He Completed Typey Type!
Check out this fantastic blog post by someone who got 100% progress on Typey Type! It's a great read, and made me so dang happy. And so, after five months of practice, I finally reached 100%...
View ArticleRead Punz's Steno Diary!
From the Discord, there's a new Steno Diary to enjoy, by new Plover learner Punz. I love this genre of journal. It's always really fun to witness the trajectory of progress, the frustrations, the...
View ArticleVideo of Plover-assisted Art Installation: Assembly
Wow, remember when I blogged about Assembly, an art project featuring MIDI steno at the 2019 Venice Biennale? Our amazing Italian stenographer friend Sillabix posted actual footage of it in the Plover...
View ArticleMore Typey Type Updates!
Check out this Twitter thread on new updates to Typey Type! Highlights include:Progress page with ten most recent lessonsNew Javascript lessonsContributions to the Learn Plover table of prefix and...
View ArticleTyperacer Has a Steno Universe
This is a somewhat controversial development (that hasn't come without its costs to the steno community), and you can get minutes of the full debate by searching for "typeracer" in the Plover Discord,...
View ArticleCapacitive Steno Keyboard WIP
Check out this developing design for a DIY capacitive steno keyboard with Plover onboard. Some interesting ideas here! I'll be very interested to see how it turns out.
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Who Mods the TinyMod?
Gabi May from the Plover Discord is who! Just a short one today, showing off a picture of a gorgeously modded TinyMod with new springs and amazing flat lavender G20 keytoppers. Gabi May writes: I like...
View ArticleHow Steno Works
How Steno Works, a new essay for people who are curious about the nuts and bolts of steno, is now live on Art of Chording! It's a fantastic introductory resource for people who have no frame of...
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Cool Capacitative Prototype
Check out this image gallery for a new capacitative Plover board that evils is currently cooking up! I think this is such a cool idea, and I really hope it comes to fruition soon!
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Pretty New Hardware
Just some pretty pictures to look at today! First up, Ted's newly hand-soldered Planck Lite with the keytoppers off for maximal rainbow effect: Next, Bill's Cougar Attack-X3 RGB with 3D printed steno...
View ArticleArt of Chording on Hacker News
This is a bit late, but did y'all see that Art of Chording, the WIP textbook of our illustrious leader Ted, made Hacker News? Pretty good discussion over there! Proud as ever of Ted and his...
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Just another quick photo of another nice semi-DIY steno setup. Dharmalar from the Discord writes: Not sure if this would be helpful to anyone! I wanted to 3D print key toppers, but don't have a...
View ArticleTypey-Type adds Irreversible Binomials!
There are several new lessons on irreversible binomials on Typey Type!irreversible binomials with alliterationIrreversible binomials with opposites and antonymsIrreversible binomials with related words...
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Thai Steno!
Parnikkapore on the Plover Discord is working on implementing a steno layout for Thai!More-or-less-full specs for my 1st gen Thai steno layout.The layout is phonetically arranged (to an extent) and...
View ArticleTypey Type Now Has a Metronome!
Some awesome new Typey Type updates from Di! Typey Type now has a metronome! You can use a metronome to improve your rhythm for each stroke in finger drills. By drilling difficult transitions between...
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Gergoplex: A Dual Mode Option
Picture of steno-ready Gergoplex by Cadey on the Plover DiscordI've sung the praises of the Georgi, Germ's dedicated steno rig, but I'm not sure I've mentioned the Gergoplex, another of his offerings,...
View ArticleNew Steno-Friendly Multiplayer Typing Site
Typeracer has gotten increasingly hostile to steno users lately, which is a shame, because we've found some good community there in the past, but a new site called Typination has stepped up. It's still...
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Splitography is Back!
Ecca, one of our original open source steno hardware pioneers, writes: I am back, splito is back, supplier issues resolved again, steno keebs will be shipping November 29th. Yay!The Splitography is a...
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Hacktoberfest 2020!
Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source, and anyone who makes four or more pull requests to an open source repo hosted on Github will receive a free T-shirt from Digital Ocean.Some...
View ArticleSurvey for a Proposed New Steno Machine
Fill out this survey from brookieoz on the Discord if you have need of a new independent steno machine that might solve certain problems for you that the current machines can't. There's also a...
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