Cyril Zakka, MD

@czakka
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Health AI Lead @huggingface | MD & ML Researcher. Prev: @stanford
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Cyril Zakka, MDMar 9
Hardest piece of code I’ve ever had to write is a performant Markdown rendering view for large complex documents with optimizations for streaming. I feel like I’m only 60% of the way there and there seems to be no good reference implementations.
Cyril Zakka, MDOct 28

Hey all, I'm looking for a strong iOS/macOS engineer to join a VC-backed startup to build a physician facing application. In-person (preferred) or remote.

You'll craft an experience that brings medical AI directly to doctors' fingertips to help them better optimize their workflows and patient care. DMs open!

RTs and references appreciated!
Email: cyril[at]almanac[dot]chat

Cyril Zakka, MDOct 23

Hey all, I'm looking for a strong iOS/macOS engineer to join a VC-backed startup to build a physician facing application. In-person (preferred) or remote.

You'll craft an experience that brings medical AI directly to doctors' fingertips to help them better optimize their workflows and patient care. DMs open!

RTs and references appreciated!
Email: cyril[at]almanac[dot]chat

@stroughtonsmith would you mind amplifying?

Cyril Zakka, MDJun 16, 2025
Crazy how even Apple sample code from WWDC25 has 27 warnings related to Swift 6 concurrency
Cyril Zakka, MDJun 14, 2025
BGContinuedProcessingTask is great but is there really no way to hide it *until* the user actually backgrounds the main app? I’d rather show my own progress UI first.
Cyril Zakka, MDJan 6, 2025

I spent my winter break redesigning the Health app with an AI focused approach starting with clinical records.

The goal here was to help patients get a deeper understanding of their own records, with the eventual goal of enabling continuous health monitoring and personalized health suggestions.

Cyril Zakka, MDDec 4, 2024
So what’s the best way to share a property in the new @Observable class with an AppKit view controller?
Cyril Zakka, MDNov 1, 2024
Finn VoorheesNov 1, 2024

Today I made a Final Cut Pro plugin that renders SwiftUI views on top of your video, with an environment value for the current render time.

I'm not sure why.

Cyril Zakka, MDOct 23, 2024

The code for HFChat macOS🤗is now fully open source and accepting PRs! Looking forward to see what folks will build.

You'll also find some hidden features that never made it to the release:
https://github.com/huggingface/chat-macOS

GitHub - huggingface/chat-macOS: Making the community's best AI chat models available to everyone.

Making the community's best AI chat models available to everyone. - huggingface/chat-macOS

GitHub
Cyril Zakka, MDSep 24, 2024
Show threadLickabilitySep 24, 2024

But let’s bring it back to iOS and the post that set off this discourse. The flashlight icon is just the tip of the iceberg. We would like to call a surprise witness to the stand: a reverse-engineered iMessage group chat avatar layout.

It’s a really beautiful piece of design — it mimics nature with either this planet solar system layout or a snow globe–style layout in your conversation list.