Isaac's Stances

This page documents my formal position on several contentious subjects. No matter how niche, if you need my stance on a subject not listed, please email me at ig+stances@isaac.run and I’ll thoroughly form a stance. If your friend group can’t agree on a side, asking some random guy on the Internet may be just what you need!

Some additional context: when I say “should” this is me giving my official position. Other ways are incorrect but possible, which is why it’s a “should” instead of a “must”. I seek to show the best method rather than the best product. So I have a stance on how to prepare scones (cream first then jam) but I will not tell you what brand of cream or jam to use. So don’t ask “Coke or Pepsi?” because I won’t answer.

Categories I will abstain from: medical treatment, legal advice, adult content, or topics that could lead to harm.

I do apologize for the unstructured layout. Please give me a suggestion on how I should do it, or do a ⌘-F and find it.

Food

Scones should be prepared with cream then jam

Cereal should come before milk

Pickleball

USA Pickleball is the true national sport body

Dictionaries

Merriam-Webster is the correct dictionary

Dictionaries should be descriptivist ^{[Descriptivism]}

Pronunciations should be shown in the International Phonetic Alphabet

Pronunciations

GIF: /dʒɪf/

Z: /zi/

Technology

Code indents should be two spaces

Website homepage URLs should begin with WWW

Links should always continue to work ^{[Cool URIs don’t change]}

PDFs should be used when sharing documents

Typography

The lowercase “a” should be double story

The Oxford comma should be used

Initialisms and acronyms should not be period-seprarated

Guillemets should be used for quotation marks

Standards

Dates should conform to RFC 3339

Strava workouts should conform to the Strava Repeat Naming Standard