How I got Paratext 9.5 running on an Apple Silicon Mac with Wine, including Send/Receive, plus the gotchas I hit and a setup script.
ryder · 2026-11-05 · 11 min read · paratext, translation, mac, wine, tools
A growing store of community-recorded audio in languages no AI model has seen, plus an onboarding gap that made our dashboard quietly claim the wrong top language.
ryder · 2026-07-09 · 4 min read · data, translation, langquest
Fewer, more general tools beat bespoke integrations — a lesson from redesigning how AI agents interact with a Bible translation platform.
ryder · 2026-07-09 · 6 min read · ai, engineering, agentic-workflow, product
Consultants' objections to AI Bible translation are almost all objections to seq2seq machine translation, a different, older animal than an LLM.
ryder · 2026-07-08 · 5 min read · translation, ai, methodology
A team finished a full Bible in about a year against a field average near 16 years, and most of the gap has nothing to do with the model.
ryder · 2026-07-08 · 5 min read · translation, product, methodology
Why correcting an AI translation in context beats batch-editing it afterward, and a golden-path/silver-path framework for sequencing the work.
ryder · 2026-07-08 · 6 min read · translation, ai, methodology, agentic-workflow
An on-device transcriber that discards audio and keeps only text, feeding a daily agent that mines conversations for ideas worth writing about.
ryder · 2026-07-08 · 4 min read · ai, engineering, workflow, meta
Prompting an agent without a measurable target fails the way training a model without a loss function does, plus a pattern for swarms of subagents.
ryder · 2026-07-04 · 5 min read · ai, agentic-workflow, engineering
Frontier models have memorized Scripture so well that hiding the source text doesn't stop them reciting it, which changes what 'source' should mean.
ryder · 2026-07-03 · 6 min read · translation, ai, methodology, nlp
Trust in a Bible translation isn't a technical property. It's a person who signs their name to it, and who that person is changes by community.
ryder · 2026-07-01 · 5 min read · translation, bible, trust, decentralization