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October 25th, 2017

This is Carol’s website where she will comment on shenanigans, skullduggery, clownish acts, and other silly, nefarious doings of ne’er‑do‑wells across our current landscape of silliness and clowns on parade. No words minced here, only well‑prepared and well‑aimed.

Stay tuned, ye trusty fans of Carol. Much more shall arrive soon!

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copyright and license

Content by Carol J. Watson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The most prudent way to share this content is just provide a link.

about carol

Raised by a pack of she-wolves, Carol does not suffer fools lightly. Known also as Xena and The Dangerous Carol to her motley friends, Carol rumbles across the wastelands on her V16 fusion‑powered chopper, and is known to have a wicked smirk when encountering clowns stumbling through their own vapid bafflement, puzzlement, and confusion.

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Body typeface is Brawler, principal design by Cyreal Type Foundry. Heading typeface is Fjalla One, principal design by Sorkin Type.

Header graphic built with typeface Mom’s Typerwriter by Christoph Mueller.

tech stuff

Notably and specifically, this website is designed to render awesomely only on the very latest modern browsers. No real rails here, meaning no clever detecting and alerts of ancient browsers, hand-holding, and comforting. Either the site will look awesome or not. Older stuff may implode into a shower of disappearing pixels. But you’re not running out-of-date, not-secure, quirkish browsers, right? More on how your browser stacks up is here.

A hearty thanks shout out to all of the fine toolsmakers and brewers of powerful magic and goodness mentioned herein forthwith. Here be our accolades: Content written in Markdown, processed by MultiMarkdown then plowed, tilled, forged, assembled, bundled, and bolted together with Arden Henderson’s quantum-powered, time-and-space-bending ksh scripts baked endlessly in our vast coding ovens, afterwards served up piping hot by OpenBSD’s httpd rumbling under OpenBSD. CSS3 spindled, slice, diced, and mercilessly crushed with Sass. HTML5 scrubbed with Tidy. Inkscape used to preemptively bulldoze SVG files. Then, SVG and PNG files scrubbed, pulverized, and then melted into molecular wafer-thin shards with the million-ton steel presses scour and pngcrush, respectively. Certificates provided by Let’s Encrypt™. TLS/crypto stack is LibreSSL. Rock-solid hosting by ARP Networks.

This site is responsive design, 100% static, well-formed XML, studiously crafted in XHTML5 (XML-serialized HTML5 aka polyglot markup), and CSS3, delivered encrypted by HTTPS via IPv4 and IPv6, and fortified with DNSSEC goodness. Robots cheerfully delivered by code from RoboHash, created by Colin Davis. Web page hashes spun up with our own arbitrary pre-processed hashing machinery. Bushels of favicons for herds of devices generated by RealFaviconGenerator. Nary a snippet of JavaScript or any other such mad thing served as far as the eye can see. And no JavaScript hiding in the SVG files, either. We leave it as an exercise for the reader to compare and contrast “well-formed XML” with “valid XML.”

a bunch of validation

TLS validation courtesy of Qualys. XHTML5 and CSS3 validation by W3C. HTTP resources checked via REDbot created by Mark Nottingham. IPv6 validation courtesy of ipv6-test.com. DNSSEC validation courtesy of Verisign DNSSEC Debugger.

That’s the end of the tech stuff section for now. Sad? Looking for good treadmill reading material? Safe sleep aid? See more exciting tech remarks, notes, secret algorithms, and recipes for magical pumpkin pie code in the under-the-hood page.

attributions and other stuff our lawyer robots make us say

After our vast army of lawyer robots perused reams of trademark pages and correspondence, we’re pretty sure use of all the logos above is cool. It is explicitly noted that use of any logos here is not an endorsement or certification or any other such thing by the related organizations. All trademarks within are property of their respective holders. Here be the logos and brands acknowledgements, attributions, and references: Sass brand guidelines. W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Logos and Policies. OpenBSD Puffy and LibreSSL graphics license. Let’s Encrypt™ trademark policy. RedBot website bitmap logo reference teleported to SVG format by Arden Henderson and used with permission provided by @redbotorg. ARP Networks logo provided by Support. IPv6 badge provided by ipv6-test.com. Original artwork HTML5✔, CSS3✔, HTTPS✔ SVG graphics created by Arden Henderson, covered under this web page’s copyright and licensing.