style VS vale

I love vale. I’ve been using it for years. I branched rules from someone trying to emulate the economist style guide and kept tweaking.

I like this approach so much better than leaning on AI because it’s more my “voice”.

https://github.com/loughnane/style

In the same space, I recommend checking out the Vale linter. Fairly powerful and open source, too. And doesn't rely on a backend.

https://vale.sh

Vale is a code prose checker. It takes a more opinionated approach to editorial style, and thus can require lots of tuning, but it is very extensible. Let’s have it check for TODOs. Run trunk check enable vale to get started.

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

> 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)