Starship is a prompt for your shell. It is customizable, very fast and has great defaults. It supports many tools and programming languages out of the box. It has great Git support.

The speed with which a prompt is shown is important, because it influences the way you work. With a prompt I used before, I noticed that the bigger the Git repository I was working became, the longer it took to show the prompt. Just pressing Enter took some time. Normally this shouldn't be noticeable.

When there are prompts that you don't need, you can easily disable these prompts. Run "starship config" to open your editor on the configuration file. My configuration looks like this. It improves the time formatting and disables some prompt segments for programming languages.

  [time]
  disabled = false
  format = '[$time]($style) '
  time_format = "%H:%M"

  [gcloud]
  disabled = true

  [package]
  disabled = true

  [nodejs]
  disabled = true

  [perl]
  disabled = true

  [php]
  disabled = true

  [lua]
  disabled = true
  

I like Starship, as it is a nice improvement for my terminal and shell.

In our new home we don't have an OpenTherm compatible boiler. This is no big problem, but I do need a different device to read the information from the boiler. Our Nefit boiler uses a different protocol, called EMS.

The boiler we have, has a special "status" port where you can read the information from the boiler. BBQKees created a small device that can do this. This device has support for Home Assistant through MQTT.

When the device is connected, you can adjust the temperature from Home Assistant using the Thermostat widget on the dashboard. This is really easy to setup and use.

Today I found that some micropub clients couldn't log in to my auth and token endpoint. By adding some logging I found that the "me" wasn't sent to the token endpoint.

To solve the problem I removed these checks and now the endpoint gives a token back to the clients to make them work.