Forwarding a Vagrant-based Jekyll dev server to its host
Forwarding port 80 or 22 from Vagrant virtual machines to their host system is fairly simple. Piping non-privileged ports outside the VM–from, say, a develo...
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Changing a hostname in Debian seems harder than necessary
Changing a host’s name in Debian1 is a two-step process, and there doesn’t appear to be a more direct method. This seems odd to me, somehow. Because I stum...
It’s not DNS; it was DNS
Logging in to a VPN shouldn’t cause DNS to stop working, right? Well, you’d like to think that, wouldn’t ya? And the problem wasn’t PEBKAC this time, eithe...
My (current) blog article writing process
As with my work, when I write articles on my blog, I have a focus on quality. Here I describe my current writing process, primarily to document things for m...
An unhinged carriage problem
As part of tutoring high school students in maths and physics, I sometimes run across problems that I find interesting. Here’s a deep dive into one involvin...
