Become a sponsor toTanner Bennett
Welcome newcomer! My name is Tanner, and I'mBaylor grad, currently working atL3Harris. My passions are iOS development and jailbreak tweak development. I moderate/r/iOSProgramming on Reddit.
I'm more or less the sole maintainer ofFLEX, an on-device iOS debugging tool used by thousands of iOS developers and jailbreak tweak developers alike. Lately, most of my free time is spent improving FLEX for all of us. If you sponsor me, I can consciously devote more of my time to working on it.
Other interesting projects of mine include:
- Charm, an upcomingSwift Forums client for iOS.
- DiscourseKit, a Swift Discourse API client. Used by Charm to interact with the Swift Forums.
- Swizzle, a graphical iOS utility for "swizzling" or "hooking" nearly any Objective-C method at runtime. I initially developed this to sell it onCydia, the "app store" for jailbroken devices, but I became occupied with other things and it was never finished. It works for simple methods, currently, but it's not as powerful as I'd like it to be.
- If you ever usedYik Yak, my personalYik Yak client might have interested you.
What Sponsorship Does
Aside from what the tiers get you, sponsoring me enables me to justify spending time on various open-source projects outside of the scope of my day job. Sometimes it's hard to make myself want to work on things like FLEX or Charm on a regular basis, even though I want to. Sponsorship motivates me to try harder.
5 people willing to sponsor my work on FLEX (or whatever else) would make me jump with joy!
Featured work
- NSExceptional/FLEXing
A simple tweak to activate a FLEX explorer window
Logos 217 - NSExceptional/Runtime
An Objective-C simulator written in Swift.
Swift 137 - NSExceptional/ASM-Swift
A playground for learning Assembly language through Swift.
Swift 106 - NSExceptional/SnapchatKit
An Objective-C implementation of the unofficial Snapchat API.
Objective-C 107 - NSExceptional/Swizzle
A tweak to create basic tweaks from any app.
Objective-C 43
40% towards 5 monthly sponsors goal
revolter and 1 other sponsor this goal
$5 a month
SelectSupporter! — This will buy me an ice cream cone and encourage me to spend more time on open-source. You have my thanks!
$6 a month
SelectEnergy shot! — Includes the benefits of all lower tiers, and you can direct my focus to a specific project. Drop me a line or open an issue!
$10 a month
SelectFeature request! — Want a specific feature in FLEX, or one of my other projects? Let me know, and I'll try to make it a priority, assuming I can do it in reasonable time. Also includes the benefits of all lower tiers.
$15 a month
SelectInsider! — Includes the benefits of all lower tiers, as well as access to my unpublished tweaks. To name a few:
- RedditGold: various tweaks for the official Reddit app.
- NoImgurRedirect: prevent direct image links like
i.imgur.com/xxx.jpgfrom redirecting to the mobile site. - BetterGoogle: automatically focus the search bar when you open Google.app.
- RetroTabBar
- UnifiedActionSheets
- And many more, probably broken-by-now tweaks.
To access these tweaks, please reach out to me via email or Twitter DM (@NSExceptional) and I will send them to you.
$20 a month
SelectCode-level support! — Stuck on something building an app? Need advice on how to structure a tweak? Want to learn how to reverse engineer a REST API? You name it, and I'll give youat least one hour a month of my time to help you with the task of your choosing.
Or, I'll give your app/product/service a shoutout onTwitter. Either way, you also get the benefits of all lower tiers.
$50 a month
SelectStudent Loan Relief! — Baylor wasn't cheap! Out of the kindness of your heart, you're helping put a small dent in my monthly payments. Thank you x1000. Includes the benefits of all lower tiers, + an extra hour of my time each month.
$100 a month
SelectIf you're even considering this tier, I don't know what to say except:thank you! I don't know what I can offer at this tier, in addition to the benefits granted by the lower tiers, but reach out to me and let's talk about it. Maybe I can write you a tweak from scratch or give you even more of my time towards some difficult task. Once again, thank you.