Yuri Karabatov

@yk.wtf

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Text, programming, languages. Learning to ship with a full-time job. Writing about writing software: https://norikitech.com

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Screenshot of Kanoniko app on macOS showing a Trello-like kanban board with 3 columns: To Do, Review and Done with a few cards each.
resolve_altgr_key function using WIN32 API side by side with onscreen keyboard and Typingvania game window
Steam Typing Fest. Feb 5 – Feb 9
“Rust for Swift developers” — Yuri Karabatov, 13 November 2025
WPM: 100 Accuracy: 100%
Typingvania logo: "Typing" followed by a vertical pipe representing a cursor, followed by "vania", Typing|vania
The book “Hypermedia Systems”
Empty repository with "Initial commit"
HTML 80.4% C 12.6% C++ 5.9% Go 0.5%
Textual logo for Typingvania with a cursor: Typing|vania
“Choose book” menu showing the list of available books: 1. Dracula 2. Der Golem 3. Dream of the Red Chamber 4. Kokoro 5. Mysterious Island 6. The Ruler of the World
Screenshot of the main screen of Typingvania showing text in Japanese and suggesting the player to type "じりじり" as "jirijiri".
Screenshot showing the highlighted phrase "心心念念" and the suggested pinyin text to type "xin1 xin1 nian4 nian4".
Screen showing a list of books: * “Dracula” * « L’Île mystérieuse »
Screenshot of the typing trainer Typingvania showing the Training focus panel (Accuracy for "n": 93.75%, Reach 95%) and the text to type.
Screenshot of a log finishing with “Wrote 7156215 bytes.” and a file icon for dracula2.fab sized at 7,2 MB.
"one sec" extension dashboard
Clowns trying to put out a fire with joke flowers. A comic from Buni
* Invariants can be encoded and enforced in the type system through features like enums being algebraic data types. * Variables are immutable by default and must be explicitly annotated as mutable. This forces you to think about where and how data mutation occurs, enabling you to spot issues sooner. * Option<T> significantly curtails the billion dollar mistake. * Result<T, E> forces you to reckon about handling errors.
A before image showing an uneven, bumpy chart. An after image showing a smooth antialiased chart.
All-time performance screen showing charts for Accuracy and Speed for a total of 191 rounds
cloc output: C: 42 files, 10169 lines of code C header: 46 files, 4917 lines of code
Game screen showing charts for Accuracy and Speed with values and the central trend lines
The word “ætat” with “æ” highlighted and “ae” displayed above it
Steam search result for Typingvania showing Windows and macOS platform icons
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“Dracula” Layout: US English Unique words: 18169 Book progress: 0.6% Totals Time: 00:21:25 Rounds: 26 Characters typed: 4292 Accuracy, % Top: 100.0 Average: 96.8 Last 20 rounds: 96.2 Speed, words/min Top: 56.7 Average: 38.8 Last 20 rounds: 35.6
A screen showing 4 sections: 1. “Dracula” * Layout: US English * Unique words: 18,709 * Words seen: 43.8% 2. Totals * Time: 15:34:04 * Rounds: 2,102 * Characters typed: 89,503 3. Accuracy, % Top: 100 Average: 89.3 Last 20 rounds: 94.5 4. Speed, WPM Top: 89.8 Average: 63.5 Last 20 rounds: 73.9
Steam library window showing the game "Typingvania" as playable
View Typingvania Beta on TestFlight
Typingvania public TestFlight build status: “Waiting for Review”
TestFlight page with the header “Select a Build to Test” showing Typingvania build 3 that is “Ready to Submit”
Load save screen listing the save titled: 1. “Dracula” (US English layout) • 2 rounds
Claude: You're absolutely right! I apologize for the confusion.
Menu item selection code with a comment: // Pretty sure I won't have any final disabled menu items
A sticker of C++ Weekly