content: 2026-08-08 capture run — 31 finds across 18 productive sources

candidate-sources.md

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 - **sheets.works** — https://sheets.works/ — surfaced via Kottke's link to The Listening Museum, whose own og card labels it "THE DATA DROP · #049". A numbered, recurring series is the tell: this is a publication with a back catalogue of forty-eight other data-visualisation pieces, not a one-off project that happened to go around. The Listening Museum alone (36 keyboards, sound-mapped, playable from your own keyboard) is exactly the register the site wants — a dataset turned into something you operate rather than read. **Vet for:** cadence and whether a feed exists; the `/data-viz/` path suggests other sections worth checking before committing to a fetch strategy.
 - **Space Type Generator** — https://spacetypegenerator.com/ — surfaced via Kottke's link to BoxSquad. A studio publishing small browser toys that deform type and shapes in 3D; BoxSquad (drag the limbs, drag the borders) is one of several. Browser toys have been a reliable delight category all summer, and this is a repeat producer of them rather than a single link. **Vet for:** whether new toys appear often enough to justify anything more than `as-needed`, and whether there is an index page listing them.
 - **newold.computer** — https://newold.computer/ — surfaced via Show HN. Marginal by design: it is a catalogue/shop, not a publication, so it fails the "curated feed" test on its face. Nominating anyway because the *catalogue itself* is the editorial act — someone is tracking which parts are still being manufactured for Commodore, Amiga and Atari hardware, and each new entry is a finding. **Vet for:** whether it has any change feed at all; without one it is a quarterly manual check, which may not be worth a slot.
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+- **No new nominees this run — zero, and that is worth a line rather than a shrug.** Eighteen productive sources and roughly fifty candidate items produced not one outbound credit worth chasing. The scanners were watching for the usual tells (*"via X"*, *"h/t Y"*, *"spotted by Z"*, sidebar links to other curated feeds) and Kottke, Cool Tools, Recomendo and Daring Fireball — the four that normally supply them — either ran empty or linked only to primary sources already in `sources.json`. No targeted search was run, because the run was not short of material; it captured 31 finds, the most the log records.
+- **The backlog is now the entire story of this file.** 22+ nominees stand unvetted across eighteen consecutive runs past the 10+ nudge threshold. Highest-conviction and repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, **Calisphere**, **Laughing Squid**, **The Kid Should See This**, **Sight Unseen** / **Archive of Objects**, **designboom** / **Unnecessary Inventions**, **john.fun**, **Fabien Sanglard**, **sheets.works**, **Space Type Generator**, **newold.computer**. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision, and nothing in the pipeline will ever do it.
+- **Still more urgent than any nomination, for the tenth run running.** The four Reddit sources are dark on one credential. Re-measured today: HTTP 401 from the token endpoint with a correctly shaped 16-character ID and 32-character secret, and the ~300KB login wall on every `old.reddit.com/<sub>/.rss`. Regenerating the secret on the Reddit app page recovers four sources — r/macapps, r/BuyItForLife, r/shortcuts, r/dadjokes — without vetting anything new. That is the cheapest source win available and it has been available for ten runs.
+- **One drop worth a retry rather than a nomination.** **Poetry Camera** (poetry.camera, via Kottke 08-04) — a camera that prints an AI-written poem instead of a photograph. Cloudflare-blocked on every fetch, so it could not be confirmed live and was not written. Worth one more attempt on a future run; it is not a source, it is a find that got away.