Yuri Karabatov

Josh's fundraiser for Marie Curie Help Josh Haxell raise money to support Marie Curie

I'm running the Bath Half Marathon this weekend to raise some money for Marie Curie in memory of my mum

I'm certainly feeling some things about the run happening to be on Mother's Day

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resolve_altgr_key function using WIN32 API side by side with onscreen keyboard and Typingvania game window

Had to drop down to WIN32 API to implement dead key handling in Typingvania the way I wanted to

Same. And post-it notes.

Time to go live in the woods

This week, everyone is a compiler expert. For once, I'd like to read “We used AI to implement a project that is fully standard-compliant and obliterates prior attempts in performance and accuracy.”

Steam Typing Fest. Feb 5 – Feb 9

My typing trainer Typingvania is 10% off for the duration of Steam Typing Fest! ⌨️ ⌨️ ⌨️

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The unique property of coding agents is that they turn any project into a legacy codebase. Then we can come in and do our usual software engineering job of mucking out the stable. We know how to work in a legacy project—after all, we do it all the time at work.

Whaaat are you in the UK? Until when?

I am here for this! Love both Banks and Hamilton

Such a cool role

I see typing game I like

Humble new prototype. The core is very simple (1 mechanic). Behind the scenes this already has lore, skill tree and metaprogression ⏳

Because I like procedural generation, I'm leaning to procedural terrain with a clipmap (pictured) but because it's boring and not Moon-like, I'll overlay craters, Path3D tracks and other terrain features

#gamedev #indiedev

Just watched it today and it was fire

In Vim % exists (jump to matching pair) so you can immediately see the scope and come back

If you're at the bottom of a long scope it's usually a sign the scope should fit on your screen in full :D

Nice font

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Got the suspension and grip/slip working. Added flight control with auto-leveling, thruster brake and natural steer-yaw. In an airless environment the speed just grows and grows as long as you keep breaking ground contact.

#gamedev #indiedev

One of the mechanics I'm exploring is additional downforce that decreases as you speed up. Physics is more Realistic™ now with fewer problems but still janky.

Working on the prototype for my next game, just put in a (janky) shapecast vehicle controller. First, to make it behave, and then to add some mechanics.

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday

New project (it's a game (again))

“Rust for Swift developers” — Yuri Karabatov, 13 November 2025

Going to do a lightning talk tomorrow at a work-adjacent Rust meetup

About to continue Rustober, took a break to read some fantasy 📚

Rust’s lack of constructors Rust’s lack of constructors

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Finished the Rust Book! Finished the Rust Book!

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Cargo dependency tree Cargo dependency tree

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Rules of ownership and borrowing in Rust Rules of ownership and borrowing in Rust

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