Jarne Blade!!!

Look at this incredible video from Tharelia of Javelin and Jarne fame! I literally gasped when I saw it! AMAZING!!

Novel Writing With Steno Next Month

I've written two 50,000-word novels in a month each using my steno machine, and I'm gonna try to do it again this November for the first time since 2015. A few other people on the Plover Discord are gonna be doing it as well. Care to join us? Ping me on the Plover Discord and hopefully we can get a mutually supportive writing group going!

Starboard Saxophone!!!

Check out this AMAZING video from Plover Discord member Lucy Goose, who wrote firmware for the Starboard that allows anyone to play music on it using saxophone fingerings. I love it SO MUCH! I don't play saxophone, but I do play electronic recorder (if you DM me on Discord, I'll link you to my secret electronic recorder music video channel, haha), and I would desperately love to be able to play music on one of my hobbyist steno machines using recorder fingerings! This is so freaking cool!!!

Ploverdemo: Blast from the Past

I saw something really cool on the Plover Discord that I want to post here, but the person who made it hasn't gotten back to me with permission yet (in fairness, they posted it in July and I just found out about it today), so hopefully I'll post that next week, but on another thread of the Discord, I was reminded of this cool little post from 2011 that links to the Ploverdemo, originally coded by John and still hosted by the Open Steno Project. It's a trim little thing without much in the way of bells and whistles, but I think it still has charm and a certain usefulness.