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Plover Community Survey Results
The Plover Community Survey results are here. Check 'em out!Some of the more interesting questions and answers:What is your current steno level?Absolute beginner - I'm very fresh. The very concept of...
View ArticleNew Online Steno Game: Cargo Crisis!
Mike Neale, creator of the amazing QwertySteno.com, has done it again! He's made a fantastic new Tetris-style typing game called Cargo Crisis, which uses the 500 most common words in the English...
View ArticleIntroducing Plover Dojo!
Two exciting Plover-related blog posts in one day! Partly because I've been falling down on the job a bit and not posting news items as quickly as I should, but partly because the Plover tutorial scene...
View ArticleLearn Plover!
Back in May, I was contacted by Zack Brown, a professional technical writer and open source aficionado, with a life-changing offer. He'd had some RSI issues and was frustrated with the inefficiency of...
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New Steno Game: Sentence Sprint!
My Plover table at the New York State Court Reporters Association Mini-ConventionSo the amazing Mike Neale of QwertySteno has done it again. Joining the Tetris-like fury of Cargo Crisis is a new steno...
View ArticleVim London Demo!
Yikes, it's been ages since I wrote on this blog. Many apologies; my day job wound up completely eating my life this fall, and everything else dropped by the wayside. I've got a huge backlog, so I'm...
View ArticleGigantic Backlog Linkdump
As promised, here's a massive linkdump of Plover material that's accumulated over the past few months. Ideally I should have been parceling these out little by little, but I didn't, and that's that. In...
View ArticlePlover v2.5.8 Released!
There's a new release of Plover, which improves CPU usage when in TX Bolt mode. Download it here!
View ArticleFeedback Needed!
We've got three people asking for feedback from the Plover community!First up, Josh is hard at work on the Stenosaurus, and in his most recent blog post, he gives us his working schematic of the design...
View ArticlePlover Presentation at NYC Accessibility Meetup
If you follow me on Twitter, you already know about this, but I figured I should post it here too: Hesky and I will be presenting on Plover at the NYC Accessibility Meetup today from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at...
View ArticleSee Hesky Present on Steno at Nerd Nite, 3/14!
Long-time NYC Nerds might know that Nerd Nite is one of the best places to go for lectures, libations, and likeminded geekwads, with presentations focusing on all sorts of eclectic and intriguing...
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Guest Post: Charles's DIY Steno Keyboard!
Recently Charles emailed me about the fantastic steno keyboard he's rigged up from scratch. It looked so amazing, I thought I'd ask him to write a guest post about the process. So here it is!My...
View ArticleTwo New Steno Tools
Two great new tools posted today to the Ploververse:First, Russell offers StenoLearner, a beautiful little browser-based steno parser in the style of PloverDemo. What's great about it is that it offers...
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Giant Monster Catch-Up Post
Manual steno machine, Sidewinders, and Infinity Ergonomic laid out at PyGotham 2014Gah! It's been absolute ages! Amazing things have been happening in the Plover world, but I've been too wrapped up in...
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Plover Learn Integrated Into Learn Plover!
Erika has just finished adding all the drills in Learn Plover! to Plover Learn, her interactive training site, and Zack in turn has linked to each lesson within the corresponding chapter of his book....
View ArticleMetakey Kludge
I'll let Ted from the Google Group describe his ingenious new solution for Plover's lack of arbitrarily stackable metakeys. (You can explicitly define a metakey+key combination in the dictionary, but...
View ArticleOpen Steno Project Community Survey 2.0
Last year we conducted a survey on the Plover community. Since then, we've added hundreds of new people to the mailing list, shown that Plover is now mature enough to be used professionally, added...
View ArticleLonger Plover Coding Snippet in Python
New Video!I've been meaning to do this for a while, but our delightfully inexplicable appearance on Hacker News this morning finally gave me the buttkick I needed to just sit down and do it. The...
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Recent News Roundup
Just a hodgepodge of new stuff in the world of open source steno:* I built my Stenoboard 1.1 a few nights ago, and I'm really happy with it! It writes smooth as butter, and it turns out it's slim...
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Stenosaurus Update and Survey Results!
Check out Josh's latest update on the Stenosaurus Blog! He's almost done with the PCB layout, the key switches are in production, and the countdown to getting a solid crowdfunding launch date is so...
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