content: 2026-07-10 capture run — 16 finds across 10 productive sources

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+name: "Debloat Slack"
+subtitle: "Live-strip Slackbot, huddles, and AI upsells out of the Mac Slack app"
+date: 2026-07-10
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://github.com/benri-ai/slack-debloat"
+linkText: "github.com"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [macos-apps, tools]
+tags: [slack, mac, open-source, declutter]
+description: "An open-source macOS injector that launches the native Slack app with a debugging hook and live-pushes your own CSS/JS into every window, re-applying within a second — with a toggle catalog for hiding Slackbot, the huddle button, and AI upsell banners."
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+Debloat Slack is a small open-source injector that launches the native Mac Slack app with a debugging hook and pushes your own CSS and JS into every window, re-applying within a second whenever you save a change. It ships a config of toggles for the usual irritations — the Slackbot DM, the huddle button, the AI upsell banners — and leaves a hatch for hand-written rules for anything else. It's a power-user fix (macOS, Node 22+, Slack already installed), but it's the rare one that reaches into a native app you otherwise can't theme at all.
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+name: "DO Your Whisky Making Kit"
+subtitle: "Botanicals and wood chips that 'age' a cheap bottle in days"
+date: 2026-07-10
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://us.craftly.com/products/do-your-whisky-whiskey-making-kit-ocu"
+linkText: "craftly.com"
+amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZG5GJL1"
+source: "This Is Why I'm Broke"
+topics: [gifts]
+tags: [whiskey, diy, gift, kit]
+description: "A make-your-own-whiskey kit: two glass steeping bottles plus a dozen vials of wood chips and botanicals that flavor and rapidly 'age' an ordinary bottle of spirit in about three days."
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+This kit pairs two glass steeping bottles with a dozen vials of wood chips and botanicals, so you can flavor and rapidly "age" an ordinary bottle of spirit in about three days instead of years in a barrel. Each vial pushes the base whiskey a different direction — smoke, oak, spice — which makes it a tasting experiment more than a one-shot recipe. It's a hands-on gift for the person who likes making the thing as much as drinking it.
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+name: "Grand View Park (Turtle Hill)"
+subtitle: "A hidden Sunset District hilltop with 360° views and no Twin Peaks crowd"
+date: 2026-07-10
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://www.theoutbound.com/san-francisco/chillin/catch-a-sunset-at-grand-view-park-turtle-hill"
+linkText: "theoutbound.com"
+source: "The Outbound Collective"
+topics: [travel]
+tags: [san-francisco, sunset, viewpoint, hike]
+description: "A small grassy hilltop in San Francisco's Sunset District, nicknamed Turtle Hill for its shape, with 360-degree views and a fraction of the crowds at Twin Peaks."
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+
+Locals call Grand View Park "Turtle Hill" for the rounded green shell it makes above San Francisco's Sunset District, reached by a short climb up a mosaic tiled stairway. From the sandy top you get a genuine 360-degree sweep — Golden Gate to downtown to the Pacific — without the tour buses that clog nearby Twin Peaks. It's the kind of viewpoint that stays a neighborhood secret precisely because it takes five minutes of stairs to earn.
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+name: "Chick-Fil-Eyyy"
+date: 2026-07-10
+link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/fonzie-lunch"
+linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com"
+source: "icanhazdadjoke"
+topics: [dad-jokes]
+tags: [pun, pop-culture]
+description: "A dad joke from icanhazdadjoke: where Fonzie goes for lunch — Chick-Fil-Eyyy."
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+
+Where does Fonzie like to go for lunch? Chick-Fil-Eyyyyyyyy. Say it out loud and the Happy Days catchphrase and the chicken chain turn out to have been the same syllable all along.
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+name: "Without a Tres"
+date: 2026-07-10
+link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1usbw75/a_mexican_magician_tells_his_audience_that_for/"
+linkText: "reddit.com"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics: [dad-jokes]
+tags: [pun, wordplay, bilingual]
+description: "A dad joke from r/dadjokes about a Mexican magician who vanishes 'without a tres.'"
+---
+
+A Mexican magician tells the crowd he'll disappear on the count of three. "¡Uno! ¡Dos!" — and poof, he's gone, without a tres. The gag needs both languages at once: he vanished before "tres," so he left without a trace.
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+name: "Plethora"
+date: 2026-07-10
+link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1uroak1/a_man_asked_a_widow_if_he_could_say_a_word_at_her/"
+linkText: "reddit.com"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics: [dad-jokes]
+tags: [wordplay, vocabulary]
+description: "A dad joke from r/dadjokes: a man's one-word funeral eulogy, 'plethora,' means a lot."
+---
+
+A man asks a widow if he may say a word at her husband's funeral. She says of course. He stands, says "Plethora," and sits back down. "Thank you," she says, "that means a lot." The entire joke rides on the dictionary definition of the one word he picked.
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+name: "Rare It Is"
+date: 2026-07-10
+link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1us9c6e/a_couple_goes_to_a_steakhouse_for_dinner/"
+linkText: "reddit.com"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics: [dad-jokes]
+tags: [pun, wordplay, marriage]
+description: "A dad joke from r/dadjokes: a husband orders his steak done 'like winning an argument with my wife' — rare."
+---
+
+At the steakhouse the server asks how the husband wants his ribeye. "Like winning an argument with my wife." "Rare it is." Two setups fold into one word — the odds of the win and the doneness of the steak both come out rare.
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+name: "Not Messi"
+date: 2026-07-10
+link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1urjjpz/why_doesnt_ronaldo_ever_have_to_clean_his_room/"
+linkText: "reddit.com"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics: [dad-jokes]
+tags: [pun, wordplay, football]
+description: "A dad joke from r/dadjokes: why Ronaldo never has to clean his room — because he's not Messi."
+---
+
+Why doesn't Ronaldo ever have to clean his room? Because he's not Messi. A one-word pun that only lands if you follow your footballers — "Messi" the surname and "messy" the state of the room turn out to be the same sound.
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+name: "LectroFan Alpha"
+subtitle: "A 4-ounce rechargeable noise machine with non-looping sounds"
+date: 2026-07-10
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://www.lectrofan.com/products/lectrofan-alpha"
+linkText: "lectrofan.com"
+amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086RMXN61"
+source: "Cool Tools"
+topics: [tools, gifts]
+tags: [travel, sleep, white-noise, edc]
+description: "A clip-on, rechargeable travel white-noise machine that weighs four ounces, runs 24+ hours per USB charge, and generates non-looping fan, pink/brown-noise, ocean, and heartbeat sounds."
+---
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+The LectroFan Alpha is a clip-on white-noise machine that weighs four ounces and runs more than a day on a USB charge, so it lives in a carry-on instead of on a nightstand. Its fan, pink- and brown-noise, ocean, and heartbeat tones are generated rather than looped, so there's no repeating seam to notice once you're trying to fall asleep in a strange hotel. Cool Tools flags it as the travel version of the noise machine a lot of people already keep at home.
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+name: "MapTap"
+subtitle: "A daily GeoGuessr-style game played by tapping a 3D globe"
+date: 2026-07-10
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://maptap.gg"
+linkText: "maptap.gg"
+source: "Kottke.org"
+topics: [general-delight]
+tags: [geography, game, web-toy, globe]
+description: "A free daily geography game on a spinnable 3D globe: it names a place and you tap where it is, five scored rounds a day, plus practice modes for continents, countries, and capitals."
+---
+
+MapTap is a free daily geography game built on a spinnable 3D globe: it names a place — "tap anywhere inside Pakistan" — and gives you five scored rounds a day, with practice modes for continents, countries, and capitals. It's the quick, low-stakes cousin of GeoGuessr, closer to Wordle's one-and-done rhythm than a marathon. It plays in the browser, with an iOS companion for when it sticks.
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+name: "Mojave Paint"
+subtitle: "A lightweight Mac paint app with real Photoshop-style layer styles"
+date: 2026-07-10
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://mojavepaint.app"
+linkText: "mojavepaint.app"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps]
+tags: [mac, painting, image-editing, layers]
+description: "A small native macOS painting and image editor with a proper layer-styles panel — color and gradient overlays, drop shadows, outlines, and outer glow applied non-destructively per layer — for a one-time $9.99."
+---
+
+Mojave Paint is a small native painting and image editor that carries one feature you usually have to buy Photoshop for: a proper layer-styles panel, with color and gradient overlays, drop shadows, outlines, and outer glow applied non-destructively per layer. It keeps the rest deliberately light — layers, a magic-wand selection, folders — so it opens instantly for a quick edit rather than booting a whole creative suite. It's a $9.99 Mac App Store one-time purchase, not a subscription.
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+name: "NanoClip"
+subtitle: "Clipboard history that can OCR, upscale, and transform what you copied"
+date: 2026-07-10
+link: "https://www.getnano.dev/clip"
+linkText: "getnano.dev"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps]
+tags: [mac, clipboard, snippets, ocr]
+description: "A local-first Mac clipboard manager combining history and snippet expansion with 'flows' that transform whatever you copied — OCR text out of an image, upscale it, rewrite it — processed on-device by default. Free with a one-time $5 Pro unlock."
+---
+
+NanoClip bundles clipboard history and snippet expansion with "flows" — actions that transform whatever you just copied, from OCRing text out of an image to upscaling it or rewriting it, processed on-device by default. That transform layer is what separates it from the pile of Mac clipboard managers: copy something, run a flow, without ever leaving the clipboard. The base app is free, with a one-time $5 Pro unlock for unlimited history and iCloud sync rather than the usual subscription.
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+name: "The 1911 Odyssey"
+subtitle: "The first film adaptation of Homer's epic — a surviving Italian silent, free to watch"
+date: 2026-07-10
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/watch-the-first-spectacular-film-adaptation-of-the-odyssey-1911.html"
+linkText: "openculture.com"
+source: "Open Culture"
+topics: [general-delight]
+tags: [film-history, silent-film, homer, odyssey]
+description: "L'Odissea (1911), the first-ever film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey — an Italian silent famous for its ambitious early special effects — surviving and free to watch."
+---
+
+Made in 1911, L'Odissea was the first time anyone put Homer's Odyssey on a screen, and it went big: hand-tinted color, a blinded Cyclops, ships and sea-monsters conjured with the era's most ambitious practical effects. That it survives at all is the delight — you can watch a 115-year-old attempt to film the sirens and the return to Ithaca, free, in about forty minutes. Open Culture's post embeds the whole thing with context on how it was made.
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+name: "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration"
+subtitle: "Britain's first illustration museum, in a converted Victorian waterworks"
+date: 2026-07-10
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://www.afar.com/magazine/quentin-blake-centre-for-illustration-opens-in-london"
+linkText: "afar.com"
+source: "AFAR"
+topics: [travel]
+tags: [london, museum, illustration, quentin-blake]
+description: "The UK's first museum dedicated to illustration, named for Quentin Blake and housed in the historic New River Head waterworks in Islington, London."
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+
+Britain's first museum devoted entirely to illustration has opened in London, named for Quentin Blake — the pen behind Roald Dahl's Matilda and the BFG — and set inside the New River Head, a restored Victorian waterworks near Islington. Beyond a permanent home for Blake's own work, it's built as a working centre for the whole art form, with changing exhibitions and studios rather than a single-artist shrine. For anyone who grew up inside those scratchy, generous ink lines, it's a specific reason to cross London.
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+name: "randoFont"
+subtitle: "Shuffle through Google Fonts one delightful specimen at a time"
+date: 2026-07-10
+link: "https://randofont.alesh.com"
+linkText: "randofont.alesh.com"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [tools]
+tags: [fonts, typography, web-tool, google-fonts]
+description: "A single-purpose web toy that pulls from the live Google Fonts library and shows you one typeface at a time on a sample sentence, with a button straight to its Google Fonts page — a slot machine for font discovery."
+---
+
+randoFont pulls from the live Google Fonts library and shows you one typeface at a time on a sample sentence, with a button straight to its Google Fonts page — a slot machine for anyone who keeps defaulting to the same three fonts. It's a single-purpose web toy: hit shuffle, react, keep or reroll. No account, no install, just a fast way to stumble into a face you'd never have thought to search for.
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+name: "WidgetScreen"
+subtitle: "Glass widgets — and Now Playing controls — on the Mac lock screen"
+date: 2026-07-10
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://widgetscreen.app"
+linkText: "widgetscreen.app"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps]
+tags: [mac, widgets, lock-screen, now-playing]
+description: "A macOS app that places Tahoe-style frosted-glass widgets — clock, weather, calendar, system, and a scrubable Now Playing control — directly on the lock screen, with no Screen Recording permission or account."
+---
+
+WidgetScreen puts weather, clock, calendar, and system widgets in Tahoe's frosted-glass style directly on the macOS lock screen — a surface Apple otherwise leaves almost entirely blank. The standout is a Now Playing widget you can actually scrub and adjust the volume on without unlocking, and it does this asking for no Screen Recording permission and no account. Core widgets and custom layouts are free on macOS 15+; a one-time Premium unlock adds a devices widget and time-synced lyrics.