Over the years I have built several apps for iOS and macOS. They all started as an exploration into some new technical subject, or a necessity that I couldn't fullfill with any other existing apps. Even if none of them became huge projects, they were all very valuable to myself, as they worked as a way for me to channel my creativity, and to try technical concepts or other things that I couldn't do at work for one reason or another. They have taught me a lot of what I know as a software engineer, and I host them here as badges of honor in my path as a software engineer.
I’ve been playing Sudoku since I learned about it in middle school. Either on my iPhone or on my iPad, I always have a game in progress that I go back to from time to time.
One day I had an epiphany: Wouldn’t it be nice if I could play Sudoku on my iPad with Apple Pencil, writing in numbers and clues just like on paper? After searching the App Store, I could only find a couple of apps that supported Apple Pencil input, but none of them preserved the strokes, kinda breaking the concept of playing like on paper.
Mastonaut is a client for Mastodon, the distributed social network with over 2 million users worldwide.
I enjoyed using Mastodon a lot in the past already, but I felt that the experience could be better if I were using it from a desktop app instead of a web browser.
So I started this project back in December 2018, and six months later it made its way to the Mac App Store. Mastonaut has already gathered a significant user base, and I've since updated the app several times to add more features. It is an ongoing project that I work on during my spare time.
I have always wanted to replace my notebook with a tablet for most of my daily tasks. I couldn't find a code editor for iOS that fit my needs and desires, especially regarding multi-caret edititng, so I decided to write my own.
Kodex has several features I couldn't find in other code editors available for iPad. The main one is multi-caret editing. This feature has become a major tool I consistently use to transform and replicate code, and not having it really hurt my productivity.
A plain-text editor for macOS with a focus on a minimalistic user interface, pretty and customizable themes, and useful features.
I enjoy having a small text editor for plain text files. Many editor apps try to do too much, or try to be portable and then sacrifice functionality instead. I decided I wanted to build something simple and targeted to macOS only so that I could use all of the cool features of macOS.
x2048 is a puzzle game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that I developed around 2012. It is a version of the (at the time) popular 2048 puzzle game, but on an hexagonal board instead of a 4x4 matrix.
It was my first proper game for iOS, and it presented several new challenges. It was made using Apple's SpriteKit. One of the main challenges was creating the recursive algorithm that calculates the movement for each disc, detecting discs movements and merges. A bit later I also implemented in-app purchases using Apple's iAP APIs, which was another fun challenge on itself.
