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Alejandro Cantero Jódar

Articles about Side Projects

  • CLPS DAW: A Pocket 8-Bit DAW Built on the Plain Web Audio API

    · Side Projects

    I wanted to compose songs on my phone as a hobby, with square waves, a noise channel and no audio libraries. CLPS DAW shipped in three days, and the code was the easy part. The hard parts were thirty design decisions and the quirks of iOS Safari.

  • Mana Duel: Building a Magic-Inspired Card Game With Coding Agents

    · Side Projects

    I wanted real games of Magic on my phone without the busywork, so I built Mana Duel: 213 original cards, fourteen decks, an AI that never peeks at your hand, and a coding agent doing most of the typing. This is the story of the need, the problems and the final product.