Fix some typos/grammar/errors in docs and comments

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index df68b54d..18ec7420 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ It is archived at: https://public-inbox.org/meta/
 and http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/meta/ (using Tor)
 
 Contributions are email-driven, just like contributing to git
-itself or the Linux kernel; however anonymous and pseudonymous
+itself or the Linux kernel; nevertheless, anonymous and pseudonymous
 contributions will always be welcome.
 
 Please consider our goals in mind:
@@ -15,17 +15,17 @@ Please consider our goals in mind:
         Decentralization, Accessibility, Compatibility, Performance
 
 These goals apply to everyone: users viewing over the web or NNTP,
-sysadmins running public-inbox, and other hackers working public-inbox.
+sysadmins running public-inbox, and other hackers working on public-inbox.
 
 We will reject any feature which advocates or contributes to any
-particular instance of a public-inbox becoming a single point of failure.
+particular instance of public-inbox becoming a single point of failure.
 Things we've considered but rejected include:
 
 * exposing article serial numbers outside of NNTP
 * allowing readers to inject metadata (e.g. votes)
 
 We care about being accessible to folks with vision problems and/or
-lack the computing resources to view so-called "modern" websites.
+lacking the computing resources to view so-called "modern" websites.
 This includes folks on slow connections and ancient browsers which
 may be too difficult to upgrade due to resource demands.
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Just-Ahead-of-Time-compiled C (via Inline::C)
 Do not recurse on user-supplied data.  Neither Perl or C handle
 deep recursion gracefully.  See lib/PublicInbox/SearchThread.pm
 and lib/PublicInbox/MsgIter.pm for examples of non-recursive
-alternatives to previously-recursive algorithms.
+alternatives to previously recursive algorithms.
 
 Performance should be reasonably good for server administrators, too,
 and we will sacrifice features to achieve predictable performance.
@@ -61,8 +61,6 @@ on specific topics, in particular data_structures.txt
 Optional packages for testing and development
 ---------------------------------------------
 
-Optional packages testing and development:
-
 - Plack::Test                      deb: libplack-test-perl
                                    pkg: p5-Plack
                                    rpm: perl-Plack-Test
@@ -107,6 +105,6 @@ Perl notes
 ----------
 
 * \w, \s, \d character classes all match Unicode characters;
-  so write out class ranges (e.g "[0-9]") if you only intend to
+  so write out class ranges (e.g., "[0-9]") if you only intend to
   match ASCII.  Do not use the "/a" (ASCII) modifier, that requires
   Perl 5.14 and we're only depending on 5.10.1 at the moment.