From 46046f69d47f4b293094c76e52126af03845ad49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rzen Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 01:49:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?site:=20bundles=20=E2=80=94=20Kept=20on=20the?= =?UTF-8?q?=20machine,=20The=20week's=20catch?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- daily-finds.log.md | 24 +++++++++++++++++++ .../2026-07-05-kept-on-the-machine/index.mdx | 14 +++++++++++ .../2026-07-05-the-weeks-catch/index.mdx | 18 ++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 56 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/bundles/2026-07-05-kept-on-the-machine/index.mdx create mode 100644 src/content/bundles/2026-07-05-the-weeks-catch/index.mdx diff --git a/daily-finds.log.md b/daily-finds.log.md index 45c99b2..c88d45d 100644 --- a/daily-finds.log.md +++ b/daily-finds.log.md @@ -1644,3 +1644,27 @@ Dedup notes: heavy overlap with the 07-04 full sweep and prior evergreen catalog Source maintenance: none. (r/shortcuts 429 again this run — 2nd soft rate-limit after 07-04, under the 3-consecutive-run hard-block threshold and it's a 429 not a Cloudflare/empty-403/DNS block; no change. sources.json untouched, `updated` left at 2026-07-03.) New source nominees: 0 (daily sweep surfaced no curated-feed credits; individual makers only). candidate-sources.md backlog of prior nominees still awaits user vetting. + +## 2026-07-05 — bundle: Kept on the machine + +Slug: 2026-07-05-kept-on-the-machine +Autonomous pick. Today's shortlist had an unusually coherent local-first cluster centred on the AI-agent moment, and it was the freshest honest theme available: yesterday shipped a precision-EDC bundle and 07-03 shipped two web-toy/archive bundles, so another gear or web-toy roundup would repeat; a metal-day gear bundle (cjrb / claymore / hamilton / drop-stop) was the runner-up but too close to yesterday's "Milled for the pocket." Distinct from the 2026-05-06 "On-device, by design" bundle — that one used generic on-device Mac apps (hidemydata, sentient-os, transcribex, resurf); this is a current MCP/agent-era crop (all four items new 07-05, none overlapping). Kept it tight at 4, all hero-bearing, for a full mosaic; SubSmith (local Whisper) was the nearest 5th but its hook is sentence-mining, not privacy, and it has no hero — dropped to keep the theme honest. +Items referenced: + - macpulse-ask-insights + - local-mcp + - mcpsnoop + - toothpaste + +## 2026-07-05 — bundle: The week's catch — June 28–July 5 + +Slug: 2026-07-05-the-weeks-catch +Weekly-catch safety valve. The 07-04 run explicitly deferred a week's catch ("can run next cycle if shortlisted finds accumulate unbundled"); by today the trailing-7-day unbundled shortlist had grown to ~23, no week's-catch bundle exists in the window, and yesterday's strong shortlisted finds were at risk of staying invisible (finds are only reachable through bundles). Focused the catch on the 07-04 shortlist rather than today's fresh 07-05 finds — the 07-04 ones are the ones languishing without a theme, while today's can seed future themed bundles. Capped at 8 by rank; all 8 carry heroes. Excluded chompsaw and osaurus (already graduated to reviews, reachable from the homepage) and london-notebook-writing (text-only quote, no hero — would weaken the mosaic). Pool is still under the ~25 cluster-run threshold, so a single catch rather than a cluster run. +Items referenced: + - horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh + - yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura + - vancouver-crow-nesting-zone + - sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display + - plant-atlas-clay-houseplants + - saya-irie-eraser-shavings + - lifts-in-film + - timebarx diff --git a/src/content/bundles/2026-07-05-kept-on-the-machine/index.mdx b/src/content/bundles/2026-07-05-kept-on-the-machine/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbb6c1d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/bundles/2026-07-05-kept-on-the-machine/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +title: "Kept on the machine" +date: 2026-07-05 +tags: [daily-finds, macos-apps, local-first, ai] +description: "Four tools built for the AI-agent moment that keep the work on your own hardware — on-device answers, local data access, a window into what your AI is doing, and secrets that never touch the wire." +blurb: "Four tools for the AI-agent moment, all with the same rule — the work stays on your own hardware." +items: + - macpulse-ask-insights + - local-mcp + - mcpsnoop + - toothpaste +--- + +> Today's catch is four tools built for the AI-agent moment that all keep to one rule: the work stays on your own machine. On-device answers about your Mac, local-only data access for your assistant, a live window into every tool call it makes, and secrets pasted straight from hardware without ever touching the wire. diff --git a/src/content/bundles/2026-07-05-the-weeks-catch/index.mdx b/src/content/bundles/2026-07-05-the-weeks-catch/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf5f922 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/bundles/2026-07-05-the-weeks-catch/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: "The week's catch — June 28–July 5" +date: 2026-07-05 +tags: [daily-finds, general-delight, travel] +description: "The week's shortlisted finds that hadn't yet found a theme — a horror archive, a filmmaker's house you can sleep in, a nightly convergence of crows, and more." +blurb: "The week's shortlist that hadn't yet found a home — swept up before any of it slipped out of sight." +items: + - horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh + - yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura + - vancouver-crow-nesting-zone + - sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display + - plant-atlas-clay-houseplants + - saya-irie-eraser-shavings + - lifts-in-film + - timebarx +--- + +> The week's catch — the shortlisted finds that earned their keep but hadn't yet landed in a theme. An academic archive of horror, the house where Ozu spent his last years, a five-block roost thousands of crows return to each night, and a handful more, gathered here so none of them slip out of sight.