alex

I'm conflating multiple things over 5 years, my memory seems imperfect. Apologies. What I've mixed together: 1) The "Alex" bot, which was opt-in and seemed to be everywhere. [0] 2) The "inclusive-coding-bot" which was not opt-in and just inserted itself into everything (which came out later). [1] 3) Github disabling a popular repository for using the word "Retard". [2] Neither of the first two were actually endorsed by github, I just conflated them because of the "WebM for Retards" controversy and because they'd been very public about other inclusive things like not interviewing white people [3] or calling white women "some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women". [4] [0]: https://github.com/get-alex/alex [1]: https://github.com/inclusive-coding-bot [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 [3]: https://i.insider.com/

When using it as a lib you can pass a markdown string (https://github.com/get-alex/alex#markdownvalue-config) or raw text string (https://github.com/get-alex/alex#textvalue-config). This will return an object that should contain everything you need to perform a naive replacement.

https://alexjs.com/ You can either integrate it with external tooling (common use is in a build pipeline for docs), or use the JS API directly: https://github.com/get-alex/alex#api.

Besides what others have added, I also love: proselint: http://proselint.com/ alex: https://github.com/get-alex/alex Both are CLI linters for prose.