Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
I am slowly migrating my game development stack to a fresh installation of Arch Linux, however I ran into a interesting issue where Unity Hub would forget projects that I had added manually into the project list. The log files also indicated something in the filesystem was fucked up, so I set out to investigate….
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…
Time for a development update on my First-Person Shooter game project, which has been a on and off development hobby project for years. This time, I’ve been working with the Mirage Networking stack, and the Client State Prediction module that is a work in progress. As one can see from the video above, there are…
Interesting glitch found in the Sega Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Actual game crash starts at 1:05 into the video.
Going back a week or two, I finished Call of Duty Vanguard on my PlayStation 4. It was a fairly alright game although while the developers claimed that “it was a return to the Call of Duty roots”, I pressed X to doubt on that. I don’t have the time as I’m just finishing my…
Just a more personal side note but ever since I commented about the Unity Technologies IronSource acquisition I’ve been under an influx of Russian comment spambots. Now, I’m not suggesting anything, but what a coincidence…
Unity acquired IronSource. Great. Yeah, I’m not sure about this one to be honest. A few of my contacts commented about this merger and I felt like I should share my two cents. Mobilegamer.biz has a great summary article on the Unity and IronSource subject located here. The Unity forum has a excellent post that…
If you’ve seen my twitter from time to time or been lurking in my Discord or Twitch streams you’ll know that I am a big enthusiast of using Linux KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) magic to run a Windows virtual machine on top of my distro of choice, Arch Linux. In doing so, this allows me…
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…