Recently I was working on a project using Segment tracking via their super helpful analytics library for Python, but was having trouble testing locally since all the tracking requests are sent encrypted via SSL. I wanted to view the contents of these requests via Charles Proxy, and to top it off I was running all this through Docker. Turns out it’s a bit of a challenge! Here’s how I configured things to do it.
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Controlling Pi-Hole with Physical Buttons
Controlling Pi-Hole with Physical Buttons
I recently set up Pi-Hole, the awesome network-wide ad blocker that runs on a Raspberry Pi. But, I wanted an easy way to enable/disable it using physical buttons attached to the device itself. No problem- thanks to a Pimoroni Button Shim and some Python scripting, I can now control my Pi-Hole with the press of a button!
Read on for full instructions and the script I used.
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