jdkato.io · vale.sh · joseph@jdkato.io · Sponsor
I'm Joseph. I make things and write about them.
Since 2017 that has meant Vale, a linter that treats prose like code, used by docs teams at AWS, Microsoft, GitLab, and Red Hat. Lately it means teaching Vale to work alongside coding assistants: agent-tools ships it as Claude Code skills, an edit-time hook, and an MCP server. Before that I wrote prose, a Natural Language Processing library for Go.
Refreshed nightly by scripts/stats.py. Vale lints this README on every push.
- Write Better with Vale, a Pragmatic Bookshelf title on automating style guides.
- Google Open Source Peer Bonus recipient, 2023.
- Appwrite OSS Fund grantee, one of twenty projects selected.
- Want to talk prose linting, docs tooling, or a data story? Email me.









