
I Built a Tool That Lets You Contribute to Open Source in Any Language
I was browsing a really interesting React issue on GitHub. Somebody had found a genuinly clever edge case with Suspense boundaries. The discussion was detailed, technical, and... entirely in Mandarin. I don't speak Mandarin. So I did what any reasonable developer would do, I highlighted the whole page, pasted it into Google Translate, and watched in horror as every single code snippet got mangled into nonsense. useEffect became "use effect". useState turned into "use state". A perfectly valid JSX block got translated into what looked like a poem about HTML elements. I closed the tab. Stared at my monitor. And thought: "What if I could translate GitHub issues... without destroying the code?" That question cost me sleep, mass amounts of caffiene, and one perfectly good weekend. But it also produced IssueLingo , a tool that translates entire GitHub issue threads into 38+ languages while keeping every code block, variable name, and terminal command completly untouched. The part I'm most pr
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