Paying taxes for fun and profit
summary
Argues that “taxes” like internationalization, accessibility, telemetry and feature flags are engineering work that must be measured and planned: demonstrates a simple pseudo-locale mangling tool to catch hard-coded strings and RTL/layout problems, advises using libraries for Unicode normalization and culture-aware date/number/currency handling, outlines feature-flag rings for staged rollouts and A/B testing, notes Mozilla’s classification of pluralization into 16 plural rules, and cites Twitter Lite as a successful low-bandwidth build.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 3:12Internationalization
- 3:53Globalization
- 5:23Strings
- 6:11Culture-dependent ordering
- 11:07Numbers
- 12:24Digit grouping
- 14:33Localization and localizability
- 19:46Resource files
- 23:35Digression: Feature flags
- 25:32What can PseudoLoc tell us?
- 27:39Missing translation
- 28:10String Concatenation
- 37:12Sample usage
- 38:01Accessibility
- 43:01Borders
- 48:50Monitoring
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