Tag: WordPress

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!

Happy Anniversary, Automattic!

~ Veselin ~ 6 Comments

Happy 20-year work anniversary to Donncha — the very first person to join the company, even before Matt! His post brings back the early days and shows the small group of people who started it all. They all look so young! It’s amazing to look back and see how far we’ve come. Here’s to the next 20!

I remember joining in 2011, and blaming the already 6-years-old codebase to always find Donncha’s username in the oldest corners of the code.

Photo by Mark Ralev. Thanks to Mark, I have some photos of myself from 2011.

This was the computer I used when I joined Automattic. I did my trial with it and bought a new one for my first team meetup.

And 3 of the only 4-5 photos I still have from the said meetup in 2011. The last photo features Matt and I think Stephane Daury but with the photo quality of my 2011 camera, it could also be Jason Statham.