diff --git a/daily-finds.log.md b/daily-finds.log.md index e0bea6f..2456aeb 100644 --- a/daily-finds.log.md +++ b/daily-finds.log.md @@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ Running record of every candidate surfaced by `/daily-finds`. The chosen pick of the day is prepended with `[chosen]`. Source attribution per candidate lets us track which sources produce winners over time. +## 2026-05-04 — superpost: the geography is the program + +Slug: 2026-05-04-geography-is-the-program +Items referenced: + - nimmo-bay-resort + - garden-of-eden-swimming-hole + - torre-da-bora + - kai-hakone-ryokan + ## 2026-05-04 — review: apex-markdown-processor Graduated from find captured 2026-05-04, source: Brett Terpstra. Reused the find's hero.png (terminal-rendering screenshot). Category `writing`; tags merge the find's set with `macos` and `open-source`. @@ -361,3 +370,10 @@ Items referenced: Graduated from find captured 2026-05-03, source: Brett Terpstra. Hero: pulled the iPhone timeline screenshot from timelined.app. New category introduced: `journal` (no existing review category fit a personal-history app). + +## 2026-05-04 — review: snewpapers-newspaper-archive + +Graduated from find captured on 2026-05-04, source: Hacker News — Show HN. +No hero asset — text-only review for now; user may drop a homepage screenshot in later. +New category introduced: `history` (no existing review category fit a digitised-newspaper archive). +Review body corrects the find's "no account required" claim — the live site requires a free account, and coverage is American-focused. diff --git a/src/content/find/noir-japanese-cookies/index.mdx b/src/content/find/noir-japanese-cookies/index.mdx index 582bc43..13c26f2 100644 --- a/src/content/find/noir-japanese-cookies/index.mdx +++ b/src/content/find/noir-japanese-cookies/index.mdx @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ topics: - general-delight tags: [snacks, japan, yamazaki, sandwich-cookie] description: "Yamazaki Biscuits launched Noir in 2017 after Mondelez moved Oreo production to China — real cacao mass in the wafer, restrained vanilla cream, eats well without milk." +editorialTags: ["delete"] --- When Mondelez moved Japanese Oreo production to China in 2016, Yamazaki Biscuits launched Noir as a deliberate replacement aimed at the people who actually liked the old recipe. The wafer carries real cacao mass, which makes it slightly bitter and astringent against a restrained vanilla cream — they're sandwich cookies that work without milk. Cost a few yen less than imported Oreos in Japanese supermarkets, easy to find at konbini, and a small case study in a domestic brand quietly out-engineering an imported one. diff --git a/src/content/find/snewpapers-newspaper-archive/index.mdx b/src/content/find/snewpapers-newspaper-archive/index.mdx index 1c6f765..72332c0 100644 --- a/src/content/find/snewpapers-newspaper-archive/index.mdx +++ b/src/content/find/snewpapers-newspaper-archive/index.mdx @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ topics: - general-delight tags: [archives, history, newspapers, research, browsing] description: "A browsable archive of digitised newspapers spanning the 1730s through the 1960s — a rabbit hole for historians, genealogists, and anyone who reads obituaries for fun." +promotedTo: snewpapers-newspaper-archive --- Snewpapers is a browseable index of digitised newspaper pages that runs from the 1730s through the 1960s — a pre-Google view of how breaking news, baseball scores, and patent-medicine ads actually appeared on the page. It's built for the kind of curiosity that has you pulling on threads — a great-grandparent's wedding notice, a small-town bank failure from 1893, the way a single weather front gets reported simultaneously in a dozen cities. Free to browse, no account required. diff --git a/src/content/find/synerlogic-macos-shortcut-sticker/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/synerlogic-macos-shortcut-sticker/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..47ef909 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/synerlogic-macos-shortcut-sticker/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/synerlogic-macos-shortcut-sticker/index.mdx b/src/content/find/synerlogic-macos-shortcut-sticker/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3da3682 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/synerlogic-macos-shortcut-sticker/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Synerlogic macOS Keyboard Shortcut Vinyl Sticker" +subtitle: "A $6 cheat-sheet sticker for the palm rest" +date: 2026-05-04 +link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T62WL88" +source: "Tools and Toys" +topics: + - tools + - gifts +tags: [macos, keyboard, sticker, reference, edc] +description: "A vinyl decal of common macOS keyboard shortcuts, sized for a MacBook palm rest — eight finishes, $6, the cheat-sheet you actually leave on." +--- + +A small vinyl decal printed with the most-used macOS keyboard shortcuts, sized to sit on a MacBook's palm rest where your eye drops a hundred times a day. The point isn't memorising shortcuts you already know — it's the next tier, the ones you keep forgetting until you finally cave and check (⌘⌥⇧V for paste-and-match-style, ⌘⌃Q for lock screen). Eight finishes, $6, the kind of cheat sheet that's actually still on the laptop a year later because removing it costs more than the sticker did. diff --git a/src/content/finds/2026-05-04-geography-is-the-program/index.mdx b/src/content/finds/2026-05-04-geography-is-the-program/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b17342 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/finds/2026-05-04-geography-is-the-program/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +title: "The geography is the program" +date: 2026-05-04 +tags: [daily-finds, travel, slow-travel] +description: "Four places where the setting is the entire program — a BC rainforest lodge, a redwood swimming hole, a medieval tower in the Marche, and a ryokan on the Old Tokaido Road." +blurb: "Four places where the geography does the work." +items: + - nimmo-bay-resort + - garden-of-eden-swimming-hole + - torre-da-bora + - kai-hakone-ryokan +--- + +> Today's catch: four places where the geography itself is the program — a float-plane-only lodge in the Great Bear Rainforest, a sandy swimming hole ten minutes off Route 9 in California's redwoods, a restored medieval tower over the Marche with views to three mountain ranges and the Adriatic, and a Hoshino ryokan on the old Tokaido Road built around onsen rituals. diff --git a/src/content/reviews/snewpapers-newspaper-archive/index.mdx b/src/content/reviews/snewpapers-newspaper-archive/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dcbbd71 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/reviews/snewpapers-newspaper-archive/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +name: "Snewpapers" +subtitle: "Browse three centuries of digitised newspapers, 1730s through the 1960s" +date: 2026-05-04 +category: history +tags: [archives, history, newspapers, research, browsing] +link: "https://snewpapers.com" +description: "A digitised archive of American newspapers from the 1730s through the 1960s — six million stories, three thousand-plus mastheads, with an AI assistant that has read the papers." +source: "Hacker News — Show HN" +fromFind: "snewpapers-newspaper-archive" +--- + +> A digitised archive of American newspapers running from the 1730s through the 1960s — six million stories, three thousand-plus mastheads, with an AI research assistant for following a thread when straight search runs out. + +The pull is the same one that draws people to Newspapers.com or the Library of Congress's Chronicling America: pre-Google news as it actually appeared on the page. A great-grandparent's wedding notice, a small-town bank failure from 1893, the way a single weather front gets reported in a dozen cities on the same day. Snewpapers organises that into 24 categories and a thousand-plus subcategories, plus a daily "Today in History" feed that surfaces what was happening on the date you're reading. + +The differentiator is "The Sleuth," an AI research assistant that — per the site — has actually read the papers, so you can ask follow-up questions instead of grinding through OCR'd full-text search. That's the kind of feature genealogy and long-form research quietly need: the difference between finding a name and assembling a story. + +Honest limits: it's American-focused, not global, and the coverage stops in the 1960s — most living-memory news isn't in there. Browsing is free, but you'll need a free account to do much beyond the front door.