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The Birth & Death of JavaScript
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I like these as well!
Erlang: The Movie
Timezones - Computerphile
Internationalisation - Computerphile
I was the sole ui developer on a white-labelled flight search and booking web app that had to support frenchy french, canadian french, mexican spanish, and japanese (rtl), and english. And IE11! Those computerphile ones hit hard, formatting currencies, dates, times all in different time zones and currencies. Fun times lol
Yeah, I'm the lead on a bunch of websites that all have to be localised.
There's a lot of weird footguns to watch out for, and a lot of retraining devs when they're used to only working on a single language/locale.
Two biggest head scratchers I've had to deal with are computers treating "fr-FR" different from "fr-fr" (due to file system case-sensitivity differences between developers), and having to undo the coded assumption that languages and locales follow an [a-z]{2}-[a-z]{2} pattern (e.g. "en-gb") once we stumbled upon Latino Americano: "es-419".
EDIT: My left ear really loves the Erlang talk.
This fixes it: