content: 2026-05-30 capture run — 54 finds across 18 productive sources

Ten-day gap since the 2026-05-20 sweep. Pool grows from 414 → 468 finds.

Productive: Six Colors, MacStories (3), Daring Fireball (3), Brett
Terpstra, Eclectic Light, Show HN (5), Wallpaper* Travel (5), AFAR (2),
Boutique Homes, Cool Tools (2), Kottke.org (4), Open Culture (5),
Quote Investigator (4), A.Word.A.Day, The Marginalian (4), MoMA (3),
Recomendo (3), icanhazdadjoke (7).

Major blocker: Reddit JSON endpoint is hard-blocked this run — all four
r/* sources returned identical 189908-byte HTML payloads regardless of
UA or URL pattern. Lost ~15-25 finds. Next-pass action: OAuth Reddit
API.

Other blockers: TidBITS 403, Web Curios ECONNREFUSED with no recent
issue URL resolvable, Things Magazine still on May 15 post (monthly-ish
cadence confirmed), Atlas Obscura serving evergreen 2017-era content,
A Continuous Lean dormant 9 runs.

5 new source nominees in candidate-sources.md.

daily-finds.log.md

@@ -1113,3 +1113,103 @@ Graduated from find captured 2026-05-04, source: Kottke.org.
 Hero: reused the find's existing hero.png — Neal Agarwal's canonical 1200×630 share card at `neal.fun/share-cards/cursor-camp.png`. Single-image review (no carousel) — the source page has the share card plus the campground itself, which is JS-rendered canvas, so static screenshots wouldn't add much.
 Category: **`play` — new category proposed**. None of the existing categories (interface, indie, writing, etc.) fit a browser web-toy. The 2026-05-14 `six-browser-games` bundle already shows there are 5+ unbundled finds that would graduate cleanly into this category. New category page auto-generates at `/categories/play/`.
 Bundle membership: cursor-camp-neal-fun is in `2026-05-14-six-browser-games` and remains so after promotion — the find lives, the review is the canonical long form.
+
+## 2026-05-30 — capture run
+
+Sources scanned: 59 total — 50 active, 9 `fetch: skip`. Productive this run: ~18 sources, 54 new finds after dedup against the 414-find baseline (468 total now). Ten-day gap since the 2026-05-20 sweep.
+
+Productive sources: Six Colors (1 — BBEdit 16), MacStories (3 — RemCTL, Shortcuts Playground Remote, BenQ MA270S), Daring Fireball (3 — Aluminium OS, Fonts of US Federal Courts, plus Dropover/Klack/Griffin Powermate already captured 2026-05-20), Brett Terpstra (1 — nvALT rescue tool), The Eclectic Light Company (1 — Immutable file flag), Hacker News — Show HN (5 — Helios, Continue Y/N, EzFurigana, TV Explorer, Hallucinate), Wallpaper* Travel (5 — RockRose Melides, Park Hyatt Tokyo reopening, Adam/Albin Stockholm, Serifos, Globe-Trotter Steamer Trunk), AFAR (2 — Amanvari, Uniworld Netherlands cruise), Boutique Homes (1 — Boat House Shelter Island), Cool Tools (2 — Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom, Peopleware), Kottke.org (4 — Infinite Jeffs, Merriam Backward Index, OK Computer N64 soundfonts, Fuel efficiency into Sun), Open Culture (5 — Acropolis 3D, Starry Night math, Berlin Wall summer 1989, MIT Limits to Growth, Robert Johnson restoration), Quote Investigator (4 — Clarke stepping stones, Ward listen-think, Garland lips-soul, Jolly physics-discovered), A.Word.A.Day (1 — JFK unpleasant facts), The Marginalian (4 — Camus three antidotes, Jiménez Platero, Hesse not-to-know, Thoreau lovers), MoMA Design Store (3 — Sunography, Guerilla Art Guide, EdgeFlow scissors), Recomendo (3 — Majestic Studios, Chloe VS History, Desperate Oasis card game), icanhazdadjoke (7).
+
+**Blocked: Reddit JSON endpoint is hard-blocked this run.** All four r/* sources (r/macapps, r/shortcuts, r/BuyItForLife, r/dadjokes) returned a 189908-byte HTML payload (Reddit's new beta web UI) regardless of UA, URL pattern (top.json vs top/.json), or origin (old.reddit.com vs www.reddit.com). Sequential 60-second delay didn't recover; this looks IP-level rather than rate-limit. **Action: switch to OAuth Reddit API for the next run, or accept Reddit as a fully-blocked source until network conditions change.** Tried alternate URLs and a "daily-finds-skill/1.0" UA — all returned the same HTML payload of the same size.
+
+Other blocked or empty: TidBITS (403 to WebFetch — still), Web Curios (ECONNREFUSED to homepage; no recent issue URL found at expected 22/05/26, 28/05/26, 29/05/26 paths), Things Magazine (no new post since May 15 — confirming the monthly-ish cadence), Atlas Obscura (no fresh content; falling back to evergreen), This Is Why I'm Broke / Cool Material / StyleForum / Unusual Hotels of the World / A Continuous Lean (all the same template/dormancy issues from prior runs).
+
+Captured finds:
+- bbedit-16 — BBEdit 16 — source: Six Colors
+- remctl-reminders-cli — RemCTL — source: MacStories
+- shortcuts-playground-remote — Shortcuts Playground Remote — source: MacStories
+- benq-ma270s-5k-display — BenQ MA270S 27" 5K Display — source: MacStories
+- aluminium-os — Aluminium OS — source: Daring Fireball — Linked List
+- fonts-us-federal-courts — The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts — source: Daring Fireball — Linked List
+- nvalt-rescue-tool — Rescue Your nvALT Notes — source: Brett Terpstra
+- macos-immutable-flag — Protect files with the Immutable flag — source: The Eclectic Light Company
+- helios-uk-solar — Helios — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- continue-y-n-game — Continue? Y/N — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- ezfurigana — EzFurigana — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- tv-explorer-live — TV Explorer — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- hallucinate-mmo-rave — Hallucinate — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- rockrose-melides-portugal — RockRose Melides — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- park-hyatt-tokyo-reopens — Park Hyatt Tokyo (reopened) — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- adam-albin-stockholm — Adam/Albin — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- serifos-island-guide — Serifos, Greece — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- globe-trotter-steamer-trunk — Globe-Trotter Steamer Home Trunk — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- aman-mexico-amanvari — Amanvari — source: AFAR
+- uniworld-netherlands-cruise — Uniworld Netherlands River Cruise — source: AFAR
+- boat-house-shelter-island — The Boat House, Shelter Island — source: Boutique Homes
+- book-freak-tolstoy — Tolstoy's Guide to Daily Wisdom — source: Cool Tools
+- peopleware-demarco — Peopleware — source: Cool Tools
+- infinite-jeffs — Infinite Jeffs — source: Kottke.org
+- merriam-backward-index — Merriam-Webster's Backward Index — source: Kottke.org
+- ok-computer-n64-soundfonts — OK Computer as N64 Soundfonts — source: Kottke.org
+- fuel-efficiency-into-sun — Fuel Efficiency of Launching Enemies into the Sun — source: Kottke.org
+- acropolis-3d-reconstruction — A Tour of Athens' Acropolis with 3D Reconstructions — source: Open Culture
+- starry-night-math — The Math Behind Van Gogh's Starry Night — source: Open Culture
+- berlin-wall-summer-1989 — A Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall, Summer 1989 — source: Open Culture
+- mit-civilization-2040-prediction — M.I.T.'s 1973 Civilization Collapse Model — source: Open Culture
+- robert-johnson-restored-audio — Robert Johnson's "Come On In My Kitchen" Restored — source: Open Culture
+- clarke-stepping-stones-higher — Arthur C. Clarke "Stepping stones to higher things" — source: Quote Investigator
+- ward-listen-think — William Arthur Ward "Before you speak, listen" — source: Quote Investigator
+- judy-garland-lips-soul-poem — Judy Garland "'Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul" — source: Quote Investigator
+- jolly-physics-discovered — Philipp von Jolly "Physics almost everything is already discovered" — source: Quote Investigator
+- jfk-unpleasant-facts — JFK "Unpleasant facts, foreign ideas" — source: A.Word.A.Day
+- camus-three-antidotes-absurdity — Camus "My revolt, my freedom, and my passion" — source: The Marginalian
+- jimenez-platero-stops-looking-me — Jiménez "Platero stops eating and looks at me" — source: The Marginalian
+- hesse-not-to-know-better — Hesse "Not to know whether there is a God" — source: The Marginalian
+- thoreau-poet-relation-lovers — Thoreau "The poet's relation to his theme is the relation of lovers" — source: The Marginalian
+- sunography-solar-photo-kit — Sunography Solar-Powered Photography Kit — source: MoMA Design Store
+- guerilla-art-guide-book — Guerilla Art Guide — source: MoMA Design Store
+- edgeflow-electric-scissors — EdgeFlow Portable Electric Scissors — source: MoMA Design Store
+- majestic-studios-history — Majestic Studios — source: Recomendo
+- chloe-vs-history — Chloe VS History — source: Recomendo
+- desperate-oasis-card-game — Desperate Oasis — source: Recomendo
+- joke-orange-no-it-doesnt — Orange / No It Doesn't Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+- joke-spider-web-developer — Spider Web Developer Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+- joke-hi-hungry-im-dad — "Hi Hungry, I'm Dad" Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+- joke-rotation-earth-makes-day — Rotation of Earth Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+- joke-whiteboards-remarkable — Whiteboards Are Remarkable Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+- joke-supermarket-divider — Supermarket Checkout Divider Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+- joke-scarf-hat-hang-around — Scarf and Hat Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+
+### Hero coverage
+
+Heroes saved: ~25 of 35 attempted (the 7 jokes and 12 quote/etymology/essay finds are text-only by convention and excluded). Misses (~10): bbedit-16 (no og:image on barebones.com — the site is server-rendered HTML with no social meta), aluminium-os (no og:image), hallucinate-mmo-rave (JS-rendered, no og), helios-uk-solar (no og), ok-computer-n64-soundfonts (kottke fallback to text), infinite-jeffs (kottke fallback to text), nvalt-rescue-tool (Brett's OG was 2453 bytes, likely the favicon — removed).
+
+Pattern notes this run:
+
+- **Reddit JSON appears to be fully blocked for this network/IP**: identical 189908-byte HTML response across all four r/* subreddits and all alternate URL patterns. This is distinct from rate-limiting (which produces variable-size responses). Likely the unauthenticated `.json` endpoint requires an authenticated UA now. The previous run's mitigation suggestion (extract previews from `top` listing JSON at scan time) is moot if the JSON endpoint itself is gone. **Next-pass mitigation: register a Reddit OAuth app and authenticate scrape requests; until then Reddit is a fully-blocked source.**
+- **Kottke OG image quality is inconsistent**: some posts (`merriam-backward-index`, the Pittock-Mansion-adjacent Tolkien post) deliver clean OG images; others (`infinite-jeffs`, `ok-computer-n64-soundfonts`) fall back to a generic Kottke-site OG or no OG at all. The pattern doesn't correlate with post type. No clean rule — just accept the loss.
+- **Open Culture OG coverage is universal**: all 5 Open Culture captures returned clean OG images, mostly the article's lead image at 600-1000px wide. The only consistently-productive non-Apple-platform source for hero coverage this run.
+- **Wallpaper* OG coverage remains rock-solid** (5/5 this run), as does AFAR (2/2), MoMA (3/3), Boutique Homes (1/1 — the Shelter Island house OG returned at 2972047 bytes / 2.9 MB, which is large enough to warrant a re-encode pass before promoting to a review).
+
+### New source nominees
+
+5 this run (see candidate-sources.md):
+- South London Scientific — applied-physics independent studio (Helios solar calculator)
+- Majestic Studios (Jonathan Laramime) — AI-history reconstruction YouTube
+- Chloe VS History — Chloe satire-history YouTube (same creator)
+- Manuel Bravo — Spanish architect's classical-building 3D explanations on YouTube
+- Studio Jouin Manku — high-end hospitality design studio (Park Hyatt Tokyo reopening)
+
+### Source maintenance notes for next prune
+
+- **Reddit OAuth integration is now urgent**: 4 of the most productive sources (r/macapps, r/shortcuts, r/BuyItForLife, r/dadjokes) are blocked simultaneously. Until OAuth is set up, the find pipeline loses 15-25 captures per run. The 2026-05-20 maintenance note suggested switching to listing-JSON extraction — confirmed insufficient now since the JSON endpoint itself is unreachable.
+- **Web Curios needs a fresh URL pattern**: homepage ECONNREFUSED this run, and the expected newsletter URL pattern (/webcurios-DD-MM-YY/) didn't resolve for May 22 / 28 / 29. The newsletter may be on a cadence break or have moved hosts. Skip until the source is verified live.
+- **A Continuous Lean confirmed dormant 9th run**: still SIGNALS #151 from Dec 2025. The 2026-05-13 maintenance note's `fetch: skip` recommendation is **overdue**. Apply.
+- **Atlas Obscura remains stale-but-not-blocked**: same evergreen 2017-2018 articles surfacing as on 2026-05-20. The `cadence: as-needed` flag from prior run is still pending; with three consecutive runs of zero captures, this is at the line for `fetch: skip`.
+
+## 2026-05-31 — review: continue-y-n-game
+
+Graduated from find captured 2026-05-30, source: Hacker News — Show HN.
+Hero: single-image — pulled from `llmgame.scalex.dev/continuegame.png` (1252×832, 100 KB), the page's canonical og:image. Single-image format matches the cursor-camp precedent for browser-game reviews.
+Category: `play` (same new category started with cursor-camp-neal-fun; the 2026-05-14 six-browser-games bundle still has 4 unbundled candidates that would graduate cleanly into the same category).
+Editorial correction: the find's body described the antagonist as "an AI agent" generically; the actual game (per its own meta tags) names Claude Code by name. The review surfaces that detail because the joke lands sharper with the specific brand attribution — and because half this site's audience runs Claude Code.