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Type the Word Update August 2024

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August 2024

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Hello again Reader,

This month we crossed 40,000 typed verses, which means we have collectively typed the Bible once and are already a third of the way through again. That blows my mind.

To celebrate, I have been working on some new features. Here is a summary of what has changed this month:

August Updates

Updated "Log" Section

I refreshed the "Log" section of /history with a new layout. My goal was to make it easier to visualize how consistently you are typing verses.

This also helps you see how many verses you are typing each month.

In the future, I would love for this to also show summary information, like what books you have completed or what milestones you have passed. If you are dying to know something specific about your typing habits let me know!

New Settings Menu

Within the authentication dropdown you can now switch between light and dark themes. This is part of a new settings menu, which will likely contain more options in the future.

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New Keyboard Shortcuts

I also added some new keyboard shortcuts to make navigating around TTW a bit easier

  • alt/option + backspace - deletes your previously typed word.
  • ctrl/cmd + backspace - restarts the verse.
  • ctrl/cmd + shift + , - opens the new Settings menu
  • ctrl/cmd + shift + Y - navigates to /history​

A scripture I have been thinking about

17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” 18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

​Luke 10:17-20​

Something that struck me this month is how much the Bible talks about our Salvation being our hope. In the good times and the hard times we can rejoice because our Salvation has been bought. The most important thing has been settled.

8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

​1 Thessalonians 5​

I want to encourage you. If you have put your faith in Christ, God has destined you to be saved from wrath and live with him forever.

Thanks for reading, typing, and encouraging me to keep meditating on the Bible.

Josh

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