vaclavhodek

One moment, you are doing too great progress on your new venture/company. A moment later, you are too drunk. Do you know it?

I do!

Well, if possible, I would have one or two with you. As soon as you are in the Czech Republic, you are invited to join me!

It was terrible!

Almost the whole day, deep focus, slow progress, complicated like hell to keep it fully backward compatible... Stressful but challenging!

XLIFF and RESX are quite simple to do because they are XML-compliant. So, the parser only needs to skip the whole CDATA section (and keep it exactly as is) and only process surrounding tags and texts.

Android XML is hell. It's an XML file but with different handling of spaces and some characters. We could keep it as is, but to make it more comfortable for translators, we parse the input texts to keep all the important information and make it much cleaner. When writing the output file, we need to convert it back. And now, with CDATA, it means to consider another factor on input and output.

Based on my own experience, I know that there are services that don't even bother with this. But we are not like this. It's not the right way how to do things.

Our very very very old printer broke down and my wife needs one to print documents for the accountant. So I've got a new one.

It's HP with Wifi and it's like a new world for me :-). Installed in no time (detected automatically by Linux) and I can even print and scan from the mobile phone.

No more "print this email for my, honey" emails :-).

Glad to hear that some payments are coming in, verifying that we are on the right way. We need to work more!

There's still a long way to go before it's ready, but I've already achieved to keep the system fully backward compatible while introducing a new set of features for versioning and format conversion.

The localization metadata file contains all the information about the actual state of the project, all phrases, translations, versions, additional data, etc.

It allows us to introduce a lot of new features including versioning, conversions, and Localazy CDN. It also allows for republishing previous versions of the content if a bug is fixed.

Now, I need to write better tests. I hate writing tests!

This is far the best way how to recharge energy before the second half of my work day.

It's far from being done, but the system is now able to work with Docker like scheme (:latest, :anything, :production) when exchanging messaging through the queue broker.

It's the first step to versioned localization!

I always listen to our users, people around me, and all others - every single piece of information shapes my point of view.

However, it's essential to decide how you should act upon those pieces; don't just follow all of them.

We've launched payments recently. Before, the whole #localazy was technically free. And we don't even have all the payment options and products available yet. But it already works! Nice validation that we really help our users!

We run Fider for https://improve.localazy.com, but after a certain period of time, it gets into an unhealthy status and blocks the whole Docker. I suspect that there is some hidden memory leak.

I configured the container to be reset automatically each day as a fast workaround until the issue is fixed.

XLIFF format is standard, but different tools understand it differently, and at #localazy, we are doing our best to support all variants and, most importantly, to help our users.

Just a few hours ago, one of our users reported that his format is not supported. Well, it is now!

Now, let's push it to production!

Fingers crossed to get approved by Google without problems.

Which is sixth book from Foundation series. At the same time, it's my 100th book read on Kindle.

Well, I was ready to submit my app to Google Play, but apparently, I need to build it against SDK 29 which means a lot of changes because of improved nullability and compatibility with Kotlin.

No problem, my code is written well and this is just about minor changes, so it was a fast task to fix all the issues.

Another set of tax documents collected (Google Play report, Amazon Store report, reports from PayPal, Stripe, missing invoices) and sent to my accountant.

God, I hate this paperwork!