Advanced Language Solutions

Powerful Web Applications

Awesome Email Design

Creative and Collaborative IT

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HI, I’M MICHELE!

Nice to meet you.

I’m a technical translator for French, German, and Italian with three decades of experience. In addition, I’m the founder and CEO of codeforlingua ↗, a creative agency for multilingual communication (based in Tallinn, Estonia) that helps brands, business, and humans elevate their visibility and impact.

Although translations and terminologies are the focus of my main work activities, I’m also passionate about graphic design, visual communication, and web development.

Navigating programming languages for the web or exploring related subjects and technologies (CSS frameworks, website usability, web accessibility, color theories, typography, and so on) is creative, highly adaptive, and consistently engaging.

Code is language; therefore, coding is quite more than just “writing software”. It also implies how to enhance the synergy of aesthetics and functionality when, for example, it comes to the interaction/communication between user and website or web application.

As a translator, I am aware of the power of language. Whether it be a natural language or a formal language, it is essential to the communication and its effectiveness.

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of fields I love working in:

Web Applications (2022–now):

  • HTML, CSS, JS (the foundation of modern web development)
  • PHP (server-side scripting language)
  • Node.js (runtime environment)
  • Astro (static site generator)
  • Tailwind CSS (utility-first CSS framework)
  • GSAP, ScrollMagic (animation frameworks)
  • WordPress (CMS)

Email Design (2022–now):

  • Maizzle (framework for HTML email development—powered by Tailwind CSS)
  • MJML (email framework)

IT & Linux System Administration (approx. 2010–now):

  • Bash scripting for server administration
  • Firewalls (iptables, nftables)
  • Mail servers (based on Postfix, Dovecot, LDAP)
  • Web servers (Apache, Caddy)
  • XMPP messaging (ejabberd)
  • VPNs and proxies (WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenVPN, SoftEther)
  • Virtualization in VMware environments
Yoyo

My Technical Toolkit

  1. Editors:
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Visual Studio Code
  2. Local development environments:
    • FlyEnv
    • Valet Linux+
    • Lando
  3. WordPress Builders:
    • Oxygen
    • Builderius
  4. WordPress Themes and Templates:
    • OceanWP
  5. WordPress Addons:
    • Meta Box (custom fields)
    • WPGraphQL (GraphQL API)

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