alex
Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing (by get-alex)
vale-styles
Checks for Vale based on popular style guides (by testthedocs)
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| alex | vale-styles | |
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| 10 | 1 | |
| 4,753 | 45 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 4.0 | 0.0 | |
| 5 months ago | over 3 years ago | |
| JavaScript | Shell | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
alex
Posts with mentions or reviews of alex.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-21.
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Markdown Bot - An AI friend who improves your content
Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing with tools like alex
- AlexJS: Catch Insensitive, Inconsiderate Writing
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A ChatGPT GitHub Action for Reviewing Text for Potentially Discriminatory Language
This story has been a motivating principle behind my life for a long time, and therefore, whenever I've worked on docs, I've thought about how I could ensure that exclusionary words, even unintentionally, did not make their way into the final copy. During my time at Nexmo, a communications API company, I introduced Alex, an NPM package that helps you identify potentially exclusionary language in your writing, into the CI/CD pipeline for the documentation.
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What external tools do you use in your workflow?
As a philosophy student: Zotero for reference management, the Better BibTeX plugin to auto-generate a .bib file, and two language servers for diagnostics: LTeX for grammar- and spellchecking, and alex for style and sensitivity checking.
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JavaScript library that converts a string to gender-neutral language?
When using it as a lib you can pass a markdown string (https://github.com/get-alex/alex#markdownvalue-config) or raw text string (https://github.com/get-alex/alex#textvalue-config). This will return an object that should contain everything you need to perform a naive replacement.
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Detect Non-Inclusive Language with Retext and Node.js
alex is a lovely command-line tool that takes in text or markdown files and, using retext-equality and retext-profanities, highlights suggestions for improvement. alex checks for gendered work titles, gendered proverbs, ableist language, condescending or intolerant language, profanities, and much more.
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The Actual Mind of the Algorithm (Cortex 132)
Heck, he could even go so far and start using GitHub's automation system (Actions) to run some check on his writing. (Maybe something like alexjs)
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Mod fight over pronoun flairs in /r/programminghorror
I've been a part of several code clean-ups where giant code bases needed to be changed to considerate language. I've never once encountered a bad actor when the actual work got underway. Part of being a programmer is to question the reasoning behind large changes but any programmer worth their salt understands the big picture if you can clearly explain it. I wouldn't read too much into the actions of a few people in any programming subreddit who are opposed to pronouns. Those people will always exist. I'm certain that the vast majority of programmers in those subs are either strongly in favour of gendered pronouns or are apathetic toward it. To drive home the point, the fight for considerate language has been driven by developers themselves. All these wonderful tools such as alex.js or even org level changes inside big companies are part of it.
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Markdown Linting
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vale-styles
Posts with mentions or reviews of vale-styles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-19.
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Markdown Linting
Besides the official Vale style guides Buildkite, Linode, and Write The Docs have rules online that you can copy into your repo or use as inspiration for your own rules.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing alex and vale-styles you can also consider the following projects:
http-server - a simple zero-configuration command-line http server
proselint - A linter for prose.
torrent - download torrents with node from the CLI
markdownlint - Markdown lint tool
Live Server - A simple development http server with live reload capability.
Openly - A Vale linter style that aims to replicate Grammarly in an open-source, privacy-friendly way
wifi-password - Get current wifi password
write-good - Naive linter for English prose
David - :eyeglasses: Node.js module that tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
markdownlint - A Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.
iponmap - commandline IP location finder
docs - Linode guides and tutorials.