Blog

Devlogs, lessons, and release notes from the projects we ship.

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  August 11, 2026 · Engineering, ViewPane, Reliability

  Hold, Then Veto: Building a Notification Pipeline That Fails Toward Noise

  We taught ViewPane's push relay to stay quiet about people it recognizes. The feature took an afternoon — the interesting engineering was making sure every failure mode produces an extra alert instead of a missing one.

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  July 23, 2026 · Mobile, IAP, Engineering

  The Billing Bugs That Only Hurt Paying Customers

  Everyone audits the paywall for freeloaders sneaking through. The costlier bugs are the ones that take someone's money and then fail them. Four we caught before launch.

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  May 8, 2026 · Architecture, Self-Hosted, Philosophy

  The Hardware Outlives the Cloud

  A decade of consumer-tech shutdowns distilled into one architectural rule — and why it shapes every companion app we ship.

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  May 6, 2026 · Engineering, SVG, Bugs

  Why Your SVG Renders Blank: HTML Entities Are Not XML

  We shipped five hero images. Two rendered. Three were blank — and the browser didn't say a word. Here's the bug, the fix, and the four-line script we wrote to make sure it can't happen again.

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  May 5, 2026 · Engineering, Pricing, Process

  Code Review Won't Catch Your Pricing Exploits. An Adversarial Audit Will.

  A pre-ship checklist for any feature that touches money — coupons, refunds, bundles, partial cancellations. Twelve questions to ask before merge, drawn from one we almost shipped.

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  May 4, 2026 · ViewPane, Design, Marketing

  Launching viewpane.app: A Marketing Site Pulled From the App Icon

  How we built the ViewPane marketing site, why the palette came from the app icon instead of a Figma library, and the rule we wrote down to stop ourselves from re-litigating it.

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  April 28, 2026 · ViewPane, Self-Hosted, Security

  Shipping ViewPane: Ten Cameras, One Mini-PC, Zero New Attack Surface

  A real-world install — what the box looks like, why we picked an N100, and the rule we wouldn't break for convenience.

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  April 19, 2026 · Pricing, Product, Philosophy

  Why Our Companion Apps Cost $9.99 a Year

  A pricing philosophy — the app is the premium product, the free tier is a trial, and nobody gets nagged.

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  April 7, 2026 · SongStitched, Engineering, State Machines

  Rebuilding the SongStitched Order State Machine

  We had a state called "paid" that meant six different things. Here's why we tore it out and what we replaced it with.

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