WTF

Q: Sometimes you use footnotes, other times you link directly in the text of the article. What gives?

A: There is a logic in it. If the link is to a resource that directly relates to the topic, e.g. in an article on generative AI a link to Claude's AI model, I will link it inline as it is directly related to the topic at hand, and is something I expect the reader may want to immediately access.

I use footnotes when

• it is explaining some piece of jargon that some but perhaps not all readers may be familiar with, e.g. RAID, NAS, etc.
• it is not directly related to the topic, but is a citation that backs up or justifies a point I am making, e.g. a link to an article or journal on a piece of research that validates my point.

I do! But my preference for a fixed-width font in the presentation of this site renders them no wider than hyphens.

I haven't. While modern Irish treats the séimhiú by adding an 'h' after, as in Tadhg, to silence the 'd', traditional Irish places a dot over it, as in Taḋg. In my creative outlets, I lean towards the traditional spelling.

I don't. I follow Oxford spelling (OED) which favours -ize endings. It was the standard used in most British newspapers until the 2000s when, perhaps in reaction to the rise of the internet, they all reverted to Cambridge spelling, which is now more common in non-technical prose in the UK.

Oxford Spelling is used in technical writing and scientific papers, which is apapropriate for this blog. And besides, I feel no such obligation to follow the conventions of our neighbour, since I speak Hiberno-English.