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