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Ben Weaver

I build native apps, web tools, and reverse-engineering projects outside of full-stack work at a nonprofit genomics center.

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quietmouse

Offline, telemetry-free settings, button remapping, and gestures for Logitech mice on macOS, Windows, and Linux. A small native replacement for Logi Options+.

  • No network access at all
  • Input Monitoring and Accessibility on macOS
  • Admin for one Windows setting

Recent projects

With what each one asks of your machine.

Shows what AI agents can reach on your Mac or PC, from the screen to the local network, and takes it back with one click, or on its own when they quit.

  • Full Disk Access and a network filter
  • Admin helper on Windows
  • No account or telemetry
  • Swift
  • C#

Offline, telemetry-free settings, button remapping, and gestures for Logitech mice on macOS, Windows, and Linux. A small native replacement for Logi Options+.

  • No network access at all
  • Input Monitoring and Accessibility on macOS
  • Admin for one Windows setting
  • Rust
  • HID++

Hides the MacBook notch by blacking out the menu bar, on the built-in display or on every display. A small, free, telemetry-free macOS app.

  • No networking code
  • No account, updater, or analytics
  • Swift
  • AppKit

Turns off a MacBook’s screen and keyboard backlight while keeping its display alive for remote access, so you can stream from it without lighting up the room. Closed-lid streaming is experimental.

  • No networking code
  • Root helper for lid-closed use
  • No account or telemetry
  • Swift
  • AppKit

A native virtual machine manager for Windows, inspired by UTM, that runs Linux and Windows guests on QEMU or Hyper-V, with an MCP server so AI agents can use them.

  • No admin rights
  • Nothing listens on the network
  • C#
  • WinUI 3

Install just the Microsoft PowerToys utilities you want, like Awake, without the whole suite. Uses Microsoft’s own signed binaries and installs per user, with no admin rights.

  • No admin rights
  • Runs Microsoft's own signed binaries
  • PowerShell
  • C++

An interactive world map of medically significant venomous animals by country and state, with cited ranges for every species.

  • No account or API key
  • No tile server
  • Vue
  • MapLibre

A companion to Venom Atlas: a world map of poisonous plants, fungi, and animals that harm people who eat, touch, or breathe them, with a cited source for every claim.

  • No account or API key
  • No server or database
  • Vue
  • MapLibre

Earlier work

From my time in the iOS jailbreak community.

unc0ver

2018–2020

Team member on unc0ver, a widely used iOS jailbreak. Worked on tweak injection, including debugging launchd and jetsam memory issues, and handled release testing across a wide range of devices. Also managed the project’s Cloudflare infrastructure, social media, and donations.

  • iOS
  • Jailbreak

Order65 & Order66

2016–2017

The first tweak injection bootstrap built on the mach_portal exploit for iOS 10, later superseded by Yalu.

  • iOS 10
  • Jailbreak

This site

Generated from the security headers it sends.