Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
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…
If you haven’t already checked my YouTube channel, I uploaded a full playthrough of an unreleased Call of Duty game (“Call of Duty: Future Warfare”). It’s also known by its codename, NX1. This prototype was developed by Neversoft, a now-division of Activision. It is mostly playable. Some missions are incomplete and work mostly, but then…
It’s been a while but just wanting to put a entry here that I’m still around. Physically, I’m okay. Exhausted mentally due to a lot of family stuff happening within the last few months. Don’t worry though, I’m getting through it the best I can. Remember to look after yourself as mental health is important….
What a mouthful. This phone cost me $166 with free postage on eBay Australia, and let’s just say… it tries to take a shot at the Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max and fails spectacularly. How does it fail that badly, you ask? Strap yourself in… it’s gonna be a doozy.
I use the wonderful PM2 process manager to handle processes on my Linux servers. Sometimes though, I’ll get a weird error about “N/A” not being a valid version string when running NET Core applications.
This is going to sound random coming from a IT guy that usually blabbles on about computing, software and other tech. After lots of consideration, I’ve decided to share my story about Suncorp’s PayLater Credit Card.