My name is George Hernandez and I live in Chicago.

My content is categorized as follows:

• [[AboutMe|About Me]] 🦊. Stuff particularly "About Me".
• [[Cognition]] 🦉. The mind, STEM, prudence, etc.
• [[Courage]] 🦁. The body, martial arts, exercise, etc.
• [[Culture]] 🕊️. The spirit, worldviews, justice, etc.
• [[Log]] 🪵. Largely point-in-time content, that I shouldn't edit later. (If I do it will show in the Git commit log.)
• [[zEnd]] 📤. Stuff that doesn't fit neatly into my schema.

This repo has several functions:

• It's a public repository of notes by George Hernandez.
• It's an "About Me" for George Hernandez.
• It's a public web log (blog) by George Hernandez.

This repo is currently made with Obsidian and is best viewed with Obsidian, but it can also be less optimally viewed and navigated at GitHub without Obsidian. This repo was previously written mainly in Visual Studio Code.

Conventions I tend to follow on this site.

ISO 8601 for dates, etc. I may get lazy with UPPERCASING it.

• Dates. E.g. 2025-01-13.
• Times. E.g. 14:40.
• Interval periods. E.g. P15DT7H.
• Recurring intervals. E.g. R/2025-01-13/P2W.
• See also http://xkcd.com/1179/.

E notation for some numbers. See [[ScientificAndEngineeringNotation| Scientific and Engineering Notation]]. E.g. Instead of 3 million, I may say 3e6.

Metric (SI), but I will occasionally use pounds (lbs, #), miles, and F. I change 3 prefixes: yaml [da, h, k, M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y, R, Q] to: [ D, H, K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y, R, Q]. e: [ 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30]

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" MAY BE interpreted as described in RFC 2119. Aka Conformance Verbs for Requirement Levels.

Double dot notation for cardinality requirements. E.g. To specify that set has 1 to 3 items, I would denote it as 1..3.

Two spaces ( ) for indentation when writing about code, unless the system requires otherwise. 4 spaces looks better, hard tabs can be adjusted, but if you have to hand type code and hard tabs are not available, then 2 spaces is what works.

The Latin abbreviations I tend to use most often:

• ca.. circa. "around".
• e.g.. exempli gratia. "for example". Mnemonic: "example given".
• et al.. et alii. "and others". E.g. Kili, Fili, et al.
• etc. et cetera. "and the others"
• i.e.. id est. "that is".
• ibid. ibidem. "in the same place". The same citation as the previoius.

Tables are prefixed with "Table:" followed by a description. Similarly figures are prefixed with "Figure:" followed by a description. I may yet apply tags to figures and tables.

APA style for citations and references.

zEnd as a header for miscellaneous items. I pronounce as /zee end/ because it's a play on "the end". It's a convention from sorting a spreadsheet by type and I want to zEnd to be the last type. Nearing the end is often an achievement to be celebrated.

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