# Hi, I'm Ben!

I'm a Full Stack Developer with a soft spot of mobile development.

I find joy making things function in ways they were not intended.



## TimeMachine for iOS 10.3.0+ arm64 devices

Disclaimer: SnapBack has been tested thoroughly, but it is still beta software, so proceed with caution.

Now then, what are apfs snapshots?
"Snapshots are a new feature of Apple's APFS filesystem. A snapshot is a point-in-time representation of a volume on your hard drive. Once the snapshot is taken, each file within that snapshot will be available on the snapshot in its exact state at the moment that the snapshot was taken, even if you delete the file."
Imagine taking a picture of your devices memory, and being able to jump back to that point in time whenever you want. Snapshots aren't known to take up to much space, but Var snapshots (the user partition, that holds your photos and apps) is more likely to take up a lot of space.

When you first launch SnapBack, I urge you to create a root snapshot, so that you can always jump back to the moment after you installed SnapBack, as long as you can jailbreak.

Those of you on iOS 11+, the root snapshot named "orig-fs" is the original snapshot that is either made right before you jailbroke the first time, or the snapshot that apple made when you updated your OS. Under no circumstance should you ever delete this Snapshot. It is your fallback to use Rollectra or Unc0vers reset FS option. Another word of warning, don't use Rollectra or Unc0vers reset FS option unless you really need to, as doing that will delete all of your APFS snapshots.
If you are able, revert using SnapBack so that you can retain your other snapshots.

SnapBack can be used to jump between jailbreaks. In order to do this, take a root snapshot when you have a jailbreak setup the way you want, then jump back to the orig-fs snapshot. At this point you can jailbreak using a different jailbreak with no issues. Install SnapBack again, and if all went to plan you will be able to jump to your previous jailbreak snapshot and vice versa. This is a good way to try out other jailbreaks or to just have a fallback point in time when you had everything set up perfectly.

When restoring var snapshots, if you jump to a snapshot that was signed in with a different iCloud account, you will be prompted over and over again to log into icloud. Simply open settings and sign out of the iCloud account to get rid of these messages.

Notes:

- SnapBack requires your battery to be above 50% or to be plugged in.
- Even if the app appears to be frozen during the snapping process, wait.
- SnapBack is written for iOS 10.3.0+ for arm64 and arm64e devices only.
- SnapBack supports up to iOS 13, after which Apple has sealed the filesystem.


SnapBack


Zebra (née AUPM) is a Package Manager for jailbroken iOS devices. It is built to support iOS 9 up to iOS 14 and for iPhones and iPads alike.

Zebra was created as an open source alternative to the Cydia Package Manager, which depends on Deprecated Apple APIs.


Zebra


Wordle Solver is a simple appication that allows you to solve wordle puzzles. Built using React and TailwindCSS, it takes user supplied known letters and returns a list of words that can be used to solve the puzzle.


A word solver for the [Wordle](https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html) game.

Wordle Solver


## System-Wide Weather

The Spiritual Successor to Forecast and Meteor, Asteroid is here to keep you informed of the current weather conditions in style. Animated weather conditions are available on both the lockscreen and homescreen, so that you can always know what the current conditions are. Or, if you want to go for a more aesthetic device, you can customize what condition is displayed. Add a starry night sky to the background of your favorite lockscreen, or have a sunny day animation over your homescreen. The sky is the limit! Built with the Orion framework, Asteroid 14 is the next big step in device customization

## Features:

- Homescreen and Lockscreen animated backgrounds, using weather conditions
- Animated app icons
- Custom locations for weather conditions
- Custom weather conditions
- Weather conditions in the status bar
- Replace the “Press home to unlock” or “Swipe to Unlock” with the current weather conditions


A tweak for jailbroken iOS devices to bring weather animations to your iOS device.

Asteroid


## Simulate GPS location system-wide

RelocateMe allows you to simulate GPS location system-wide without any runtime injection. As a fork of [locsim](https://github.com/udevsharold/locsim) by [udevs](https://twitter.com/udevs9) RelocateMe benefits from using Apple's private APIs to dynamically change your device's location without requiring injection into running process, meaning RelocateMe shouldn't trigger jailbreak detection in your favorite apps.

## Features

- Change Location
- Create routes, and emulate location along the routes
- View location changes in real time
- Location Plotting
- Simulation persists after closing the application


A tweak for jailbroken iOS devices to spoof GPS location

RelocateMe


The Pendulum Court Cafe is restaurant at BYU, which students can work at to gain experience in the restaurant industry. The website allows users to view the menu, contact staff, view hours of operation and more. The website is built with Vue.js and DotNet Core on the backend. The website and backend is hosted within a Docker Container.


Frontend restaurant website for the [Pendulum Court Cafe](https://pencourt.byu.edu/).

Pendulum Court Cafe


LS Scheduler is a scheduling app for the [BYU College of Life Sciences](https://lsscheduler.byu.edu/). It allows users to schedule rooms within the college.


A scheduling app for the [BYU College of Life Sciences](https://lsscheduler.byu.edu/).

Benjamin Tessem

Hi, I'm Ben!

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