Joseph Kato
Specializing in the intersection of discrete mathematics and natural language, I build high-performance tools that treat prose as a deterministic data structure. My work provides the linguistic backbone for global systems, totaling over 10 million distributions.
B.S. Mathematics · Expertise
Vale CLI
A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind.
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Homebrew, Chocolatey, Linux Package Managers
Institutional Adoption
Official Style Implementations
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Awarded by Google to individuals for their exceptional contributions to the open-source community.
Write Better with Vale
A technical guidebook detailing the configuration and deployment of Vale within automated documentation workflows.
Community Coverage
Recent Posts- 2025 Automating technical documentation style at ING with ValeGina Hofstede
- 2025 How we use Vale to enforce better writing in docs and beyondKarl Cardenas
- 2024 How to create a Vale linter custom rule: Manually vs. AI-prompting approachDiana Cheung
- 2024 How We Use Vale to Improve Our Documentation Editing ProcessDatadog
- 2023 Linting Documentation with Vale to Increase Quality & ConsistencyJeroen Leenarts
prose
A Go library for text processing.
A library providing tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, and named-entity extraction for the Go programming language.
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