(In-)Frequently Asked Questions

What's the story behind the name Cobalt Duck?

Cobalt is an interesting element and a pleasant color. Duck is an old college nickname of mine. Plus, my actual name was already taken as a domain, by an 'underground R&B' band. Check out wadelove.com, they're not bad.

Who are you?

I am just another software developer who wanted a place on the web to experiment, show off, and make use of.

Favorite Links

More than just a few of my bookmarks that I have externalized, these sites are suggested viewing, assuming you share an interest.

• A geeky laugh every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at xkcd.
• Another good daily read- sometimes a laugh, sometimes a how-not-to-guide to programming, at The Daily WTF.
• Suspicious of that forwarded email? Try truthorfiction.com.
• Get outdoors, see new places, find hidden treasure: geocaching.com.
• Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

Colophon

Over time, cobaltduck.info and all its subordinate sites have been composed using a variety of text editors, as the availability and features change. Beginning with (and occassionally still) Notepad++, moving to Atom, and currently VS Code.

As of February 2017, all pages use HTML5 and CSS3, and where possible, images are SVG. Any scripting features, inclding some jQuery and some plain JavaScript, are also generally composed on VS Code. Other tools utilized ad-hoc have included Eclipse, Flash Develop, and in-browser developer tools.

The WAVE plug-in is used to improve accessibility of the sites. Howver, I do not claim any level of WCAG compliance except on the Sailboat Whachamacallit Flowchart, which seeks to comply with WCAG 2.1.

In the past, I have previewed all pages in as many browsers as I could. Age and experience have reduced this to just the lastest versions of Firefox and Chrome. If you are viewing these pages on IE, Edge, Opera, Safari, or something else and some feature looks weird to you, well, you are getting what you deserve.

The Cobalt Duck formerly used Tomcat Hosting from JavaPipe. As of 2019, it was switched to LAMP hosting from the same company, which is now called Mochahost.

I maintain a GIT repository for this site on BitBucket, however the repo for cobaltduck.info is private. Other projects are publicly viewable at my BitBucket Profile.