Ell Bradshaw

This will be familiar to folks from Python or Rust, but coming from an implicit-this language like C++ this mysterious "self" parameter might be confusing. Better to explain the magic...

Chapter 1: Explicitly explain switching on enums and tagged structs

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When I encountered the tagged enums, I was confused about the `.a` syntax in the switch, which I hadn't encountered before - I could guess what was going on, but...

Implement Sort range

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Implements the sortRange() method. I implemented a shorthand for the sortSpecs, but that can be changed if needed. Also, I should probably add docs about this somewhere.

I noticed a few minor grammar/spelling issues in the Readme, so I went through and edited it real quick.

Ignore VariableDoesNotExist errors in debug logging

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They're so noisy as to make debug logging useless otherwise, and we can add a logging filter to ignore them, turns out!

Further unify docker-compose

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This is moving towards #1858, and proposes a solution to one of the remaining roadblocks, which is the differing docker-compose files. Docker-compose has a facility for [overriding parts of a...

Urlencode the redis password in the cache URI

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This should fix #1790 where we had issues if passwords have non-URL-safe characters in them

Add ability to create books from import failures

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** There's not a clear path forward if an import fails, and I don't think there's a way to recover reading...

Exception resolving a bunch of template variables

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**Describe the bug** After upgrading, I get a ton of errors similar to the following. Things seem to work, but they're very slow: ``` Exception while resolving variable 'title' in...

**Describe the bug** If `REDIS_ACTIVITY_PASSWORD` has a `?` (and presumably other similar characters), Redis will fail to start up. This is because the new Redis-backed cache uses a Redis URI...