What I'm Doing Now

(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)

Updated January 6th, 2026 sitting at home while there's some left-over snow from two days ago.

Programming

While I do want to push SFML for its SFML 3.1.0 release, I've gotten a bit side-tracked with new and shiny side projects.

During my Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#, I came across HTML-Renderer, which implemented its own dedicated HTML & CSS rendering engine with additional support for GDI, WPF, and PDFsharp. Unfortunately, it's been more or less abandoned and stuck in 2016 or so. I managed to get write access and have slowly started updating the library and cleaning up the issue tracker.

In order to update the PDFsharp part to the latest official version, I needed some code to resolve fonts in cross-platform way. As I have some future plans with PDFsharp and since I haven't really found a similar library for C#, I decided to implement it as separate library FontResolver. Turns out that there aren't exactly good OS-level APIs to deal with fonts.

Other projects that are currently on the back-burner are:

• Clockify - A Stream Deck Plugin
• Jobbr - A .NET Job Server
• bnkextr - Small CLI to extract contents from *.bnk Wwise sound banks
• WindowsUI - Collection of minimal examples for each Windows UI framework / API

Writing

Writing is something I wish, I'd get to invest more time in, as I love putting my thoughts to paper and sharing it with whoever wants to read it.

I've like five different drafts of things, I do want to publish, hopefully something new gets out this week.

Some posts I recently published:

• Material for MkDocs Is No More! Long Live Zensical!
• Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#
• Remove GitHub’s “Ghost” Notifications
• .NET Day Switzerland 2024
• ... (more)

Music

A big hobby of mine is to play my viola, preferably in a orchestra setting.

With the TiFiCo Sinfonie Orchester we're readying up for the two concerts this week!

Work

Zühlke Engineering AG is a consultancy, so I do work for other customers, mainly using C# and most often with some focus on web development.

Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to talk about the projects, I work on.

But there's some change on the horizon...