音を見て、色を聴く。
Hoàng Đình Sáng, known online as Meoki. A software engineer in Ho Chi Minh City, working somewhere between language, light and code. I like software that stays quiet until the moment you need it.
ScrollMove the cursor. It’s ink.
Click to let a drop fall.Touch the paper.
It’s wet.
I build quiet, useful software for the things I love: Japanese, light novels, and interfaces that feel alive.
I started out in 2016 as a freelance graphic designer, studied information security at university, and ended up somewhere in between: a full-stack engineer who cares how a thing looks as much as how it holds up.
By day I am a full-stack engineer, faithfully converting coffee into shareholder value. By night I am an unapologetic otaku learning Japanese, and most of what I open-source exists because I wanted it for my own reading.
An EPUB reader made for people learning Japanese.
Hover a word and a Yomitan dictionary opens. One click sends it to Anki. VOICEVOX reads the page aloud while a karaoke highlight follows along, in vertical text if you like it the way it was printed.
Live2D characters that live on your web pages.
One install and a model file. The Cubism core and shaders ship inside the package, so there is no PixiJS and nothing to copy. Characters idle, follow the pointer, react to taps and lip-sync to any audio.
Select text anywhere. Press a hotkey. Read it in your language.
A tiny tray app with three shortcuts: read a translation beside your cursor, write in a language you are still learning, or have a term explained. It works in any app and with any AI provider, cloud or local.
吾輩は猫である。名前はまだ無い。どこで生れたかとんと見当がつかぬ。何でも薄暗いじめじめした所でニャーニャー泣いていた事だけは記憶している。
I am a cat. As yet I have no name
The books are on the shelf. The key is on Discord.
A members-only library of Japanese light novels and manga for the TMW community. There is no account to make: ring the bell in Discord, a bot hands you a one-hour key, and a Live2D librarian keeps the desk while you search.
One tidy shelf for every light novel I get asked to share.
People kept asking for books and passing files around one by one got tiring. Now there is a library to browse, and every title opens straight in the browser through the web port of Aozora.
A quiet corner of the internet for light-novel thoughts.
Long-form reviews, essays and interviews in Vietnamese. Statically generated, written in MDX through an in-browser CMS, with fuzzy search and a mascot who watches you read.
The control desk for buildings that think.
A souvenir from a previous job: a desktop app for commissioning GNT room-control units, where lighting, air-conditioning, curtains, scenes and schedules are configured and monitored live. Its sibling, Rhythm Glow, turns music into colour and sends it down the same wire.
The first creations turned into the first cash. Every stumble since has been paving the same road.
Four years of security, malware and networks. Web development crept in on the side and never left.
Theory met production. Left with a degree and a preference for building things over breaking them.
A real job, with real deadlines. Desktop apps that talked to actual hardware, and shipping taught me what lectures could not.
Shareholder value by day. By night Aozora, moe2d, Gloss: tools for the things I love, Japanese, light novels, and software that feels alive.