In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level system interfaces for all supported Swift platforms.
Source: Swift System is Now Open Source, an article by Michael Ilseman.
Welcome back, calibre users. It has been a year since calibre 4.0. The two headline features are Highlighting support in the calibre E-book viewer and that calibre has now moved to Python 3.
There has been a lot of work on the calibre E-book viewer. It now supports Highlighting. The highlights can be colors, underlines, strikethrough, etc. and have added notes. All highlights can be both stored in EPUB files for easy sharing and centrally in the calibre library for easy browsing. Additionally, the E-book viewer now supports both vertical and right-to-left text.
Source: New in calibre 5.0, an article by Kovid Goyal.
I use Calibre to convert EPUB files to MOBI so I can read them on my Kindle Paperwhite. Highly recommended.
My series of blog posts about PEG parsing keeps expanding. Instead of updating each part to link to all other parts, here’s the table of content:
Source: PEG Parsing Series Overview, an article by Guido van Rossum.