Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

New Release of Plover2CAT!

Plover2CAT 3.0.2 has been released! Creator plants says:
New features:

- Time buffer for captions (requested by casperdewith)

- Find All for a search, display results and navigate to result

- Write immediately in new transcript after clicking `Create New` rather than having to save first

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Kestrel.js

Kestrel.js is a stenography library that anyone can use and contribute to! It's only 7KB as of writing and took 4 days to complete first version.

Dev CrazyH2 says:

This is just a steno engine library and it does NOT work on its own. Please use something else such as Plover or wait for my full steno engine.

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Novel Success!

graph showing progression to 60,003 words over 30 days
Progress: 120% (60,003 out of 50,000 words)
I did it! I wrote another novel in 30 days, my first since 2015, and I did it almost entirely on the Jarne (I used my Infinity a little bit and one time I beat my deadline by typing some words out on my phone's keyboard while standing in a crowded subway train). I also met my goal of writing at least 1,667 words a day. Here are some of the cool weird places I managed to work on my novel, thanks to the Jarne!
Jarne on a tripod in sand
On the playground while my kid was on the swings!
Jarne next to a chess table
At the park next to the chess tables!
Jarne on a train
On a Metro North train!
Jarne on my legs on the subway
On a subway train!
Jarne on a laptop, lit up
And of course at home!

It was so amazing to be able to just carry the Jarne in its little case and sometimes my InStand tripod and know that all I'd need beyond that was my phone to be able to write. Such a liberating experience! By far the most successful novel-in-a-month challenge of the six I've attempted to date!