Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
It’s keep this one short and sweet… but it’s definitely not sweet. February’s been a wild month. I thought I was going to get a good run for the start of this year. Stars were aligning, things going the way they should… Until the last couple of weeks came along and flipped all that upside…
A little context before we begin the story… MegaBuy is a technology online retailer that also has some storefronts here in Queensland. They have quite a lot of refurbished and brand-new devices, parts and consumables. I have been using them for some time and this latest experience comes from sourcing an 10th Generation Intel “Frost…
Just an update to say yes, I’m still here and that I’m currently working on a tool that helps defend your Windows 10-based device against the horrid mess that is Windows 11. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that eventually Windows 10 will be obsoleted as with any other operating system over time but from…
Before we start: I do not condone any harassment to any entities listed in this post. Please do not harrass anyone. A friend alerted me to the fact that fxtwitter, a service that helps people post Twitter links on Discord, has just gone belly up. It was revealed that the entity behind it was doing…
I thought 2022 would be a slower paced year but it seems that time just seems to go down the drain way too fast. Anyway, I’m still here. Busy with work, trying to get game development projects underway and currently fighting an eye infection which isn’t a lot of fun. At all. More updates later….
It’s been a while since I last updated the journal, but things have been like the usual – a rollercoaster with some pretty steep climbs and descents. I was pretty glad to see 2021 roll over to 2022. 2021 felt like a paid DLC for 2020 in all honesty… while there was some good things…
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…