Introducing Materium
As with many Steam users, I own a lot of games. Add in PlayStation and Switch, and things get pretty complicated and scattered. Until now.
Isaac Overacker
Isaac Overacker's blog: software, games, and tabletop RPGs.
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Tower Wizard
You ponder the orb at the heart of your tower. It hums softly, a steady pulse of light and magic that seeps into your hands when you reach for it. The glow is warm at first,…
Dredge
The black waves lap quietly against the rain-slick sides of your vessel as your fingers work the line. Somewhere in the darkness below, an unseen battle plays out. The pole dips—a…
Blood & Ash: Reflections on Dark Souls
It feels almost foolish attempting to write about Dark Souls for the first time some fourteen years after its release. What is left to say? Actual tomes have been written, their…
Mörk Borg
Today is an exciting day for me. One of my favorite TTRPGs, Mörk Borg, is now available on Alchemy! Even the free Bare Bones Edition.
Star Wars Chronological Rewatch
I’m rewatching all of the Star Wars movies and most of the shows with my wife, cutting out some of the animated series to focus on the more interesting parts and/or where Ahsoka…
CY_BORG
I’ve been excited for this cyberpunk-flavored hack of the award-winning, rules-light TTRPG Mörk Borg.
WWDC 2016
I’m heading home from my first ever WWDC. What a blast! I’m excited to come to San Francisco again next year even if I don’t get lucky enough to attend WWDC proper.
Introducing Alcove
I have been spending quite a bit of time working with Xcode Server for continuous integration of a fairly large iOS project. As part of the build process, I wanted to generate a…
Creating an Xcode Plugin: A Quick-Start Guide
Xcode has a rich ecosystem of third-party plugins, exposed and cataloged by the wonderful Xcode plugin Alcatraz. Some of my favorites: Auto-Importer, BBUFullIssueNavigator, and…
Image Caching with AFNetworking
AFNetworking is one of the most popular open-source networking frameworks for iOS. You're probably already using it, but if you're not, you should consider it. One of the…
Integrating Test Dependencies with CocoaPods
Most Xcode projects should have some level of test coverage, and any time unit tests are involved it's nice to have a framework for generating mock objects. However, we don't want…
Architecture Headaches with CocoaPods
I recently inherited an iOS project from another developer. This project was not using CocoaPods for dependency management, so naturally, I converted it to using CocoaPods as soon…
The Death of FlightPath and the Future of iOS Usage Statistics
As a longtime user of TestFlight for both test build distribution and usage analytics, I was extremely disappointed to find that they have cancelled their FlightPath beta program…
Renaming an App on the App Store
Renaming an app on the iOS app store is a relatively simple thing to do. The biggest point of confusion is that you cannot rename your app unless it is in an editable state.…
Embedding Video with the mnml Theme
I released a small update to the mnml Octopress theme recently to resolve an issue experienced by one of the users of mnml. Cole Nordin opened an issue on GitHub which captures a…
Managing Project Dependencies in Xcode: An Introduction to CocoaPods
The open-source community for iOS is amazing. There are so many high-quality, incredibly useful open-source projects out there now that it would be crazy to work on an iOS project…
Octopress Themes: Opening Links in a New Window
I just rolled out a change to the mnml theme to cause links to be opened in a new window. If you're looking to do the same thing for your Octopress theme, it requires a simple…
Managing Ruby Environments on OS X: Getting Started with rbenv
If you've done any development on OS X, chances are you've run into various apps and tools that require different versions of Ruby. Manually installing and maintaining multiple…