I was chatting with their Lark Support for 3rd time today. Turns out the email was a miscommunication. I have a dormant organization on Lark, and this email was for that org. My main org was unaffected.
But is too late... I have already migrated everything out of Lark.
RouteVN Team member introduction: JeffY is a second-year Computer Science student at University of New South Wales, Australia. He is very intrested in visual novels and tooling. He has contributed to many of the core RouteVN projects.
routevn.com/blog/2026/07...
Very excited to announce a collaboration with @sqewree.bsky.social It will be one of the first visual novels made with RouteVN Creator. She is doing all the story and art. Was very enjoyable to see it grow from idea -> presentation -> sketches -> full story. Stay tuned for more updates!
Been having attention deficiency lately. I used to code for hours focusing on a problem. Right now instead, I have so many AI research coding threads open at a time, switching from one task to another. It is preventing me from focusing on one thing and do it well.
Can't believe Hetzner really shipped with 'your-objectstorage.com'.
I was following some instructions to setup my object storage on terraform and thought it was a placeholder domain. I was looking for the real domain name, which turns out it is exactly that.
It was a funny moment!
got a new pc and installed Arch Linux on it last week. It has been going very well. plan to write more about it in the coming weeks and month.
things I've installed: sway, qutebrowser, yazi, nvim etc...
We have just released version 0.17.0 of RouteVN Creator! routevn.com/creator/chan...
- Fix bundle export for handling large assets
- Improve exported bundle start page
- Action to add visuals
Funny to see AI timeline estimates. It is probably 1 or 2 days of work for the AI
Part 3 of our blog series on building a Visual Novel engine is live!
In this post we talk about how we built RouteVN Creator, the actual desktop application that enables anyone to create VNs witout any coding.
routevn.com/blog/2026/06...
#visualnovel #gamedev #javascript
When wanting to work on mutiple features in 1 repository, git worktrees is the solution. However the raw commands are hard to work with. Tried github.com/max-sixty/wo... today, worked very well!
Before I go out in the morning to send out my kid. I go to my laptop and say hi to Codex. So that when I come back there will be only like 4 hours before the 5h reset.
We have just released version 0.15.0 of RouteVN Creator! routevn.com/creator/chan...
- Resources pages: Add video tab
- Scene Editor page: Support video as background
I'm giving up on manual coding. I'm now using Codex to rewrite several of the libs I had written before. I'm barely reading any of the code being written. Will give a quick look at the whole thing before merging to main, but I'm mostly reading the written specs, not the code.
having Codex/Claude Code help me doing my taxes today. more accurately:
- bookkeeping by categorizing ledger items
- preparing P&L
- preparing balance sheet
it worked. I still have to be involved and knowledgeable, but it did save me time. my books are very simple.
Took serveral days to write this, but it is something I really wanted to do. I've been buidling this Visual Novel engine for almost 2 years. It was really refreshing to write down all the experiences, learnings and design decision. It is very useful for me and other who will work on the project.
All this kind of stuff:
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Have been writing some Japanese emails in the past few days. I have to say that with AI it has become so much easier to manage the formalities like keigo. I had always struggled with it in the past and now I can just write what I want to say and AI convert it to correct format.
Registered for an event last week on Luma. filled the form and there was a checkbox for agreeing to share my info with the event spaker. NowI just got a marketing email from the even speaker hehe. I'll just unsubscribe.
These structural aspects in the Japanese university and job market which me or the hiring platforms can't do much about. To be clear, as a foreign company I can actually fully hire interns from Japan, but as it currently stands with all fees, it is around double my budget.
And I still have not even started filtering for ones that can actually speak English, and most importantly have experience shipping real products, which most interns applicants probably likely don't have.
This was very unusual for me because I was used to those automated SaaS platform from western and Chinese markets where you can get a lot for free or very cheap spending.
This says a lot about it: There is this intentional friction and filter. The quality of the job posts actually goes up because of this. However prices for posting is also high, the pricing usually assumes you will be hiring multiple interns.
I've been comparing several intern hiring platforms for the Japanese market. Mostly required you to submit a form on website, it unlocks a PDF presentation, and you have to do a online video call. Very B2B sales process. Fees are too high.
In order to make up for this, Japanese companies tend to hire multiple part-time rather than a fulltime. But the problem is we know how this plays out for startups. Startups need highly committed intense working individuals.
Japanese students have classes etc... Which let's say take 20h per week, especially for year 1 and year 2 students. This means it is hard for them to engage in a fulltime internship. Working in nights and weekends helps but there is high risk of burnout.
The hourly rate makes internship more comparable to part-time job. Which is not what is supposed to be, internship should put much higher emphasis on the learning and gain real world experience.
Only 3% of Japanese students go through an internship. Internships are normally subject minimum Japanese wage which is around 1200 yen depending on the region. This is actually over my budget.
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 ๐งต
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
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Figured I'd share a bit of steam review insight on the horse game server inspired by this ๐ซก
