About
I build focused desktop and utility apps around media workflows, metadata inspection, file processing, and practical automation. Each project targets a specific task (spectrogram analysis, metadata reporting, stream extraction, video remux, image resizing) rather than a generic all-in-one suite.
H61 Apps (Highway 61 Apps) is my personal software catalog for these independent projects. It is not a company, studio, or team, just a name for tools I design, build, and maintain.
My work emphasizes offline-first design, read-only inspection where appropriate, and lossless processing paths when media content should not be re-encoded. Tools like FFmpeg, ffprobe, and ExifTool are integrated deliberately: bundled where consistency matters, invoked as external processes where flexibility is needed.
Technical focus
- C# and .NET 8 with WinUI 3 for native Windows desktop apps
- FFmpeg and ffprobe for media analysis, remux, and stream extraction
- ExifTool for descriptive metadata inspection and conservative removal
- TagLib# for audio tagging and embedded artwork
- ImageSharp for image decode, resize, and format conversion
- GitHub for source control, issue tracking, and release distribution
Development practices
I write tests where behavior is non-trivial, package dependencies explicitly (bundled FFmpeg, ExifTool, and similar tools where needed), and maintain release workflows that produce installable builds for current Windows desktop apps when published to GitHub Releases. The goal is software that behaves predictably on a user's machine, not demos that only work in development.
The catalog currently includes 9 utilities across media, metadata, video, and image workflows. Most current releases are Windows desktop apps; the catalog is not limited to one platform. Each app is maintained as a separate project with its own repository and release history.