TIL there’s a limit on Gitlabs job output

And it is (at least for my instance) 4194304 bytes. That is 4,19 mb. You can easily achieve this by running some Ansible playbooks in diff-mode that unpack many files. :)

Job's log exceeded limit of 4194304 bytes.

Job execution will continue but no more output will be collected.
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TIL how to ship an executable with Poetry

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 …

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TIL that Hetzner offers a free DNS service

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 …

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