Not just a one-trick pony – How job crafting works
An in-house translator may be viewed as a “one-trick pony”. They just translate all the time, right? How non-translation-based activities can help translators to flourish.
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In-house translation - outside the box
Thoughts from a mid-career in-house translator previously active as a freelancer.
Even Homer Nods! How Chinese Walls showed it was good to talk
Even an unintended use of non-inclusive language can demonstrate why it is good to communicate when collaborating with others.
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What an outsourcer looks for in a freelancer’s website
A freelancer’s website (or lack of one) gives away a lot about them.
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It’s good to talk about LangTech – and to attend physical meetings
Why presence meetings still have a role and also why we need to talk about LangTech.
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Comparing Translation to Tetris
Why I have likened translation and being an in-house translator to Tetris.
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Understanding your time/activity sheets: getting more out and analysing them to propose a simplification
Every considered the link between a London taxi and time/activity logging and charging strategies for translators?
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Adding a date to the front of the filename of a Word document
Adding the current date to a filename can be a useful way to ensure short translation requests can be traced by date of receipt
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Generating bilingual EUR-LEX web addresses in Python
A little bit of Python code for generating URLs for bilingual versions of EU legal texts in Eur-Lex for subsequent alignment.
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