site: bundles — Kept on the machine, The week's catch

daily-finds.log.md

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 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.
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+## 2026-07-05 — bundle: Kept on the machine
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+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
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+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