Announcing version 1.0.3 of RouteVN Creator!
This is our biggest update yet. You can expect a significant level up in terms of stability and polish of the application. Enjoy!
We will also be publishing documentation and tutorials in the coming weeks.
routevn.com/blog/2026/08...

Did a usability test today, it had been a while since I did the last one. Some quotes from the user:
- "The best part is how it is all organized... this is very clear, very starighforward"
- "If anybody wants to make a basic visual novel, this is great... can learn in one afternoon"

Wow something really got broke in Codex. It is now spitting out total nonsense.

I want to stop opening and using the web ui. One thing I still have not found a replacement is the image diffs.

Used to manually got to Github for create release & tag. I figured out, that can all be done from cli. github cli is actually good.

git tag v1.2.0
git push origin v1.0.0
gh release create v1.2.0 --generate-notes

Today we presented our work at Ideass Fest, dev & drafts alongside upcoming Visual Novels @bunnibambii.bsky.social's Two Straws and @sqewree.bsky.social's DiaLune.
Big thanks to the organizers and everyone who came to playtest, give feedback and support!

Dealing with Apple signing certificates has always been one of those things I never understood properly and would spend hours or days dealing with, mostly with trial and error. Using AI to help on this has made life much easier.

Been working very hard to spend all my Codex Pro subscription weekly limit, and am happy to say that I have used up essentially all of it. I usually have multiple projects working at a time.
Not sure if I will have to adapt a bit once the 2x usage period ends.

I've been controlling a windows with RDP for a few months now. I do not have a minitor, mouse, keyboard attached to the windows machine. Works both from Linux and MacOS. This is best way to use a windows machine...

You might never open your editor again | Sidecar Use sidecar for planning features, managing workspaces, reviewing diffs, and staging commits. It's the most fun you can have in a terminal.

sidecar.haplab.com
This is one of the coolest projects I have seen for a while. I basically a full agent first IDE replacement in the terminal.

I attended the 1st OpenAI Codex meetup today. Thanks Singtel
for venue
- Actually met with and talked with OpenAI people, they were the main presenter
- 5 community demos
- Met and talked with great people from across the industry

'hardening' and 'canonical' are some of the words I have learned from fellow Codex

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.

Team Member Introduction: JeffY Introducing JeffY, a computer science student at UNSW with JavaScript experience and strong interest in visual novels.

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...

RouteVN Creator - 0.17.0 RouteVN is the dedicated platform exclusively for Visual Novels. Creators can create, publish, and distribute their work while readers can discover and read.

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

Building a Visual Novel Engine Part 3 - RouteVN Creator This post walks through how we built RouteVN Creator, a no-code desktop application for creating Visual Novels, covering the architecture and design decisions page by page.

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

GitHub - max-sixty/worktrunk: Worktrunk is a CLI for Git worktree management, designed for parallel AI agent workflows Worktrunk is a CLI for Git worktree management, designed for parallel AI agent workflows - max-sixty/worktrunk

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.