Hi, I'm Yury.
Building in Tech since 2008
I â¤ī¸ Mobile, Game Dev, FOSS, XR, DevEx and UX, Accessibility!
As seen on
Apps
- đ§ Stimmie â Helps Autistic adults unmask and become unashamedly themselves.
- đ My Clock â Customizable desktop clock with widgets, live wallpaper, and night light.
- đŽ Game Pass List for Xbox â Browse and track Xbox Cloud Gaming titles.
- đšī¸ Games List Pro for PlayStation â Explore and organize your PlayStation game collection.
- đ§Š Widgets â The OG widgets app from 2020, as seen on GadgetHacks, Beebom, and TechCrunch.
- đ° VegasRank.net â explore the Las Vegas Strip like a local!
Newsletter & Podcast
A deep dive into how apps, games, people, and money interact.
- đī¸ YV Podcast â the Rabbit Hole, out loud. Narrative tech storytelling in the spirit of Planet Money and Acquired.
- đ¨ YV Insights â the deep dives, on Substack.
- đŧ YV Insider â the same deep dives on LinkedIn, plus bonus pieces only there.
Community
- đŦ YV and Friends â the back room where the Rabbit Holes happen out loud: startups, OSS projects, growth strategies, paywalls, and the messy reality of shipping, argued over in real time.
It's still small enough that you walk in a regular, not a number. Pull up a chair before it gets loud.
Open Source
- đ§ glassmith â Forge iOS 26 Liquid Glass app icons from layered source: assemble, preview every appearance, and wire them into Xcode.
- đ Twitter Userscripts â Accessibility-first power-user scripts for Twitter/X.
- âī¸ Is iCloud's Free Tier Still 5GB? â Yes. Since 2011. Steve Jobs was still alive.
- â¨ī¸ Colemak Keyboard Driver â Pure C Windows kernel driver that adds Colemak to any QWERTY machine, with an on/off toggle.
- đ¨ Auto-Build on Save for IntelliJ â Triggers an incremental build on save so you never reach for Cmd+F9 again.
- đ Dostonamer â Generate names like it's the 19th century.
- đē Xcode Sad Trombone â Plays a wah-wah when your Xcode build fails.
- â¨ī¸ CEE IPA Layout â A Mac keyboard layout for typing the International Phonetic Alphabet.