Isaac Overacker's blog: software, games, and tabletop RPGs.https://overacker.mehttps://overacker.me/tower-wizardhttps://overacker.me/tower-wizardYou 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,…Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/dredgehttps://overacker.me/dredgeThe 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…Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/blood-ash-reflections-on-dark-soulshttps://overacker.me/blood-ash-reflections-on-dark-soulsIt 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…Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/mrk-borghttps://overacker.me/mrk-borgToday is an exciting day for me. One of my favorite TTRPGs, Mörk Borg, is now available on Alchemy! Even the free Bare Bones Edition.Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/star-wars-chronological-rewatchhttps://overacker.me/star-wars-chronological-rewatchI’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…Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/cy_borghttps://overacker.me/cy_borgI’ve been excited for this cyberpunk-flavored hack of the award-winning, rules-light TTRPG Mörk Borg.Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/wwdc-2016https://overacker.me/wwdc-2016I’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.Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/introducing-alcovehttps://overacker.me/introducing-alcoveI 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…Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/creating-an-xcode-plugin-a-quick-start-guidehttps://overacker.me/creating-an-xcode-plugin-a-quick-start-guideXcode 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…Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/image-caching-with-afnetworkinghttps://overacker.me/image-caching-with-afnetworkingAFNetworking 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…Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/integrating-test-dependencies-with-cocoapodshttps://overacker.me/integrating-test-dependencies-with-cocoapodsMost 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…Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/architecture-headaches-with-cocoapodshttps://overacker.me/architecture-headaches-with-cocoapodsI 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…Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/the-death-of-flightpath-and-the-future-of-ios-usage-statisticshttps://overacker.me/the-death-of-flightpath-and-the-future-of-ios-usage-statisticsAs 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…Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/renaming-an-app-on-the-app-storehttps://overacker.me/renaming-an-app-on-the-app-storeRenaming 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.…Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/embedding-video-with-the-mnml-themehttps://overacker.me/embedding-video-with-the-mnml-themeI 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…Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/managing-project-dependencies-in-xcode-an-introduction-to-cocoapodshttps://overacker.me/managing-project-dependencies-in-xcode-an-introduction-to-cocoapodsThe 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…Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/octopress-themes-opening-links-in-a-new-windowhttps://overacker.me/octopress-themes-opening-links-in-a-new-windowI 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…Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://overacker.me/managing-ruby-environments-on-os-x-getting-started-with-rbenvhttps://overacker.me/managing-ruby-environments-on-os-x-getting-started-with-rbenvIf 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…Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT