Paul Yorke

OriginForge Connect

Explore, quest, build your home. Right in your browser, free.

ContentForge Studio

A full video and content editor that runs entirely in your browser, with timeline, captions and background removal built in.

OriginForge Studio

Custom software development studio specialising in web, mobile, desktop apps and AI integrations. Client-led idea input helps shape project scope before enquiry.

Early sign-ups for OriginForge Connect are open

OriginForge Connect opens on Saturday 31 October. It's a free pixel-art town you play in the browser with other people around you: explore, fish, forage, farm, mine and smith, dig for treasure, take quests from the villagers and work towards your own house. Until Saturday, originforgeconnect.com is a landing page where you can sign up early, and early sign-ups get an in-game gift when they first log in on the 31st. The game moves there on launch day. Lantern Night, a Halloween event, runs from 31 October to 10 November. Sign up at https://originforgeconnect.com

Building a pixel town: what's in it for 31 October

OriginForge Connect opens on 31 October. Here's what's in it so far: a village to start in, a wider map, villagers with quests, fishing, foraging, mining and treasure digging, and homes you buy with coins earned in game. Guests can play without an account. If you want to follow it, the subreddit is r/OriginForgeConnect.

Day two of Origin CodeShield: from idea to private beta

Build log, day two. Origin CodeShield is a small tool I built to answer one question: has someone copied my front-end code? It came out of a real case where I spotted a site that looked a lot like something I'd built. What it does today: - You fingerprint your own JavaScript and TypeScript. - A Chrome extension scans a website and compares its scripts against your fingerprints, including minified production builds. - It can also search GitHub for possible matches. - Your source code stays on your computer. The comparison runs locally. How it got built: I wrote it with Claude, and the first working version took about an hour. Day two it went into private beta. It runs on Firebase's free plan, so it has cost me £0 so far. What went wrong: a one-letter bug in the betaTesters check. Small typo, real time lost. Its limits, so nobody is surprised: - It can miss obfuscated code and anything that runs server-side. - A match is a lead to look into, not proof of copying. - Chrome only for now. Next: getting it in front of a small group of beta testers and seeing what they actually find. The full write-up is here: https://x.com/oimatrixioYT/status/2113041638708625674 If you want to try it, the private beta is open: https://origincodeshield.originforgestudio.co.uk/

I just published my first case study on how I built…

Building a browser-based video editor came with some challenges I did not fully appreciate until I got into the weeds. I've written about four of the hardest problems I ran into, and how I worked through them. Getting something working is one thing. Figuring out why it breaks, and making it work properly, is where a lot of the real development happens. Link in the comments 👇

ContentForge is live 🎬 It's a browser studio I built for…