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 - **Considered and not nominated:** **Select.Supply** (https://select.supply), which hosts today's `chipbuilder` find and carries "Stumble" and "Fun" sections that look like a curated browser-toy directory. Not nominated because a single find is not evidence of a beat, and its og-image ("The Ultimate Collection") suggests an SEO link farm as readily as an editorial one. Worth watching for a recurrence before spending vetting time on it.
 - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, plus **Calisphere** (07-25), **Laughing Squid** (07-27), **The Kid Should See This** (07-28) and **Sight Unseen** / **Archive of Objects** (07-29). 21+ nominees stand unvetted — the sixteenth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision.
 - **Still more urgent than any nomination.** The four Reddit sources remain dark; re-measured 2026-08-01 and the 07-28 diagnosis holds unchanged for the eighth consecutive run — correctly shaped 16-character ID and 32-character secret, HTTP 401 from the token endpoint, ~300 KB login wall on every `old.reddit.com/<sub>/.rss`. Regenerating the secret on the Reddit app page recovers four sources without vetting anything new.
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+### 2026-08-02 capture round
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+- **john.fun** — https://john.fun — John Herrick's collection of interactive explainers and small browser games, the source of today's `elevators` find. The case is that the index already lists sixteen distinct pieces (`/foxes`, `/elevators`, `/codebreakle`, `/colorblindle`, `/hexagon`, `/letterblitz`, `/monkeybusiness`, `/namegame` and more), which makes it a body of work rather than one viral toy, and the register is exactly the site's: take an everyday mechanism nobody explains, simulate it on the page, let the reader run it at 25×. It would fill the same gap the deferred "Free, in a browser tab, no account" cluster keeps exposing. **Caveat that decides how it would be fetched:** there is no `<link rel="alternate">` anywhere on the site and no `/feed`, `/rss.xml` or `/index.xml`, so it cannot go in as `fetch: "feed"`. It would need `curl` against the index and a diff of the path list against previously seen slugs — cheap and reliable, since the index is a flat list of relative links, but it is a different shape from every other source in the file and worth knowing before vetting.
+- **Considered and not nominated:** **launches.uicomet.com**, which surfaced while working around Product Hunt's 403 and turned out to carry a clean, fetchable description of Yamanote 3D. Not nominated because it is an aggregator of other platforms' launches — a second-hand Product Hunt, with the same AI-product ratio — and the site already carries the primary. Useful as a *workaround* for Product Hunt's Cloudflare block, which is worth remembering; not a source.
+- **No organic via/h-t credits this run**, and with a one-day window over the daily tier only, that is expected rather than notable. The one outbound credit worth anything — Kottke pointing at The Onion — is a pointer at a satire publication, not a curated feed.
+- **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, plus **Calisphere** (07-25), **Laughing Squid** (07-27), **The Kid Should See This** (07-28), **Sight Unseen** / **Archive of Objects** (07-29) and **designboom** / **Unnecessary Inventions** (08-01). 22+ nominees stand unvetted — the seventeenth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision.
+- **Still more urgent than any nomination.** The four Reddit sources remain dark. Not re-measured today (all four are `as-needed` and were measured during yesterday's full sweep, so the cadence rule skipped them); the 07-28 diagnosis stands — correctly shaped 16-character ID and 32-character secret, HTTP 401 from the token endpoint. Regenerating the secret on the Reddit app page recovers four sources without vetting anything new.