fascinating! I think it's really cool that this is possible, and at the same time kine of sad that the norm is slowly moving towards more locked-down APIs.
I'm very curious as to how this works in the backend. I realize it uses Bluesky's firehose to get the posts, but I'm more curious on how it's checking whether a post contains any of the available words. Any guesses?
I'm surprised at how normal some of the unseen words are. I expected them to all be archaic or niche, but many are pretty reasonable: 'congregant', 'definer', 'stereoscope'.
I noticed one of the cited bluesky posts was all in French, so one might argue that technically it didn't find the English word "mouch", but rather a different French word that happens to be spelled the same. But trying to sort that out seems unrealistically challenging. "Mouch" is only in the dictionary as an alternative spelling to mooch, so probably a pretty rare word to see in English.
> We just visited wheal Martyn museum in Cornwall, nice scones and a waterwheel, they also have a lot of gutters, sluices and pipes and a bit of a fixation about China Clay. More importantly they appear to be unattached at the moment
Both "wheal" (kind of cheating, that should be Wheal and is a place name) and "sluices" were new to the dictionary.
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> We just visited wheal Martyn museum in Cornwall, nice scones and a waterwheel, they also have a lot of gutters, sluices and pipes and a bit of a fixation about China Clay. More importantly they appear to be unattached at the moment
Both "wheal" (kind of cheating, that should be Wheal and is a place name) and "sluices" were new to the dictionary.