alex

Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing (by get-alex)

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  • Markdown Bot - An AI friend who improves your content
    3 projects | dev.to | 21 Jul 2023
    Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing with tools like alex
  • AlexJS: Catch Insensitive, Inconsiderate Writing
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2023
  • A ChatGPT GitHub Action for Reviewing Text for Potentially Discriminatory Language
    3 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2023
    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.
  • What external tools do you use in your workflow?
    4 projects | /r/LaTeX | 3 Jan 2023
    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.
  • JavaScript library that converts a string to gender-neutral language?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2022
    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.
  • Detect Non-Inclusive Language with Retext and Node.js
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Sep 2022
    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.
  • The Actual Mind of the Algorithm (Cortex 132)
    5 projects | /r/CGPGrey | 18 Aug 2022
    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)
  • Mod fight over pronoun flairs in /r/programminghorror
    1 project | /r/SubredditDrama | 16 Jun 2022
    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.
  • Markdown Linting
    9 projects | dev.to | 19 Aug 2021
    alex
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get-alex/alex is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of alex is JavaScript.


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