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I hope everyone had a good halloween! I, unfortunately, went to take a nap and when I woke up I missed halloween :(
Anyway, I am running a dictionary service which may interest some people. Basically, it uses the same dictionary that the wotd service uses but this time you can specify what word to look up. I should mention that because of the dictionary's age, some modern words like 'zoom', 'yeet', etc, will not be present.
It has an API!: $ curl -d "word=the word" https://jakesthoughts.xyz/dictionary
Because of that it is also very easy to impliment into a bash function:
function lookup() {
curl -d "word=$1" https://jakesthoughts.xyz/dictionary
}
There are other dictionary programs that you can use, of course: Artha, Goldendict, ... there aren't actually that many. Hmm. I haven't used any of these programs so idk if they are good or not. Artha claims to be able to use offline copy which I would be interested in had I not already done this.
Jake you'll just be a creep and see what words I look up!
No - All I will see is someone accessing the url. If this is a major concern, you can download the source script yourself and run it locally.
The script. The dictionary I recommend (it is so old it falls OUT of copyright.)
You can directly visit https://jakesthoughts.xyz/dictionary but I am not applying any stylesheet to it (meaning black text on white background), so your eyeballs will melt if you got used to my current stylesheet. As for Gemini users... I haven't written this yet but I figure the easiest way to serve FCGI content would be with yet another CGI script that queries the FCGI script since Doppio (and I assume many other Gemini servers) don't do FCGI.
Enjoy!
Ok, I have written the script for Gemini users but unfortunately it is not as anonymous as I would like, since it uses GET. But you can look up words on the Capsule now~!