Proofreading tip from my former life as a senior engineer then department head. Read your documents in a different form than you prepared them. If you print, print a copy and read before distribution, read it at the printer! If you are paperless, read the document after generating the pdf (or whatever). If all fails, put it away and re-read after lunch/the next day.
The different form helps you see stuff you missed in libre office/word/spreadsheet.
@rcriii@zappy
“Wherever possible, don’t be the only proofreader of your own material. Self-proofing is a hard-earned skill. You will read what you expect you had intended to write. Different media as per the above will help you avoid this prejudice, but it is deeply ingrained. Do not underestimate the power of self-delusion.”
—The Voice of Experience
@zappy@rcriii it has taken me literally decades to feel comfortable self-proofing. I still usually step away for a while between writing and proofing. I rarely evade revisions, even if I felt satisfied when first writing material. While I infrequently find errors in material I have “finalised”, it does happen, and I know I will never completely avoid them.
Disclaimer: This toot does not apply to toots, where I too frequently find errors when frequenting past toots, to my frequent regret.
The best thing about AR headsets is that eventually will be able to pretend that there’s lush forests outside when the planet has gotten ten degrees warmer and looks like Mars
I am totally not sure what I am doing here, but the writing blockage has finally un-clogged itself in the past 48 hours and I'm past 30,000 words. So, only 90,000 more words to write by the end of June!
Also, Bob Howard's life—and, shortly thereafter, the whole of British politics—is about to be catastrophically disrupted by a sick dog.
"Over the last few weeks Jason has been researching and experimenting with a series of AI tools that promise to “spin” articles for their users. One, called SpinRewriter, lets users create 1,000 slightly different versions of the same article with a single click and to automatically publish them to as many WordPress sites as you want using a paid plugin."
@chrisod@thatKomputerKat not all the ones I tried had /wp-admin available, but over half did. Some of the others may have non-default ports or paths to that login page. Not entirely conclusive, but suggestive.