# Personal style guide **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [March 30, 2023, 12:44am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/personal-style-guide/146 "2023-03-30T00:44:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/user_avatar/forum.0xdbfb7.com/0xdbfb7/32/7_2.png) [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 12:44am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/personal-style-guide/146/1 "2023-03-30T00:44:58Z")
`Masked` rather than `blinded` for the reasons I give [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/194754/135379) ---
**Author:** ![0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/user_avatar/forum.0xdbfb7.com/0xdbfb7/32/7_2.png) [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 5:10am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/personal-style-guide/146/2 "2025-03-28T05:10:37Z")
[NIST.IR.8366 (1).pdf](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/uploads/short-url/6HiqnHhHPWPe6s1LgeKq2QSwCCB.pdf) (907.1 KB) > **[Terminology, Power, and Inclusive Language in Internet-Drafts and RFCs](https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-knodel-terminology-14.html)** > > There has been extensive discussion in and around the IETF community about the use of technical terminology, which could be interprereted as exclusionary. The document below is published as an artefact of the discussion because it sparked... ---
**Author:** ![0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/user_avatar/forum.0xdbfb7.com/0xdbfb7/32/7_2.png) [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 5:45am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/personal-style-guide/146/4 "2025-05-03T05:45:49Z")
> Each passenger shall be briefed on when, where, and under what conditions it is necessary to have his or her safety belt and, if installed, his or her shoulder harness fastened about him or her. [14 CFR 91.519](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.519) this is such a textbook example of why the singular they is a beautiful thing. ---
**Author:** ![0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/user_avatar/forum.0xdbfb7.com/0xdbfb7/32/7_2.png) [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:22am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/personal-style-guide/146/5 "2025-05-17T02:22:15Z")
[https://mwl.io/archives/23411](https://mwl.io/archives/23411) ---
**Author:** ![0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/user_avatar/forum.0xdbfb7.com/0xdbfb7/32/7_2.png) [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/personal-style-guide/146/6 "2026-04-18T22:52:25Z")
“approachable” is a less buzzwordy version of “accessible” in some cases. ---
**Author:** ![0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/user_avatar/forum.0xdbfb7.com/0xdbfb7/32/7_2.png) [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 12:02am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/personal-style-guide/146/7 "2026-06-21T00:02:53Z")
I should stop posting screenshots of text. it’s antithetical to the internet. ---
**Author:** ![0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/user_avatar/forum.0xdbfb7.com/0xdbfb7/32/7_2.png) [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 12:05am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/personal-style-guide/146/8 "2026-06-21T00:05:26Z")
rich condit afdvice: twiv 1275: in presentations 1:41 - don’t show any plots that you aren’t going to describe in detail for the audience [https://bookdown.org/taiawu/data\_viz\_course/](https://bookdown.org/taiawu/data_viz_course/) ---
**Author:** ![0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/user_avatar/forum.0xdbfb7.com/0xdbfb7/32/7_2.png) [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 3:37am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/personal-style-guide/146/9 "2026-09-14T03:37:29Z")
> I think we can do a better job acknowledging all of their efforts while also advocating for improving accessibility in science and open software/data. _(To be honest, I could rant about poor citation practices of data for hours.)_ Did you know that even NumPy has a publication reference ([Harris et al. 2020](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2649-2))? Okay, but is it really necessary to cite this in every one of our papers? [https://zacklabe.com/methods-and-open-software/](https://zacklabe.com/methods-and-open-software/)