LN Software JournalIdeas, product news, and engineering notes from an independent software studio.https://ln.software/enA useful project starts before the first commithttps://ln.software/journal/blog-before-the-first-commit/https://ln.software/journal/blog-before-the-first-commit/A short, concrete brief can expose the decisions that matter before a team invests in the wrong kind of progress.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogProduct thinkingBuilding software for the long runhttps://ln.software/journal/blog-building-for-the-long-run/https://ln.software/journal/blog-building-for-the-long-run/LN Software takes its name from Lena and Nina. That personal beginning gives the studio a simple reason to care about what lasts.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogStudioCitations belong in the interfacehttps://ln.software/journal/blog-citations-belong-in-the-interface/https://ln.software/journal/blog-citations-belong-in-the-interface/Source links become useful when readers can connect them to a claim, inspect their context and understand what remains uncertain.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogProduct thinkingDesign the exit while the product is healthyhttps://ln.software/journal/blog-design-the-exit/https://ln.software/journal/blog-design-the-exit/Exports, clear account controls and an honest product status make software easier to trust throughout its lifecycle.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogProduct thinkingEvent sourcing starts with a questionhttps://ln.software/journal/blog-event-sourcing-starts-with-a-question/https://ln.software/journal/blog-event-sourcing-starts-with-a-question/Before choosing an event store, decide which questions your product needs its history to answer.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogEngineeringLocal AI is an architecture decisionhttps://ln.software/journal/blog-local-ai-is-an-architecture-decision/https://ln.software/journal/blog-local-ai-is-an-architecture-decision/Running inference inside an application changes the boundaries of the system. It also creates new responsibilities.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogOpen sourceMaintaining a fork means maintaining trusthttps://ln.software/journal/blog-maintaining-a-fork/https://ln.software/journal/blog-maintaining-a-fork/A useful fork explains its origin, compatibility promises and remaining limits as clearly as its new capabilities.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogOpen sourceYour read models deserve product thinkinghttps://ln.software/journal/blog-projections-deserve-product-thinking/https://ln.software/journal/blog-projections-deserve-product-thinking/A useful projection starts with the person reading it, including what they need to know about freshness and recovery.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogEngineeringRetries need contexthttps://ln.software/journal/blog-retries-need-context/https://ln.software/journal/blog-retries-need-context/A timeout does not tell you whether a remote action happened. Reliable integrations have to account for that uncertainty.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogEngineeringA webhook is a contracthttps://ln.software/journal/blog-webhooks-are-contracts/https://ln.software/journal/blog-webhooks-are-contracts/Useful webhook integrations define identity, event meaning, delivery behavior and recovery before writing the handler.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogEngineeringBiedbril, and the questions before a bidhttps://ln.software/journal/news-biedbril-direction/https://ln.software/journal/news-biedbril-direction/A note on our property product's direction: clearer pre-bid research, a considered identity, and an honest account of what a report can tell you.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsProduct updatesExploring what we could build togetherhttps://ln.software/journal/news-building-together/https://ln.software/journal/news-building-together/An invitation to discuss product collaborations and potential co-founder relationships, with room to test the fit before making commitments.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsStudioBring us the problem you want to solvehttps://ln.software/journal/news-consulting-projects/https://ln.software/journal/news-consulting-projects/LN Software is opening conversations about focused consulting and software projects, starting with the decision or outcome that matters.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsStudioFind Diff on the Atlassian Marketplacehttps://ln.software/journal/news-diff-confluence/https://ln.software/journal/news-diff-confluence/Our Confluence Cloud app puts text comparisons and patch visualisations into the documents where teams discuss their work.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsProduct updatesA home for our open-source workhttps://ln.software/journal/news-open-source-work/https://ln.software/journal/news-open-source-work/Explore our Go projects for event sourcing, Invoice Ninja integration and maintained llama.cpp bindings, with the upstream work clearly credited.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsOpen sourceA clearer view of our current workhttps://ln.software/journal/news-portfolio-focus/https://ln.software/journal/news-portfolio-focus/Our portfolio separates active work from retired projects, including Dedicated IP and Lawyours, so visitors can see where LN Software is focused.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsStudioA clearer starting point for supporthttps://ln.software/journal/news-support-starts/https://ln.software/journal/news-support-starts/How to reach LN Software, what to include in a useful support request, and where public open-source reports belong.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsStudioTwo initials. A place to build.https://ln.software/journal/news-two-initials/https://ln.software/journal/news-two-initials/The story behind LN Software, and why the company brings products, open source and new collaborations under one roof.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewsStudio