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

Sports

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

But there’s nuance

The number of «W»s should match the length of the TLD, such as www.isaac.run (www and run), ww.ig7.us (ww and us). Since the most common length of a TLD is three, I said WWW.

But, if the length of the TLD is greater than three and the 2nd level domain is of equal length, then no preceding W should be used, such as imweb.click. The «equal length» requirement is looser the longer it gets, so newphotos.photography wouldn't need to start with a W.

This stance is about balance, so if you put isaac.run on a point, it would fall to the left because isaac is longr than run. Same with ig7.us. But with www.isaac.run and ww.ig7.us, it would stay balanced. With imweb.click, it will balance on the dot because imweb and click are the same length.

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

Ravel’s «Boléro» should take 16 minutes

Etiquette

People should chew with their mouth closed and never speak while eating

People should not rest their elbows on the table during a meal

Cars should not have headlights bright enough to light up the moon

Style

Emails should never contain exclamation points

Isaac’s Stances