New Blog Design!
Many, many thanks to Ted for his help in redesigning the Plover Blog layout. It was five years old and feeling pretty dang tired, to say the least. Ted spruced it up with this current simple but sharp...
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Black and White Alphabet Posters
Over on The Aviary, Achim has created some black and white steno alphabet posters! PDF - B&W Steno Alphabet PosterPDF - B&W Missing Sounds PosterReally nice, especially for people who prefer a...
View ArticleNew Look for the Aviary!
In keeping with Ted's splendid redesign for this blog, I've updated the PHPBB version of The Aviary (which will hopefully help with the recent spam problem), and since the previous theme wasn't...
View ArticleHelp Crowdfund Captioning and Interpreting for Polyglot Conference NYC!
Crossposting from the StenoKnight CART Blog, because I know there are a lot of linguists and polyglots in the Plover community: Polyglot Conference NYC 2015 is looking for funding so that they can pay...
View ArticleTuesday Miscellany
First, the most exciting thing, from Stenosaurus inventor Josh Lifton, about four days ago:I just last night sent the printed circuit board designs for fabrication. I will have them in-hand around...
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Holding Pattern
A little low-key Plover news while we're waiting for the next big bombshell. Count down to Stenosaurus is getting closer. Josh got some parts yesterday, will be getting more tomorrow, and the first...
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Countdown to Stenosaurus: PCBs Have Arrived
Josh has updated the Stenosaurus blog with the details. More soon, I hope!
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Open Steno on a Thoughtbot Podcast!
I had the great good fortune to be interviewed about steno on the Thoughtbot podcast Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots!Transcript of the interview is here. Many thanks to Drew Neil (of the...
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Announcing Plover's New Lead Developer!
Many of you may know Ted Morin for his metakey dictionary, his number inversion dictionary, his Plover speed progress diary, his always helpful and patient advice to new users in the Plover Google...
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The Miscellany Before The Storm
I have an extremely exciting announcement waiting in the wings, but before then, a few assorted items:There's a new ergonomic NKRO keyboard campaign on Crowd Supply (the company that will be offering...
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Mini-Stenosaurus Update
Exciting announcement is still under wraps (hopefully coming very soon!), but in the mean time, have some pictures of the Stenosaurus assembled PCB: Josh came into NYC last weekend for a whirlwind...
View ArticleMovement/Editing Dictionaries
Okay, so the exciting announcement got put on hold one more time, but I promise it's in the works. More very soon. In the mean time, I've got some excellent little mini-dictionaries to tide you over!...
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Announcing: Steno Arcade!!!
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!!!!If you've been following The Open Steno Project for a while, you know that one of my long-held dreams has been to develop a steno tutorial arcade game suite to teach and...
View ArticleStenodict: A New Steno Dictionary Repository
Ted, our intrepid lead developer, has outdone himself yet again. He decided that there needed to be a centralized hub for stenographers to share specialized dictionaries, and took it upon himself to...
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New From Steno Arcade: Logo and GIFs!
So I posted the Steno Hero logo when I announced the project, but we've got a logo for the overall game suite as well! Plus we've got some more art from Steno Hero to show you! A sample of the...
View ArticleStenoArcade.com is live!
Just a quick update: StenoArcade.com is now an actual site that exists, and you can enter your name and email address there if you want to be added to our mailing list for when the crowdfunding...
View ArticleUltimate Hacking Keyboard Now Has a Trackball
Wow, I'd been holding off on pledging for an Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, which I first posted about last month, because if I'm gonna get a backup steno machine to carry in my work bag, I was thinking it...
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Help Us Find CC-Licensed Music for Steno Hero!
First, some more pictures from the latest build of Steno Hero: I've played the demo, it's completely amazing, and it's so close to being done, I can almost taste it!! We'll be releasing the demo with...
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Sneak Peek At A New 3D-Printed Steno Machine
Yesterday, on The Plover Google Group, we got an exciting announcement out of nowhere: There's another low cost steno writer on the horizon! Scott writes: I have been using a Stenoboard for a while...
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Introducing Aloft From Stan Sakai and The Open Steno Project!
I am thrilled to utter pieces to introduce readers of The Plover Blog to the Open Steno Project's newest software application: Aloft, a collaborative realtime streaming app and automatic transcript...
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