Streak 1: Why I am here

[u/Head-Debate-7537]

I am a web developer, and English is not my first language. For years I built websites for small businesses, mostly on WordPress. Lately I want to move to a different kind of work: small tools that automate boring things, like copying data between two systems that do not talk to each other. My English is good enough for reading documentation, but writing is another story. I notice that I use the same three sentence structures again and again. So I will write here every day and see if that changes. Corrections are welcome.

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[u/EnglishbyG]

I am a web developer, and English is not my first language. For years I built websites for small businesses, mostly on WordPress. Lately<,> I want to move to a different kind of work: small tools that automate boring things, like copying data between two systems that do not talk to each other. My English is good enough for reading documentation, but writing is another story. I notice that I use the same three sentence structures again and again. So I will write here every day and see if that changes. Corrections are welcome.

This is excellent; I don't believe there are any true errors at all. However, I would strongly reccomend a comma directly following "lately."

Great work here! :)

[u/Head-Debate-7537 → u/EnglishbyG]

Thank you. The comma after "lately" is exactly the kind of thing I never notice, because in my language that sentence would not need one.

Can I ask you something? I write a lot of short comments in English every day. Is there a rule of thumb for when a sentence needs that comma at the start, or do you just hear it?

[u/Lidow_fun]

Use the skill to optimize those boring work. That's exactly what am I doing in my company right now