Devlogs, lessons, and release notes from the projects we ship.https://campbellsoftstudios.com/en-ushttps://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/hardware-outlives-the-cloud/https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/hardware-outlives-the-cloud/A decade of consumer-tech shutdowns distilled into one architectural rule — and why it shapes every companion app we ship.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureSelf-HostedPhilosophyIndustryken@campbellsoftstudios.com (CampbellSoft Studios)https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/why-your-svg-renders-blank-html-entities-are-not-xml/https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/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.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringSVGBugsPre-Shipken@campbellsoftstudios.com (CampbellSoft Studios)https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/adversarial-audit-money-touching-features/https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/adversarial-audit-money-touching-features/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.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringPricingProcessPre-Shipken@campbellsoftstudios.com (CampbellSoft Studios)https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/launching-viewpane-app-marketing-site/https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/launching-viewpane-app-marketing-site/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.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTViewPaneDesignMarketingAstroken@campbellsoftstudios.com (CampbellSoft Studios)https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/shipping-viewpane-ten-cameras-zero-attack-surface/https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/shipping-viewpane-ten-cameras-zero-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.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTViewPaneSelf-HostedSecurityFrigateken@campbellsoftstudios.com (CampbellSoft Studios)https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/why-our-companion-apps-cost-ten-dollars-a-year/https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/why-our-companion-apps-cost-ten-dollars-a-year/A pricing philosophy — the app is the premium product, the free tier is a trial, and nobody gets nagged.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTPricingProductPhilosophyken@campbellsoftstudios.com (CampbellSoft Studios)https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/rebuilding-songstitched-order-state-machine/https://campbellsoftstudios.com/blog/rebuilding-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.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSongStitchedEngineeringState MachinesPostgresken@campbellsoftstudios.com (CampbellSoft Studios)