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• PostedOct 14, 2026
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• SiriClaude started as a joke: what if the old Siri on an iPhone 5 could hand a question to something smarter? Now it's the project I open most often.

  The problem

  iOS 6 speaks an old version of TLS that modern API servers refuse. The phone literally can't complete the handshake.

  The workaround

  A small relay on my network accepts a plain request from the phone, makes the modern HTTPS call, and streams the answer back. The tweak on the phone only needs to know the relay's address.

  What I learned

  Constraints are fun. With a few hundred megabytes of RAM and no modern libraries, every feature has to justify itself.

  Next up is conversation history, so follow-up questions work.

Thanks for reading.