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The AI Ready Localizer #9: Ontologies: The Missing Context for Smarter LLMs

A practical guide to building ontologies that feed language models with the structure they need to reason better.

Aug 21 •

July 2025

The Unicode Chronicles — Chapter 4

The Variable That Spoke in Tongues

Jul 31 •

The AI Ready Localizer #8: How to Use AI to Prevent i18n Bugs

A Practical Guide to Context Engineering

Jul 29 •

Building Globally: A Practical i18n Guide

A practical guide (with lots of examples) for engineers, designers & product managers

Jul 17 •

Mozilla Common Voice: Democratizing Speech Technology for All Languages

The Digital Language Divide: Why This Matters More Than Ever

Jul 8 •

The AI-Ready Localizer #7: Flying Smarter

Orchestrating Multimarket Blog Adaptation with Blackbird.io

Jul 4 •

AI vs AI: Let Them Fight (and Learn From Each Other)

The Multi-Agent Revolution

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Why Linguists Are Natural Prompt Engineers

Decoding the Hidden Architecture of Meaning

Jun 24 •

The AI Ready Localizer #6: One Month with Lovable

Building What I Couldn’t Walk Away From

Jun 19 •

The Bilingual Temptation: Notes on Publishing Beyond One Language

What every multilingual writer should know before launching a bilingual newsletter

Jun 11 •

The Hidden Cost of Bad Writing

Why your global content strategy fails before it even reaches translators

Jun 10 •

The Unicode Chronicles — Chapter 3

The Great Renaming

Jun 8 •

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