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I'm Joseph. I make things and write about them.
The making is mostly Vale, a linter that treats prose like code, and before that prose, a Natural Language Processing library for Go. The writing is data stories: language, public data, and the small things worth counting.
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Scientists are trained to qualify their claims. Across 2,400 arXiv abstracts, how much a field hedges turns out to track something simpler than caution — whether it observes the world or proves things about it. And despite the reputation, hedging isn't on the rise.
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Vale so far: 16M downloads, 6.3K stars, 206 releases since 2017. |
- Write Better with Vale, a Pragmatic Bookshelf title on automating style guides.
- Google Open Source Peer Bonus recipient, 2023.
- Appwrite OSS Fund grantee, one of twenty projects selected.
- Vale on Solana:
3xgJh5hwn6SMZ2XgsxYRLtos3AEKEgPyBepx529Tpump - Want to talk prose linting, docs tooling, or a data story? Email me.
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