I built a plugin to compress file reads for `claude` without parsing. The token savings worked. Then the agent started navigating more precisely.
70,524 bytes. Compressed with ZLIB. Completely undocumented. 53 tests in 82 minutes to decode a camera's backup file format.
Nine different NSData extraction methods. Nine TypeErrors. The data was visible the whole time.
I wanted an app to manage my camera's settings. No API docs, no protocol docs. What if I could reverse engineer it without writing a single line of code?
I wanted to catch Bluetooth devices like Pokemon. 6 days, 11,000 lines of C, and 241 builds later, I had an idle game running on an ESP32-S3.
