Uni Kickstarter Stretch Goals

The Uni Kickstarter met its initial goal, but it's still active for another month, and it's only a few thousand dollars away from reaching its first stretch goal!



If the campaign reaches $30,000 in funding, lighter springs will be added to the store, which I find particularly exciting, since I enjoy using springs that are as light as possible. If it reaches $40,000, a DIY version will be released, which will be a boon to the mehanical keyboard assembly mavens among us. If you haven't pledged to the campaign yet, now is an excellent time!

Personal Dictionaries In Typey Type

Diana, creator of Typey Type, has just enabled a cool new experimental feature that allows users to get hints based on their own dictionary entries while using Typey Type.

She says:

It’s experimental but you can add your dictionaries and see your entries appear in Lookup! This lets you look up your briefs on your phone when you’re away from your computer, and shows your dictionary entries when building custom lessons.

You can also opt into the bleeding-edge experiment to “Show your dictionary entries in lesson hints”. This means for standard Typey Type lessons, you’ll see your own dictionary strokes if you have an entry for a word, and Typey Type’s entry if you do not.

Typey Type will also try to use your entries for capitalisation and spacing. For the existing entry, “KPAOEPB/KWRA”: “Xena”, you can use “xena” in your custom lesson and if you have custom entries for capitalisation, such as “TPHRO*ER”: “{>}”, Typey Type will use them to create hints like TPHRO*ER/KPAOEPB/KWRA. It’ll also try to be smart about punctuation, numbers, and fingerspelling entries.

This has been a long time in the making, a highly sought after feature, and I’ve had to overhaul huge parts of Typey Type to make it possible, so I’m very excited to start sharing this with more people!

There’s more work to be done but if you have feedback, I’d love to hear it!

What a fantastic feature! Superb work.

New Pre-Release!

There's a new pre-release version of Plover with a ton of incremental improvements over at the Plover GitHub, with more soon to come. Amazing lead devs Ted and Benoit Pierre (plus several additional contributors) have been working incredibly hard to bring Plover 4 up to a new stable release, and they're getting so close! Stay tuned!

Back the Uni on Kickstarter!

A campaign for version 3 of the Uni steno keyboard has been launched!

The Uni Kickstarter page contains videos of the board in action, along with other pertinent information for potential backers. It really is a beautiful little board. If you're in the need for a well engineered hobbyist steno machine, do consider backing the campaign! It's already three quarters of the way there, with almost 60 days to go, so it's pretty much a sure bet at this point.