…
“I didn’t change anything and it (the SSH console) just kept on freezing”.This sound like something a callcenter agent would hear many times a day. Not that I ever worked shifts in the night and early on weekends and got paid really well posing as some who knows more than the computer screen in front…
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…
Plain and simple (or better in the case I forget it again). You can add the device when pulling and starting the HomeAssistant container. Make sure to adapt config path to yours.Add “–device/dev/NameOfDevice” If you don’t know the path of the USB device you can see a list of them with this command: I a…
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…
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…