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Coding in Stenography, Quick Demo

Art of Chording · 131.6K views · 2016-04-04 · 2:01

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Overview

A short unscripted demo of writing FizzBuzz in JavaScript with a generator function on a steno keyboard, typos included. It gives a feel for what real coding in stenography looks like.

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Whenever HN asks whether you can program with steno, this is the go-to demo showing it working.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2023

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walrus · 2016-10 · Recommendation

There was a nice demo of using stenography for programming by one of the Open Steno Project developers: [VIDEO]

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jodrellblank · 2023-08 · Reference

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: [VIDEO] Steno coding in Ruby, four months ago: [LINK]

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morinted · 2020-08 · Reference

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: [VIDEO] Looking forward to any suggestions on how to improve or even just the big open questions you'd want answered on this subject.

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