Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Stenoknight's Steno Stash

an array of 13 steno machines arranged on a purple quilt

Preparatory to my presentation at the kid's class on Friday, I decided to try to dig up all the steno machines I had in my possession. I know this picture is missing at least three, because I don't want to risk waking the kid up extracting their Javelined Uni from the bedroom, and my trusty wooden-backed StenoMod bag is AWOL, which is unsettling, since it tends to be my go-to backup machine. I also couldn't find the pieces of my late lamented Georgi. There might be still others tucked away in the messy recesses of my home office. But I'm pretty happy with this array nonetheless! Not sure I'll take all of them to the classroom, but it was fun going back down memory lane while excavating these beauties. How far machine steno has come in a little over 100 years! I can't wait to see what the future brings.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Steno Presentation to Second Graders

My kid's second grade class is reading the excellent graphic memoir El Deafo, about the experiences of a kid who lost much of her hearing at age 4 (i.e., postlingually) from meningitis. Since people of that general description make up a large part of my captioning clientele, I'm going to talk to the kids about hearing loss, realtime captioning, the ADA, and accessibility work in general, but I'd also like to give them a rundown of steno and how it works. I'll be bringing in my professional machine and a number of hobbyist machines for them to play with, I'll give a live demo, and I'll also probably print out some steno keyboard diagrams for each of them to take home. Can anyone think of anything else that might be fun to do with a bunch of 7 and 8-year-olds during an hourlong presentation? Suggestions extremely welcome!

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Talking to a Georgi with C [Steno Coding]


Paul says:
This is my attempt at creating a basic HID host program using C to talk to a Georgi stenographic keyboard.The coding parts were done with Plover stenography and UltiSnips vim snippets.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Aerick's Video on Lapwing Theory



I don't know Lapwing theory, and at this point (almost 20 years into steno with Plover theory, a semi-homebrewed but ultimately very standard, middle-of-the-road steno theory) I think it's unlikely that I'll be learning it myself, but I think Aerick makes some compelling points in its favor in this video, and I'd say if you're interested in new and potentially improved theories, it might be worth a watch!

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Steno in the Spotlight

I confess I haven't yet gotten a chance to watch it, but this video has been blowing up the steno community online for the past day and change, so I thought it would make sense to post it here. Apparently it doesn't mention Open Steno per se, but the comments have already led a bunch of viewers to our Discord, so that's something!