Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸 on Twitter: "@atomiksdev We all have our favourites. I’ve been trying to avoid passive voice for a decade and my first drafts are still full of inactive subject-less sentences. “The words have been said”" / Twitter

New favourite VS Code extension: LTeX (marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName) Checks spelling and grammar in markdown files. But if you turn on the “enable picky rules” setting it also highlights passive voice and clunky sentences for you 💯 Essential for anyone writing essays in markdown

VS Code screenshot of text showing a hint that a sentence has three nouns in a row

VS Code screenshot of text showing a hint that a sentence is written in passive voice

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James

@atomiksdev

Mar 29

my staples are either writing two of the same word accidentally or omitting one due to messy refactoring. I really need this 🫠

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We all have our favourites. I’ve been trying to avoid passive voice for a decade and my first drafts are still full of inactive subject-less sentences. “The words have been said”

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