Post #2092684
2026-05-06 16:12 UTC
Early in my career I did tech support for a software company that made a Mac search engine product that worked similarly to Apple's Spotlight search feature. One of the customers I helped was a linguistics professor whose specialty was collecting swears and cursewords in every language.
He published his own periodical documenting his findings, and he was grateful enough for my assistance to subscribe me to it.
It was WILD.
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@the_other_jon@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 16:27
@flargh@mastodon.social I am trying to maintain someone else’s crappy code right now. I wish I could subscribe to that, new curse words would come in handy.
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@Chancerubbage@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 16:54
@flargh@mastodon.social I liked Sherlock AND Watson both as search engine aggregators. It was extremely useful when no one dominated search yet, and they both did work differently despite one becoming famously ‘Sherlocked’. Combined with the fat hose pipe of a new to me high bandwidth cable connection they both seemed miraculous. I used both as long as they both existed. I think OS X really killed them, or one of them.