How I practice Chinese typing as a developer

I work across English and Chinese codebases — internal docs, commit messages, customer support replies — and for a long time my Chinese typing speed was a real bottleneck. I could read characters fine, but typing them in pinyin felt like four times slower than English. That's a non-trivial tax when you're shipping every day. This post is the short version of how I fixed it. Tools, not theory. The problem with "just practice more" Most generic typing tutors don't work for pinyin inpu...