How I made Japanese search work by intercepting Pagefind's Enter key in the capture phase
Pagefind navigated away while an IME conversion was open. isComposing is necessary but not sufficient: WebKit fires compositionend before the keydown.
i18n
Pagefind's stemming warning was a red herring — Japanese search broke on segmentation
Pagefind warned about missing stemming for Japanese and Chinese on every build. The real defect was a query and index tokenizer mismatch returning wrong pages.
Astro share buttons that pick their targets by language — a sticky rail on desktop, pills on mobile
Share buttons in Astro built from intent URLs: a different target set per locale, a sticky icon rail on wide screens, and the endpoint drift found on the way.
Playwright as a measuring instrument — the i18n defect no static check can reach
Measuring translated SVG labels against their boxes with Playwright, and the two bugs that made the check report 37 pages clean while measuring nothing.
Astro content collections instead of a CMS — MDX over Markdown, and where the foreign keys went
Why this trilingual Astro blog has no CMS: the directory layout images forced, MDX over Markdown, and a tag registry standing in for foreign keys.