The WordPress and Jetpack mobile apps should soon have Bulgarian

~ Veselin ~ 20 Comments

In a brief moment of insanity, I went over the strings for WordPress Mobile iOS and translated most of them. They are getting more and more difficult as the translation percentage approaches 100%. No surprise there that the people maintaining the Canadian language were unable to translate the final 2% 😜.

I may be able to get that number to 98 as well but 100 looks out of reach. Some strings in the app mean absolutely nothing to me and even the translations to other languages make no sense. I’ll post an update once the next Jetpack Mobile appears with these translations. Really curious to see if I got it sufficiently right to make the UI feel Bulgarian. Bulgarian has lots of gendered words, transliterated terminology, plurals where one expects singulars and so on.

And Happy Birthday to WordPress.com!

Rosehip

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I attempted to take a few photos of this cat family but the rosehip took the focus.

I need to level up my photography game to give these cats the credit they deserve. The little single-blue-eye void even yawned for me. Not sure if I’ll have another chance with these two – Sofia has so many cats that it sometimes feels you never see the same cat twice.

Driving in Sofia

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I’m blessed that I don’t need to drive in the city, thanks to Automattic’s remote-work policy. But this morning, I had to drive 17 km through the city during rush hour to pick up my mom. I felt like a racecar driver again, one I used to be when I was younger. Locked in a constnat competition with hundreds of others, trying to catch every green light because those precious 30 seconds somehow feel like a matter of life and death.

It reminded me of a post I wrote 2.5 years ago about Car Brains, and how driving in the city should count as a form of cognitive impairment or even illness. It’s a stupid activity that harms the driver while also harming the environment and all the other participants in the traffic.

Here’s a photo of creatures that are smarter than city drivers. They don’t drive in the city, don’t form traffic jams, and don’t engage in road rage. The darker pigeon in the middle is a a tiny Jackdaw.