2020 OSP Community Survey is Live!
Please take the survey here. Many many thanks to Ty for getting this all together, and to community members for adding their questions. I can't wait to see what we come up with!
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Beautiful Custom Tented Georgi Stand
Check out this amazing handmade tented Georgi stand from jladd! What an incredible piece of work!
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Steno Zine!
A lot of it is about the technical details of how to get started with open-source steno, but I also get a bit into the history and culture around it, which is pretty interesting if you're into that...
View ArticleHomebrew Firmware for StenoMod
Hey, if you've ever wanted multichord repeat for your StenoMod, check out Paper Steno, Josh's custom firmware, now up on GitHub. I haven't used it myself, but I know several people who find it helpful...
View ArticleGeorgi Songvid and Preliminary Survey Results
Check out Jladd demonstrating some cool steno skills on his Georgi (and beautiful custom tripod mount) along to a soothing Cat Power song! Also, the initial results of the Open Steno Project Community...
View ArticleSteno Proverbs
On the Discord recently, Jladd (who has been compiling some fantastic steno Anki decks lately) proposed some proverbs, inspired by Go Proverbs and Programming Pearls. Here was his list: Treat steno as...
View ArticleCorrected Survey Responses Link
Hey, somehow I managed to accidentally link to the results of last year's survey instead of the one for this year in the preliminary results post! I've fixed the link in the original post, but here are...
View ArticleGergoPlex Heavy: A Beautiful Chonk of a Hybrid Split Keyboard
The new GergoPlex Heavy from the man who brought us the Georgi can be used with steno (using NKRO) or qwerty or any other layout, since it runs QMK firmware. It's not as affordable as a stock Georgi,...
View ArticleJoin the Plover Discord!
Stuff is rough right now, as I don't need to tell anyone. So if you're looking for a kind and friendly community, please consider joining The Plover Discord. They talk about all sorts of stuff on...
View ArticleSteno Community Virtual Meetup?
If you're potentially interested in such a thing, join the Discord. They might be making one happen at some point!
View ArticleVideo Hangout Time
Josh on the Discord says:OK, I'm just going to go ahead and do something simple. Sunday, April 5th, 8-9PM UTC, I'll fire up a Google Hangout and post the link here. Those are limited to 10 people, but...
View ArticleA New Step Forward for Plover in the Middle!
Go to the Discord and check out this series of pictures and descriptions of Charley's latest attempt to turn a Raspberry Pi and a TinyMod into a self-contained PloverBox!! Great stuff. Apparently...
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New Steno Cheat Sheet
Check out this beautiful new Steno Keyboard Cheat Sheet by Graf on the Plover Discord! I love the whole aesthetic.
View ArticlePlover Dictionary Transformer
A new tool for making batch changes in the Plover dictionary, by chaoticdefendant on the Discord: Plover Dictionary Transformer. I remember doing this by hand like 14 years ago, when I swapped all the...
View ArticleSpectra Lexer: Still Freaking Cool
I've blogged about this before, but people on the Discord have been newly enthusing about Spectra Lexer, and I believe it's gotten some new documentation since the last time I posted about it, so I...
View ArticleThe Satisfaction of a Practice Graph
Check out this beautiful post on r/Plover by user gmat800live. I remember when I was in steno school I plotted all my thrice weekly speed tests obsessively, which helped me tremendously to see my...
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Kids and Steno
Someone recently posted this video on the Plover Discord. I'd seen it before, but I watched it again, because the subject's been on my mind lately. My own kid has really been getting into writing...
View ArticleNew Open Hardware NKRO Laptop
Check out the MNT Reform, a new open hardware Linux laptop with n-key rollover currently being funded on Crowd Supply. Instead of following the trend of making ever thinner and smaller devices and...
View ArticleTips on Quieting Your Georgi
When I was using my Georgi full time in classrooms last fall, I would occasionally get dirty looks at the loud clicking sound it made. I was a little hesitant to try to make it quieter, because I had...
View ArticleNew Typey-Type Lessons: Proverbial Phrases!
Check out these fantastic exercises on Typey-Type using commonly known proverbs to drill your steno skills! Unrelatedly, in the shower today I thought of the sentence "PAUL STRAPD TRUFLD WAFLS TO TWO...
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