General Translation

Today, General Translation is announcing our $27m Series A and Seed, led by @a16z and @upfrontvc.

We localize products used by millions at the fastest-growing category leaders like Ramp, Cursor, Sierra, Profound, Okta, Partiful, and ClickHouse.

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19 days from first implementation to a public launch in 5 languages! We're delighted to help accelerate the best eng teams @depotdev and @ImLunaHey to reach new global markets

We’re excited to share our next open-source grantee:
@dwhitedesign, the creator of Cuelume. Cuelume is a dependency-free library of interaction sounds for the web.

While most UI sounds are recordings played back, Cuelume synthesizes every sound live, so each cue can vary and the library stays at 9kB.

Cuelume is used in Vercel’s fx and has picked up compliments from designers at Supabase, PostHog, Interfaces, Intercom, and Nuxt. It has 2,000 stars on GitHub.

We caught up with Daniel to talk about the web’s missing sense (which is also the fastest human sense!), aliveness in web pages, his path to becoming a design engineer, and how he built a library that gives auditory feedback to make interfaces feel more human.

generaltranslation.com/blog/daniel-wh…

Nearly 2,000 years after Euclid wrote Elements, a Jesuit and a Ming Dynasty scholar made the first Chinese translation in 1607.

The Chinese language had no terms for axiom, proof, definition, or theorem as mathematical concepts. Matteo Ricci explained each Latin passage in spoken Chinese, and Xu Guangqi wrote it down in classical Chinese, coining dozens of terms along the way.

Very few texts have been passed down through a more serpentine path. The text traveled from the ancient Greek, Arabic, and Latin, then by sea to Macau and overland to Peking over nineteen years.

The story of this enchanting text and its many translations: generaltranslation.com/atlas/translat…

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