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Yuri Karabatov
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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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Going to do a lightning talk tomorrow at a work-adjacent Rust meetup
“Rust for Swift developers” — Yuri Karabatov, 13 November 2025
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Typing trainer Typingvania is 10% off for the Steam Autumn sale store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...
September 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Hit 100 WPM after 10 hours #typing practice in Typingvania norikitech.com/typingvania
WPM: 100 Accuracy: 100% Typingvania "All-time performance" screenshot showing accuracy and speed graphs, with speed trending up over a total of 776 rounds
September 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Typingvania, a typing trainer where you type words from real books tailored to your skill, is OUT NOW on Steam and Mac App Store!

norikitech.com/typingvania/
Typingvania logo: "Typing" followed by a vertical pipe representing a cursor, followed by "vania", Typing|vania
August 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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New book day! Let's see what HTMX is about.
The book “Hypermedia Systems”
August 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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New project let's go
Empty repository with "Initial commit"
August 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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If you look at the repo, Typingvania is an HTML game
HTML 80.4% C 12.6% C++ 5.9% Go 0.5%
August 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Typingvania is now content-complete with 8 books in 8 languages and multiple keyboard layouts. It will launch on Steam August 26th and later on Mac App Store.

Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...
August 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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For this #WishlistWednesday I'm happy to announce that my typing trainer Typingvania will be released on Steam on August 26th!

Wishlist Typingvania on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...
Textual logo for Typingvania with a cursor: Typing|vania
August 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Typingvania will have books in six languages at launch: English, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, French and Russian.

Wishlist Typingvania on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...
“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
August 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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A Japanese book joins English, French, Simplified Chinese and Russian for the release lineup.

Wishlist Typingvania on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...
Screenshot of the main screen of Typingvania showing text in Japanese and suggesting the player to type "じりじり" as "jirijiri".
August 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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If you want to practice 简体中文 I got you covered

Wishlist Typingvania on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...
Screenshot showing the highlighted phrase "心心念念" and the suggested pinyin text to type "xin1 xin1 nian4 nian4".
July 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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You can now switch between four different themes, with two high contrast options.

Wishlist Typingvania on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...

#gamedev #indiedev #typing
July 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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If you wanted to practice French, now you can (even if you don't have a French keyboard)

Wishlist Typingvania on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...
July 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Sneak peek of what I'm working on for Typingvania
Screen showing a list of books: * “Dracula” * « L’Île mystérieuse »
July 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Finally got the game working again with the multilanguage binary files! Now to prioritize all the work I can reasonably do before release.

Wishlist Typingvania on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...
#typing #indiegame #gamedev
Screenshot of the typing trainer Typingvania showing the Training focus panel (Accuracy for "n": 93.75%, Reach 95%) and the text to type.
July 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I took a break from Typingvania but I'm back! Just finished the binary converter/exporter that now fully supports multiple layouts per book and multiple languages
Screenshot of a log finishing with “Wrote 7156215 bytes.” and a file icon for dracula2.fab sized at 7,2 MB.
July 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I'm very prone to mindlessly open X or whatever and it breaks my thinking, so on my laptop I put a 20 second delay on opening any social media that also reminds me of my current top goal I should work on.

Don't let it control you. Read with intention.
"one sec" extension dashboard
May 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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“Between building features, let's take a sprint to take on tech debt!”
Clowns trying to put out a fire with joke flowers. A comic from Buni
May 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Reading about Rust, it's painfully obvious how hard Apple fumbled Swift. It could be as widely adopted as Rust is because it has most of the same features that make Rust so good as a language.

But the libraries and OS support are just not there. And compile times, ugh.
* 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.
May 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Rewrote the shader and made the charts as crisp as the text ✨

Wishlist Typingvania on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...

#typing #gamedev #indiegame
A before image showing an uneven, bumpy chart. An after image showing a smooth antialiased chart.
May 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I'll write a nicer shader for the chart, but the layout for this stats screen is done

store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...

#gamedev #indiegame
All-time performance screen showing charts for Accuracy and Speed for a total of 191 rounds
April 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Typingvania is now more than 15,000 lines of C
cloc output: C: 42 files, 10169 lines of code C header: 46 files, 4917 lines of code
April 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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“If you would please consult the graphs!” First rough pass on another stats page for Typingvania

Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3632460/...
Game screen showing charts for Accuracy and Speed with values and the central trend lines
April 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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First step to rendering the accuracy/speed graph
April 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM