https://vale.sh/blog Notes from building Vale. en-us https://vale.sh/blog/journals https://vale.sh/blog/journals Journals is a Vale package for scientific papers: the conventions every journal shares, the Nature and PLOS ONE author guidelines, and the CONSORT, STROBE, and PRISMA checklists, read section by section. Joseph Kato Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A manuscript in a terminal window, its headings lit as sections, with one alert on a unit and one on the Methods heading. https://vale.sh/blog/commits https://vale.sh/blog/commits Commits is a Vale package for the log: nine conventions, the rule sets of commitlint, gitlint, committed, conform, and commitizen, spelling on the body, and a hook that runs in 12 ms. Joseph Kato Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A commit message with its subject, body, and trailers each highlighted as a separate scope, one carrying an alert at its exact column. https://vale.sh/blog/std https://vale.sh/blog/std General-purpose rules you extend to build your own style, extracted from the styles teams already run. Joseph Kato Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Std directory tree, six rule families under one root, in a terminal window. https://vale.sh/blog/voices https://vale.sh/blog/voices The writing skill you would reach for, rewritten as Vale rules. Checked on every draft rather than remembered, and free until something breaks one. Joseph Kato Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A token meter showing two prompt-sized bars, one alert-sized bar, and a zero. https://vale.sh/blog/openapi https://vale.sh/blog/openapi A tutorial on linting OpenAPI Specification files: extract just the prose from a structured file, with errors reported at their exact location. Joseph Kato Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A YAML document with only its prose fields highlighted, one carrying an alert at its exact location.