Posts with tag opensource
- When I work on multi-lingual projects, it always takes a lot of time to estimate and prioritize the localization process. Even if you use machine translation, you can't just translate all languages in the world, since it takes a long time, and LLM will spend all your money on garbage generations like chars "aa" repeated thousands of times in a row. I built the NPM package langstats to solve this problem.
- Big tech companies invest a lot of effort to sell us the point that every good programmer must have their own open source project. Many programmers have open source side projects, but quite few of them can explain why they waste their time on it. As a result, they work for free, to make big tech rich. Actually, open source can't make money for programmers, but may be useful as a promotion tool for them.
- The web browser is the most used program for me and for most users of the internet, so it is important for the browser to work efficiently during daily use. Although most browsers have embedded translation features and there are many browser extensions providing translation capabilities, I have found them to be not good enough and unacceptable for intensive use. This is why I have created Linguist - the ultimate browser extension for translation.
- How often you start code review and can't understand how this changes fix the problem and even don't understand is reliable this changes or not? If it periodically happens, you should start write detailed description for each pull request.