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sources: feed-first catalog — 39 sources on RSS/Atom, 7 rescued from skip, Reddit back via .rss

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Probed all 59 sources for feeds. Highlights: Atlas Obscura, This Is Why I'm
Broke, A Continuous Lean, Gear Patrol, The Awesomer, Permanent Style, and The
Browser all rescued from blocked/skip status by working feeds; all four Reddit
subs work again via the anonymous .rss endpoint (top/.json remains dead);
MoMA Design Store + Kikkerland switched to Shopify products.json endpoints.
Newly skipped (confirmed dead/dormant): Tools and Toys, One Thing Well,
Cool Material, Werd.com, Unusual Hotels of the World.
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{
"updated": "2026-05-03",
"updated": "2026-07-03",
"topics": [
"macos-apps",
"apple-tips",
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["macos-apps"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Federico Viticci's site. Long-form, considered reviews of Apple-platform apps. Pair with their Club MacStories newsletter."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.macstories.net/feed/",
"notes": "Federico Viticci's site. Long-form, considered reviews of Apple-platform apps. Pair with their Club MacStories newsletter. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (macstories.net/feed/)."
},
{
"name": "The Sweet Setup",
@@ -36,7 +38,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["macos-apps", "tools", "gifts"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Shawn Blanc's curated picks across software and physical objects. Strong taste, light volume."
"fetch": "skip",
"skipReason": "No 2026 content — the feed (toolsandtoys.net/feed/) confirms the newest entry is Sep 2024; site appears to be on indefinite hiatus.",
"notes": "Shawn Blanc's curated picks across software and physical objects. Strong taste, light volume. Confirmed defunct 2026-07-03 via feed (newest entry Sep 2024, feed itself is live but stale)."
},
{
"name": "One Thing Well",
@@ -44,7 +48,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["macos-apps", "tools"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Tiny posts about software that does one thing well — heavy on indie utilities."
"fetch": "skip",
"skipReason": "Feed (onethingwell.org/rss) confirms the newest post is Jan 2023 — site is defunct.",
"notes": "Tiny posts about software that does one thing well — heavy on indie utilities. Confirmed defunct 2026-07-03 via feed (newest entry Jan 2023, feed itself is live but stale)."
},
{
"name": "Six Colors",
@@ -52,7 +58,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["macos-apps"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Jason Snell + Dan Moren on Apple. Reviews mixed with industry coverage; scan for app posts."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "http://feedpress.me/sixcolors",
"notes": "Jason Snell + Dan Moren on Apple. Reviews mixed with industry coverage; scan for app posts. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (feedpress.me/sixcolors)."
},
{
"name": "Daring Fireball — Linked List",
@@ -60,7 +68,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["macos-apps", "general-delight"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Gruber's link blog often surfaces small Mac utilities and design-y oddities."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://daringfireball.net/feeds/main",
"notes": "Gruber's link blog often surfaces small Mac utilities and design-y oddities. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (daringfireball.net/feeds/main)."
},
{
"name": "r/macapps",
@@ -68,9 +78,9 @@
"type": "subreddit",
"topics": ["macos-apps"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "curl",
"fetchUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/top/.json?t=week&limit=25",
"notes": "Noisy but high-recall — sort by Top of the week to filter for signal. Reddit blocks WebFetch; the skill scans the JSON endpoint via curl with a User-Agent header."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.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."
},
{
"name": "Indie App Sunday",
@@ -88,7 +98,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["tools", "gifts"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Kevin Kelly's long-running catalog of physical and digital tools. The original source for this kind of taste."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://kk.org/cooltools/feed",
"notes": "Kevin Kelly's long-running catalog of physical and digital tools. The original source for this kind of taste. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (kk.org/cooltools/feed)."
},
{
"name": "Recomendo",
@@ -96,9 +108,9 @@
"type": "newsletter",
"topics": ["tools", "gifts", "travel", "general-delight"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"fetch": "curl",
"fetchUrl": "https://recomendo.substack.com/feed",
"notes": "Six recommendations a week from Kevin Kelly, Mark Frauenfelder, Claudia Dawson. Almost always includes one delightful object or app. Use the Substack RSS feed — full issue content is in the feed, the public site is locked down."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://recomendo.substack.com/feed",
"notes": "Six recommendations a week from Kevin Kelly, Mark Frauenfelder, Claudia Dawson. Almost always includes one delightful object or app. Use the Substack RSS feed — full issue content is in the feed, the public site is locked down. Re-validated 2026-07-03; migrated from fetch:curl to fetch:feed (same URL)."
},
{
"name": "Uses This",
@@ -106,7 +118,9 @@
"type": "interviews",
"topics": ["tools", "macos-apps"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Interviews about the hardware and software people use. Good for triangulating what genuinely useful people pick."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://usesthis.com/feed.atom",
"notes": "Interviews about the hardware and software people use. Good for triangulating what genuinely useful people pick. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (usesthis.com/feed.atom)."
},
{
"name": "r/BuyItForLife",
@@ -114,9 +128,9 @@
"type": "subreddit",
"topics": ["tools", "clothing", "gifts"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "curl",
"fetchUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/top/.json?t=week&limit=25",
"notes": "Durable goods recommendations. Filter for posts with provenance and long-term reports. Reddit blocks WebFetch; the skill scans the JSON endpoint via curl with a User-Agent header."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.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."
},
{
"name": "Hacker News — Show HN",
@@ -124,7 +138,9 @@
"type": "aggregator",
"topics": ["macos-apps", "tools"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Devs surfacing what they built. High volume — scan top of week."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/showrss",
"notes": "Devs surfacing what they built. High volume — scan top of week. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (news.ycombinator.com/showrss) — official Show HN RSS, replaces homepage scraping."
},
{
"name": "Product Hunt",
@@ -132,7 +148,9 @@
"type": "aggregator",
"topics": ["macos-apps", "tools"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Marketing-heavy, but the daily top-5 often includes a Mac app or utility worth a closer look."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/feed",
"notes": "Marketing-heavy, but the daily top-5 often includes a Mac app or utility worth a closer look. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (producthunt.com/feed)."
},
{
"name": "Carryology",
@@ -140,7 +158,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["tools", "clothing", "gifts"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Bags, EDC, and well-made carry gear — overlaps clothing and tools."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.carryology.com/feed/",
"notes": "Bags, EDC, and well-made carry gear — overlaps clothing and tools. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (carryology.com/feed/)."
},
{
"name": "This Is Why I'm Broke",
@@ -148,8 +168,9 @@
"type": "aggregator",
"topics": ["gifts"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "curl",
"notes": "Internet-flotsam product aggregator. Quality varies wildly but the genuinely-novel finds are hard to get elsewhere. WebFetch hits 404; curl with Safari UA returns the homepage."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/feed",
"notes": "Internet-flotsam product aggregator. Quality varies wildly but the genuinely-novel finds are hard to get elsewhere. WebFetch and curl both hit an empty Angular SPA shell as of 2026-06-21, but /feed returns a full, fresh RSS feed — validated 2026-07-03; switched to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "Cool Material",
@@ -157,8 +178,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["gifts", "clothing", "tools"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "curl",
"notes": "Men's-leaning lifestyle finds: gear, gifts, apparel. WebFetch hits a 500 — curl with Safari UA returns the homepage cleanly."
"fetch": "skip",
"skipReason": "Full Cloudflare JS challenge on all URLs (homepage, /feed, /rss) — regressed from previously curl-friendly; no bypass found as of 2026-07-03.",
"notes": "Men's-leaning lifestyle finds: gear, gifts, apparel. Previously curl-friendly; now a full Cloudflare JS challenge on all URLs including /feed and /rss (403) — no working bypass found as of 2026-07-03."
},
{
"name": "Werd.com",
@@ -166,7 +188,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["gifts", "clothing", "tools"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Compact daily roundup of gear and gifts in a Tools-and-Toys vein."
"fetch": "skip",
"skipReason": "HTTP 403 to curl and WebFetch on homepage and all guessed feed paths (/feed, /rss) — no working bypass found as of 2026-07-03.",
"notes": "Compact daily roundup of gear and gifts in a Tools-and-Toys vein. Blocked as of 2026-06-21 and reconfirmed 2026-07-03 (403 on homepage, /feed, /rss)."
},
{
"name": "Gear Patrol",
@@ -174,9 +198,9 @@
"type": "magazine",
"topics": ["gifts", "clothing", "tools"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "skip",
"skipReason": "Cloudflare JS challenge — neither WebFetch nor curl with Safari UA gets past it.",
"notes": "Editorial gift guides and product features. Skim seasonal guides for gift candidates."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.gearpatrol.com/feed/",
"notes": "Editorial gift guides and product features. Skim seasonal guides for gift candidates. Feed bypasses the Cloudflare challenge entirely — validated 2026-07-03 (gearpatrol.com/feed/); switched from fetch:skip to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "The Awesomer",
@@ -184,9 +208,9 @@
"type": "aggregator",
"topics": ["gifts", "general-delight"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "skip",
"skipReason": "Cloudflare JS challenge — both WebFetch and curl with Safari UA are blocked.",
"notes": "Quirky finds across products, art, and video — hits the 'delight' brief directly."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://theawesomer.com/feed/",
"notes": "Quirky finds across products, art, and video — hits the 'delight' brief directly. Feed bypasses the Cloudflare challenge — validated 2026-07-03 (theawesomer.com/feed/, trailing slash required); switched from fetch:skip to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "MoMA Design Store",
@@ -195,8 +219,8 @@
"topics": ["gifts"],
"cadence": "ongoing",
"fetch": "curl",
"fetchUrl": "https://store.moma.org/collections/new",
"notes": "Museum-curated objects. New Arrivals reliably includes one beautifully-designed daily-use thing. WebFetch returns nav-only — curl with Safari UA returns the full product grid."
"fetchUrl": "https://store.moma.org/collections/new/products.json",
"notes": "Museum-curated objects. New Arrivals reliably includes one beautifully-designed daily-use thing. WebFetch and the plain collection URL both return nav-only Shopify SPA shells — /collections/new/products.json returns the full product grid instead; fetchUrl updated 2026-07-03 (still 30 products, re-validated)."
},
{
"name": "Kikkerland",
@@ -204,7 +228,9 @@
"type": "shop",
"topics": ["gifts"],
"cadence": "ongoing",
"notes": "Affordable design gifts; small clever objects."
"fetch": "curl",
"fetchUrl": "https://www.kikkerland.com/collections/new/products.json",
"notes": "Affordable design gifts; small clever objects. HTML collection pages are a Shopify SPA (nav-only) — /collections/new/products.json returns the full grid instead; fetch:curl + fetchUrl added 2026-07-03 (30 products validated)."
},
{
"name": "A Continuous Lean",
@@ -212,7 +238,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["clothing"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Michael Williams on Americana, heritage menswear, and the makers behind it."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.acontinuouslean.com/feed/",
"notes": "Michael Williams on Americana, heritage menswear, and the makers behind it. Cadence is quarterly/seasonal rather than dead — the feed shows a Jun 9 2026 'Father's Day Gift Guide' post after a Dec 2025 gap; the earlier 'dormant since Dec 2025' assessment was a stale snapshot, not a dead site. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (acontinuouslean.com/feed/); switched to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "Put This On",
@@ -220,7 +248,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["clothing"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Long-running menswear blog. Strong on classic tailoring + rotating sale roundups."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://putthison.com/feed/",
"notes": "Long-running menswear blog. Strong on classic tailoring + rotating sale roundups. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (putthison.com/feed/)."
},
{
"name": "Permanent Style",
@@ -228,9 +258,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["clothing"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "skip",
"skipReason": "Cloudflare JS challenge — body returns 152kb but body is the challenge page, not content.",
"notes": "Simon Crompton on craft tailoring and permanent-wardrobe pieces. Deep, evidence-led reviews."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.permanentstyle.com/feed",
"notes": "Simon Crompton on craft tailoring and permanent-wardrobe pieces. Deep, evidence-led reviews. Feed bypasses the Cloudflare challenge — validated 2026-07-03 (permanentstyle.com/feed); switched from fetch:skip to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "Heddels",
@@ -248,7 +278,9 @@
"type": "shop-blog",
"topics": ["clothing"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Bay Area shop's editorial — small-batch workwear and Japanese makers, with substantive notes per piece. The journal lives at /blogs/standard-strange-stories."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.standardandstrange.com/blogs/standard-strange-stories.atom",
"notes": "Bay Area shop's editorial — small-batch workwear and Japanese makers, with substantive notes per piece. The journal lives at /blogs/standard-strange-stories. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (standardandstrange.com/blogs/standard-strange-stories.atom)."
},
{
"name": "Outlier",
@@ -264,7 +296,9 @@
"type": "shop",
"topics": ["clothing", "tools"],
"cadence": "ongoing",
"notes": "Japanese outdoors brand whose apparel and titanium kit reliably qualify as 'delightful daily-use.'"
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.snowpeak.com/blogs/news.atom",
"notes": "Japanese outdoors brand whose apparel and titanium kit reliably qualify as 'delightful daily-use.' Product grid is JS-rendered and not scrapable, but the Journal/news blog has a working feed — validated 2026-07-03 (snowpeak.com/blogs/news.atom); switched to fetch:feed for editorial content (apparel drops still need manual review)."
},
{
"name": "Mr Porter Journal",
@@ -282,8 +316,9 @@
"type": "forum",
"topics": ["clothing"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "curl",
"notes": "Long threads (some 1000+ pages) where subject-matter obsessives compare specific brands — best for deep dives, not browsing. WebFetch hits 403; curl with Safari UA returns the full forum index."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.styleforum.net/forums/-/index.rss",
"notes": "Long threads (some 1000+ pages) where subject-matter obsessives compare specific brands — best for deep dives, not browsing. WebFetch hits 403; curl with Safari UA returns the full forum index. Forum-wide 'recent posts' RSS also validated 2026-07-03 (styleforum.net/forums/-/index.rss) — noisier (spans all subforums) but reliably fresh; switched from fetch:curl to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "Atlas Obscura",
@@ -291,8 +326,9 @@
"type": "site",
"topics": ["travel", "general-delight"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "curl",
"notes": "The definitive catalog of unusual places. Use the 'Places' filter for destinations; the editorial covers oddities globally. Quirk: returns HTTP 403 status with real HTML body — the skill should ignore the status code when the body parses as content."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/feeds/latest",
"notes": "The definitive catalog of unusual places. Use the 'Places' filter for destinations; the editorial covers oddities globally. Quirk: returns HTTP 403 status with real HTML body — the skill should ignore the status code when the body parses as content. Feed at /feeds/latest fully bypasses the Cloudflare block — validated 2026-07-03, 27 items all dated within the last week; switched from fetch:curl to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "Roadtrippers Magazine",
@@ -300,7 +336,9 @@
"type": "magazine",
"topics": ["travel"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "North-America-leaning road trip routes and stops, often hitting roadside oddities."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://roadtrippers.com/feed",
"notes": "North-America-leaning road trip routes and stops, often hitting roadside oddities. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (roadtrippers.com/feed) — served from the site root (not /magazine specifically) but content is the Magazine's own travel/RV articles, fresh within the last month."
},
{
"name": "Spotted by Locals",
@@ -318,7 +356,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["travel", "general-delight"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "'13 Things I Found on the Internet' weekly roundup; lots of obscure travel + cultural curiosities."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.messynessychic.com/feed/",
"notes": "'13 Things I Found on the Internet' weekly roundup; lots of obscure travel + cultural curiosities. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (messynessychic.com/feed/)."
},
{
"name": "The Outbound Collective",
@@ -334,8 +374,9 @@
"type": "site",
"topics": ["travel"],
"cadence": "ongoing",
"fetch": "curl",
"notes": "Catalog of architecturally unusual stays — treehouses, ice hotels, repurposed structures. Earlier sources.json had wrong domain (uhotw.com — now a gambling site)."
"fetch": "skip",
"skipReason": "SPA shell (~4KB, JS-rendered) with no server-rendered content — confirmed 2026-06-21 and 2026-07-03; /feed and /rss.xml guesses return the same empty shell, not real feeds.",
"notes": "Catalog of architecturally unusual stays — treehouses, ice hotels, repurposed structures. Earlier sources.json had wrong domain (uhotw.com — now a gambling site). Confirmed dead end 2026-07-03 — no working feed; switched to fetch:skip."
},
{
"name": "AFAR",
@@ -351,7 +392,9 @@
"type": "magazine",
"topics": ["travel"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Design-forward stays and destinations — overlaps with architectural delight."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.wallpaper.com/feeds/tag/travel",
"notes": "Design-forward stays and destinations — overlaps with architectural delight. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (wallpaper.com/feeds/tag/travel) — travel-tag-specific, fresher and more targeted than the site-wide feeds.xml."
},
{
"name": "Boutique Homes",
@@ -367,7 +410,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["general-delight"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Jason Kottke's link blog. The single best low-noise feed for cross-disciplinary delight."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://feeds.kottke.org/main",
"notes": "Jason Kottke's link blog. The single best low-noise feed for cross-disciplinary delight. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (feeds.kottke.org/main)."
},
{
"name": "The Browser",
@@ -375,9 +420,9 @@
"type": "newsletter",
"topics": ["general-delight"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "skip",
"skipReason": "Paid newsletter, no public daily picks page. Manual review only.",
"notes": "Five hand-picked articles per day. Paid; the picks are unusually consistent."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://thebrowser.com/free/rss/",
"notes": "Five hand-picked articles per day. Paid; the picks are unusually consistent. Correction 2026-07-03: the /free/rss/ feed is public and unauthenticated, delivering all ~5 daily picks with full summaries — no login needed. The 'no public picks page' assumption was wrong; switched from fetch:skip to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "Web Curios",
@@ -385,9 +430,9 @@
"type": "newsletter",
"topics": ["general-delight"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"fetch": "curl",
"fetchUrl": "https://webcurios.co.uk/all-curios/",
"notes": "Matt Muir's enormous Friday roundup of internet curios. High volume, idiosyncratic taste. Use /all-curios/ — the homepage only lists newsletter titles."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://webcurios.co.uk/feed/",
"notes": "Matt Muir's enormous Friday roundup of internet curios. High volume, idiosyncratic taste. Use /all-curios/ — the homepage only lists newsletter titles. The 2026-06-21 homepage ECONNREFUSED was transient — site and /feed/ both validated live 2026-07-03 (weekly cadence, latest dated today); switched from fetch:curl (/all-curios/) to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "Things Magazine",
@@ -395,7 +440,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["general-delight", "gifts"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Quiet, image-heavy notes on objects, architecture, and obscure design corners."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.thingsmagazine.net/feed/",
"notes": "Quiet, image-heavy notes on objects, architecture, and obscure design corners. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (thingsmagazine.net/feed/)."
},
{
"name": "Open Culture",
@@ -403,7 +450,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["general-delight"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Free cultural & educational media — adjacent to the brief but a steady source of unusual-thing stories."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.openculture.com/feed",
"notes": "Free cultural & educational media — adjacent to the brief but a steady source of unusual-thing stories. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (openculture.com/feed)."
},
{
"name": "Kevin Kelly — kk.org",
@@ -411,9 +460,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["tools", "general-delight"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"fetch": "curl",
"fetchUrl": "https://kk.org/thetechnium/",
"notes": "Kelly's main site — the '68 Bits of Advice' / Excellent Advice posts often link out to delightful tools and books. Posts live at /thetechnium/; the homepage is a static about page."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://kk.org/thetechnium/feed",
"notes": "Kelly's main site — the '68 Bits of Advice' / Excellent Advice posts often link out to delightful tools and books. Posts live at /thetechnium/; the homepage is a static about page. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (kk.org/thetechnium/feed); switched from fetch:curl to fetch:feed."
},
{
"name": "TidBITS",
@@ -421,7 +470,9 @@
"type": "magazine",
"topics": ["apple-tips", "macos-apps"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Adam Engst's long-running Apple-platform publication. Tip-rich, technically careful, never reckless — a steady source of considered advice."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://tidbits.com/feed/",
"notes": "Adam Engst's long-running Apple-platform publication. Tip-rich, technically careful, never reckless — a steady source of considered advice. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (tidbits.com/feed/) — sidesteps the earlier 403-to-WebFetch issue entirely."
},
{
"name": "The Eclectic Light Company",
@@ -429,7 +480,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["apple-tips"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Howard Oakley's deep dives into macOS internals, system maintenance, and forgotten corners of the OS — endlessly delightful for anyone who likes pulling threads."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://eclecticlight.co/feed/",
"notes": "Howard Oakley's deep dives into macOS internals, system maintenance, and forgotten corners of the OS — endlessly delightful for anyone who likes pulling threads. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (eclecticlight.co/feed/)."
},
{
"name": "Brett Terpstra",
@@ -437,7 +490,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["apple-tips", "macos-apps"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Power-user Mac scripts, automation, and small utilities from the author of TextExpander/Marked — generous with workflow snippets and 'web excursions' link roundups."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "http://brett.trpstra.net/brettterpstra",
"notes": "Power-user Mac scripts, automation, and small utilities from the author of TextExpander/Marked — generous with workflow snippets and 'web excursions' link roundups. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (the site's own declared feed URL, brett.trpstra.net/brettterpstra)."
},
{
"name": "Dr. Drang — leancrew.com",
@@ -445,7 +500,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["apple-tips"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "And now it's all this — engineer's perspective on macOS automation, command-line tricks, and Shortcuts. Quiet authority."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://leancrew.com/all-this/feed/",
"notes": "And now it's all this — engineer's perspective on macOS automation, command-line tricks, and Shortcuts. Quiet authority. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (leancrew.com/all-this/feed/)."
},
{
"name": "r/shortcuts",
@@ -453,9 +510,9 @@
"type": "subreddit",
"topics": ["apple-tips"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "curl",
"fetchUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/top/.json?t=week&limit=25",
"notes": "iOS/macOS Shortcuts community — sort by Top of the week to surface the cleverest automations. Reddit blocks WebFetch; use the JSON endpoint via curl with a UA header."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.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."
},
{
"name": "OSXDaily",
@@ -463,7 +520,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["apple-tips"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Long-running daily Mac/iOS tip site. Signal is mixed but it surfaces obscure things others miss — good for the occasional gem."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://osxdaily.com/feed/",
"notes": "Long-running daily Mac/iOS tip site. Signal is mixed but it surfaces obscure things others miss — good for the occasional gem. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (osxdaily.com/feed/)."
},
{
"name": "Quote Investigator",
@@ -487,7 +546,9 @@
"type": "blog",
"topics": ["quotes", "general-delight"],
"cadence": "weekly",
"notes": "Maria Popova's literary essays, dense with sourced quotations from books worth tracking down. Formerly Brain Pickings."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/brainpickings/rss",
"notes": "Maria Popova's literary essays, dense with sourced quotations from books worth tracking down. Formerly Brain Pickings. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (feeds.feedburner.com/brainpickings/rss)."
},
{
"name": "A.Word.A.Day",
@@ -495,7 +556,9 @@
"type": "newsletter",
"topics": ["quotes"],
"cadence": "daily",
"notes": "Anu Garg's daily word arrives with a 'Thought for Today' quotation — a reliable trickle of well-chosen lines."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://wordsmith.org/awad/rss1.xml",
"notes": "Anu Garg's daily word arrives with a 'Thought for Today' quotation — a reliable trickle of well-chosen lines. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (wordsmith.org/awad/rss1.xml) — single daily item, matching the site's one-word-a-day cadence."
},
{
"name": "r/dadjokes",
@@ -503,9 +566,9 @@
"type": "subreddit",
"topics": ["dad-jokes"],
"cadence": "daily",
"fetch": "curl",
"fetchUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/top/.json?t=week&limit=25",
"notes": "Heavily moderated for original groaners. Sort by Top of the week to filter out the recycled ones."
"fetch": "feed",
"feedUrl": "https://www.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."
},
{
"name": "icanhazdadjoke",