The King's Peace (Tir Tanagiri, #1)
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Review:Not as good as Walton's later books, and the gratuitous renaming of things is a bit of a pain. |
The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
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Review:Going to write something about it eventually. Maybe after I read the 3rd book. |
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Review:Holding on the review until I finished the trilogy. |
Nikola v7 finally out!
I am thrilled to announce version 7 of Nikola, a static site and blog generator is out, with a bazillion features and bugfixes (see below).
You can get it at all the usual places, and here's the release announcement
Here's the new features, the bugfixes list would make the post too long :-)
Added
UNSLUGIFY_TITLESoption for making titles fetched via the filename regexp prettier (Issue #1282)New dependencies:
natsort(natural sorting in galleries) anddateutil(replacespytz)Nikola.commands are now the user-friendly wrappers from console (Issue #1177)
Add a
github_deploycommand to deploy to GitHub pages (Issue #1208)Remove tidy filter (it was broken due to tidy being ancient) (Issue #1164)
Added
GENERATE_RSSsetting to allow disabling RSS in Nikola (Issue #1236)Link listings raw sources if COPY_SOURCES is True (Issue #1214)
Much more powerful
nikola plugincommand (Issue #1189)More powerful console mode allows access to all nikola commands (Issue #830)
New
`ROBOTS_EXCLUSIONS`option listing resources to exclude from sitemap and include in new generated /robots.txt (Issue #804)Generate sitemapindex containing RSS and sitemap files (Issue #804)
Support hooks in templates, for use by plugins (Issue #896)
Use readline if available (Issue #1238)
Replaced
READ_MORE_LINKwithINDEX_READ_MORE_LINKandRSS_READ_MORE_LINK(Issue #1222)Added reading_time, remaining_reading_time, paragraph_count, remaining_paragraph_count tags for READ_MORE_LINK (Issue #1220)
Add canonical link in listings.
Added support for new meta files that are the same format as 1-file metadata, allowing for greater flexibility (Issue #954)
Colorbox is now internationalized (Issue #1205)
Added LOGO_URL and SHOW_BLOG_TITLE=True settings to facilitate showing off logos (Issue #1122)
Create automatic story index pages for subfolders, too (Issue #793)
New Slovak translation by Tomáš Prékop
Created a MarkdownExtension plugin class (Issue #1175)
The base theme produces properly sectioned and semantic HTML5 (Issues #1123, #1137)
The base theme comes with a new stylish look by default (Issue #1137)
The base theme supports Right-to-Left by using ::dir(rtl) CSS4 rules and <html dir="rtl"> tags where valid (Issue #1146)
Bootstrap 2 updated to 2.3.2 (via Issue #1137)
Added FORCE_ISO8601 setting that currently makes new_post use ISO 8601 dates (via Issue #1156)
Added support for TZ specified in post date (Issue #1118)
Make
nikola initask about the site’s settings (Issue #1080)Use natural sorting for files and folders list in listings and galleries (Issue #1144)
Added invariance testing (Issue #672)
Plugins can inject templates in the system (Issue #1139)
nikola import_wordpressnow has a--qtranslateoption, to parse posts in the qtranslate wordpress plugin format and turn them into multilingual Nikola posts (Issue #1072)nikola consoleallows for interpreter choice via -b, -i, -p; moreover, support for bpython is not deprecated anymore (Issue #1126)retiredtag for posts has been replaced withprivate(via Issue #686)Changed the default TRANSLATIONS_PATTERN to "{path}.{lang}.{ext}". (Issues #990, #829)
Backwards compatibility with v5 is broken. Added backwards-incompatible changes. (Issue #829)
Added a
CONTENT_FOOTER_FORMATSconfig option. It is used to format theCONTENT_FOOTERvariable properly, for compatibility with the Translatable Settings feature. The variable takes a dict, the keys of which are languages, and values are (args, kwargs). (Issue #1112)Certain settings are now translatable. As of now, the settings are: BLOG_AUTHOR, BLOG_TITLE, BLOG_DESCRIPTION, LICENSE, CONTENT_FOOTER, SOCIAL_BUTTONS_CODE, SEARCH_FORM, BODY_END, EXTRA_HEAD_DATA, NAVIGATION_LINKS, READ_MORE_LINK (the up-to-date list is available in SITE.TRANSLATABLE_SETTINGS) (Issues #851, #1057, #1061, #1112)
New Post.author() returns meta 'author' or BLOG_AUTHOR (Issue #1117)
Ship base-jinja, bootstrap-jinja, bootstrap3-jinja with Nikola (Issue #1104)
Invert
HIDE_SOURCELINKandHIDE_UNTRANSLATED_POSTSintoSHOW_SOURCELINKandSHOW_UNTRANSLATED_POSTS(Issue #1076)-
Remove old messages left over for backwards compatibility: (Issues #829, #1105)
"More posts about", replaced by "More posts about %s"
"Posted", replaced by "Posted:"
"Also available in", replaced by "Also available in:"
Remove old "sl_SI", "tr_TR" locale aliases (use "sl" and "tr") (Issue #829, #1105)
New option RSS_PLAIN to optionally strip HTML from RSS feeds (Issue #1107)
Support content key in compilers' create_post (Issue #1098)
Use setuptools’ extras feature. Use
pip install nikola[extras]to install Nikola with extras (requirements-extras.txt, formerlyrequirements-full.txt-- note the name change!) (Issue #1089)
Soon I Will Be Invincible
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Review:If you read the reviews, you'll notice this is a polarizing book, honour usually reserved for first-person narratives explaining Jesus actually was a whoremonging alien, or something. OTOH, I am giving it 4 stars, mostly for two reasons. |