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Tanner Bennett

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Texas

Welcome newcomer! My name is Tanner, and I'm Baylor grad, currently working at L3Harris. My passions are iOS development and jailbreak tweak development. I moderate /r/iOSProgramming on Reddit.

I'm more or less the sole maintainer of FLEX, 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 upcoming Swift 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 on Cydia, 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 used Yik Yak, my personal Yik 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.

@NSExceptional

5 people willing to sponsor my work on FLEX (or whatever else) would make me jump with joy!

Current sponsors 4

@SD10
@revolter
@agendrix
@asdfzxcvbn

Past sponsors 4

Private Sponsor
@thelazyitguy
Private Sponsor
@kazakovDanil1

Featured work

  1. NSExceptional/FLEXing

    A simple tweak to activate a FLEX explorer window

    Logos 173
  2. NSExceptional/Runtime

    An Objective-C simulator written in Swift.

    Swift 138
  3. NSExceptional/ASM-Swift

    A playground for learning Assembly language through Swift.

    Swift 104
  4. NSExceptional/SnapchatKit

    An Objective-C implementation of the unofficial Snapchat API.

    Objective-C 107
  5. NSExceptional/Swizzle

    A tweak to create basic tweaks from any app.

    Objective-C 42

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80% towards 5 monthly sponsors goal

@revolter @agendrix
@SD10 @asdfzxcvbn

revolter and 3 others sponsor this goal

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$ a month

You'll receive any rewards listed in the $5 monthly tier. Additionally, a Public Sponsor achievement will be added to your profile.

$5 a month

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Supporter! — 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

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Energy 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

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Feature 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

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Insider! — 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.jpg from 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

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Code-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 you at 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 on Twitter. Either way, you also get the benefits of all lower tiers.

$50 a month

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Student 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

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If 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.