Aerick's Beautiful Explainer Video
Early last month, the illustrious Aerick (a frequent star on this blog) posted this marvelous video demonstrating how steno works using multiple simultaneous visual overlays while captioning himself...
View ArticleTypey Type Now Has Progress Charts
The amazing Di, author of Typey Type, writes: I've coaxed D3 into a React app so you can see pretty charts of your typing speed and steno typos over time. With Typey Type, I aim to make features...
View Article2022 Open Steno Community Survey!
With help from the excellent Jen, the 2022 Open Steno Community Survey is now out! Jen writes:I know we got a massive influx of new Plover users in the past few months, thanks in part to YouTube...
View ArticleVideo of the Open Steno Meetup
I had the honor to caption a three-hour meeting with both Open Steno community members and stenographic professionals last Saturday. Our friend Christopher at Stenonymous made a detailed breakdown of...
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WORD/*L
As you're probably aware, Wordle is an extremely popular and trendy word game and novel clones keeppoppingup. Not to let steno be left behind, Plover Discord community member Abby#5422 has created...
View ArticleNew Open Steno Community Wiki
There's a new Open Steno Wiki on Miraheze, though with the following disclaimer: "This wiki is a work in progress and is not yet ready to replace the GitHub wiki."The community members who set it up...
View ArticleAsterisk Keycaps for Sale
These have been available for quite a while, it turns out, but I only just found out about them: A keytopper with the distinctive Plover steno key and asterisk icon. They're 3D printed by Ewen, a...
View ArticleNew Gutenberg Sentences in Stenojig!
The marvelous Josh writes: "I grabbed a new selection of 400 Project Gutenberg books and extracted nearly 200k shortish sentences (12 words or less) with unrestricted vocabulary: ask for top "0" words...
View ArticleNolltronics Restock
Review of the newly released Uni by Steno Keyboards is coming soon! But in the mean time, the already (very favorably) reviewed EcoSteno by Nolltronics is gonna be back in stock soon.Information on...
View Article20 Gram Springs for Uni
Punting the Uni review for another week, sorry, but I wanted to link to the Stenokeyboards Shop and its 20-gram springs, which are newly in stock, complete with a helpful video illustrating how to swap...
View ArticleFuzzyTek's Homemade Keyboard
FuzzyTek, a hardware hobbyist from the UK, just designed and built a custom steno keyboard and made a charming explainer video demonstrating the basics of steno (with a little help from Aerick), plus...
View ArticleSwitch and Click on Steno
A really fun perspective on steno by Switch and Click, a mechanical keyboard hobbyist. This video was uploaded last November and already has over 440,000 views! A non-steno friend forwarded it to me,...
View ArticleFun Uni Unboxing Video
I still haven't done my Uni review. Mea culpa! But to tide you over, here's a mechanical keyboard guy trading under the name of KeebNews, with no prior steno experience, talking about his first...
View ArticleUni Tripod Hack
In which Peter from Steno Keyboards discusses Aerick's excellent discovery that a Uni fits into a standard off-the-shelf tripod mount for a phone! Brilliant!
View ArticleAnother Great Uni Newbie Video
I really will write my review at some point, but to be honest, I think these videos of people new to steno trying it out are probably a lot more helpful to other newbies than my own perspective would...
View ArticleAmazing Longform Steno Coding Demo
This incredible two-hour video of longtime Ploverer Paul using steno to code in Rails came out in February, but somehow I hadn't posted it here yet. It really is a tour de force. If you've ever...
View ArticleStenoCycle Prototype Video
This video of a new steno learning game has been out for a few months already, but I wanted to link it here, because I think it's the start of something pretty cool. Longtime Open Steno legend Joshua...
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Please enjoy this fabulous guest post by Open Steno community member Calvin on a recent video on steno that's been making the rounds!...
View ArticleJarren Learns Steno Part 2
Jarren has released the second video in his steno learning series, and he seems to be getting the hang of it! I particularly enjoyed the part where he tried to draw a picture of the steno keyboard...
View ArticleSteno Jig Enhancements
The inimitable Josh Grams, creator of Steno Jig, pointed me to a cool fork of his project by new Plover user BiffBish. It features:A WPM graph after you finish a drill, the ability to turn off the...
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