Rust + WASM typing game. https://srdusr.com/git/typerpunk/atom?h=main 2026-02-27T23:17:00+00:00 2026-02-27T23:17:00+00:00 srdusr 99972264+srdusr@users.noreply.github.com 2026-02-27T23:17:00+00:00 urn:sha1:5af72f55bb7fb620af740c9da394e093d7f1280a Merchandise. Shirts, mugs and deskmats, sold through the same hosted checkout. Physical goods differ from cosmetics in three ways the schema had to carry: they have a size to choose, they need an address, and payment unlocks nothing. What a paid order produces is an obligation to pack and post something. The address is collected by Stripe on its own page and arrives here on the webhook, so no postal detail is ever entered on this site. Postage is a separate line item rather than folded into the price. A size is checked against the sizes the item actually comes in, on the server as well as in the browser, so a request naming anything else is refused rather than quietly posted as a medium. /api/admin/orders lists what has been paid for and not yet sent, and the Contribute screen shows an administrator the same list with the address and a button to mark each one posted. Without that the list of what is owed lives only in the processor's dashboard. Shipping is limited to 21 countries, which is a list of places somebody is willing to post to, not a technical limit. The race view. The sprite sat still at the left of a 6px bar, which made the one thing a player owns and can see the least visible part of the race. It rides the track now, moving with progress, on a dashed line that reads as road ahead with the trail behind it. The field is 1040px wide rather than 680, the sprites are 30px rather than 18, and each row carries its own percentage as well as its speed. Advertising. Two 160x600 rails in the page margins, shown only above 1424px, which is the width at which they fit beside the widest content column without crowding it. Below that they do not exist. They follow the same rules as the banner: never while typing, never for a supporter. --border-color was used in five places and defined in none. An undefined custom property invalidates the whole declaration at computed-value time, so every one of those borders fell back to currentColor: bundle cards, merch cards, the size buttons and the settings checkbox all had borders that were either invisible or faint text-coloured lines. It is defined now, derived from each theme's neutral so it tracks the palette. .settings-hint caps itself at 340px, which is right under a heading and wrong for a line introducing a full-width grid. Verified against a real database: the catalogue endpoint, a shirt refused without a size, a shirt refused with a size it does not come in, a valid size and a no-variant mug both reaching checkout, 404 on an unknown item, 401 unauthenticated, and 401 on the admin orders list without the role. 24 Rust tests, 3 browser tests, and all 21 screen and viewport combinations clean. 2026-02-25T07:23:00+00:00 srdusr 99972264+srdusr@users.noreply.github.com 2026-02-25T07:23:00+00:00 urn:sha1:d7c1c7b35e9d0995eed41d437404d5255529cf17 Branding. The name was set in the body typeface and that was the whole of it. There is a mark now: a chevron, a baseline, and a block cursor resting on it, which reads as text being entered at a prompt and stays legible at 16 pixels. The chevron is drawn twice, the lower copy offset and in the secondary colour, which is the one stylistic note. The wordmark is split so the accent falls on the second half. Everything is drawn in the theme's own variables, so the mark follows the palette rather than carrying its own, and the favicon is the same drawing. The menu carried the name twice, as its own title and as the fixed corner mark. The corner mark exists for screens with no title of their own, so the menu keeps only the title, now the full lockup at size. The settings panel. Measured at 1280x900 it opened at y=506 with a height of 437, so it ran 140px past the bottom of a 900px window, and .app is overflow:hidden so there was nothing to scroll. It had no background either, so the fixed footer links rendered through the middle of it and, sitting higher in the stacking order, took the clicks: Playwright could not press the panel's own Close button because the footer intercepted every attempt. Both it and the custom text panel are dialogs now. Centred, opaque, above the fixed chrome, scrolling internally, with the page dimmed behind them. Their controls are buttons, but .quiet removes a button's border, so a panel of them read as a list of plain text labels with nothing to suggest any of it could be clicked. They keep an outline inside these panels. The checkbox was the browser's default control in a panel where nothing else was, and its border was too dark to see against the panel. Escape did not close either of them. The handler looked for .rail-settings-panel, which is a different panel on a different screen. A Dev section with a button that jumps straight to the results screen with invented figures was shipping to every visitor. It is limited to localhost. The top rail. The account control has moved into the icon row, right of Friends, and is the account's own picture once signed in: there is no avatar upload, so it is the initial over a colour hashed from the whole username, which gives every account a stable and distinct mark. Sign In and Sign Up sit on their own row beneath. The friends count is a badge under its icon rather than the words "2 online" beside it. That took the rail from 307px wide to 189px, which is what had been overlapping the wordmark by 75px at 390px. But it also made the rail taller, which put the close button back underneath it, so the rail now publishes its measured height and the content column starts below whatever that is. The rail is one row signed in and two signed out, so this is not a constant the stylesheet could hold. The wordmark was inline-flex, which blockified its two halves, so the name read as two lines to innerText: a screen reader, a copy-paste, or a test. The advertising slot has moved from inside the results screen to a banner across the top of the page, where a navigation bar usually goes. The header moves down to make room rather than being covered by it. It stays off the typing screen, the passive reader and the race lobby. Custom text: the panel had no title, and its hint was centred at 340px inside a 480px panel, which broke one sentence into three ragged lines. 3 browser tests pass. The store test now asserts the avatar replaces the sign-in links rather than expecting a button that has moved. 2026-01-14T20:23:00+00:00 srdusr 99972264+srdusr@users.noreply.github.com 2026-01-14T20:23:00+00:00 urn:sha1:4933f669f8338ca5e4c64cf0294818c5d15ed122 The dataset's median passage was 69 characters, about twelve words, which is over in twelve seconds at an ordinary speed. Some packs were worse: shell had a median of 46 and a shortest entry of 17. That is the reason packs felt small. It was not the number of entries, which was 15 to 37 per pack, but the length of each one. Multiplayer had already hit this and worked around it: load_race_texts filters to 120 characters or more. That filter left only 61 of 350 passages eligible, 38 of them from two packs, so races repeated constantly and four packs could never come up at all. Both halves are fixed. Content: 104 longer passages added across every pack. The command packs get whole pipelines rather than single flags, which is how the tools are actually used and what the explanations were always for. Prose packs get passages that run 150 to 320 characters. Selection: a floor of 120 characters. Prose packs draw from their long entries where a pack holds at least five, so no pack is reduced to the same few passages. The command packs chain consecutive entries into one drill, which is the natural shape for them, and the explanations are collected so each line is still described. Measured over 400 draws per pack, every category now runs a median of 146 to 218 characters with a shortest draw of 120. The race pool went from 61 of 350 to 130 of 454. Attribution: 24 passages had none and displayed nothing at all under the text. They now say Unknown, which is the honest answer for a fact written for the pack, and the pangram is credited as one. The results and typing screens both fall back to Unknown rather than rendering an empty line, and the pack name is shown beside the source. Multiplayer results, three fixes: - PB never appeared. A race has no mode of its own, so modeKey was undefined, so recordResult never ran. Races share one key, because the passage is whatever the server dealt and a per-passage best would never be beaten. - Play Again started a solo test. A race carries standings and a solo run does not, so the results screen can tell them apart and now queues for another race. The end screen's own cleanup leaves the old room first. - CONSISTENCY was the longest label on the screen and made the accuracy column wider than the WPM column opposite it. It reads CON. RaceText carries the pack name so the results can show it for a race the same way single player does. 24 Rust tests and 3 browser tests pass. 2025-12-14T07:24:00+00:00 srdusr 99972264+srdusr@users.noreply.github.com 2025-12-14T07:24:00+00:00 urn:sha1:3dbebfbc9345d2603908f32c0dabebc0ff21feb3 Submissions - POST /api/texts proposes a passage; nothing reaches players until a moderator approves it. GET /api/texts serves the approved set, which the client merges on top of its bundled packs at startup. - Validation the server enforces rather than trusts: category from a fixed list, 40 to 600 characters, no control characters (a newline makes a passage untypeable in a single-line input), attribution length, and a unique index on md5(lower(btrim(content))) so the same passage cannot be submitted twice under different whitespace or casing. - Moderation is a flag on users. The queue and the review endpoint both refuse a non-moderator, and reviewing an already-reviewed submission is a 404 rather than a silent second write. - Submissions are rate limited per user: enough for a real contributor, not enough to fill the queue from a script. - A Contribute screen carries the form, your own submissions with their status, and - for moderators only - the review queue. This is the half of TypeRacer's model the packs could not reach by authoring: their corpus is roughly twelve thousand passages, grown by submission. Custom text as a study tool - Imported documents are kept between visits, with how far through each one you are. Custom text lived only in memory, so importing a set of notes and reloading the page lost them - fine for pasting a paragraph to race, useless for working through a file over several sittings. - Position is recorded when a segment is finished, not when the next is started, so closing the tab after a segment does not lose it. - Markdown is chunked as markdown: fenced code blocks are kept whole and typed line by line, and the decoration - hashes, asterisks, backticks, link brackets, table pipes - is stripped so what you retype is the material rather than the punctuation around it. - Everything stays on the device. Notes are not uploaded anywhere. Fixed while doing it: a chunk could contain a newline, which cannot be typed in a single-line input at all. Any paragraph with a line break inside it -- ordinary in notes and in wrapped prose - produced an unfinishable segment. Whitespace inside a chunk is now flattened. 2025-12-05T22:58:00+00:00 srdusr 99972264+srdusr@users.noreply.github.com 2025-12-05T22:58:00+00:00 urn:sha1:24f1eb6cc611f458c45f0ac4046efce51211d7d3 Naming - "Typing Test" removed from the browser tab, the crate description and the READMEs. The scope outgrew it: solo practice, live races, code drills and adaptive weak-key training. Content - Movies was prose *about* film, not film quotes - the same mistake the programming pack had. Replaced with 28 attributed lines. New anime pack, 28 lines across 24 series. - This follows the model TypeRacer states outright ("type quotes from popular music, songs, anime, comic books and more"): short excerpts attributed to the work they came from. The scalable half of their approach is user submission with moderation, which is a feature this does not have yet. Leaderboard - An empty board tells a new player nobody is here. Bots now race the eight fixed-length leaderboard modes, seeded with a fortnight of backdated results on first run and one new result every 90 seconds after. - They are ordinary users carrying is_bot, returned by the same query and labelled "bot" in the UI. Seeding a board is reasonable; passing synthetic scores off as human results is not, so the flag travels with the row. - Seeding is checked per mode. A single result from the live ticker used to satisfy an "any bot results" guard and leave every other mode empty forever. Stats - The per-key accuracy data Practice mode is built on was computed, used to generate text, and never shown. The screen now ranks your weakest keys with the error rate and pause length behind each one. - Added recent form against your lifetime average, best accuracy, and tests this week. Multiplayer standings - Now place, racer, WPM, accuracy and time, with column labels - the columns TypeRacer and 10FastFingers both show. Site furniture - Share (Web Share where available, clipboard otherwise - no third-party button, no tracking script), a GitHub link, and a real privacy page written from what the code actually stores rather than from a template. Button hierarchy - Everything was an outlined box of roughly equal weight, so a screen's one real action, a settings toggle and a filter chip looked alike. Three tiers now: primary (filled, one per screen), default (outlined), quiet (toggles and filters, bordered only when hovered or active). 2025-09-13T19:11:00+00:00 srdusr 99972264+srdusr@users.noreply.github.com 2025-09-13T19:11:00+00:00 urn:sha1:0d3864bcebcdba1b1743367d0f84389fd53e37e1 End screen - Every figure is now a dim label directly over its value, the two centred on each other, grouped by what they qualify: RAW and PB under WPM, ERR and CONSISTENCY under ACC, KEYSTROKES and CHARACTERS either side of TIME. The row is a grid so TIME sits on the graph's exact centre line rather than drifting with its neighbours' widths. - Errors go back onto the wpm line. Their own y axis implied a magnitude a mistake does not have; what matters is when one happened. - Graph hover reads "wpm ... raw ... time" - the figures first, the second they happened in as the qualifier. Mode picker - Opens from the Single Player button itself, and choosing a mode starts it: picking what to type and starting it are one action. The control has now been a chevron notched into that button, a caption between the two buttons, a pill above them and a chip row below them; as the button's own menu it needs no separate real estate at all. Corners - Settings and Store move to the bottom-left. The top-left is the wordmark's alone. - The global racer count is gone from the home screen - it is not something you can act on there. The Friends control carries "N online" instead, which is. - Presence: users gain a last_seen column, touched at most once a minute per active user on any authenticated request, and the friends list reports who has been seen inside a five-minute window. Multiplayer race view - The standings move to the middle of the screen, the space the end screen's graph occupies, and now include your own row rather than opponents only. Pinned to the top-left corner they put what you are racing against in your peripheral vision and left out the one bar you most need to see. Programming mode - Snippets carry an explanation of what the code does. Shown under the passage while you type in single player; in multiplayer that space belongs to the standings, so it waits for the end screen, where it appears either way. 2025-09-11T19:53:00+00:00 srdusr 99972264+srdusr@users.noreply.github.com 2025-09-11T19:53:00+00:00 urn:sha1:a726d9f5fb56e1fd7983c5ac806d408ad78daa86 Multiplayer - Quick match: POST /api/multiplayer/quickmatch returns whichever room is still filling, or opens one. Players never see a room code; joining by code stays for racing specific people. - Bots fill quick-match rooms after a short wait so a new game is never an empty lobby. They only ever join quick-match rooms, never a room opened by code. One or two per room, drawn from separate ~40 and ~80 WPM tiers so two bots are never near each other's pace, and they stall to correct mistakes rather than typing a clean straight line. - Live player count via GET /api/multiplayer/online, shown on the Multiplayer control and under the main menu's Multiplayer button. - Per-racer colours: you are the theme accent, opponents take distinct hues that stay the same from lobby to race. - The countdown no longer holds the room lock for its full three seconds, which is what reset clients mid-countdown. Typing languages - 16 languages for the generated-word modes, each with its own high-frequency vocabulary rather than a translation of the English list. - Picker in the top-right rail; non-English uses its own list at every difficulty tier instead of falling back to English words. Fix UTF-8 accuracy in the game core - update_game_state mixed byte and character counts: total_characters_typed accumulated byte-length deltas while total_correct_characters compared a char index against that byte count. Equal on ASCII, so it went unnoticed; a correctly typed Spanish passage scored 6%. The old byte slicing would also have panicked if an index landed inside a multi-byte character. Rewritten char-based, with regression tests. Programming mode - Replaced prose about programming with real code: 26 syntax-highlighted snippets across JavaScript, Python, Rust, C/Go/Java and shell. Single-line by necessity, since the typing input is a single-line field. Layout and readability - One icon rail arrangement on every screen: Settings/Store under the wordmark, Language/Theme/Friends/Account top-right, Stats/Leaderboard/ Multiplayer bottom-right. - Main menu: mode picker moved out of the Single Player button, which it was notching a divider through and pushing the label off-centre. - Escape returns to the menu, closing any open popover first, and confirms before abandoning a live race. - Split --text-color and --sub-color per theme; they shared one value that measured 3.65:1 against the background, below the 4.5:1 body-text floor. - Semantic colours used in exactly one place each: gold for a personal best, amber for the race countdown and the mobile-result badge. - Passage now sits in the same place on the typing and end screens, and its column is a whole number of characters wide so wrapping cannot leave a permanent gap on the right. - End screen: keystrokes and a correct/wrong/extra/missed split, attribution carried over from the typing screen, and a graph with a separate error axis, axis titles including seconds, and smoothed lines.