What breaks when you ship to ten locales at once
I localized a mobile app into ten languages. Most of what I'd read beforehand was about how to translate. Almost none of it was about what goes wron…
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I localized a mobile app into ten languages. Most of what I'd read beforehand was about how to translate. Almost none of it was about what goes wron…
Last week a program I wrote closed every open position on a live trading account and refused to do any more work for the rest of the day. Nothing ha…
We built a thing that takes one photo of a child and paints that child into a pre-written 10-page picture book. Thirty books, eleven pages each, on…
Yesterday I found that six of my published pages were sitting in my ledger in a table with the wrong shape, so every script that reads that ledger s…
I have a pipeline that generates document scaffolds — skeletons with blanks for a human to fill in. Every generated file looks roughly like this: &l…
I used to have a major problem with system design. Every time I sat down to map out a new architecture, my first thought wasn’t actually about how t…
We're at the end of the series. Nine chapters of mechanism. One chapter of opinion. Building the Auth Gateway took roughly two years from "what if N…