The author says that "In a perfect world, RMSDK would just stop living in the CSS stone-ages or at least provide some kind of error handling instead of dropping the whole book, but I’m not holding my breath."
This is blatantly wrong.
In a perfect world, RMSDK wouldn't exist in the first place and Adobe would have gone bankrupt and become history at least 10 years ago.
I was very confused, too. I mean, I do have a YubiKey but Twitter/X has never (or for a very very very long time not) asked me to use my YubiKey to authenticate. As far as I could remember, I only need to use OTP from Authy as 2FA to login. So the whole thing smelled really fishy.
TOML is good for config, but not for data exchange though. (Why would I need comments in a data exchange format? Comments are useful when you want to annotate some sample data for other developers who will consume or generate that data.)
Also, OpenAPI specs (also known colloquially as Swagger) can only be written in JSON or YAML.
- human-wise ambiguity of its syntax (If I understand correctly, you "can" indent array items, but you don't have to. And than one guys says "OK, I'm gonna indent", and another guy says "Nah. I'm not gonna indent")
- still no support for datetime as a first class citizen
- strings usually don't need quotes, until they do (I prefer to always quote)
Note that two of the above points are about allowing inconsistent styles, which is a thing I hate.
Love:
- it supports comments whereas JSON does not. If the IETF ever officially updated JSON to support C-style inline (and maybe block) comments, I would absolutely ditch YAML.
When I use the "full" timezone name like "America/New_York", how does libc resolve the ambiguity during the extra hour of the transition from daylight saving time to standard time?
Odd. Your problem might be caused by badly formatted epubs? I'm using Calibre 5.0.0 on Ubuntu and I have no problem with a Chinese novel epub in vertical layout. The mouse cursor even turns sideways for selecting text and I can use the mouse scroll wheel without any modifier key to scroll left and right.
The ability to highlight and browse the highlights is HUGE. It makes Calibre really useful for language learning (e.g. by reading novels). I can now highlight new vocabulary or idioms and see them in context when I need to, without me having to copy and paste into some separate file!
Couple that with the fact that Calibre supports custom dictionary sources and it's just amazing.
The one missing feature to make Calibre perfect for me is proper support for rendering PDF. Calibre currently absolutely sucks at rendering PDFs, but some ebooks are sadly only available as PDFs.
I hope that he has actually transcended to some higher dimensions, joining other great minds like Einstein and Bohr, and that they are actually playing around with even more advanced forms of physics, peering into black holes and quarks like they were toys.
This is blatantly wrong.
In a perfect world, RMSDK wouldn't exist in the first place and Adobe would have gone bankrupt and become history at least 10 years ago.