Genuinely, I am trying to improve things. Making documentation more readable has a real cascading positive effect. Of course, most of these PRs are tiny — just a word or two — but that means it takes me almost no time to submit them, so the ROI is still positive.
One of the most enraging things to me is when a text search of documentation fails because the word I'm searching for has been misspelled in a key place. That's one of the things I'm trying to solve for.
I'm also just a stickler for good style. It bums me out when people misuse heading levels. Heading level is not a font size markup!
Of course doing this does generate activity on my GH, but I think all of us have probably moved on from caring much about the optics of little green squares.
Also like someone else said, it's just fun. I like typing and making Git do a thing and using my nice keyboard.
> I'm also just a stickler for good style. It bums me out when people misuse heading levels. Heading level is not a font size markup!
I want to start a company with you and mandate all documents use appropriate styles.
One of the things I've done that has helped with my writing consistency is to use whatever version of "project" or "library" your LLM of choice has and pre-load it with a technical writing guide (I used the Red Hat Technical Style Guide[1]) and push my docs through that to identify improvements. It has been a great way to keep my own writing consistent and remove randomness from just having my own writing improvement prompt.
1 https://stylepedia.net/style/