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Zander Franks_

Software engineer

My name is Zander, and I'm a 23-year-old software engineer at RackN. I like programming, music, hiking, and birds. You've stumbled upon my collection of projects and ramblings. Welcome!

Projects

Engauge 2020 - present

Engauge is a Discord bot I started working on in early 2020. It is used to track member participation by means of message and voice activity and consequently quantifying this data with video game-like levels and experience.

Four of Clubs 2022 - 2023

Four of Clubs is a web-based online game that supports Texas hold 'em and other card games. I built it out of frustration for the lack of decent online card games. No account is required, and anyone can start their own lobbies and invite their friends.

clippatron 2025 - present

clippatron is an all-in-one video clip viewer, trimmer, organizer, and search tool. It's also built out of frustration in that most free trimming or video viewing tools just aren't that good. Trim, tag, label, splice, and edit basic video without jumping between ugly, outdated tools.

mipsim 2022

mipsim (mip - sim) is a lightweight MIPS assembly editor and simulator. It supports all base MIPS instructions and then some pseudo-instructions. It has syntax highlighting, hoverable instruction details, a memory dump view, stepping tools, and more. I made it during an introduction to computer architecture class.

Photo albums

Blog

The process of designing, building, and painting a wand I made for a Halloween costume

November 21, 2025 Read

I redid this site, as all good developers must do a few times

March 2, 2024 Read

My experiences getting my E3-Pro working with custom firmware

March 17, 2022 Read