July 10, 2023

Anonymous Hyperlinks

Today, I looked something up in our documentation, and noticed an unformatted link. `launchpad-mojo-specs <https://code.launchpad.net/launchpad-mojo-specs>` This is reStructuredText - a file format for structured data. While many people have switched to MarkDown, which is unarguably easier to read and write, I still like reStructuredText as it is very powerful. The above link does not get rendered as a hyperlink, as it misses a trailing underscore. I was about to add it, and directly commit, but luckily I tried to render it first....

May 10, 2022

How to Delete Documentation Hosted on pythonhosted.org

Today, I needed to lookup something in the documentation of lazr.config, which - you guessed it - is a configuration system, using an ini-like configuration file format. The number one search result on Google is still https://pythonhosted.org/lazr.config/. For projects on available on PyPI both wheels and packages are hosted on pythonhosted.org, and as it looks, at least before “my time” and before there was Read the Docs, also documentation was hosted on pythonhosted....