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mercury parser
Mercury Parser 3.0.0
In 2024 I forked Postlight Parser to use in Capy Reader and returned the name to Mercury Parser. I really, really wanted to use the upstream version of the parser to avoid maintaining something off to the side. But nearly two years on, I feel I made …
programming
mobile development
ios
Demo mode for iOS simulators
I was in search of a better way to take app screenshots. Typically you have two choices: use a physical device or a simulator. Physical devices are fine for a realistic display, but you can’t control the time or the radio indicators. No one …
capyreader
rss
programming
Capy Log: Open In Browser, Article List Tweaks
Summer in the midwest is careening towards autumn, and version 2025.08.1153 of Capy Reader is in review for the Play Store. I haven’t been adding huge feature changes lately. Instead, I’ve been trying to pick apart the app and understand …
rss
programming
mercury parser
Full Content Extractors: Comparing Defuddle and Postlight Parser
One of the hardest problems with RSS feeds is displaying full content. It’s essentially an unsolvable problem given the complexity of webpages and the lack of adherence to a semantic layout for any given blog or news site. It would be nice if …