Been trying to hire Softwre Development Interns from Japan. Below is some of my exeperiences and observations. On paper it is a country with a massive number of high skilled interns I could hire, but in reality there are many structural hurndles. #japan #Internships 🧵

We have just released version 0.14.0 of RouteVN Creator! routevn.com/creator/chan... - Resources pages: remove unnecessary tooltip - Scenes editor: make dialogue character avatar bigger - Scenes editor: improve validation on various forms - Scenes editor: remove unnecessary image drag 🧵

Figured I'd share a bit of steam review insight on the horse game server inspired by this 🫡

I jumped on the OpenCraw hype. Tried to install it 2 days ago with Discord but failed, didn't properly read the docs. Tried again today, and got it to work after some debugging. Playing it for a bit now some thoughts: - the waking up is very smart. it personalizees every agent for the user 🧵

Very excited to be collaborating with @bunnibambii.bsky.social on a Visual Novel project. Can't wait to see the art, story and characters that will be created! #visualnovel #vn

Did you know that one of the contributors to RouteVN Creator is actually a high school student from Nepal? Read about Nellow and his work on RouteVN! routevn.com/blog/2026/04...

New blog post: Building a Visual Novel Engine Part 1 - Route Graphics A declarative graphics and audio library built on @pixijs.com and WebAudio API. Learn about the design decisions, implementation challenges, and more! routevn.com/blog/2026/03...

wrote some misc thoughts about selling visual novels on steam in 2026 and what sorts of vns tend to sell better than others based on trends i've seen with my last few releases www.patreon.com/posts/some-t...

Been using the free version of Lark for few years. Now, they just told me my account will be deleted. I have some critical services like email and calendar on it. Will take this as an opportunity to move away from it, but will never going to use it again... www.larksuite.com/hc/en-US/art...

We have just released version 0.13.0 of RouteVN Creator! - layout editor: fix layout editor cancel button not working when choosing image - colors page: make color name required - bundle export: fix so it runs properly (more in comments) routevn.com/creator/chan...

amazing Claude can look at the screenshots from visual test and compare and figure out which ones are correct. it is the same as how I would do it: look at the screenshots, and look at the test cases to see whether it is the screenshot (implmentation) or the testcase is wrong.

We conducted 2 usability tests in the last 2 days. Some take aways: - The applications was much more stable than before. No crashes or bugs that disrupted the testing - The user can mostly use it and learn by exploring - User find it easy to use sometimes exceeding expectation

trying to put an application on Steam to be published. Steam is like: - very complex checklist to prepare and make application ready to publish - have to pay $100 upfront - takes 30% fees - 30% US withlding tax for US sourced income Yet, people just flock to publish on Steam

RouteVN Creator is now downloadable on itch.io! routevn.itch.io/routevn-crea... RouteVN Creator is a free, open-source tool that lets anyone, writers, artists, hobbyists to create their own Visual Novels. No coding or technical background required

Today Nghia completes his 3 month internship at Yuusoft. He was asked to write a reflection about his internship experience: yuusoft.com/blog/2026/01... Thank you Nghia for all your countributions!

RouteVN Creator has been added to the Game Engines Databse! Thanks @henriquelalves.bsky.social for maintaining the database. enginesdatabase.com/engine/route...

Just published a blog post for my 2025 recap: han4wluc.com/blog/2026/02...

I can give 3 likes to my LinkedIn posts 😂

this week I've mostly tried to do marketing work instead of building. is challenging, the more I do it, the more I see my lack in leverage in it. Right now I'm going around relevant forums to tell about my product. The backlink is supposed to improve the SEO.

Inroducing Makkuro. She will be the mascot character for RouteVN. She appeared in the demo. I'm not a real artist and cannot really draw well unfortunately (tried many times but no time). I'm trying to simplify the drawings as much as possible so I only need to use the pen tool and do vector art.

Registering for a Steamworks account. Didn't expect that it supports fax!

A bit late for #PortfolioDay , but this is the latest demo of the Visual Novel engine we have made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxqJ... #visualnovel

We published our second devlog for RouteVN - a recap of late 2025 and our plans for 2026. See how a Visual Novel engine is built from ground up. routevn.com/blog/2026/01...

Yesterday, I shared a grand 2026 plan with the team. I also had an AI to read it and give feedback. The AI grilled it and removed my ego and bad habits. The team sided with the AI and I also agreed the feedback was correct. We ended up updating the plan based on the AI suggestions.

VN devs, share your works! QRP with 4 screens from your game and a link✨ Three loves. One week. Zero chill. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you’re headed? Steam page: tinyurl.com/4n498cyb

RouteVN Creator Client new version release 0.7.0 - Add choice type in layout editor - UX Improvements in layout editor for dialogue content - Add choice option in scene editor Download it here: routevn.com/creator/down...

I'll be giving a talk on 4th Feb about my experiences building a frontend framework from scratch. Come say hi if you're around!

Un mese in Italia: startup e tech: han4wluc.com/blog/2026/01... Speso un mese in Italia a Novembre e Dicembre. Nel posto descrivo la mia esperienza con Zest, Academia Italiana Videogiochi, H-Farm, RomaJS, Artificial Intelligence Venture Builder

spent a few hours dealing with playwright screenshot inconsistencies on different devices. solutions I end up with is to run it in docker.

Get to know the people behind RouteVN. Yesterday we posted about 738NGX: routevn.com/blog/2025/05... He made great contributions to the RouteVN creator client.

I was trying to hire interns from a polytecnic in Singapore. Basically I can't interview the students, the school will select the student based on my internship requirements. I had never seen such arrangement before. I can't hire from this program.

was in Italy for a while. one thing I noticed was there was a significant increase in cookie banner and popups for the websites I visited...

We have released a new version of RouteVN Creator Client Version 0.5.0 Changelog: routevn.com/creator/chan... Download: routevn.com/creator/down...

asked AI to generate some svg icons. what happened with the linux one 😂

Discovered qutebrowser.com , a keyboard first web browser. It uses Chronium but without the Google services. I was very impressed, it is working very well so far for me.

generation before me grew up with Microsoft Office my generation grew up with Google Docs generation after me grew up with Notion and Canva once they graduate and start working, those are the tools that they will be using. such a smart move to give tools for free to students

today I learned about `cd -` very useful

every line of code I'm writing is doing today's job. But also it is serving as training data for future.

today learned this nvim keymap: - `K` - Show documentation for function/variable under cursor - Press `K` again to enter the documentation panel - Press `q` to exit the documentation panel

Very cool project backlog md . Spec driven development with AI agents. github.com/MrLesk/Backl... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-W0...

What nice diffs github.com/yuusoft-org/...

I'm trying to push myself to use more of dictation rather than talking. it is supposed to be 2-3x faster than keyboard typing. is a bit weird in beginning, but like all other things I can get used to it.

It is tempting to assign intern or junior devs a load of easy tasks. That is not why I hire them. I should assign them the highest priority tasks no matter the difficulty. Finishing the task won't be fast or smooth, but we would have solve a hard and important problem.

Was trying to define what is a product. Came up with this - We build to create positive impact in the world - Impact comes from delivering value for users - The product is the interface between builders and users - For software, code is the mechanism that makes the product work

I just learned to day that to distribute apps on Windows you need to pay $200+/year for a signing certificate to to remove SmartScreen warning. Can't believe it is so expensive, is there no effective way around it? I also don't want to use Microsoft Store.

After 1.5 years on RouteVN, I wrote about the journey: the lessons learned, challenges faced, and the design process behind creating a visual novel engine and editor from scratch routevn.com/blog/2025/04...

below is the prompt I use in Claude Code to push git for me. check new branch, git commit everything, push, create PR dont add any coauthors and dont mention claude or any AI. keep both commit message and PR content minimal and simple.

switched from Claude to Zhipu's GLM models for coding in Claude Code. so far GLM4.6 has been performing well, similar to Sonnet. there was some downtime or places where it got stuck last night. today right now it is really fast.

Didn't know Claude had specific keyword for how much let the model think: "think" < "think hard" < "think harder" < "ultrathink." anthropic.com/engineering/... ultrathink is specifically rainbowed in Claude Code.