🚀 New feature on Quran.com!

You can now embed Quran verses anywhere to help share the words of Allah 🌙

The new embed builder lets you:
• choose a surah/ayah (or a verse range)
• select translations
• enable audio, word-by-word, themes, mushaf styles, etc.
• get a ready-to-use embed code in seconds

Perfect for blogs, mosque websites, apps, and community projects.

https://quran.com/embed

E-Book Converter Bot has been updated with new features

Major Features
- Added interactive conversion options flow.
- Added localized format-specific controls and simplified options flow.
- Added EPUB background removal option.
- Added KePub conversion support.
- Added PDF input conversion support.
- Added Shamela .bok input support.

Conversion UX & Behavior
- Made option state updates idempotent.
- Added DOCX float CSS filtering (fixes converting some cases).
- Hardened converter callback state and reply-mode handling.
- Added queue expiration, periodic cleanup, and user-facing expired-request messages.
- Added dynamic supported format counts in /start.

Reliability & Security
- Reworked restart state handling with restart.json.
- Hardened restart notices and shutdown cleanup.
- Added Telegram retry behavior for flood/slow-mode waits.
- Removed shell exec risk and unsafe download path usage.

Broadcast & i18n
- Improved localized broadcast status formatting.
- Switched broadcast completion to built-in localized message source.
- Migrated gettext workflow from Makefile tasks to mise.toml.

Database & Infra
- Switched DB access to per-call SQLAlchemy sessions.
- Added missing analytics format columns.
- Updated Docker localtime mount placement.

Dev/Test Tooling
- Migrated type checking from mypy to ty.
- Added/updated pytest tasks via mise.
- Migrated EPUB OPF tests to pytest.
- General dependency and typing cleanup.

All commits

Try the bot new update: @ebook_converter_bot

If you like my work, you may consider supporting it via a donation. A donation was never necessary, but It's making life easier for me and guarantees paying server costs as well as keeping projects active and without annoying ads. My works are free and open-source, that cost money, time, and many efforts. You can do this using GitHub Sponsors, LibrePay, or PayPal.

Stay tuned for new updates!

Compiling https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/ for android

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
target='aarch64-linux-android'
if [[ $# -gt 0 && "$1" != -* ]]; then
  target="$1"
  shift
fi
api="${RG_ANDROID_API:-21}"
if [[ -n "${RG_ANDROID_NDK_HOME:-}" ]]; then
  ndk_home="$RG_ANDROID_NDK_HOME"
elif [[ -n "${ANDROID_NDK_HOME:-}" ]]; then
  ndk_home="$ANDROID_NDK_HOME"
elif [[ -n "${ANDROID_NDK_ROOT:-}" ]]; then
  ndk_home="$ANDROID_NDK_ROOT"
else
  ndk_home="$(ls -d "$HOME"/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/* 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -n1)"
fi
if [[ -z "${ndk_home:-}" || ! -d "$ndk_home" ]]; then
  echo 'error: Android NDK not found. Set RG_ANDROID_NDK_HOME, ANDROID_NDK_HOME or ANDROID_NDK_ROOT.' >&2
  exit 1
fi
ndk_prebuilt="$(ls -d "$ndk_home"/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/* 2>/dev/null | head -n1)"
if [[ -z "${ndk_prebuilt:-}" || ! -d "$ndk_prebuilt" ]]; then
  echo "error: NDK LLVM prebuilt toolchain not found in $ndk_home." >&2
  exit 1
fi
case "$target" in
  aarch64-linux-android) clang_triple='aarch64-linux-android' ;;
  x86_64-linux-android) clang_triple='x86_64-linux-android' ;;
  i686-linux-android) clang_triple='i686-linux-android' ;;
  armv7-linux-androideabi|arm-linux-androideabi) clang_triple='armv7a-linux-androideabi' ;;
  *)
    echo "error: unsupported Android target '$target'." >&2
    exit 1
    ;;
esac
linker="$ndk_prebuilt/bin/${clang_triple}${api}-clang"
ar="$ndk_prebuilt/bin/llvm-ar"
if [[ ! -x "$linker" ]]; then
  echo "error: linker not found: $linker" >&2
  exit 1
fi
if [[ ! -x "$ar" ]]; then
  echo "error: archiver not found: $ar" >&2
  exit 1
fi
target_upper="${target//-/_}"
target_upper="$(printf '%s' "$target_upper" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')"
target_lower="${target//-/_}"
export ANDROID_NDK_HOME="$ndk_home"
export "CARGO_TARGET_${target_upper}_LINKER=$linker"
export "CARGO_TARGET_${target_upper}_AR=$ar"
export "CC_${target_lower}=$linker"
export "AR_${target_lower}=$ar"
rustup target add "$target"
cargo build --release --target "$target" --bin rg "$@"

Release notes from calibre-with-kfx:

This update adds the ability to pass KFX Input / Output's CLI options.

e.g. Convert to KFX with approximate page numbers (auto): docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd):/app:rw" yshalsager/calibre-with-kfx book.epub book.kfx --pages 0

When converting to KFX, extra args are passed to the KFX Output plugin (`calibre-debug -r "KFX Output" -- ...`). Useful flags include:

- --pages N create approximate page numbers if missing (`0` = auto)
- --book mark as EBOK (vs default PDOC)
- --asin BXXXXXXXXX set an ASIN
- --logs include Kindle Previewer conversion logs
- --quality include Kindle Previewer quality report
- --timeout stop conversions lasting over ~15 minutes

When converting from KFX to other formats, this image uses ebook-convert normally. Any ebook-convert CLI options can be passed as extra args.

The KFX Input plugin also provides a separate CLI (useful for print replica PDF extraction, CBZ creation, resource unpacking, etc):

docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd):/app:rw" --entrypoint calibre-debug yshalsager/calibre-with-kfx \
  -r "KFX Input" -- /app/book.kfx --help

Common KFX Input CLI flags:

- --epub (default), --epub2
- --pdf extract/produce PDF (print replica, comics/children's)
- --cbz create CBZ (print replica, comics/children's)
- --unpack extract resources to a ZIP
- --json-content create JSON content/position file
- --cover force a generic EPUB cover if missing

KFX Input has one calibre "Convert Books" option: allow_conversion_with_errors (default off). It also has plugin preferences used by its CLI/From-KFX UI (for example splitting landscape comic images when creating PDF).

https://github.com/yshalsager/calibre-with-kfx/releases/tag/20260220-2041

Shizuku Shortcuts

Tiny launcher shortcuts and custom shell actions for Android through Shizuku.

https://github.com/yshalsager/ShizukuShortcuts

vibe-coded engineered using GPT 5.4.
I needed a solution that can trigger notification's bar pull without accessibility from launcher gesture, then thought it's nice to build it as general purpose.

Release v0.5.0 · yshalsager/SuntimesPrayerTimesAddon
https://github.com/yshalsager/SuntimesPrayerTimesAddon/releases/tag/v0.5.0

A local-first desktop and web application for browsing, searching, and analyzing AI agent coding sessions. Supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and 8 other agents.

https://github.com/wesm/agentsview

https://github.com/tiendnm/zukulock

A simple app that can be used as double tab to turn screen off via Shizuku without accessibility permissions

Telegram Feedback Bots Builder new update
https://github.com/yshalsager/telegram-feedback-bot

• add bidirectional reaction mirroring
• add support for new threaded bots feature

Eid Mubarak!

Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost
https://github.com/RasKrebs/sonar

E-Book Converter Bot has been updated with new features

Major Features
- Added splitting EPUB based on top level headers.
- Added standardizing EPUB footnotes.
- Added EPUB cover compression.

The bot is now running based on:
- calibre: v9.5.0
- kfx_input: 2.29.0
- kfx_output: 2.18.0
- kindle_previewer: 3.103.0 (2026-03-11)

Try the bot new update: @ebook_converter_bot

If you like my work, you may consider supporting it via a donation. A donation was never necessary, but It's making life easier for me and guarantees paying server costs as well as keeping projects active and without annoying ads. My works are free and open-source, that cost money, time, and efforts. You can do this using GitHub Sponsors, LibrePay, or PayPal.

Stay tuned for new updates!