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Slightly unrelated, I often get people not fully reading my posts and racing down to the comments to post something off topic, is there a solution or should I just write better content 🤷♂️. That and spelling mistake corrections, I'm dyslexic, I don't actually feel it is all that important for the style of content I write, stream of consciousness posts.
I'm dyslexic too, but I find that spelling and grammar matters! For one, by leaving those in, you're making it harder for other readers, especially other users who are dyslexic, ESL, or have reading difficulties. Quality matters.
Proofreading need not be at odds with 'stream of consciousness'. You simply need to form the habit of fixing errors as you go. The LanguageTool add on can help with that.
How’s it going, I'm a Adam, a Full-Stack Engineer, actively searching for work. I'm all about JavaScript. And Frontend but don't let that fool you - I've also got some serious Backend skills.
Location
City of Bath, UK 🇬🇧
Education
10 plus years* active enterprise development experience and a Fine art degree 🎨
Some (many?) people could stand to be more tactful, but at the risk of sounding like I'm excusing them (I'm not), we are programmers. Code has to be exact in spelling, grammar, and syntax, or it won't work as desired. Thus, proficiency with coding usually comes with a knee-jerk reaction towards typos and errors, a la code review "this is wrong. fix it."
I've never found a twitchier mob of English pedants than programmers, even compared to professional authors. Late nights of debugging have entrained us to fear errors, and even more, to distrust coders who regularly produce errors: "If you can't resolve a basic their/there/they're collision, how can I expect you to comprehend link resolution order?"
It's sound logic to be sure, but it could use more than a tablespoon of basic human decency to go along with it.
(P.S. If you, dear reader, are one of the folks ripping into people over typos, this isn't an excuse. Learn tact.)
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Slightly unrelated, I often get people not fully reading my posts and racing down to the comments to post something off topic, is there a solution or should I just write better content 🤷♂️. That and spelling mistake corrections, I'm dyslexic, I don't actually feel it is all that important for the style of content I write, stream of consciousness posts.
I'm dyslexic too, but I find that spelling and grammar matters! For one, by leaving those in, you're making it harder for other readers, especially other users who are dyslexic, ESL, or have reading difficulties. Quality matters.
Proofreading need not be at odds with 'stream of consciousness'. You simply need to form the habit of fixing errors as you go. The LanguageTool add on can help with that.
Damn, your right, but still a "nice article but you made a mistake, I wouldnt mind that" usually it's quite a blunt comment.
Some (many?) people could stand to be more tactful, but at the risk of sounding like I'm excusing them (I'm not), we are programmers. Code has to be exact in spelling, grammar, and syntax, or it won't work as desired. Thus, proficiency with coding usually comes with a knee-jerk reaction towards typos and errors, a la code review "this is wrong. fix it."
I've never found a twitchier mob of English pedants than programmers, even compared to professional authors. Late nights of debugging have entrained us to fear errors, and even more, to distrust coders who regularly produce errors: "If you can't resolve a basic their/there/they're collision, how can I expect you to comprehend link resolution order?"
It's sound logic to be sure, but it could use more than a tablespoon of basic human decency to go along with it.
(P.S. If you, dear reader, are one of the folks ripping into people over typos, this isn't an excuse. Learn tact.)