Sometimes I ramble about a wide variety of topics (mainly software-related). Feel free to take from this what you like.
Home Assistant has had the ability to set the display precision of sensor value for a while. If you click on the sensor entity (in the Settings > Devices & Services > Entities) and then the little cogwheel for the entity's settings, you'll see something like this: More...
Working with NextJS is usually a rather straightforward experience, but there is
the odd thing here and there that drives me up the wall. One of them was the
attempt to implement
Content-Security-Policy headers
for a bunch of frontend apps the other day. Should be rather straightforward,
NextJS even has
documentation
on how to do this. However, this documentation assumes that you want to do one
of two things More...
Writing a Git GUI like Corylus inevitably includes coming up with a decent layout for the commit history and its ancestry relationships. This is easy enough for the full history, as Git gives you a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of commits. Partial histories (e.g. for a single file) are a different story. The graph is still directed and acyclic, but it's by default no longer connected, i.e. you cannot jump from one commit to its parents during layout because parents may be missing (e.g. because the file you're looking at didn't change there). The CLI has a neat little trick up its sleeve where it will rewrite the parent references to reconnect the graph. This article describes how this may be done (and, by extension, how Corylus does it). More...