This is a short tutorial on connecting a zigbee device (an Aqara cube) to an MQTT server, so you can control your zigbee devices from the network. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably a sucker for IoT devices. For a long time, I’ve been using WiFi-enabled lights, and Amazon dash buttons to control them.

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from tqdm import tqdm
import time

for i in tqdm(range(100)):
    time.sleep(1)

Today’s post is half a quick note, half public shaming. In other words, it is a reminder to be very careful with OAuth tokens and passwords. As part of moving to emacs, I starting using the incredibly useful gh.el. When you first use it, the extension saves either your password or an OAuth token in your .

Zotero is an Open Source tool that lets you organise your bibliography, syncing it with the cloud. Unlike other alternatives such as Mendeley, Zotero can upload the attachments and data to a private cloud via WebDav. If you use nginx as your web server, know that even though it provides partial support for webdav, Zotero needs more than that.

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<Location /myapp/>
    ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8888/myapp/
    ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8888/myapp/
    RequestHeader set SCRIPT_NAME "/myapp/"
</Location>