Category: How-Tos

  • Chrome DNS Caching

    The Problem Google Chrome has an interesting feature: it maintains its own DNS cache “to improve page load performance”. Whether or not this is a good feature is a debate I’m not terribly interested in, but I have found that it can cause problems if a web site’s DNS changes for whatever reason, so I’ve…

  • Local Version Control With Git

    Introduction I’ve recently become obsessed with git for version control. I know that there are many git tutorials out there; this is probably redundant, but it focuses on only the simplest operations for my own reference. The git man pages themselves are extremely well written. This post is an adaptation of an article I wrote for our…

  • Vortex Cannon

    Introduction I generally do Big Brother on Saturday afternoons from about 2 to 6 at Patrick’s house near Central Square. Sometimes we go out for a museum (a trip to the Museum of Science is likely next week), or a movie, but this week I didn’t have any ideas. Patrick had previously showed me some…