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I set the font to the largest size and found the same bug eleven times
I was cleaning up the UI on a side-project iOS app and did one thing: set Dynamic Type to XXXL and screenshot every screen. Reading the code had tur…
Eight locales and no server: internationalizing a static Next.js site
Last month I rebuilt a small website I run. Static export, eight languages, hosted on Cloudflare Pages — free, fast, and nothing to patch. The catch…
Your hreflang says English-only. Does your language switcher agree?
I run a maintenance sweep over my own site every day. Yesterday it found 1,474 dead internal links that had been sitting there in plain sight, on 73…
The translation model that cost 15 more was also the most confidently wrong
My app serves the same content in Chinese and English: personalized readings for Chinese birth charts, generated by an LLM. The readings are cached;…
Shipping i18n at Scale Without a Translation Platform
Shipping a data-heavy tool across 5 locales, English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, over 168 countries makes a translation platform feel inevitabl…
How I Modeled US Lottery Tax Withholding for 21 Countries Without a Backend
Every time a US Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot balloons enough to hit global headlines, the advertised number is misleading in a very specific w…
React Native i18n in 2026: A Practical Expo Router Playbook
If your React Native app only speaks English, you're leaving ~75% of smartphone users on the table. Here's the modern stack for shipping a multiling…
Migrating an Expo app from Japanese to multi-language support in stages
This article is an English translation of the original Japanese article. I migrated an Expo app from Japanese only to Japanese, English, and Simplif…
Use Google Sheets as a Translation Database for Your Web App (Apps Script + Next.js)
Every i18n setup I've seen has the same three-way standoff. Developers want type-safe JSON in the repo. Translators want a familiar tool, not a pull…
Translate Git Commit Messages Offline Without Rewriting Code
A repository can have clean code and still have a difficult history. One commit says fix: corrige timeout , another says feat: add retry logic , and…
Docusaurus i18n: How to keep translations in sync (manual vs Crowdin vs GitHub Action)
If you maintain a Docusaurus site in more than one language, you already know the actual problem isn't translation — it's staying in sync . Someone…
Why Japanese and Korean Break Your Text Processing Pipeline
Most text processing assumes tokens are separated by spaces. Japanese and Korean quietly violate that assumption in different ways, and pipelines bu…
The one-line bug that broke Open Graph cards on 836 pages
For about a month, every social preview card on a site I build was silently cut off mid-word. Not truncated with an ellipsis — cut inside a word. PD…
4 ways canvas text rendering breaks in multilingual apps (that en/ja testing will never catch)
I run a large fleet of "preview it, then download it as PNG" web tools — name tags, certificate generators, price cards, badges — in five languages:…
Why Arabic text comes out backwards when you extract it from a PDF (and how to fix it)
If you've ever built a feature that extracts text from PDFs, an Arabic-speaking user has probably filed this bug: "the words come out in reverse ord…
React i18n Libraries in 2026: A Practical Comparison
How react-i18next, react-intl, Tolgee, and LinguiJS compare for real projects TL;DR. There's no single best React i18n library. For most teams an IC…
Serving 78 cards x 5 languages from one codebase: our i18n routing
Tarotas is a tarot card app we build at Inithouse. You shuffle, draw a card, and read a calm interpretation. No account required, no fortune-telling…
I find Japan-shaped holes in global software
There's a category of bug that only exists if you type Japanese, and it keeps showing up in software built by people who don't. Same shape, differen…
I Built a Bilingual Daily Planner — Here's What I Learned About AI and Language
Building a Bilingual Daily Planner: What I Learned Building a productivity app in English and Traditional Chinese at the same time sounds like a loc…
I shipped a Pomodoro app in 39 languages as a solo dev — here's how i18n actually went
Most indie apps ship in English, maybe add a handful of "big" languages later, and call it done. I went the other way: Cadento , my SwiftUI Pomodoro…
WPML vs Polylang vs WeLocale: Which WordPress Translation Plugin Is Right for You?
If you've ever searched "WordPress translation plugin," you've hit the same three names over and over: WPML, Polylang, and (increasingly) WeLocale.…
Your locale files are drifting behind English and nobody reviews it
Most teams add a new English string in a PR and forget the other languages exist. The PR gets reviewed for logic. The French, German and Spanish fil…
The Enter key that quietly breaks Japanese input (and how to test if your app does it)
If your app has Japanese users — or wants them — there's a bug class your English-speaking team will almost never hit, and Japanese users hit in the…
Why we picked Tolgee to localize an open-source database client
Localization is invisible. Nobody opens an app and thinks "wow, great translation infrastructure." They only notice when a button is cut off, a date…
Wuchale: One Year of Compile-Time i18n
Photo by Bernd 📷 Dittrich on Unsplash It has now been one year since the initial commit of Wuchale! A lot has happened since then and I will explore…
Common mistakes when building a multi-domain photo app (CZ/SK/PL/EN/DE from one codebase)
At Inithouse, a studio shipping a growing portfolio of products in parallel, we run an AI photo animation tool across five country domains from a si…
Localizing SaaS Applications: What Developers and Writers Get Wrong
Localizing SaaS Applications: What Developers and Writers Get Wrong The demo goes live in Tokyo. Dates are formatted as MM/DD/YYYY . Currency shows…
Multilanguage good practices.
My i18n Setup Was Right. Until It Wasn't. Best practices have an expiry date. They expire silently. I'm building a 4-language landing page for a cli…
Reciprocal hreflang in Astro, only when both languages exist
Astro 5's i18n routing handles URL generation and locale detection, but it doesn't emit <link rel="alternate" hreflang> for you. The naive fix…