I haven't been part of the scene since about 2011, but I've always been extremely proud and fond of my contributions to the iPod and Mac Customization communiti

I haven't been part of the scene since about 2011, but I've always been extremely proud and fond of my contributions to the iPod and Mac Customization communities. I was a designer back in those days so my coding contributions were minimal, but those communities were the best around. I was involved in the iPodWizard project and was one of the people soft-bricking their iPods to discover what substrings of the Hex firmware did what so we could modify them and then build custom themes, change strings, and in a few cases even add new functionality. I also contributed my fair share of custom themes, particularly the themes that would turn the grayscale iPod 4G into something more similar to the iPod Video theme (we had 4 colors to make gradients out of; was more fun than it sounds) I also contributed design and testing to the iPod Linux and iPod Wiki projects, and testing on the Rockbox project. On the Mac side of things, I was a mod of MacThemes for a long time, contributed my fair share of themes and icons, and was a beta tester for Candybar for a long time. My biggest contribution was probably tearing apart and documenting how to customize iTunes on Mac. I got it to a point where I was able to restore 90% of the old iTunes after a much-loathed redesign. My documentation also resulted in a spike in interest and new themes being created for the first time in a few years. It was really exciting seeing the frankly stupid amount of work I put into that pay off within the community.