Copy Rewriter, Shell Scripter, How-To Debugger

For articles and other texts, I specialize in transferring your voice and ideas to a more finished form. If English is not your first language, you will like my strong understanding of how you want to say something, even if you give me a not-so-good automatic translation to start from.

For transient copy such as timely articles for a website or feed, I can provide quick, ready-to-publish rewrites for content, appeal, form, and correctness. Anything that will have a longer life than that should get no fewer than two drafts before the final copy: One draft for your consideration, the next that incorporates your suggestions, and after you're satisfied a final pass to filter out remaining errors in form or content.

Your project, idea, or creation will not become dependent upon me. I leave you with something you can carry forward on your own, or with assistance from elsewhere. If that requires dropping breadcrumbs in files to the side for your later use, I drop them.

For scripting and similar work, just find roarde on Bitbucket to evaluate me. I also have an accepted pull request or two on GitHub. I'll keep trying to avoid Python, but obviously I make exceptions there. My experience is in "sh" scripting, which I keep compliant with POSIX and no options/extensions where that's practical. If you let me know it will only be used on Linux, optimization with Bash and additional available utilities will be done where those apply. Currently learning Tcl, possibly adding PowerShell.