TIL that creating Markdown from HTML is hard

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:

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Manual RDS Backups save the day

Suppose you run a database as a service (DBaaS) for example in Azure. You have automated backups configured in case something bad happens. However these backups do not save you against a accidental database deletion as the backups get deleted, too!

Then there’s the Open Telekom Cloud (OTC). The …

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TIL that you should load Matomo asynchronously

If your Matomo server is unreachable it may be that your website cannot load!
You can defer loading the Matomo tracking. For ways to do that, check that blog post: https://matomo.org/blog/2017/04/different-ways-embedding-piwik-tracking-code-faster-website-performance/

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