This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/jailbreak by /u/andreashenriksson on 2024-08-11 13:56:45+00:00.

Hi all,

I’ve been away from the scene for a while and many here today might not even know me. I built the tweaks RoadRunner, NextUp, SpringArtwork, TextEmojis, Lace, SpotifyHistory and others.

In 2017 I remember saying to myself that I really wanted to get into tweak development, and I did. It was a journey that for a long time became my biggest hobby. It occupied university classes, sleepless nights and my commute. Whenever I had a small amount of time to kill I would pull up my phone to poke around in FLEX to make progress for whatever problem I was facing.

In 2021, I finished my thesis and shortly after started working full time at a tech giant like many other former tweak devs do. I realized that I needed to fill my days with things consisting of not sitting at the computer. So for the last three years, I’ve been hanging out with friends, hiking, skiing, running, hitting the gym, cooking and just generally enjoying life outside of coding. I still had an ambition to update my tweaks, but as I didn’t buy any devices or was involved in when to upgrade the ones I had, I ended up in situation where I could not try out or make progress on issues that would only happen on A12+ devices, which in the beginning were rare but these days make up the majority of the user base. The unavailability of futurerestore combined with my main device being required to be on the latest version due to work stuff was the nail in the coffin. If only Apple allowed anyone to jump to any version back and forth…

Ultimately the tweak dev path I took allowed me to get where I am today and I couldn’t be happier about it. The community and other peers have helped a lot in sharing knowledge. Thanks to PixelFire for taking me in when I yet did not know what I was doing :D

I’ll still be around, doing some development on personal projects, but I don’t see myself coming back to releasing anything to the public again. Therefore, as of today I’ve released all my paid tweaks as free and I’m also open sourcing the three bigger ones: RoadRunner, NextUp and SpringArtwork. Feel free to poke around at them and update them if you want the functionality on the latest iOS version (also, for RoadRunner, might be worth trying out the latest build without DRM on A12 devices to see if that makes it work).

And if you’re curious of what I’ll be doing for the foreseeable future, I’ll be converting a van to a camper van here.

Thanks for the support and the kind words over the years!