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We’re trying something new: giving away $15,000 to developers building open-source projects. To apply, tag your favorite open-source developer or link your project below! ⭐️
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wrote a blog post about using @generaltxn go give it a read!
depot.dev/blog/localizing-de…
19 days from first implementation to a public launch in 5 languages! We're delighted to help accelerate the best eng teams @depotdev and @ImLunaHey to reach new global markets
We’re excited to share our next open-source grantee:
@dwhitedesign, the creator of Cuelume. Cuelume is a dependency-free library of interaction sounds for the web.
While most UI sounds are recordings played back, Cuelume synthesizes every sound live, so each cue can vary and the library stays at 9kB.
Cuelume is used in Vercel’s fx and has picked up compliments from designers at Supabase, PostHog, Interfaces, Intercom, and Nuxt. It has 2,000 stars on GitHub.
We caught up with Daniel to talk about the web’s missing sense (which is also the fastest human sense!), aliveness in web pages, his path to becoming a design engineer, and how he built a library that gives auditory feedback to make interfaces feel more human.
generaltranslation.com/blog/…
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I wonder who he's talking about here
Brian Kernighan is a former Bell Labs member of technical staff, co-author of the original C book, and the one who popularized “Hello World.” We talked about what Bell Labs was like and the stories behind all the famous tools that were built there.
In this episode:
• Bell Labs culture and how he got hired
• Day in the life at Bell Labs and the best engineer
• Unix, C, and how awk got created
• His favorite languages and advice for students
Where to watch:
• YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=sMllOlxV…
• Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/2yb…
• Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
• Transcript - developing.dev/p/e072-brian-…
Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work:
• WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at workos.com/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:42 What Bell Labs was and how he got hired
06:34 Why so many inventions came from Bell Labs
14:15 A day in the life at Bell Labs
27:55 The most impressive people he worked with
33:50 The AT&T film explaining Unix
39:46 Why C was so influential
43:25 How awk was created
48:40 What he misses most about Bell Labs
54:10 Are LLMs bad for computer science education
01:01:46 His 1972 commit in the Go repo
01:03:43 Grace Emlen, the fake Bell Labs employee
01:07:39 Why he writes so many books
01:19:58 His favorite and least favorite languages
01:24:28 Advice for students and young people
01:27:42 Outro
Nearly 2,000 years after Euclid wrote Elements, a Jesuit and a Ming Dynasty scholar made the first Chinese translation in 1607.
The Chinese language had no terms for axiom, proof, definition, or theorem as mathematical concepts. Matteo Ricci explained each Latin passage in spoken Chinese, and Xu Guangqi wrote it down in classical Chinese, coining dozens of terms along the way.
Very few texts have been passed down through a more serpentine path. The text traveled from the ancient Greek, Arabic, and Latin, then by sea to Macau and overland to Peking over nineteen years.
The story of this enchanting text and its many translations: generaltranslation.com/atlas…
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today, I'm launching Glyphfield: a free, open-source design canvas that we've been using internally at @generaltxn.
most graphics start as a blank figma frame. glyphfield starts you with 197 live shaders, your brand kit, text, images, stickers, dither and ascii effects, and artboards in any size.
+it's fully agent native; the entire studio is exposed via API to your agents.
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Most blog UI is the same scrolling text window with a table of contents on the side. Direct, informative, safe.
We wanted the @generaltxn Atlas to feel worth turning pages for. Every story is a full magazine issue with its own cover, paper, UI surfaces, and map!
This could be you 👀
oh btw, the depot dashboard speaks 6 languages now
🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇨🇳
depot.dev/blog/dashboard-loc…
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oh btw, the depot dashboard speaks 6 languages now
🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇨🇳
depot.dev/blog/dashboard-loc…
Slash customers: your product should exist in more than one language. If you bank with @slashapp, we're giving you $2k to localize any product surface and scale to more global markets.
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At Slash, we're making it easier for businesses in over 180 countries to move and manage money globally.
We're excited to partner with @generaltxn to make professional translation services more accessible to Slash businesses, removing another barrier to operating across borders.
We’re thrilled to work with @slashapp to support stellar businesses to localize their products and grow to every global market.
We're providing $2,000 in GT translation credits for eligible Slash customers. Read more below.
We’re thrilled to work with @slashapp to support stellar businesses to localize their products and grow to every global market.
We're providing $2,000 in GT translation credits for eligible Slash customers. Read more below.
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Couldn't sleep, so I translated the entire Ghostty docs site into all 34 languages the app currently supports using @generaltxn. Would love feedback from native speakers on how it reads in their language!
The primary thing blocking the Ghostty 1.4 is translation review. We're planning to ship with broken translations if we can't get reviewers/translators quickly to help with the following: Catalan, Indonesian, Irish, Japanese. PRs here: github.com/ghostty-org/ghost… and translation guide: github.com/ghostty-org/ghost… Thank you!
Fumadocs is our first open-source grantee. We talked with Fuma about his philosophy. Read the full piece here: generaltranslation.com/blog/…
How to build self-healing docs with a style guide and daily cloud agent.
We created our style guide by writing docs directly in Cursor, asking an agent to generalize every change and thought process into guidelines and rules.
Our style guide covers terminology, brand voice, tone, style, and audience (similar to the custom prompts we enforce for our customers.)
Agents are now a majority of docs readers, and they need specialized discovery, retrieval, and tool access capabilities.
Questions to ask about your docs: Can agents discover and navigate the pages? Can they read clean markdown content that fits in their context window? Can they fetch and use the correct AI tools?
