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It always amazes me that people spend this much time and effort on writing articles like this and don't run their text through a spell checker even once.

It also amazes me that people still use text editors that by default doesn't spellcheck. Anyone know what editors that could be? Seems pretty crazy in 2023!

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If this is an engineer, they probably use whatever tool they're most familiar with, and that tool is probably set up for mostly engineering (code) work, in which case in my experience spell checking is a major distraction with an outsized ratio of false positives, because my identifiers aren't chosen for their validity in a wordlist. Even in markdown, it's more annoying than helpful most of the time, so I tend to leave it as a manual step that I mostly ignore. People know what I mean 99.99% of the time. So, that'd be my guess. Any sort of editor that's been tuned to an engineer's preferences which includes only manual spell checking.

Yeah, but this sort of article is what you get at the end of the day. Plus there are several ways of getting rid of false positives and as GP said: at least do it before posting.

PyCharm has a spell checker. It's pretty great. Not using it seems madness.

Spellchecker in Jetbrains IDEs is terrible. It throws a lot of false positives.

It's pretty good imo. It's super easy to add words too, easier in fact than the spell checker in iOS or macOS. The one in iOS is the worst imo, as it adds stuff automatically based on common mistakes you make because "machine learning" and you can't even see the list of the "learned" words to remove things it learned that aren't actually words!

You're right, I apologize. Truth is I wrote everything in vscode markdown and really wanted to finish the article before going out for dinner and I ended up skipping it. We fixed everything

The Code Spell Checker extension is great. It has proper handling for camelcase and it's fast to add words to the dictionary (cmd + .). Catches many typos when coding.

Probably not best for the last line of defence for public articles, but probably good enough.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streetsi...

I turn off spell check in any text editor I touch because I can't handle the visual noise. Agreed on running spell check. The few grammar issues in the article made my brain glitch for sure.

What noise? The noise of you making tons of spelling errors?

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