I have a lot of special characters memorized (ALT-[key] for windows and long presses for Android) but why is it so needlessly difficult to Google each one individually? Surely someone, somewhere must have compiled a good table of all of them. It would sure come in handy.
We uploaded Moonbear Typing to itch instead of GGJ in protest over their AI sponsorship, and made our game with hand-tweaked, ethical, proc-gen content.
I say this reasonably often but: please read, and support, LWN! this kind of useful finger on the pulse of various OSS communities, projects, etc is so valuable and really something of a bygone era. If you deploy to, or develop on, Linux platforms, guaranteed you'll find useful articles on the weekly.
Probably the longest shot ever, but in the 2000s when I was learning to #TouchType, I used a piece of software called Azabat. I'm not sure which version it was, but the specific installation I had used SAPI 4 Microsoft Mary. After completing a typing lesson, it would say: 'Well done, exercise completed. Returning to exercise menu'. It had menu options like 'Echo mode' and 'Introduction' to new keys'. Has anyone heard of or used this software, this version specifically, and is there an archive of it available anywhere? #blind#typing#Azabat#TouchTyping
I've been trying to improve my #typing speed, mostly accuracy, in the last few months and what's really killing me is my inability to spell correctly. I've always been bad at spelling, and not cared much about it - but maybe now I've got more motivation to start caring. How many i's in definititily again?
Why are words like ADHD or neurodivergent being flagged with red wavy lines when I type them, but not the word autism? Why aren't these words registered in the database yet? This is unacceptable...
This one is about the different types of errors you're going to encounter writing #Python stuff, and strategies to recognize their categories and make them less impactful.
Love the fact that my new keyboard makes me aware of my typing speed. Apparently on long tests where I have the time to get going my typing speed is 147 WPM. This assumes im not putting in any effort to max out my typing speed, however even if i do i doubt id get it too much higher.
My kids are horrified to learn that when I learned how to type, we were taught to type two spaces after every period... That was the norm; one space after would have been wrong.
I've watched many hundreds of #usability test participants type, and so make #typos.
Most commonly, the red wavy line (spelling error) causes people to backspace to the incorrect character, thus removing what they've typed, rather than using the arrow keys to reach the incorrect character, thus leaving the correct characters.
It's rare that people right-click a misspelled word to choose from a short list of suggested corrections.
It's Saturday morning and I'm up early as usual. Dawn is coming later and later in the morning. It's after six now and no sun yet. I try not to turn on the television until late afternoon, because if I get interested in a show then my productivity suffers.
Often when I'm typing, like now, I put my feet up on my desk and put the keyboard in my lap. That's probably not the recommended way to type. If I remember correctly, the recommended way is feet flat on the floor, back straight, and something else ... there must be something else. ;)
Charlie just came in and mumbled something to me ... no idea what, but now he's chasing his tail. Charlie is all character.
"It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair." - Reed Hastings