Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
There’s been a huge modding boom lately where the newest GPT 6 family and Claude models from OpenAI and Anthropic respectively have been utilised in porting games inside other games. For example, there’s now literally three games in the original Modern Warfare 2: a ported version of the Skate game, Minecraft and Modern Warfare 2…
At long last I have a few moments to update the journal and it’s a vent piece, because I’m getting to the point in my life that I’m calling out bullshit that I see daily. First, let’s talk about AusAlert.
Totally not a click-bait title, I promise. We’ll be looking at the truth behind the Windows 10 End of Support message that Microsoft’s been popping up on computers in a desperate bid to get you to upgrade to Windows 11. I’ve been looking at numerous articles on the internet and also watching some YouTubers talk…
Imagine going to https://pjo2.github.io/tftpd64/ looking for the latest version of TFTPD64 for use to repair some Telstra Smart Modems. You click on the Download page link and Oops! All 404s! Well, fuck that. I’ve freshly compiled the application in both x86 and x64 flavours, which you can download right now from here. The builds should be…
Google. It’s a staple in the online industry and no matter how you try to escape them, they’re ever present in the digital landscape. Some websites (looking at you Reddit, Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, numerous forums, et al) now employ the Google “Sign in with Google” pop-up which is super annoying. For example, if you…
When you’re working in IT and doing computer repairs, sometimes when you are sourcing parts – in this case a 512 GB SATA SSD – you come across lesser-known branded drives that are cheaper than the named brands like Samsung, Kingston, Crucial, et al. Amazon was offering a Prime discount on the ORICO Y20 SATA…
Ugh, here we go again – more browser privacy drama. This time it’s the fox on fire, Firefox, in the spotlight over Mozilla recently changing their Privacy Policy. You can read about this on the Ars Technica article that I’ve linked here. Mozilla used to be a company that looked after your privacy and valued…
In case you weren’t following the Oiran Studio twitter account or Patreon, I thought I’d share the current progress of Homura, the main character you’ll play as in Codename Misfits, a first person shooter being developed by yours truly. She’s a experimental assault-class combat android who is reliable and gets the job done. The above…
I hope you all had a safe and happy new year. Let’s hope this year is better than the previous one. I aim to do some game development posts as well as review some tech that has arrived over Christmas and the new year, so I look forward to being able to write that up….
Invoice Ninja is a great self-hosted invoicing software written in PHP utilizing the Laravel Web Application Framework and uses SnapPDF for its invoice generation. I use a moderately modified version of the software to tackle my invoicing needs. Overall, it works well mostly. I recently had to reinstall one of my production servers due to…