I tried running vale with the good-writing plugin on one of my blog posts. I won’t claim I produce great literary works, but a fair bit of warnings it output were false positives. Even conjugates such as “write-only” would trigger its weasel word trigger for “only”.

Ultimately, it is the technical limitations that make the tool unusable for me. On one hand, a Github-flavoured markdown parser is used. It filters out some obscure HTML tags such as `mathp`, and I couldn’t find a way to configure the tool so it would ignore the math segments. I even tried to forgo vale’s built-in markdown converter, and run the check on the output of the static site generator instead, but that plan was quickly foiled by the soft hyphens my generator inserts. Given such an input vale considers every syllable a separate word.