I created a small cross-platform 3D obstacle dodging game under 500 KB.<\/p>"},{"title":"Create Modern Mac Disk Images","link":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/modern-dmgs\/","pubDate":"Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:07:48 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/modern-dmgs\/","description":"
Mac applications outside the App Store are often delivered using disk images (dmg files), but many apps are not delivered using a modern or efficient disk image format. Below I provide my recommendations for creating more optimal disk image files.<\/p>"},{"title":"Code Injection","link":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/code-injection\/","pubDate":"Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:39:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/code-injection\/","description":"
I recently released an update to Bit Slicer<\/a> that adds Code Injection support for arm64 or native Apple Silicon processes. Code injection allows injecting new code and logic into a running program. I will discuss how this functionality works in a debugger like Bit Slicer and what changes were made to enable this functionality for Apple Silicon.<\/p>"},{"title":"10 Years of Bit Slicer \ud83c\udf89","link":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/decade-of-bit-slicer\/","pubDate":"Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:21:25 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/decade-of-bit-slicer\/","description":" Back to my late teenage years I began developing an app to modify, enhance, and cheat Mac games. After struggling to come up with a good name, my friend Dylan named it Bit Slicer (nobody liked my “XZCheat” prototype name \ud83d\ude05). Fast forward 10 years to now, Bit Slicer<\/a> has become one of my most beloved applications that I have poured a lot of my soul into. To celebrate its decade long anniversary, let me start with how it began.<\/p>"},{"title":"Distributing Binaries on Linux","link":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/distributing-linux-binaries\/","pubDate":"Sat, 16 May 2020 18:34:46 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/distributing-linux-binaries\/","description":" When I ported Sky Checkers to Linux a decade ago, distributing binaries to users on the platform was a painful experience. Now, the situation has improved a little. Last week I released Sky Checkers binaries for Linux on the Snap Store<\/a> and Flathub<\/a>. I will discuss what distribution approaches I looked at and why I ultimately decided to distribute my software through these channels.<\/p>"},{"title":"Sky Checkers for iOS","link":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/skycheckers-ios\/","pubDate":"Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:50:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/skycheckers-ios.html","description":" Last year I rambled about making a major update to the rendering and netcode<\/a> in Sky Checkers. This week I uploaded an even newer update that supports playing on Apple’s mobile platforms! Big architectural changes were made along this journey to iOS, but I will focus on just one interesting challenge I encountered for creating this port.<\/p>"},{"title":"Sky Checkers","link":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/skycheckers-update\/","pubDate":"Sun, 28 Apr 2019 01:42:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/skycheckers-update.html","description":" Over 10 years ago I dreamt of creating a fun 3-D multiplayer action packed game and started developing Sky Checkers. Last week, I released an update including major refinements developed in the past few months. Let me introduce the game and mention some of the highlights!<\/p>"},{"title":"My Website Design","link":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/my-website-design\/","pubDate":"Sat, 30 Mar 2019 21:29:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/my-website-design.html","description":" Fifteen years ago I hosted a HTTP server to send files to my friends and created my personal website using a HTML template I scavenged from the web. For a decent 10 years, I used a theme<\/a> which had served me quite well during the Web 2.0 era up until entering the mobile landscape. A few years ago, I designed my own website style that you see today.<\/p>"},{"title":"Komet","link":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/komet\/","pubDate":"Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:36:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/zgcoder.net\/ramblings\/komet.html","description":"