Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
Greetings. Well, since the last update a lot has happened. On my side of the world here, we’ve had hotspots of COVID flare up in various states. Victoria was dumb enough to hoo-hah and party hard during the initial lockdown period and they ended up getting isolated from other states. Play stupid games, win stupid…
It is time for another Mirror Networking rant or whatever you want to call it. And it’s kind of funny, because I’m actually one of the few people in the development team that points out shit that the other developers either don’t care about or “if it was me, I wouldn’t be doing it this…
Well, seems that my nostrils want to fuck around with me just before my birthday. And to be honest, I don’t need more shit right before my birthday… Although, if anything, I’d probably blame it on the weather since we’re currently in Winter and August, which is my birth month. I’ve already had one nostrils’…
Well, what a rough fucking few months it has been. I guess we can all thank the human malware that is COVID-19 for that. From government restrictions going in full force to them being lifted and finding myself trying to keep afloat in a sea of client callouts and other jobs, it’s been crazy. I…
Alright, so I recently had to attempt a fix with a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 cooking itself in it’s own juices. This was for a client repair job and will only fix the issue via software. The overheating problem is a hardware issue and cannot be fixed entirely by software, but with this guide, you…
Alright, it’s time for a blog update and this one might be a bit of a doozy but here goes nothing. Originally, I wanted to do a post of a rant about some “micro optimizations” being rejected from Mirror, but that’ll be another day. For those who aren’t familiar with Mirror Networking, it’s a network…
As a developer of the Mirror Networking stack, sometimes I look in the help channels and see people wanting to use Android or iOS for game servers, where people would connect to each other’s phones and have a game session. Before I dive into the nitty gritty, I’m going to say it now: Using Mobile…
This apparently is a mono bug, and seems to happen if you try to invoke a Linux headless build on a Google Cloud VPS instance. From what I understand it’s something to do with the terminal emulator that the Google Cloud Console uses. If you used SSH to log into the server and started that…
Time for a change of pace and this time it’s a Mirror Networking post. The Problem Sometimes when you have purchased the Mirror List Server, which is written in Erlang and is a very robust old-school list server (think Quake/Call of Duty/Battlefield 1942) interface following the KISS principle, you’ll face an error regarding Erlang on…
Blue Vows is one game that I’ve had my eye on for some time, mainly because it’s literally a carbon chinese copy of KanColle Arcade, which is a 3D arcade adaptation of the Kantai Collection browser game hosted on the DMM Games platform. This game is in Chinese and has no English UI, so unless…