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…
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…
Be it HomeAssistant, mosqitto, NodeRed – I use docker to run them on a Raspberry and thanks to Portainer I can manage them with a a nice WebUI. It has been some time I set it up and as needed it again and had forgotten some of it I decided to make a short todo…
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…