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10 | 46 | |
4,752 | 4,166 | |
0.5% | 2.9% | |
4.0 | 9.3 | |
5 months ago | 13 days ago | |
JavaScript | Go | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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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
- Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook [pdf]
- Grammarly editor writing service are malfunctioning
- Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose
- Ask HN: Best tool to proof-read technical documentation?
- Val, a high-level systems programming language
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Common Bugs in Writing
Vale is an OSS tool that you can use as a "prose linter" with many of these rules. You can also write your own rules. Together with a spellchecker its a good replacement for proprietary tools like grammarly.
- https://github.com/errata-ai/vale
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Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs
> Write in US English with US grammar. (Tested in British.yml.)
heh, that was funny but it turns out the file is a list of British words checked using Vale, which I just learned existed: https://github.com/errata-ai/vale#readme (MIT)
Also, another TIL is that the "e" version of gray is British https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/doc/.vale... I had previously erroneously assumed they were just one of those quirks of English (which, I guess is still true but it is less random than I thought)
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Tools that enforce/promote corporate standards?
Off the top of my head, Vale and Acrolinx.
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Over 60% of Writers Already Use AI in Their Writing Workflow
I have recently thought of feeding the suggestions from Vale (https://vale.sh/) into an LLM along with your writing. Currently I just simply ask an LLM to take what I wrote and put it into a more "active voice". I then manually edit my writing to make it more "active" if I choose -- I do not just publish LLM generated content unaltered.
Note: I did not ask an LLM for this comment.
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What terminal apps are you using?
vale to spell check and enforce writing style on my articles
What are some alternatives?
http-server - a simple zero-configuration command-line http server
proselint - A linter for prose.
torrent - download torrents with node from the CLI
lsp-grammarly - lsp-mode ❤️ grammarly
Live Server - A simple development http server with live reload capability.
nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP
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 - Repository for the markdownlint-mdl-action Github Action
iponmap - commandline IP location finder
remark-lint - plugins to check (lint) markdown code style