I wanted to build an executable python script on PyPi, so it can be run like MyPackage instead of python MyPackage.py.

Finding out how to do this with Poetry was hard. Googling for “Python [distribute\|publish] executable” didn’t yield any useful results. I don’t even know how …

In Python if you want to execute something after a for-loop has finished, you can use a else-clause.

This code:

for i in range(5):
    print(i)
else:
    print("Finished")

Prints:

0
1
2
3
4
Finished

I am running Percona Monitoring and Managent (“PMM”) as a service for my fellow colleagues so they can monitor their databases.

PMM runs as a container on a virtual machine, listening on port 8080.

On the same virtual machine runs another nginx webserver as a reverse proxy for the container …

I host my private servers at Hetzner, a really nice, reliable and cheap german webhoster.

Previously I managed my DNS zones with Route 53 from Amazon. There I paid 50 cents per zone per month. I have multiple zones so this adds up at the end of the year.

Then …

Today I wanted to take the text of a Confluence page and convert it to Markdown.

Getting the text was rather easy (after some duckduckgoing): Confluence provides a REST-API that returns among other things the content of pages in json. Here’s the curl-command to do this:

curl "https …