Five Steno Machines in a Backpack

It was so good to see everyone at PyCon and to get to talk steno with a few of you! I thought it might be fun to show you the five steno machines I brought to the conference (Infinity Ergonomic, TinyMod, Jarne, Jarne Blade, and Asterisk) and what my backpack looked like with those machines plus three computers and all my other steno gear in it. The gray backpack was pretty much all clothes and the black backpack was pretty much all steno stuff. Strapped together, they made a pretty efficient travel bundle, and they were both able to go on the plane as carryons, which was convenient.

Find me at PyCon!

I'll be captioning PyCon for White Coat Captioning this weekend. If you're a member of the Open Steno community (or even if you're just curious about steno), please feel free to come find me! I'd be happy to talk steno and let you try out my various steno machines! :D

Asterisk Back in Stock!

The most affordable steno board of all time is back in stock! I strongly suggest using electric foam with it, since I found that it turned the board from very tricky to use into a real pleasure.

Instagram video with 5 million views!

Peter of Stenokeyboards has really been getting the word out about steno! Over 5 million views! Dang!!

Plover2Cat 4.1.0 Released

 Update via the Plugin Manager. Changes listed here!

Plover v5.3.0 Released!

Plover v5.3.0 has been released!

Features

User Interface

Add missing translations. (#1825)

Alter form and tab order in Add Translations widget to be more logical and save strokes when navigating with keyboard. (#1833)

Bugfixes

Core

Fix translation catalog generation. (#1824)

User Interface

Fix lookup QT GUI errors. (#1830)

Improve plugin manager keyboard navigation. (#1834)

Align tooltip format. (#1834)

Improve menu dropdown item order. (#1834)

Fix trailing slash when space placement is set to After Output in the Add Translation dialog. (#1836)

Linux

Make wmctrl optional on Wayland to prevent crash on startup. (#1832)

Fix modifier alias keys in wayland. (#1838)

macOS

Fix Plover terminal commands on macOS. (#1827)

Captioner Mike Teaches Steno

Mike Rowell, also known as Captioner Mike, is giving online steno classes and wanted to make sure that the Open Steno community knew about them. He says:

I'm teaching a version of the intro course, NCRA A to Z, with my own added outlines/those from Chase Frazier's Champion Steno theory, starting the second Sunday in May, 5/10, 10a-11a instruction, 11a-12p (PDT) for open office/rambling. I'll also be doing Saturday office hours from roughly 8:30-11:30a (PDT) for people wanting help with practice. The course is designed for would be school students, looking to get their feet wet, from the never-seen-the-keyboard phase through as much theory as we can reasonably get through. I was hoping I might find some volunteers here to help set up would-be steno learners with Plover, give recommendations on your favorite cheap writer, etc.

Join the Open Steno Discord for the Zoom link if you're interested!