Author & CodeXStory
Between code and stories.
Meet the creator behind the CodeXStory universe.
Hello, I’m
Vivi Dibrova
Software engineer · Illustrator · Author
Writing has been my calling since childhood. For years, I built systems by day and crafted stories by night.
I wanted to connect both sides of my thinking — and wondered why stories couldn’t look like code: structured, visual, rhythmic.
Read like code.
Feel like cinema.
How CodeXStory began
The first manuscript waited for its moment. Life shifted, projects changed, but the idea stayed close — unfinished, unforgotten. Eventually, in a time when the world felt unstable, the draft returned to me, and I approached it with new clarity and purpose.
That became the seed of CodeXStory — a place where I publish books written in code, experiment with new narrative structures, and explore how stories can feel cinematic, logical, and alive.
More about Vivi & the journey of CodeXStory
Between two worlds
I’m a software engineer with more than seven years of experience, an illustrator, and an author at heart — writing has been my calling since childhood. For years, I lived between two worlds: building systems by day and crafting small stories by night, always searching for a format that could connect both sides of my thinking.
One day I wondered why stories couldn’t look like code — structured, visual, rhythmic. I searched for a book written this way and found nothing. So I began shaping the format myself.
Journey of CodeXStory
- It began quietly - with sketches, stories, and the feeling that creativity lived between code and imagination.
- Then came structure: years of engineering that taught rhythm, clarity, precision.
- Then came the question: What if a story could behave like software?
- Searching for answers led to building a new form instead.
- A manuscript grew into a format; a format grew into a world.
- CodeXStory continues to expand - one experiment, one book, one idea at a time.