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.
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 and the Windows App SDK
- 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
Future platform work may include native macOS and iOS apps built with Swift, SwiftUI, Xcode, and Apple platform frameworks such as AppKit and UIKit where appropriate.
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 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 14 utilities across media, metadata, video, and image workflows. Each app is maintained as a separate project with its own repository and release history.