3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash."


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Matt Might wrote some shell scripts back in 2010 to identify and correct a few bad writing habits.

Simon Willison took these scripts and used Claude to build a tool that does the same, but within a web browser.

I could see taking this concept and baking it into my publish system for this blog. I am very interested in becoming a stronger writer, and having something like my own Rubocop would be annoyingly useful.

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