Two weeks of building Bible School LMS in public: first contributor, bilingual content, real production bug

Short summary

A developer shares two weeks of building an open-source Bible School LMS, from onboarding the first community contributor to shipping a multilingual translation pipeline. The system uses Gemini for course content while intelligently preserving canonical scripture unchanged via special verse detection. Also covered: fixing a production bug where Vite's stale chunk loading silently churned users, plus accessibility improvements and auth flow translation.

• •Successfully merged first community PR and onboarded contributor same day
• •Built translation pipeline using Gemini with special parsing to preserve canonical biblical verses unchanged
• •Fixed production bug causing silent user churn from Vite stale chunk loading detected via Datadog RUM

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