Platform Goblin
2026-10-27
A couple things are in play for ‘About Right’.
First, I’m going to submit a new build to the App Store that will be built with the latest iOS SDK for iOS 27.1. This is mainly to add support for the iPhone Duo. This build will also address an issue where the UI does not render correctly on iPhone’s with small screens while in landscape orientation.
Second, I think the app itself will go in a new direction in the coming months.
2026-03-07
In Xcode I recently encountered an issue where all of my simulators disappeared. In Xcode the canvas would only show a preview for the macOS build and I had no option to preview for any other Apple platform.
The “Devices and Simulator” window was completely empty. The target platforms and simulators are listed as installed in Settings->Components screen in Xcode’s settings.
On the command line, we can confirm this by running xcrun simctl list. Here we see that there are no devices available.
2026-03-02
Site update
2025-10-03
This release is available for all supported platforms.
2025-09-26
Sometimes the ground moves; sometimes the ground shakes and sometimes you have to ask Was that an Earthquake?
“Was that an Earthquake” was built to answer that very question. Available for a one time purchase with no ads or tracking.
2024-09-24
The inaugural Vision Hack was a 2 day global event held between September 13th and September 15th 2024.
Overall I think this is a fantastic start to what, I hope, will be a vibrant community of passionate developers for Apple Vision Pro and Spatial Computing.
2024-09-24
I released About Right to the App Store. About Right’s main purpose is to be an easy-to-use application for keeping track of a running tally. It’s not a calculator and doesn’t try to be. Best used in scenarios where you only need to keep an approximate count.
Great for grocery shopping to keep track of how much has been spent so far.
I’ve also used it when keeping up with how many people have been invited to an event so I don’t lose count.
There are 2 in-app purchases for folks who want additional stashes for storing tallies.
Supporter allows you to use 3 total stashes while premium gives you access to a total of 5 stashes.
2024-07-24
This year I participated in the Kenney Game Jam 2024. The theme for this year’s Game Jam was ‘connection’.
I used this as an opportunity to to accomplish two goals
Overally I’m happy with the progess that I made over the 2-day duration for the game jam. This is my first attempt to use Godot outside of following a few basic online tutorials.
2023-11-29
Every now and then you have to open up an SSL cert to inspect its content or verify information contained within. This is something that I had to do fairly often in a past life but is now firmly in the ‘reference a search engine’ territory.
This Red Hat article is not only a good overview of CA and Server certificates and their functions but also includes examples of inspecting x509 certificates.
I’ve been running a self-hosted instances of GitLab for a few months. In general I’m happy with GitLab but it’s fairly resource intenseive for my usage so I decided try Gitea as a lightweight alternative.
This covers setting up Docker Compose to run with rootless Podman on a local machine so HTTPs, security, and other settings are out of scope for this post.
