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Steno Arcade is Funded!
We are funded!!!With three days left of the campaign to go, we're aiming for the stretch goal that will allow us to let players use any song in their music library. It's ambitious, but we've got a...
View ArticleSteno Arcade Campaign Is Over, 112% Funded!
Just a quick note to thank everyone again for funding the Steno Arcade campaign! We raised a total of $8,440, well above our baseline goal to finish development of Steno Hero, though sadly we didn't...
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Lead Dev Ted in NYC!
Yesterday our amazing lead dev Ted Morin came down from Ottawa to visit NYC, and we had a grand time wandering the city, drinking coffee, and talking steno. In the video above, he demonstrates that my...
View ArticleCool Little Plover Trick
A cool Plover trick invented by my longtime friend and recent Plover learner Martin: Someone else may find this useful; I created a new version of my dictionary update stroke. What this does is copy...
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Plover Vector Art
I made some diagrams of Plover's steno-to-qwerty keyboard mappings back in 2010, using MS Paint. They have not held up well, to say the least. Have some much-needed replacements, courtesy of Krakob:...
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Third Party Song Editor for Steno Hero
The fantastic thing about Open Source is that sometimes people just decide to donate their own time and expertise out of the blue! It's like randomly getting a present from a stranger, and it's the...
View ArticleGo See Ted Speak about Plover at PyGotham 2016!
Hacking/Typing/Writing at 200 Words Per Minute, at PyGotham 2016 this Sunday at 04:30 (Room CR6 at the UN) is a talk by our lead developer, Ted Morin, about how he has used Plover for coding, chatting,...
View ArticleBack From Hiatus! Many Updates!
So my last post before my kid was born (the reason for the Plover Blog hiatus; sorry about that) was about Ted's presentation at PyGotham 2016. The video for that talk is now live! Embedding is...
View ArticlePlover 3.1.0 Released!
Okay, this is a little overdue, but there's a new Plover release available as of ten days ago! Plover 3.1.0This is a minor release, meaning that we try to be backwards-compatible with v3.0.0 while...
View ArticleAviary Currently Frozen Due To Spam
No new posts or registrations will be allowed. Sorry about that! Will try to fix it when I can!
View ArticleTimeline of the OSP and New Steno Jig Exercises
First off, Ted has compiled a rough timeline of the Open Steno Project from its inception through the present day. Useful for people who want to put the whole trajectory of Open Steno in context. Also,...
View ArticleNew Gutenberg Sentence Drills at Steno Jig!
Check out all the new sentence drills featuring only common English words, extracted from public domain texts! There are a total of 80 of them so far. The URL above links to number 80; just change that...
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Come To The Discord Group! Meet Stenobot!
So I've pretty much dissolved the Aviary. I just couldn't keep the spammers out, and I froze the board to new posts, and it had very low traffic anyway. All the real Plover community action these days...
View ArticlePlover Beginner's Guide
This is a bit overdue, but we now have an excellent Beginner's Guide to Getting Started With Plover over on the new wiki, which has supplanted the old outdated stenoknight.com wiki. It's got...
View ArticlePlover 3.1.1 Released
This is a minor bug fix release affecting Linux and Mac users.Fix a certain type of NKRO on Linux (#644)Fix control key on macOS Sierra not working with global shortcutsFix an edge case of output for...
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Stenotoppers: 3D Printed Keys for Your Mechanical Keyboard!
The most exciting recent news in the Open Steno sphere is Jason's new Stenotoppers models, which you can print on any 3D printer (or have printed for you by a 3D printing shop, though that can get...
View ArticleTake the 4th Annual Community Survey!
Yep, it's that time of year again! And given how much our community has grown in the past year, I'm really excited to see what happens. Really hoping we'll be able to beat our former record of 72...
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The Adorable Gherkin Keyboard
Someone in the Plover Discord Group posted a picture of a tiny ortholinear keyboard that I now want desperately, even though I already own an Infinity Ergonomic, StenoMod, SOFT/HRUF, Planck, and...
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New Plover Weekly: Plover 4.0!
I have a substantial backlog of cool Open Steno stuff to share with you, but all of that's been superseded by an incredibly exciting development: There's a new version of Plover available to download!...
View ArticleOpenSteno.org Makeover!
OpenSteno.org has received a major makeover, with updated content and styling by the ever-versatile Ted. The old wiki has been replaced with a new one that's far better organized and contains current...
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