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Translate the assumption, not the vocabulary: what changed in v1.1.0
From v1.0.0 (2026-10-25, 9b4a89d1f) to v1.1.0 (2026-10-27, db67c5ce1), paragraph by paragraph.
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!shot ac-post.webp | images/ | Adelina Chalmers' LinkedIn post on LinkedIn,of 23 October 2026:2026 "The best CTO answer I've heard in a board meeting gave away his own budget." The same platform problem,on five ways a CTO can answer it, depending on the executivesame mindsetplatform stage they are at, "and sadly only one gets invited into the exit conversation."problem. | small | aside
8 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, Five answers to the same problem {#stages}
!shot ac-table.webp | images/ | Adelina Chalmers' "5 stages of a executive mindset for CTOs", from the Cambridge Executive Mindset and Diligence Lab: for each stage, where the thinking starts, what they say to the board, what investors think, and the assumption the CTO is making. From "We need to re-platform. It will take 18 months and 6 more engineers" at stage one, to "Our exit problem is enterprise churn, not the platform, so I'd spend the £250k on customer onboarding first" at stage five.Lab. | screenshot
11 unchanged paragraphs, under Translation is the assumption {#translation}, What it looks like for php2shell {#php}
!shot tr-stages.webp | images/ | php2shell,php2shell told to a board at the five stages,stages followingof Adelina Chalmers' stages: the technologist asks to patch and rebuild everything with more engineers; the translator says patching protects the business; the commercial partner names the two customer-facing sites and the cost of a weekend; the value creator has it patched and the evidence ready for due diligence; the trusted advisor says the exposure is closed and the bigger risk is a supplier running end-of-life PHP 7.4, which is a call for someone else to make.model. Illustrative. | concept
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!shot tr-roles.webp | images/ | The PHP site already translates:site's seven roles,roles sevenand the first questions.question Executive:each areasks, we exposed, what do I decide; general reader: does it touch me, what do I do; security: what do we patch, block and watch; engineer: which versions, settings and commands; journalist: what holds up, who said it first; researcher: what's the evidence, what's still open; and everything. Next,with a deck each,each proposed on 25 October. | concept
3 unchanged paragraphs, under What translation has to take into account {#dimensions}
!shot tr-dims.webp | images/ | What a translation has to take into account: around the message, which keeps the factssender's voice and the sender's voice, the receiver's rolerole, culture and objectives, focus and pain points, understanding and depth, language and culture, power dynamics, how they consume it, and what they want to get.needs. | concept
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