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The Picosteno, New From Nolltronics!
Introducing the Picosteno, a new low cost steno DIY kit from Nolltronics! Nathan from Nolltronics says: We’ve heard people ask for an even cheaper entry-level stenography keyboard, so we went ahead and...
View ArticleNo News Today
Heya! No particular Open Steno news today, partly because I spent some time this evening talking up Open Steno to a group of a dozen or so student and professional stenographers online. It's gotten...
View ArticlePractice Plover Updated
Practice Plover, according to its creator, plants, has just received ome updates! Practice Plover has been updated with new sections on common prefixes/suffixes and even more practice text, and some...
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Thumbs Up Machines!
Look at these beautiful machines I just received as free review models from SashaK! They're available in Sasha's Thumbs Up Shop. The design is quite striking! I'm gonna give my fingers a little time...
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Peridot, a New DIY Machine
The Peridot is a simple QMK-powered mechanical keyboard for using the Plover open source software for steno. Its creator, Neko Ewen, says: There are a number of hobbyist steno keyboard designs out...
View ArticleLaTeX with Steno!!
LaTeX (pronounced lay-tek because the X is a Greek chi, as in Ï„Îχνη) is a legendary markup language/software system for typesetting, often used for scientific or mathematical documents requiring...
View ArticleSteno Etudes for Developers
Steno Etudes for Developers is the ever-marvelous jladdjr's new project for helping developers acquire and practice steno skills that are intended to be useful in their work. He says: Just got a...
View ArticleIntro to Stenography Coding
Check out this fantastic presentation by Paul at Ruby Australia! I always love Paul's demos, and this one is particularly good!
View ArticleType Type Lesson Generator!
Wow, check out Typey Type's new custom lesson generator! So many options to configure your lesson! The magnificent Di says: You can select all the options you want, hit "Build lesson", and check out...
View ArticleCan You Write Short Using Plover Theory?
A bit of a digression this week, if you'll indulge me. Recently on the Discord someone asked if Plover Theory was good enough for professional use. Well, I use it, I replied. And I'm a professional....
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Steno Pedagogy!
I'm not quite sure how or why, but my 6-year-old's interest in learning steno has recently been reignited! Kind of flying by the seat of my pants in terms of best practices for steno pedagogy, so any...
View ArticleMore Ruby Steno Coding: Paul Solves the Bob Problem
Paul says:This is my attempt at solving the "Bob" problem from Exercism's Ruby track in a test-driven (red-green-refactor) way using Plover stenography.
View ArticleNumbers and Symbols Demonstration Video
As Peter of StenoKeyboards says (and demonstrates) in this video, you can write anything with steno! Anything!!
View ArticleMakingFix Learns a Weird Keyboard (Spoiler: It's Steno)
A deep dive video, over two hours long, introducing the principles of steno via Plover and the EcoSteno! I confess I haven't actually watched this entire video, but from what I have watched, it seems...
View ArticleA Halkomelem Steno Theory!
Halkomelem is a Salishan language spoken in the Northwest of Canada, and Someone, a linguist, coder, and stenographer, is developing a stenographic theory to write it! How extremely cool!!!
View ArticlePracticePlover.com Has Been Updated!
PracticePlover.com just received a pretty big update, featuring more sections on prefixes/affixes and practice sentences!
View ArticlePortuguese Layout Video
Sadly I don't speak Portuguese, but if you do, check out this video on the Portuguese steno layout for Plover!
View ArticleNew Version of Plover2CAT
Discord user plants says: Plover2CAT, the plugin attempting to make Plover a CAT, is now ver 2.0.0. Biggest new features are you can insert images, change the background color, and do multi-stroke...
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