I’ve reached 150,000 followers. It’s honestly hard to put into words how much this means to me.
At the same time, it can feel a bit overwhelming. In Chinese communities, some people refer to me as a KOL, and I often see my tweets being screenshotted and shared across WeChat groups in real time.
“Jukan said this.”
Sometimes even the shitposts I throw out as jokes end up being analyzed far more seriously than I ever intended....
That said, there’s no denying that I’ve received far more attention and support than I ever expected.
I wouldn’t have made it this far without all of you.
Thank you, sincerely.
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If AI large-model talent in China is looking for domestic career opportunities, WeChat is actually worth considering. Not many people know that the WeChat team also has its own large model, WeLM, which is closed-source and has already iterated to version V4.
At this stage, joining established, scaled large-model teams is the more conventional choice. But there are also people who choose to join WeChat’s relatively small-scale large-model effort, which is somewhat like trying to bottom-fish in the stock market—of course, it still depends on individual judgment and ability to evaluate the situation.
Revisit this post in three months.
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Growing up in China, then moving to the States, I get asked about Superapps constantly by international friends. It sounds grand and obvious. My answer is always the same: it's not that easy!
Every superapp starts as one genuinely indispensable app. Let’s use WeChat as an example:
2011: Messaging (core chat)
2012: Moments (social timeline)
2013: WeChat Pay (payments)
2014: Red Packets (红包), arguably the single most important product moment in WeChat's history. Launched during Chinese New Year, it went viral overnight and onboarded hundreds of millions of users onto WeChat Pay in weeks. Tencent later called it a "Pearl Harbor attack" on Alibaba's Alipay dominance.
2015: WeChat Pay expanded into offline retail broadly.
2016: Enterprise WeChat
2017: Mini Programs, which allowed third-party apps to run natively inside WeChat without users downloading anything.
2020: Channels (short video, direct response to Douyin/TikTok's dominance.)
2022+: Deeper Channels integration, live commerce, search ambitions
It's the heaviest app on my phone and i'm forever grateful that it exists so i can send silly photos to my parents when I was roaming around the world.
Never forget that building the initial core product sets the foundation for everything that comes after
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Mole 1.5.0 took 6 days, 171 commits, 215 files touched, and 57k+ lines changed.
Detailed changelog:
1. Menu bar: added live CPU, memory, and network stats, menu-bar-only mode, right-click quick actions, hotkey support, ghost-state protection, and the new runner animation system.
2. Status: added fan controls for supported Macs, including Auto / Cool / Quiet modes, live RPM, stricter hardware probing, safer restore behavior, and upgrade recovery for old fan presets.
3. Software updates: added update checks and install flows for Homebrew Cask, Homebrew Formula, Mac App Store, Sparkle, and Electron-style appcasts, with clearer progress and safer cancellation.
4. Startup manager: added Login Items, Launch Agents, Launch Daemons, and background item review in one place, with safer authorization behavior so viewing startup items does not ask for admin access.
5. Uninstall: improved alias search, bundle ID search, app metadata matching, Homebrew cask detection, input method discovery, WeChat Input Method support, Doubao Input Method support, and safer root-owned app removal.
6. Clean: tightened log cleanup, protected VPN and proxy app state, guarded Application Support cache cleanup, improved browser and Electron cache detection, and added stronger Trash validation.
7. Analyze: improved disk labels, breadcrumbs, drill-down behavior, folder prefetching, large-directory readability, and trash safety checks.
8. License: improved device management, activation reuse, device reclaim flows, and clearer handling when a license is already used on two Macs.
9. Reliability: fixed Homebrew child-process cancellation, sudo helper reuse, fan preset recovery, MAS inventory edge cases, menu bar ghost states, Startup permission prompts, and release-signing/appcast edge cases.
10. Website and docs: updated the 1.5.0 homepage, release notes, docs, help pages, llms.txt, appcast, and downloadable DMG.
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