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 - **Down the Rabbit Hole** — https://downtherabbithole.beehiiv.com/ — curates internet-wide "rabbit hole" finds, adjacent to general-delight (not strictly product-focused); credited inline in this week's Recomendo as a favorite newsletter. Beehiiv `/feed` likely works.
 - **Wowhaus** — https://wowhaus.co.uk/ — retro/vintage design-object and unusual-property blog; a plausible gifts/general-delight fit if Things Magazine keeps underperforming on freshness. Recurring "(via wowhaus)" credit in Things Magazine's linkage posts.
 - **Five Books** — https://fivebooks.com/ — themed five-book expert-interview series (quotes / general-delight); surfaced twice via The Browser's recurring guest-newsletter slot (Zoroastrianism this week, MAGA books last). Check for its own feed before adding.
 ### 2026-07-07 capture round
 - **WidgetWorx** — https://widgetworx.com/ — indie macOS-utility studio behind a cluster of small, focused apps (Revok app-auditor, Command Keeper, Notcho Libre, Butterfly Collector license-tracker); surfaced this run via a third-party "Developer Spotlight: WidgetWorx" writeup on r/macapps. Two of its apps cleared the bar as finds this run, which is a strong signal it's a maker worth tracking directly rather than waiting for it to resurface. Not a feed — watch the /apps page for new releases (as-needed cadence). Two lesser maker nominees also surfaced via Brett Terpstra's Web Excursions but are single-app shops, flagged only for the trail: **nanocorp.app** (MinimalWriter) and **allgoodfolks.com** (TRIGGER, an Ableton key-remapper).
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 ## 2026-07-06 — pick of the day: analogtv-full-simulation
 Chosen over PowerHouz for tile legibility and breadth. The look of a broken analogue TV picture is instantly recognizable to any visitor, and the virtue lands in one line — an app that rebuilds the entire analogue broadcast chain from physics, down to the Apollo Moon-landing format — with a clean 1200×630 App Store hero card that reads at grid size. PowerHouz is a strong second review but narrower: its starship-HomeKit delight presumes the visitor owns smart-home gear. (Previous pick, cjrb-pyrite-light-thermochromic, has had its day since 2026-07-05.)
 ## 2026-07-07 — capture run
 Sources scanned: 59 total — 49 active + 10 `fetch: skip`. Of the 49 active: 12 productive, 32 empty/all-dup/already-processed, 3 blocked, 2 cadence-skipped (Wikiquote as-needed, Reader's Digest weekly). Window: since the 2026-07-06 capture run — so the genuinely-new content is items dated 2026-07-06/07; older-dated items from weekly/daily sources scanned in the last few runs were treated as already-processed (see below).
 Productive sources: r/macapps (6), Hacker News — Show HN (3), r/dadjokes (4), The Awesomer (2), The Marginalian (2), TidBITS (1), r/shortcuts (1), Cool Tools (1), This Is Why I'm Broke (1), Permanent Style (1), Quote Investigator (1), icanhazdadjoke (1).
 Captured finds:
 - say-hey-message-memory — Say hey (Message Memory) — source: r/macapps
 - did-i-copy-it — Did I Copy It? — source: r/macapps
 - windowbunny — WindowBunny — source: r/macapps
 - coast-fire-tracker — Coast: FIRE — source: r/macapps
 - revok-app-auditor — Revok — source: r/macapps
 - command-keeper — Command Keeper — source: r/macapps
 - fidelia-audiophile-player — Fidelia — source: TidBITS
 - orzma-webview-terminal — orzma — source: Hacker News — Show HN
 - anymoney-auto-expense — AnyMoney — source: r/shortcuts
 - noriento-direction-trainer — Noriento — source: Hacker News — Show HN
 - earth-tattoo-collaborative-globe — earth.tattoo — source: Hacker News — Show HN
 - belomo-10x-triplet-loupe — Belomo 10x Triplet Loupe — source: Cool Tools
 - iumiun-whistle-lighter-combo — IUMIUN Emergency Whistle & Lighter — source: The Awesomer
 - bell-ross-br03-helipad-watch — Bell & Ross BR-03 Helipad — source: The Awesomer
 - love-is-art-body-paint-kit — Love Is Art Kit — source: This Is Why I'm Broke
 - whitcomb-shaftesbury-washable-jacket — Whitcomb & Shaftesbury Washable Jacket — source: Permanent Style
 - quote-thich-nhat-hanh-deep-listening — Thich Nhat Hanh on deep listening — source: The Marginalian
 - quote-tokarczuk-tenderness — Olga Tokarczuk on tenderness — source: The Marginalian
 - quote-boulding-got-that-way — Kenneth Boulding on how things got that way — source: Quote Investigator
 - joke-alphabet-c4 — The explosive alphabet — source: r/dadjokes
 - joke-dough-nations — The shapely food-bank donation — source: r/dadjokes
 - joke-url-ologist — The website doctor — source: r/dadjokes
 - joke-fifth-month-dismayed — The vandalized calendar — source: r/dadjokes
 - joke-lifesavers-mint — The Life Savers fortune — source: icanhazdadjoke
 Shortlist (12, ranked):
 1. say-hey-message-memory — on-device iMessage archive that surfaces a daily list of people you've drifted from; strong privacy story, real App Store hero. [review candidate]
 2. fidelia-audiophile-player — bit-perfect Mac audiophile player rewritten from scratch under new ownership; clean skeuomorphic player hero. [review candidate]
 3. belomo-10x-triplet-loupe — genuine-triplet EDC pocket loupe (~$31), Amazon-linked, clean Cool Tools product photo.
 4. earth-tattoo-collaborative-globe — planet-sized communal real-time drawing canvas; delightful web toy (no hero — JS shell).
 5. did-i-copy-it — zero-permission menu-bar nudge for clipboard-compulsion; delightful + privacy-clever; App Store hero.
 6. bell-ross-br03-helipad-watch — dial styled as a rotating helipad with a helicopter-nose minute hand; strong design hero.
 7. iumiun-whistle-lighter-combo — titanium EDC pendant folding a 120dB whistle, kerosene lighter, and pill cache; hero.
 8. windowbunny — four-finger trackpad window switcher; hero.
 9. revok-app-auditor — audits ~171 attributes per installed app (Electron detection, login items); hero.
 10. coast-fire-tracker — offline menu-bar net-worth/FIRE tracker, no account, Touch ID lock; hero.
 11. noriento-direction-trainer — daily sense-of-direction training web app; hero.
 12. command-keeper — menu-bar library for shell/SQL/AI-prompt snippets inserted into any terminal; hero.
 Review candidates: say-hey-message-memory, fidelia-audiophile-player.
 Amazon links added: 1 (belomo-10x-triplet-loupe → B007W4MZT6, canonical BelOMO folding triplet loupe, verified via Amazon search). Love Is Art omitted despite being on Amazon — many color/edition SKUs (Black/Red/Grey/Black&Gold/"Original"), no single unambiguous canonical listing, and it's not shortlisted; per when-in-doubt.
 Image-fetch notes: 14 of 24 finds carry a hero. Text-only by design: 8 (3 quotes, 5 jokes). Heroless misses: earth.tattoo (Next.js JS shell, no og:image, only a site logo) and love-is-art-body-paint-kit (thisiswhyimbroke.com Angular shell — og:image is an unrendered `{{::og.image}}` template placeholder). App Store heroes: for say-hey, did-i-copy-it, coast-fire, and anymoney the raw og:image was a plain icon-on-gradient card, so a real feature screenshot was pulled from each listing's carousel instead. The Awesomer (iumiun, bell-ross) and Permanent Style (whitcomb) direct pages hit Cloudflare challenges on the image fetch — recovered via each site's RSS `media:content` / feed image.
 Dedup / already-processed notes: only one hard dup written-then-caught — kodak-charmera (dropped; captured 2026-05-13). Dropped as already-captured find/review: analogtv, powerhouz, gnome (already a review), notchkin, paste-switch, tamamon, tintd (Tintd 2 = version bump), craighill-swingtop, cwt-little-scissors, chrome-tilit-chef-pack, heytrip, claymore, promote-mask, new-world-champion-paper-airplane-book, ai-compass-quiz, thai-beef-noodle-soup, sunrisetracker, plant-atlas, van-gogh-voice-paint. Whole-source already-processed (recent-window content, sources productive in the last 1–3 runs): Web Curios (fetched — its newest issue is dated 2026-07-03, already scanned on the 07-04 run; the 43 items it returned are that already-processed issue, so nothing new — effectively a cadence artifact of a weekly source last productive 07-04), Atlas Obscura (5 candidates dated 06-30/07-01, in the 07-04 window; source was productive 07-04), Wallpaper* Travel (4 candidates dated 06-30/07-02, in the 07-06 window; source was productive 07-06), and the Carryology June carry roundup (already processed 07-04 — only its uncaptured leftovers remained). Dropped on the bar: Senqu / ScreenSnap Pro (converter/screenshot categories saturated on the site — same call as 07-06), Notcho Libre (notch-utility category saturated), dedtxt / MinimalWriter (minimalist-writer category saturated), Casio W738H / Vero Smokey Bear / FiiO EH13 (watch/audio release-news, thin), Kenneth Bernard flat iron (self-post with no product link to resolve; marginal audience fit), most This Is Why I'm Broke 07-06 items (product pages are JS shells, title-only — couldn't write a specific virtue), The Browser "Person Do Thing" (publisher's own classified ad).
 Source maintenance:
 - All four Reddit `.rss` feeds switched from `www.reddit.com/r/<sub>/.rss` to `old.reddit.com/r/<sub>/.rss` (r/macapps, r/BuyItForLife, r/dadjokes, r/shortcuts). Rationale: the intermittent HTTP 429 on the `www` endpoint recurred again this run (r/dadjokes and r/BuyItForLife both 429'd on `www`, recovered on `old.reddit.com`), continuing the pattern logged 07-04/05/06 (r/shortcuts 429'd 3 consecutive runs). `old.reddit.com/.rss` serves the identical Atom feed and did not rate-limit for any sub this run — a "better fetch path," applied per the maintenance rule. No OAuth needed; content is unchanged. `updated` bumped to 2026-07-07.
 - Outlier: NOT blocked this run (prior products.json-404 note is stale) — its `/collections/new` page loaded, but it renders an undated new-collection listing with no per-item publish dates, so recency can't be confirmed; left `fetch: webfetch`, no change. Re-probe candidates surfaced nothing else actionable.
 New source nominees: 1 (WidgetWorx — see candidate-sources.md).
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-  "updated": "2026-07-03",
+  "updated": "2026-07-07",
  "topics": [
    "macos-apps",
    "apple-tips",
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@
      "topics": ["macos-apps"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
-      "feedUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/.rss",
+      "feedUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/macapps/.rss",
-      "notes": "Noisy but high-recall — sort by Top of the week to filter for signal. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too, but the unauthenticated default .rss endpoint still works — validated 2026-07-03 (reddit.com/r/macapps/.rss, 'new'-sorted); switched to fetch:feed, no OAuth needed."
+      "notes": "Noisy but high-recall — sort by Top of the week to filter for signal. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too. The www .rss endpoint works but intermittently 429s (2026-07-04/05/06/07); switched feedUrl to old.reddit.com/.rss 2026-07-07 — identical Atom feed, no rate-limit observed. No OAuth needed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Indie App Sunday",
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@
      "topics": ["tools", "clothing", "gifts"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
-      "feedUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/.rss",
+      "feedUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/.rss",
-      "notes": "Durable goods recommendations. Filter for posts with provenance and long-term reports. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too, but the unauthenticated default .rss endpoint still works — validated 2026-07-03 (reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/.rss, 'new'-sorted); switched to fetch:feed, no OAuth needed."
+      "notes": "Durable goods recommendations. Filter for posts with provenance and long-term reports. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too. The www .rss endpoint works but intermittently 429s (429'd again 2026-07-07); switched feedUrl to old.reddit.com/.rss 2026-07-07 — identical Atom feed, no rate-limit observed. No OAuth needed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hacker News — Show HN",
@@ -511,8 +511,8 @@
      "topics": ["apple-tips"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
-      "feedUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/.rss",
+      "feedUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/.rss",
-      "notes": "iOS/macOS Shortcuts community — sort by Top of the week to surface the cleverest automations. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too, but the unauthenticated default .rss endpoint still works — validated 2026-07-03 (reddit.com/r/shortcuts/.rss, 'new'-sorted); switched to fetch:feed, no OAuth needed."
+      "notes": "iOS/macOS Shortcuts community — sort by Top of the week to surface the cleverest automations. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too. The www .rss endpoint 429'd 3+ consecutive runs (2026-07-04/05/06); switched feedUrl to old.reddit.com/.rss 2026-07-07 — identical Atom feed, no rate-limit observed. No OAuth needed."
    },
    {
      "name": "OSXDaily",
@@ -567,8 +567,8 @@
      "topics": ["dad-jokes"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
-      "feedUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/.rss",
+      "feedUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/.rss",
-      "notes": "Heavily moderated for original groaners. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too, but the unauthenticated default .rss endpoint still works — validated 2026-07-03 (reddit.com/r/dadjokes/.rss, 'new'-sorted); switched to fetch:feed, no OAuth needed."
+      "notes": "Heavily moderated for original groaners. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too. The www .rss endpoint works but intermittently 429s (429'd again 2026-07-07); switched feedUrl to old.reddit.com/.rss 2026-07-07 — identical Atom feed, no rate-limit observed. No OAuth needed."
    },
    {
      "name": "icanhazdadjoke",
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 name: "AnyMoney"
 subtitle: "Log every expense from the bank text, automatically"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://apps.apple.com/app/id6779625289"
 linkText: "apps.apple.com"
 source: "r/shortcuts"
 topics: [apple-tips, macos-apps]
 tags: [shortcuts, automation, finance]
 description: "An expense tracker driven by a Shortcuts automation that fires on an incoming bank payment text or Apple Pay transaction and uses AI to log the merchant, amount, and category with no typing."
 ---
 AnyMoney leans on a Shortcuts automation that fires the moment an incoming bank-payment text or Apple Pay transaction lands, then uses AI to parse the merchant, amount, and category and log the expense with zero typing. It's expense tracking reframed as something that happens *to* you rather than a chore you have to remember. Free, with a premium AI tier.
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 name: "Bell & Ross BR-03 Helipad"
 subtitle: "A watch dial styled as a rotating helipad"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://theawesomer.com/bell-ross-br-03-helipad-watch/808451/"
 linkText: "theawesomer.com"
 source: "The Awesomer"
 topics: [gifts, general-delight]
 tags: [watch, design, aviation]
 description: "A 500-piece limited-edition Bell & Ross whose ceramic dial is a top-down aircraft helipad, with a helicopter's nose as the minute hand."
 ---
 Bell & Ross built this 500-piece limited edition around a single conceit taken all the way: the ceramic-cased dial is a top-down aircraft helipad, giant "H" and all, and the minute hand is the nose of a helicopter sweeping around the pad. It's an aviation-instrument brand doing exactly what it does best — lifting a literal cockpit-and-tarmac reference onto something you can wear on the wrist.
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 name: "Belomo 10x Triplet Loupe"
 subtitle: "A pocket lens good enough to carry every day"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://kk.org/cooltools/optics/"
 linkText: "kk.org"
 amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007W4MZT6"
 source: "Cool Tools"
 topics: [tools, gifts]
 tags: [edc, optics, loupe]
 description: "A Belarusian-made folding 10x loupe with a genuine three-element multi-coated lens and a steel case, cheap enough (~$31) to carry daily."
 ---
 This Belarusian-made folding loupe pairs a genuine three-element (triplet) lens — multi-coated glass that stays sharp and colour-true edge to edge — with a textured steel case, and at around $31 it's the one a Cool Tools reviewer ended up carrying daily: for mushroom IDs, checking a knife's edge, reading tiny print, and just looking closely at things. The triplet optics are the difference between a novelty magnifier and a tool you actually trust.
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 name: "Coast: FIRE"
 subtitle: "An offline menu-bar net-worth tracker that never phones home"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://apps.apple.com/in/app/coast-fire/id6782856023?mt=12"
 linkText: "apps.apple.com"
 source: "r/macapps"
 topics: [macos-apps]
 tags: [finance, menu-bar, offline]
 description: "An offline-first menu-bar net-worth and FIRE tracker with a built-in runway calculator, no account, no subscription, and Touch ID locking on the data."
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 Coast lives in the menu bar as an offline-first net-worth tracker with a built-in FIRE (financial-independence) and runway calculator, and it keeps everything local — no account, no subscription, and Touch ID locking on the data itself. For people who want to watch the number without handing their finances to a cloud service, it's the rare money app that never phones home. A $9.99 one-time purchase.
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 name: "Command Keeper"
 subtitle: "A menu-bar library for the commands you keep re-Googling"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://widgetworx.com/apps/commandkeeper.html"
 linkText: "widgetworx.com"
 source: "r/macapps"
 topics: [macos-apps]
 tags: [terminal, snippets, menu-bar]
 description: "A menu-bar library for shell commands, scripts, SQL queries, and AI prompts that inserts the chosen one straight into Terminal, iTerm, Warp, Ghostty, or Alacritty."
 ---
 Command Keeper is a menu-bar shelf for shell commands, scripts, SQL queries, and AI prompts that inserts the chosen one straight into Terminal, iTerm, Warp, Ghostty, or Alacritty with a single click — no alt-tabbing to a notes file and back. It's external muscle memory for the incantations you use just often enough to forget. $4.99 lifetime.
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 name: "Did I Copy It?"
 subtitle: "A menu-bar cure for compulsive re-copying"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://apps.apple.com/app/6784293008"
 linkText: "apps.apple.com"
 source: "r/macapps"
 topics: [macos-apps, general-delight]
 tags: [clipboard, menu-bar, privacy]
 description: "A free menu-bar utility that watches only the clipboard's change count — never its contents — and nudges you when you compulsively re-copy the same thing."
 ---
 This free menu-bar utility watches only the clipboard's change *count* — never its contents — so it needs no Accessibility or Input Monitoring permissions at all, and it shows an escalating little nudge when it notices you re-copying the same thing "just to be sure." It's a one-joke idea executed with unusual restraint: it fixes a real nervous habit while remaining physically incapable of reading what you copy.
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 name: "earth.tattoo"
 subtitle: "A shared globe the whole internet is drawing on"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://earth.tattoo"
 linkText: "earth.tattoo"
 source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
 topics: [general-delight, tools]
 tags: [web-toy, collaborative, real-time]
 description: "A single live, interactive globe anyone can mark and paint in shared real time — a planet-sized communal canvas."
 ---
 earth.tattoo is a single live, interactive globe that anyone can mark and paint in shared real time — a planet-sized communal canvas where your doodle sits next to a stranger's on the far side of the world. It's the kind of low-stakes collaborative toy the early web did well and almost nobody bothers to make anymore.
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 ---
 name: "Fidelia"
 subtitle: "A bit-perfect Mac music player, rebuilt from scratch"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://tidbits.com/2026/07/06/appbits-fidelia-offers-audiophiles-precise-control-over-music-playback/"
 linkText: "tidbits.com"
 source: "TidBITS"
 topics: [macos-apps]
 tags: [music, audio, audiophile]
 description: "A skeuomorphic, bit-perfect audiophile music player for the Mac with Audio Unit hosting and headphone virtualization, rewritten from scratch under new ownership."
 ---
 Fidelia is a skeuomorphic, bit-perfect audiophile music player for the Mac — it hosts Audio Units for EQ and effects, does headphone virtualization, and gives you precise control over the playback path that streaming apps hide entirely. A 2011-era favorite among audiophiles, it has been rewritten from the ground up under new ownership and shipped fresh this month.
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 name: "IUMIUN Emergency Whistle & Lighter"
 subtitle: "A titanium pendant that whistles, lights, and hides a pill"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://theawesomer.com/emergency-whistle-lighter-combo/808768/"
 linkText: "theawesomer.com"
 source: "The Awesomer"
 topics: [gifts, general-delight]
 tags: [edc, titanium, survival]
 description: "A titanium EDC pendant combining a 120dB emergency whistle, a waterproof kerosene lighter, and a small sealed pill/match cache."
 ---
 This titanium EDC pendant folds three things into something the size of a keepsake: a 120-decibel emergency whistle, a small waterproof kerosene lighter, and a sealed cache big enough for a pill or a few matches. It's the sort of quietly over-engineered object that's equal parts genuine preparedness and worry-stone — the kind of thing you clip on and forget until the day you're glad it's there.
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 name: "The explosive alphabet"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1upf6et/if_a_is_for_apricot_b_is_for_blueberry_what_is_c/"
 linkText: "reddit.com"
 source: "r/dadjokes"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [dad-joke, wordplay]
 description: "A fruit-alphabet setup with an explosive punchline."
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 If A is for apricot and B is for blueberry, what is C for? It's an explosive.
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 ---
 name: "The shapely food-bank donation"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1upe4gk/i_gave_my_local_food_bank_some_cookies_shaped/"
 linkText: "reddit.com"
 source: "r/dadjokes"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [dad-joke, pun, food]
 description: "A pun about donating country-shaped cookies."
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 I gave my local food bank some cookies shaped like different countries. They thanked me for the dough nations.
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 name: "The vandalized calendar"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1up6v9u/someone_ripped_the_fifth_month_out_of_my_calendar/"
 linkText: "reddit.com"
 source: "r/dadjokes"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [dad-joke, pun, calendar]
 description: "A pun about losing the fifth month of the calendar."
 ---
 Someone ripped the fifth month out of my calendar. I'm dismayed.
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 ---
 name: "The Life Savers fortune"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/yP7MRucFQCd"
 linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com"
 source: "icanhazdadjoke"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [dad-joke, pun]
 description: "A pun about the inventor of Life Savers candy."
 ---
 Did you hear about the guy who invented Life Savers? They say he made a mint.
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
 ---
 name: "The website doctor"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1upej2d/what_kind_of_doctor_fixes_websites/"
 linkText: "reddit.com"
 source: "r/dadjokes"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [dad-joke, pun, tech]
 description: "A pun about the kind of doctor who fixes websites."
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 What kind of doctor fixes websites? A URL-ologist.
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 ---
 name: "Love Is Art Kit"
 subtitle: "A canvas two people make with their bodies"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/love-is-art-canvas-and-paint-kit"
 linkText: "thisiswhyimbroke.com"
 source: "This Is Why I'm Broke"
 topics: [gifts]
 tags: [art, couples, keepsake]
 description: "A body-safe paint-and-canvas kit for two people to make an abstract print together and frame the result as a keepsake."
 ---
 The Love Is Art kit is a body-safe paint-and-canvas set built for two people to roll around on together and leave behind an abstract print they can frame — an intimate keepsake that doubles as a genuinely unpredictable piece of action painting. It's a gift that turns a private moment into the one artwork in the house nobody has to explain.
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 name: "Noriento"
 subtitle: "A daily workout for your sense of direction"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://noriento.com/"
 linkText: "noriento.com"
 source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
 topics: [tools, general-delight]
 tags: [web-app, training, navigation]
 description: "A browser app that treats your sense of direction as a trainable skill, handing you short daily spatial-orientation exercises."
 ---
 Noriento is a browser app that treats your sense of direction as a trainable muscle, handing you short daily spatial-orientation exercises the way a language app hands you vocabulary. In an age of turn-by-turn navigation that has quietly eroded everyone's internal compass, it's a deliberate little counter-habit — a few minutes a day spent learning to know which way you're facing again.
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 name: "orzma"
 subtitle: "A terminal that renders live web pages inside itself"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://github.com/not-elm/orzma"
 linkText: "github.com"
 source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
 topics: [tools]
 tags: [terminal, developer, open-source]
 description: "A terminal emulator that renders live, interactive webviews inline in the terminal itself, so previews and docs open where you already are instead of in a browser."
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 orzma is a terminal emulator that can render live, interactive webviews inline in the terminal itself — so a preview URL your build spits out, or a docs page, opens where you already are instead of pulling you out into a browser. It's an unusual collapse of two windows into one, aimed at people who'd rather never leave the TUI.
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 name: "Kenneth Boulding on how things got that way"
 subtitle: "A one-line theory of everything"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/01/got-way/"
 linkText: "quoteinvestigator.com"
 source: "Quote Investigator"
 topics: [quotes]
 tags: [systems, history, attribution]
 description: "Kenneth Boulding's 1968 line that nothing can be understood without its history — often misattributed to D'Arcy Thompson, traced by Quote Investigator."
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 "Everything is what it is because it got that way." The economist Kenneth Boulding coined this in 1968 — often misattributed to the biologist D'Arcy Thompson, whose work inspired it — as a compact case that you can't understand any system, body, or institution without knowing its history. Quote Investigator traces the whole chain of who actually said it, and when.
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 name: "Thich Nhat Hanh on deep listening"
 subtitle: "How a broken line of communication gets repaired"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/06/thich-nhat-hanh-listening-love/"
 linkText: "themarginalian.org"
 source: "The Marginalian"
 topics: [quotes]
 tags: [listening, communication, mindfulness]
 description: "Thich Nhat Hanh on deep listening as the active repair of a broken line, not a passive courtesy."
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 "The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible." Thich Nhat Hanh's point is that listening isn't a passive courtesy but the active repair of a broken line — you listen not to reply but to reopen the channel through which everything else becomes possible again.
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 name: "Olga Tokarczuk on tenderness"
 subtitle: "The most modest form of love"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/05/tenderness-olga-tokarczuk-nobel-prize/"
 linkText: "themarginalian.org"
 source: "The Marginalian"
 topics: [quotes, general-delight]
 tags: [love, attention, literature]
 description: "From her Nobel lecture, Olga Tokarczuk names tenderness as the quiet love that is really just careful attention paid to something outside yourself."
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 "Tenderness is the most modest form of love… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our 'self.'" From her Nobel Prize lecture, Olga Tokarczuk names the quiet kind of love that no one swears oaths by — the love that turns out to be nothing more, and nothing less, than sustained, careful attention paid to something outside yourself.
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 name: "Revok"
 subtitle: "A full audit of everything installed on your Mac"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://widgetworx.com/apps/revok.html"
 linkText: "widgetworx.com"
 source: "r/macapps"
 topics: [macos-apps]
 tags: [utility, audit, cleanup]
 description: "A Mac utility that scans your Applications folder and reports ~171 attributes per app — framework/Electron detection, login items, and which apps you've stopped using."
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 Revok scans your Applications folder in seconds and reports roughly 171 attributes for every app it finds — whether it's Electron or native, its frameworks, its login items, and which apps you've effectively stopped opening. It's the tool for the periodic reckoning of what has quietly accumulated on your machine, and what launches itself at boot. $3.99 (needs the Xcode command-line tools).
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 name: "Say hey (Message Memory)"
 subtitle: "A quiet daily nudge toward the people you've drifted from"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/say-hey-message-memory/id6767099766"
 linkText: "apps.apple.com"
 source: "r/macapps"
 topics: [macos-apps]
 tags: [messaging, on-device, privacy]
 description: "A Mac app that indexes your iMessage history entirely on-device and surfaces a short daily list of the people you've fallen out of touch with, with no cloud, account, or Full Disk Access."
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 Say hey indexes your entire iMessage history entirely on-device — no Full Disk Access, no cloud, no account — and each day surfaces a short list of the people you've quietly fallen out of touch with, alongside the last thing either of you said. It turns the archive you already have into a gentle prompt to reach out, without ever sending your conversations anywhere. A $19.99 one-time purchase, built in native SwiftUI.
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 name: "Whitcomb & Shaftesbury Washable Jacket"
 subtitle: "Bespoke tailoring you can put through the washing machine"
 date: 2026-07-07
 link: "https://www.permanentstyle.com/2026/07/why-a-machine-washable-bespoke-jacket-is-unusual.html"
 linkText: "permanentstyle.com"
 source: "Permanent Style"
 topics: [clothing]
 tags: [tailoring, bespoke, menswear]
 description: "A fully bespoke jacket engineered to survive a washing machine — unusual because the canvas, padding, and pressing in structured tailoring normally can't take it."
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 Most canvassed, structured tailoring can't survive a washing machine — the interlinings, padding, and hand-pressing that give a jacket its shape all come apart when soaked and tumbled. Whitcomb & Shaftesbury built a fully bespoke jacket engineered to take exactly that, which quietly removes the one thing that makes proper tailoring feel too precious to actually wear through a hot summer.
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 name: "WindowBunny"
 subtitle: "Window switching built for the trackpad, not the keyboard"
 date: 2026-07-07
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://www.windowbunny.com"
 linkText: "windowbunny.com"
 source: "r/macapps"
 topics: [macos-apps]
 tags: [window-management, trackpad, interface]
 description: "A Mac window switcher that cycles through recently used windows with a four-finger trackpad swipe instead of a keyboard shortcut."
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 WindowBunny replaces ⌘-Tab's app-level juggling with a four-finger trackpad swipe that cycles through your most recently used *windows* directly — the gesture your hand is already making when you're not typing. It's aimed squarely at people who live on the trackpad rather than reaching back to the keyboard just to change context.