Alex mentions (3)

• 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. Source: over 1 year ago

• 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. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• 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... Source: almost 2 years ago

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