Huck for Windows
Zouk is a small scan-retriever app that I created for macOS. It handles browsing and downloading scans from an internal server without wrestling with a browser’s insecure-download warning.
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With so many scans being created in my household, family members on Windows were feeling left behind. I decided it was time to remedy the situation with Huck for Windows.
On launch, Huck asks for a hostname or IP and remembers it. After that, it just works. The entire Zouk and Huck audience is currently my family members, but both still ship like any other app with a proper installer.
This Zouk project led to the Humane libraries, and now I’ve also created Humane for Kotlin. This lets us have consistent, human-readable date and file-size strings across platforms — Swift, Ruby, Go, and now the JVM with Humane for Kotlin.
I’ve already built smartphone apps in Swift and Kotlin, so this project was a good way to round out my experience with creating and deploying desktop apps — without requiring that I develop on a Windows machine.
