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Coding in Stenography, Quick Demo

Art of Chording

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A short demonstration of writing a JavaScript FizzBuzz program using a stenography keyboard and chording.

Here's a quick steno demo where I write a simple FizzBuzz in JavaScript using a generator function. FizzBuzz is a program that prints out the numbers 1 to 100, except that if the number is divisible by 3, it prints "Fizz", if it's 5, it prints "Buzz", or if divisible by 3 and 5, it prints "FizzBuzz". This is just a quick presentation to demonstrate a little bit of my experience while coding in steno. I did it unscripted, so please excuse my rambling while I think about what I'm writing. I figured this would give viewers a general idea of what genuine coding looked like in steno (typos and all!) For you stenoheads, here are some briefs: GRAOEKT: greater-than symbol equals LAOEKT: less-than symbol equals STP-PLT: colon symbol, ":" without particular spacing R*R: return without capitalization F*UNGS: function* H*F: question mark symbol, "?" without particular spacing F-B: fizzbuzz F*B: FizzBuzz MO*D: percent symbol PL*US: + symbol PLULS: +=

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What people say. Engineers share this video to demonstrate how stenography and chording can be used for real-world programming.

walruson Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Open Steno Project”

There was a nice demo of using stenography for programming by one of the Open Steno Project developers: link to this video

iodon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Relearning to Type”

…chording. Here is an example video someone did of using steno for programming a simple FizzBuzz on a different keyboard on YouTube³. In my opinion, if anyone is looking to really take their typing to the next level, chording is the only way and Dvorak/Colmak/single-key-at-a-time-layouts will never really get you there. ⁰ link ¹ link ² link ³ link to this video…

iodon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Open Steno Project: Bringing Stenography to Everyone”

…chording. Here is an example video someone did of using steno for programming a simple FizzBuzz on a different keyboard on YouTube³. In my opinion, if anyone is looking to really take their typing to the next level, chording is the only way and Dvorak/Colmak/single-key-at-a-time-layouts will never really get you there. ⁰ link ¹ link ² link ³ link to this video…

DavidVoidon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Time is the only real currency we have”

You can make custom chords for special chars and type them just as quickly as any other "word". Here's an example of someone writing some javascript code with a steno keyboard: link to this video I don't use it myself but I assume that it would be faster than regular QWERTY typing, but only once you've used it for several years.

morintedon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Art of chording”

I'm the author of Art of Chording—I program full-time with steno in JavaScript (working mainly with React.) I'd love ideas on how to demonstrate coding in steno. I struggle with it sometimes because the slowest part about coding is not the input rate… it's the brain. I guess if people are looking to code "quicker"… it's not the rate of input that one would want to explore. I will say that writing comments became a lot easier when the words started to just flow onto the screen. Here are my existing videos: Unscripted: link Scripted: link to this video Looking forward to any suggestions on how to improve or even just the big open questions you'd want answered on this subject.

jodrellblankon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: I automated 1/2 of my typing”

The Plover / OpenSteno founder Mirabai Knight was working on Python steno a decade ago: link Longer video eight years ago: link Some random YouTube video, JavaScript steno seven years ago: link to this video Steno coding in Ruby, four months ago: link