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<h2>Neovim Subtitute Magic
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<p>This week, I’ve had to make some changes to an automation we had setup for a customer in Workato. The original recipe was made by a co-worker with a bunch of javascript nodes. Even though I’m customer facing and generally not considered a technical employee, I knew the engineer who worked on this was swamped, so I decided to jump in.
In order to greatly reduce the number of nodes needed in the single recipe, I created a list of dictionaries in python (with one of the values being another list!...</p>
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<h2>Mini Neovim
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<p>If I’m being honest, when I started this quick project to reduce my Neovim plugin footprint size, I thought I was going to be able to get rid of way more plugins! Inspired by this Reddit post that setup a Neovim config using only echasnovski’s mini library, I was reminded that some of my remote server environments were still using Packer as their plugin manager, where my main machine has upgraded to Lazy....</p>
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<h2>ESP8266 Medicine Indicator Light
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<p>This is a quick treat! We recently learned that one of our children needs to take medicine twice a day for the foreseeable future. He’s too young to take it on his own, so the twice-a-day responsibility is split up between my partner and I. However, sometimes our schedules don’t overlap so succinctly, so we needed some sort of indicator to let the other know if the previous dose was (or wasn’t!...</p>
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<h2>BirdNET-PI & HomeAssistant: Part 2
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<p>Checking for Entities If you’re following up on this from my first post, you’ve already added your AppDaemon script and confirmed that the AppDaemon logs don’t show any errors. Now is the true test if it’s working: do you have the new sensors in HomeAssistant?!
The best way to do this is by just type e from any screen in the HomeAssistant UI! That will bring up a list of entities....</p>
Update: 10/11/2023. A huge thanks to Mastodon User e_mobile2014 who found a broken link in this guide and pointed out that I never explained how to get the mqtt sensors into HomeAssistant!
What you will need BirdNET-Pi HomeAssistant AppDaemon MQTT Broker (I use Mosquitto) Background In early 2023, at the height of the Raspberry Pi shortage I felt like a king with an extra Rpi laying around, not being used....</p>
<h2>Pushing a Single Local Git Repo to Multiple Remote Repos
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<p>Why push to multiple repos? Do want to use both Github & and a Self-hosted Git Repo? Here’s how I’ve been doing it!
I really enjoy self-hosting services that I use everyday. One of those includes a git-style version control software. In my case, I’ve been running Gitea for a few years now and have been really satisfied with everything (except for that one time that an update broke all my templates)....</p>
<p>Intro For the last 3 days, I have been spending a few hours after working trying to figure out why my brand new Hugo site was not loading correctly on my sub-domain. For context, I use Nginx to host all my apps and servers, most of them using reverse proxy protocols such as $proxy_host, $forward_scheme, and $port. There are a few more and I’m happy to share some reverse proxy nginx config files....</p>
