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Stories in data.

Visual essays on language, public data, and the things worth counting — plus the tools to go digging yourself.

By Joseph Kato — creator of Vale, a prose linter downloaded nearly ten million times and used by Microsoft, GitHub, and GitLab.

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AI Tells: the burden of LLMs

Codeberg's members just voted to ban vibe-coded projects, which is one way of saying the question has stopped being rhetorical. I build a prose linter, so I pointed it at a decade of GitHub instead — and the load turns out to be real, to land on pull requests rather than issues, and to look nothing like the tells everyone repeats.