Ariadne Conill 🐰6d ago

new blog dropped, grammarly has been excised from my workflow on this one and replaced with a libre alternative plus some homebrew tools I built to maintain tone and find sources using google news.

i will probably have to rework the latter because google news will probably become 100% AI slop soon. but whatever, smoke em while you've got em.

please let me know if there are errors.

Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰
the benefit is that languagetool will never pretend to be me in an "expert review" feature
Mar 28 at 3:54pmWeb
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧6d ago
@ariadne do you find that you need so many tools to write well? is this a question of extremely stringent requirements, of not wanting to develop a skill, of not being able to develop a skill?
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰6d ago

@whitequark i do not need so many tools, but these were functions of grammarly i found useful since i was using it as a wordpress plugin.

so i write an outline, and then turn that into a draft, and then use languagetool for polish and optimization (SEO).

i also use tonepolice.py (a local thing I made to replace grammarly's tone consistency feature) to ensure that my blog is consistent in tone.

the google news source finder is something i wrote because i like to inject hyperlinks into my prose in order to improve my site's authority score (due to my past life, i am quite familiar with how the pagerank algorithm works)

Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧6d ago
@ariadne ah that makes sense. i've never cared about SEO but the tone thing interests me because i always try to write documentation that has a unified tone and there are cases where i found that really challenging. but it's mostly about collaboration, i trained myself to be consistent in tone the normal way
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰6d ago
@whitequark it is hard for me to be consistent on tone because i just write whatever i feel like writing, i have the YOLO flavor of autism
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧6d ago
@ariadne yea that makes sense