CommonMark flanking rules print ** on Japanese and Chinese pages
CommonMark only lets ** close emphasis when it is right-flanking. Japanese and Chinese have no space after a full stop, so bold ships as literal asterisks.
i18n
A Claude Code translation pipeline adds a fluency gate — modeled on Andrew Ng's reflection pattern
An outside review caught defects in a zh-TW translation this Claude Code pipeline's QA never checked for; the fix adds a research-grounded Section C gate.
This blog's articles were too narrow and small on desktop — dev.to fixed it, and found a CJK bug
Astro article pages ran narrow and small at 68ch/17px. Widening them against dev.to's own numbers also fixed a CJK line-length bug the ch unit had hidden.
An Astro blog that picks related posts from its own tags — IDF weighting and a measured floor
Picking related posts at build time from tag overlap weighted by tag rarity, why TF-IDF over three languages fails, and how the score floor was measured.
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.
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.