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: J…
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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 order…
Spec-Driven Development на практике: как локальный job-агрегатор живёт без ревьюеров и не ломается
Поиск работы в 2026 году — это инженерная задача, которую все решают вручную. hh.ru перемешивает релевантные роли с шумом: на запрос «Senior PHP» прил…
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 c…
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, different …
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/f…
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 clien…
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 —…
Building Translation Pipelines for Multi-Language Compliance Documents
Building Translation Pipelines for Multi-Language Compliance Documents Developers working on international business platforms often overlook one criti…
The 3 i18n mistakes every open-source LMS makes
TL;DR. Every open-source LMS treats internationalization as one problem. It's three. UI strings, user-generated content, and canonical artifacts each …
How I Designed a 4-Layer i18n Architecture for Minecraft's Standard UI in Spigot
Introduction This article is an implementation note on how I organized the i18n architecture for TreasureRun, a Minecraft Spigot plugin project. When …
Building Multi-Tier Translation Systems: A Developer's Guide to Content Quality Pipelines
Building Multi-Tier Translation Systems: A Developer's Guide to Content Quality Pipelines As developers, we often think about translation as a binary …
Building Translation Workflows: Technical Implementation for Multi-Linguist Review Processes
Building Translation Workflows: Technical Implementation for Multi-Linguist Review Processes When you're building applications that handle critical mu…
Building Translation Pipelines for Maritime Documentation — A Developer's Guide
Building Translation Pipelines for Maritime Documentation — A Developer's Guide As maritime companies scale globally, they face a technical challenge …