Christopher Sardegna

When debugging sends you into the shadow realm

@theo @Apple There actually are serious bugs with that plugin, it uses some naive byte stripping function to grab the text from the typedstream blob in the database instead of parsing correctly

Hey @Apple! I am experiencing bugs in the official iMessage Claude plugin. It says “official” so I’m sure this is blessed by Apple. Otherwise it would be violating clauses §2N and §2I of your ToS for Apple online services, which you would never allow. QT unrelated

`imessage-exporter` crossed 5,000 stars on GitHub!

iMessage Exporter 4.0.0 Sand Verbena is now available, bringing ≈8% performance improvements, jailbroken iOS support, and a cleaner library API: github.com/ReagentX/imess… #Rust #RustLang

Logria 0.5.0 is now available: github.com/ReagentX/Logri…

@bdkjones @GregorySchier Not anymore! github.com/ReagentX/imess…

@GregorySchier The only one of these that's remotely valid as a "lock-in" is iMessage. All the rest are easy to export/import into anything else. You're tilting at windmills.

I'm sure Apple Passwords is great. But even after 9 years of using Apple products I still refuse to use anything that locks me into their ecosystem. No iMessage, Photos, Notes, Maps, Music, or Passwords. Thinking of switching back to Android soon, and it's going to be so easy.

iMessage Exporter 3.3.0 Chaparral Lotus is now available: github.com/ReagentX/imess… #Rust #RustLang

@zachperk @jacobrodri_ Been solved for years github.com/ReagentX/imess…

@jacobrodri_ screenshotting imessage convos is super annoying. there’s an export as PDF feature on mac but it’s not a great format for LLMs (it often confuses who said what) if someone can solve this, could be an amazing side business

Viral app idea: An app where you upload a screenshot of an argument with your girlfriend, it judges the fight and tells you who won (built this quick prototype with Rork AI + Gemini 3 Pro)

@AdamGluck2 @ryanzhuuuu @arlanr @nikunj @nozomioai More detail available here: chrissardegna.com/blog/reverse-e…

@ryanzhuuuu @arlanr @nikunj @nozomioai I recommend using a parser like the one here for getting iMessage body github.com/ReagentX/imess…

I was at the airport when @nikunj asked if I knew a way to index iMessage and other local DBs. I didn’t, so I built it. you can now index your iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, or any SQLite database and give it as searchable context for your agents. available now on @nozomioai.

iMessage Exporter 3.2.0 Desert Globemallow is now available, bringing support for resolving Address Book details: github.com/ReagentX/imess… #Rust #RustLang

@tokeLaht The current release should run on macOS 13.

@rxcs What version of iMessage Exporter would run in macOS 13?

iMessage Exporter 3.1.0 Foothill Clover is now available, bringing support for all new iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe features: github.com/ReagentX/imess… #Rust #RustLang

@SwiftOnSecurity I maintain free an open source software for this exact purpose: github.com/ReagentX/imess…

iPhone backup: I need to selectively archive and export a lot of random personal stuff from an iPhone like bookmarks and iMessage. What is the best software for that these days? Mac or Windows. Forensics not needed.

@mainstmagic Free and open source: github.com/ReagentX/imess…

Anyone know a free and easy way to export an iMessage convo from your phone or computer?

`imessage-exporter` crossed 4000 stars on GitHub today! github.com/ReagentX/imess…

@zats It's `typedstream` for big endian and `streamtyped` for little endian; I think macOS only uses the latter

@rxcs in all my years I didn't realize streamtyped is the signature of nscoding

Needed an iMessages lib supporting export for whatever reasons (macOS ofc). Ported excellent @rxcs's rust lib, also built a simple demo app allowing to export given thread. Swift package repo below

@zats If only it was always that simple!

@rxcs Good call ❤️ github.com/zats/iMessageE…

@zats It should be pretty simple natively, I assume you can just invoke the relevant Foundation methods—I had to do some backflips to get it working in a cross platform way github.com/ReagentX/crabs…

@rxcs fixing, will check nscoding comment, too 🙏

@zats Also. RE typedstream, can't you just call NSCoder/NSUnarchiver natively?

Sierra Bluecup is a major update that uses our new `crabstep` crate to handle `typedstream` deserialization and includes several significant optimizations–pushing performance past 100k messages exported per second.

iMessage Exporter 3.0.0 Sierra Bluecup is now available: github.com/ReagentX/imess… #Rust #RustLang